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Madhu Samhitha Vangara

Author: Madhu Samhitha Vangara

Madhu is a Worldwide Generative AI Specialist Solution Architect at AWS, focusing on agentic AI go-to-market for Amazon Bedrock AgentCore and Strands Agents. She brings a deep understanding of enterprise business value, with previous industry experience at Juniper Networks, VMware, Barclays, and IGCAR. She translates emerging AI capabilities and research into measurable outcomes for customers. She is a speaker at AI conferences such as AWS re:Invent, NVIDIA GTC, and AI Summit, where she specializes in multi-agent systems, large language models (LLMs), partner network, and enterprise Agentic AI. She holds a master’s in computer science from UMass Amherst. Outside work, she’s a trained Indian classical dancer and an art enthusiast.

Open Protocols with the Strands Agents SDK

If you are building AI agents, you have likely encountered a growing list of protocol acronyms—MCP, A2A, UTCP, AG-UI, and x402—that can feel overwhelming. The open source community has converged on several complementary protocols. An AI agent is only as useful as the systems it can reach: internal tools and data, the external APIs your […]