Can Your Brand Thrive in Agentic Commerce?
What’s up NYC! Join us on June 3 for a sharp and informative conversation on agentic commerce, where AI agents start reshaping how products are discovered, compared, recommended, and bought ✨
We’re bringing together perspectives from the frontlines of social commerce and AI-native commerce, with a practical infrastructure lens from Stripe - the global payments platform powering hundreds of billions of dollars in transactions - on what it will take for agentic commerce to move from idea to real-world adoption.
💡 Why This Matters
Consumers may not shop the way they do today forever. As AI agents begin to shape discovery, comparison, and purchase decisions, brands may need to rethink how they stay visible, defensible, and profitable.
If discovery moves from browsers, marketplaces, and social feeds into AI-led interfaces, brands risk losing attention, pricing power, customer data, and margin.
The question is no longer whether agentic commerce is coming. It is whether brands will know how to compete when the shortlist is made by AI.
🎯 Why Attend
Understand what agentic commerce looks like today, beyond the hype
Learn how shopping behavior may shift over the next 5–10 years
Explore what parts of the old ecommerce playbook still matter — and what is starting to break
Hear where brands should invest now to stay discoverable, defensible, and profitable
Meet founders, operators, researchers, and investors shaping this shift in real time
🙋 Who’s in the Room
Brand owners
Ecommerce and commerce infrastructure founders
Retailers
Growth and marketing leaders
Researchers studying consumer behavior and digital commerce
Builders working on AI shopping, search, recommendation, and agent infrastructure
Investors focused on AI and digital commerce
🎤 Voices Joining the Conversation
Danny Smith｜Global Solutions Architect Lead, Agentic Commerce, Stripe
Danny leads Agentic Commerce solution architecture at Stripe, working with strategic enterprise customers to design and deploy high-ROI agentic commerce solutions. He brings a technical and market-facing perspective on what payment, identity, and commerce infrastructure must support as AI agents begin to participate more directly in discovery, decision-making, and transactions.
Ali Mirzaei｜Founder & CEO, Dimension Studios
Ali is the founder and CEO of Dimension Studios, the social commerce company behind Seller OS, an agentic AI platform for TikTok Shop operations. He built the #1 shop on TikTok within six months of the platform’s U.S. launch, and Dimension has since operated top-performing shops for brands including Liquid Death, Final Boss Sour, T3 Micro, SquidHaus, and Bones Coffee.
Joshua Cohen｜Co-Founder & CEO, Pinpoint
Joshua is the co-founder and CEO of Pinpoint, the AI layer connecting social signals to revenue. Pinpoint helps brands understand what is driving performance across social commerce, and is used by companies including Cozy Earth, Gopuff, Represent Clothing, and hundreds of others.
Moderated by Alan Zong｜Co-Founder & Partner, UpScaleX
Alan is the co-founder and partner at UpScaleX, a seed fund investing in AI-native applications and commercial innovation. He brings 10+ years of experience across VC and corporate venture capital, previously led innovation investment at Alibaba International, and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
💬 What We’ll Discuss
How agentic commerce is already beginning to show up in the market
What risks and opportunities matter most for brands and commerce platforms
How discovery, paid media, customer data, and pricing power may change
Where brands should invest attention before the shift becomes obvious
How to think about defensibility when AI increasingly mediates buyer behavior
📋 What Attendees Will Walk Away With
Attendees should leave with a clearer view of how commerce may evolve as AI agents move closer to the transaction layer — and who in the room may be worth building with, learning from, or partnering with.
🚀 Event Hosts & Sponsors
UpScaleX is a San Francisco & Palo Alto-based seed fund and founders' community, built to empower the next generation of AI innovators. Visit us at UpScaleX.AI
Ugly Talk is a multi-city speaker panel series for entrepreneurs, where proven founders and builders share unfiltered, honest stories about their failures, hard lessons, and real-world breakthroughs, with no slides and no spin.
Stripe supports millions of businesses with payments and financial infrastructure, and brings a critical perspective on how transactions evolve in an agent-driven commerce world.
Adelphi University is a private university in New York known for its strong academic programs and close ties to the local professional and business community.