The Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) is an open standard that defines a common language and functional primitives so AI agents, merchant systems, payment service providers, and credential providers can interoperate across the full shopping journey—discovery → checkout → post-purchase—without bespoke, one-off integrations.
This session breaks down UCP’s core concepts and “commerce primitives,” then shows how teams can adopt UCP incrementally on top of existing retail infrastructure and pair it with agentic payment flows (e.g., AP2) when payment authorization and safety are required.