Benjamin Smith
Senior staff developer advocate
London, United Kingdom
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With more than 15 years of experience across cloud and fintech, Ben has helped shape how modern platforms are built, adopted, and scaled. Through roles at AWS, Stripe, and Broadcom, he has worked at the intersection of product, engineering, and developer communities, turning complex technology into practical, real-world impact. Ben brings a rare blend of technical depth and strategic perspective, connecting builders with business priorities and helping organizations move from experimentation to execution. Whether speaking at conferences or working directly with developers, he focuses on making emerging technology clear, actionable, and valuable.
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Your next customer won’t be human
With a global daily user base in the hundreds of millions, AI agents are rapidly becoming a primary interface for how people discover, evaluate, and purchase products. Enabling those products to be listed and paid for directly through agents opens an entirely new, and enormous, commerce channel. The Agent Commerce Protocol (ACP) and Shared Payment Tokens provide a secure framework for agent-driven commerce within Stripe’s ecosystem, without exposing payment data or sacrificing user control.
This session walks developers through the complete implementation: setting up Stripe integration, creating permission-based payment tokens, interacting with ACP endpoints, and designing trustworthy user experiences. You'll learn how to enable your agents to transact safely and predictably, handling everything from checkout flows to error scenarios and webhook events.
When BUY Becomes a Function Call: Building the Future of Agentic Commerce
AI agents are quickly becoming a new interface for commerce. As purchasing shifts from traditional web flows to LLM-driven interactions, developers need practical ways to enable secure, reliable agent-initiated transactions.
This talk explores how to implement agent-driven commerce using emerging protocols and permission-based payment token models.
We’ll focus on real implementation patterns, security boundaries, and UX considerations required to make agentic payments predictable and trustworthy.
Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of how agent-driven transactions work under the hood and how to design systems that support AI-native purchasing experiences.
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Benjamin Smith
Senior staff developer advocate
London, United Kingdom
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