​The H2 Planning Blueprint: Navigating the Agentic Commerce Stack

​How to architect your discovery, checkout, and payment rails for autonomous AI agents.

​What your board will ask you in H2 2026

​When you finalize your roadmap and budgets for the back half of the year, your board isn't going to ask if you've launched another internal corporate chatbot. They are going to ask a much harder question:

​"How are we capturing revenue when our customers start using autonomous AI agents to shop, book, and transact on our behalf?"

​The transition to the Machine Economy is accelerating. Instacart is already hiring Director of Agentic Commerce. Amazon Rufus is driving $10B in annualized sales, and Walmart and Target experimented on ChatGPT Instant Checkout and Sparky.

​If your digital architecture isn’t programmatically "machine-readable," you are invisible to the next generation of commerce.

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​What We Will Cover

​This live webinar bypasses surface-level overviews to analyze the real-world trade-offs, protocols, and multi-billion dollar friction points happening on the ground right now:

• ​The Forking Web (SEO to AEO): How the "Web of Documents" (HTML/UI) is splitting into a parallel "Web of Agents". Learn how to transition your storefront from Search Engine Optimization to Agent Engine Optimization (AEO) so incoming agents can consume your SKUs.

• ​The Protocol Landscape: Navigating the current fragmentation risk. We will break down what merchants, payment providers, and identity providers actually need to know about competing rails like UCP, ACP, and AP2.

• ​The Trust & Identity Gap: Moving beyond "stopping bots" to verifying "Know Your Agent" (KYA) security protocols. How do you handle deepfakes, account takeovers, and cryptographic spending mandates?

• ​The Liability Hot Potato: When an autonomous agent hallucinates a transaction or duplicates a $2,400 order, who holds the bag—the retailer, the agent developer, the issuer, or the consumer?

​Who This Is For

​This session is designed strictly for decision-makers and operators driving digital commerce strategy:

• ​Enterprise Retailers & Merchants mapping out H2 roadmaps and conversion funnels disrupted by bot-to-agent interactions.

• ​Fintech & Product Leaders building infrastructure for autonomous, low-latency payments.

• ​Risk, Identity, & Fraud Service Providers rewriting the rules of fraud detection for a machine economy.

​About Your Hosts

​Aarti Bharathan is a tech executive and fintech advisor specializing in agentic commerce strategy. As a former Director of Product Management at Google, she co-authored the Agentic Payments Protocol (AP2) and is a leading voice on the trust architecture shaping the future of eCommerce.

​Grace Wu is the founder of Payments Operator Series where she hosted agentic commerce discussion. She is also fractional Head of AI and Product. She helps $100M+ eCommerce brands figure out where AI investment pays off and where it quietly destroys margin.

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