Agentic Transactions & Shopping bots [2nd event]

Welcome to the 2nd event to discuss Agentic Transactions and Shopping bots.

There's a bit of a spiel in the group description, but basically this is a meetup for people interested in catching the next big wave of AI, shopping bots. If you're interested in web or AI development, Finance or Ecommerce this is for you!

This event will be as much about meeting people and getting to know what other are thinking and doing in this space. Lets frame the conversation to discuss were we want to go, learn, and build.

AGENDA

Updates to UCP (Universal Commerce Protocol)

• This protocol is getting a lot of attention from some massive companies (amazon, shopify, visa, mastercard, google, the iconic etc)
• today every online shopping carts is linked to a domain, companies like shop.app and amazon do a big job representing many companies, but UCP is a agreement that lets you build a cart and checkout outside of a website.
• As you can imagine this is a fundamental pillar for a Shopping Agent transacting on your behalf

Updates to A2P (Agent Payments Protocol)

• This is used for agent to agent payments and involves discovery, trust, liability and a developing a viable ecosystem
• the road to human not present transactions

Using MCP (Model Context Protocol)

• many many sites today are implementing MCP, this is your Agents version of the your website. Provides a the essentials for your bot to communicate with a website in thier preferred method.
• What can you do today, and common usecases
• Introducing WebMCP, Google has officially announced WebMCP as a way for agents to efficiently interact with the DOM (whilst MCP is for API)