Donné Stevenson (Prosus) and Pedro Chaves (OLX Group) explore the future of e-commerce, where AI agents will automate buying and selling. They discuss the transition from traditional search to agent-driven experiences, the critical challenges of user trust and UI/UX design, and a future vision for an agent-to-agent marketplace that handles everything from negotiation to logistics.
Experts discuss NVIDIA's agentic AI push with NemoClaw, the ethics of the Anthropic Institute, the future of e-commerce with Shopify's AI shoppers, and OpenAI's strategic pivot to enterprise and coding.
A deep dive into how Prosus is deploying over 30,000 AI agents to create an 'AI Agentic Workforce'. The talk covers the transition from simple assistants to trusted senior colleagues, the internal tooling developed, and the crucial organizational strategies used to overcome adoption barriers and foster a bottom-up culture of innovation.
Mefta Sadat from Loblaw Digital discusses Alfred, an agentic orchestration layer designed to run AI shopping agents reliably in production. He covers the architecture built with LangGraph and GCP, the role of the Model Context Protocol (MCP) in simplifying API interaction, and practical MLOps strategies for observability, cost management, and ensuring reliability.