Davor Runje is the Vice President for Agentic Systems at Synthpop AI, a U.S.-based software company specializing in healthcare process automation, and he will deliver an invited lecture on the topic of communicating AI-based agentic systems as part of the AIS conference.
 

AI agents are increasingly pervasive. While they are built on large language models, they often appear more capable than anysingle model alone. We argue that a primary reason for this effect is effective inter-agent communication. This talk surveyscommunication patterns in modern agentic frameworks such as AutoGen and analyzes how they support task decomposition,coordination, and verification to address complex problems. We will discuss representative design choices, illustrative casestudies, and open challenges relevant to deploying communicating multi-agent systems.

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Bio
Davor Runje is a seasoned software engineer, computer scientist and serial entrepreneur. Most recently, he co-founded Airt, anArtificial Intelligence startup building agentic systems, acquired by Synthpop AI in 2025. Prior to that, he co-founded DRAP in2008, one of the most awarded digital agencies in Croatia, acquired in 2018 by Imago Ogilvy. Back in 1997, he co-foundedPlayMedia Systems, the leading provider of AMP MP3 playback technology on the global market, where he invented and leaddevelopment of several DRM based and DRM free systems for digital audio distribution based of AMP® MP3 decoding enginefor clients including DMX Music, STMicroelectronics and Napster.

Runje is a very active member of open source community. He is a maintainer of FastStream and FastAgency and a corecontributor to AutoGen.