Understanding Agentic Commerce 🤖🛒

Agentic commerce is the next shift in how we build online shopping experiences. Instead of users navigating flows, systems can now coordinate tasks like product discovery, cart building, and checkout across different platforms—initiated and fulfilled by agents on behalf of the user.

This talk breaks down what’s actually real today versus what’s still forming. We’ll walk through the landscape—commerce specs like ACP and UCP that are shaping how discovery and checkout work in these systems, alongside foundational pieces like MCP for tool access and A2A for agent coordination. We’ll ground it in what’s already working today: existing backend systems and APIs being orchestrated by agents to enable end-to-end shopping flows, and the emerging patterns.

You’ll get a clear picture of where things stand today and how all of this actually fits together—hopefully walking away with something useful you can apply, whether you’re building as a developer or thinking about it from a business strategy lens.

• Intermediate
• Emerging Tech