The Agent-to-Agent (A2A) Protocol

Building Scalable Agentic Systems

Korey Stegared-Pace

Senior AI Cloud Advocate, Microsoft

• Developed by Google
• Enable multi-agent collaboration
• Vendor- and tool stack-agnostic

Example: Corporate travel

Example: Corporate travel

Example: Corporate travel

Example: Corporate travel

Example: Corporate travel

Example: Corporate travel

Agent-to-Agent (A2A)

Agent-to-Agent (A2A)

Agent-to-Agent (A2A)

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MCP and A2A

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Building Scalable Agentic Systems