Powering Retail Agents with ADK, UCP & Apigee X | Community TechTalk (Recording)

Learn how to build a secure, governed “Chat-to-Checkout” experience using Apigee X and Gemini. In this session, Maria Liampoti and Tyler Ayers explore the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP), demonstrating how Apigee acts as a critical “Trust Layer” to manage retail AI agents from product discovery to final purchase.

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Building Production-Ready Retail AI with Apigee X As organizations move from basic chatbots to autonomous shopping assistants, the challenge lies in maintaining security and cost governance. This TechTalk deep-dives into the architecture required to scale agentic commerce, using Apigee to mediate between Gemini, specialized tools, and the end-user.

Key Takeaways:

  • The AI “Trust Layer”: Discover how to use Model Armor to proactively filter unsafe content and prevent prompt injections, ensuring that autonomous retail agents remain secure and compliant.

  • Cost & Performance Governance: Learn implementation strategies for token-based rate limiting and usage quotas to ensure your AI initiatives remain cost-effective and performant at scale.

  • Standardizing Commerce (UCP): A walk-through of the Universal Commerce Protocol and how it standardizes cart management, payments, and fulfillment across different AI frameworks.

  • A2A & MCP Integration: See how the Agent-to-Agent (A2A) protocol enables cross-organizational collaboration while the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standardizes how agents reach into their own toolbox for enterprise data.


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