World Congress 2026 Europe • Jul 10, 2026 • Session details

Teaching agents to pay: what devs need to know

Traditional web checkouts are dead. Discover how to build secure, agent-driven commerce flows using Shared Payment Tokens and HTTP 402 microtransactions.

Starting at 4:14 · Watch from the beginning

Teaching agents to pay: what devs need to know thumbnail

Checking access…

Playback and chapters load privately for Free videos.

Matching moments

2:32 min

Requirements for enabling autonomous agentic commerce

Brian Whippo

Brian Whippo · World Congress 2026 North America

54 sec

Integrating artificial intelligence into user agentic commerce

Brian Whippo

Brian Whippo · World Congress 2025

53 sec

Autonomous AI agents and the need for digital payments

Brian Whippo

Brian Whippo · World Congress 2026 Europe

2:07 min

Unpacking the technical challenges of agentic commerce

Angie Jones

Angie Jones · World Congress 2026 North America

2:47 min

Transitioning toward autonomous agentic commerce

Annabella Bassler

Annabella Bassler +3 · World Congress 2026 Europe

1:00 min

Enabling AI agents to complete online purchasing journeys

Benjamin Smith

Benjamin Smith · World Congress 2026 North America

More from World Congress 2026 Europe

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA) thumbnail

Building the Nervous System of AI - Michael Kagan (NVIDIA)

Michael Kagan +1

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote thumbnail

Five Things in Tech that Matter Now - WeAreDevelopers World Congress 2026 Closing Keynote

Christian Heilmann · WeAreDevelopers

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend thumbnail

The Sound of Your Secrets: Teaching Your Model to Spy, So You Can Learn to Defend

David vonThenen · NetApp

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes thumbnail

Super scaling for the Super Bowl: How to survive 30 million users hitting your backend in 30 minutes

Irina Branovic · adjoe

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬 thumbnail

Running Secure Life Science Research at Scale using Hybrid GPU HPC and Kubernetes 🧬

Jeremy Murray · Stack8s

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat thumbnail

Angstfreude - AI and Corporate Culture - The Thrill and the Threat

Upcoming sessions on this topic

Build a Zero-Cost AI Agent in Your Browser

Aishwarya Mathuria

Adobe

Computer Scientist
Nishant Thakur

Adobe

Senior Computer Scientist

Teaching AI Coding Agents to Build It Right the First Time

Sajeetharan Sinnathurai

Microsoft

Principal Product Manager

Build Enterprise-Grade Agentic Workflows with AI Agents and Distributed Transactions

Bharath MC

Oracle

Principal Platform Software Engineer
Pruthvithej R

Oracle

Lead Principal Platform Software Engineer

Your AI Agents Are Bleeding Tokens: Building a Runtime Cost Control Plane for LLMs

Aakriti Aggarwal

IBM Research

Research Engineer
Bhavishya Pandit

66degrees

Leading AI Innovation

The Developer’s Guide to the Agentic Git Forge: Agents That Remember

Haimantika Mitra

Entire

Senior Developer Advocate

What Did the Human Actually Approve? Binding Approval to AI Agent Actions

Chilarai M

Swytchcode Technologies Inc

CTO

Related videos

Your next customer won’t be human thumbnail

Your next customer won’t be human

Benjamin Smith · Stripe

World Congress North America · 2026

ChatGPT Apps: From Chat to Checkout thumbnail

ChatGPT Apps: From Chat to Checkout

Aaron Koivunen · tedix.dev

Europe Virtual · 2026

HTTP 402: Teaching the Web to Let Agents Pay thumbnail

HTTP 402: Teaching the Web to Let Agents Pay

Ed Marquez · Hashgraph

World Congress Europe · 2026

Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it. thumbnail

Agentic commerce's dirty little secret, and what to do about it.

Joe Monastiero · visualAI

World Congress North America · 2026

x402: Building Pay-Per-Request APIs for AI Agents thumbnail

x402: Building Pay-Per-Request APIs for AI Agents

Brian Whippo · Algorand Foundation

World Congress North America · 2026

Web Scraping, AI Agents, and the Future of Open Source - Kevin Lewis (Apify) thumbnail

Web Scraping, AI Agents, and the Future of Open Source - Kevin Lewis (Apify)

Coffee With Developers · Jun 2026

Related articles

BS

Ben Smith

E-Commerce in the Agentic Age: When "Buy" Becomes a Function Call

For more than thirty years, we’ve built online commerce around one simple assumption: the customer is human. Humans browse websites. They compare products, read reviews, add items to a shopping car...

3 months ago

A mockup of a UI, with a 'Buy' button in the centre and handwritten labels around it, one calling a function and the other saying "Will agents click this?"

DC

Daniel Cranney

What is Agentic Programming and Why Should Developers Care?

Since the release of tools like ChatGPT and GitHub Copilot, the way developers work has shifted dramatically. What began as simple autocomplete in the early versions of Copilot has quickly evolved ...

about 1 year ago

Agents collaboratively programming

EF

Elizabeth Fuentes Leone, AWS Developer Advocate, GenAI

From Prototype to Production: Build AI Agents with This Free 4-Course Learning Path

AI agents are moving from demos to production systems. However, most developers face challenges bridging this gap. This learning path shows you how. Interest in AI agents continues to grow in 2025....

12 months ago

Learn to Build Production-Ready AI Agents

DC

Daniel Cranney

Infer Once, Run Everywhere: Zero-Token Architecture

“You are all having way too much fun burning way too many tokens”. Kelsey Hightower kicked off his talk at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America by calling out the developers in attend...

26 days ago

A close-up on a screen showing a terminal with 'today's token spend: 0' on it.

From learning to earning

Jobs that call for the skills explored in this talk.

about 1 month ago

Director, AI & Data Solution Architect

Stamford, CT, United States

Expert $155k AI Platforms Data Systems Generative AI

about 1 month ago

Director, AI & Data Solution Architect

Montpelier, VT, United States

Expert $155k AI Platforms Data Systems Generative AI

about 1 month ago

Director, AI & Data Solution Architect

Portland, OR, United States

Expert $155k AI Platforms Data Systems Generative AI

Commercial Excellence Manager & AI Driver, Customer Led Transformation

Cyber Security Salesforce.Com Microsoft Software

about 1 month ago

Director, AI & Data Solution Architect

Phoenix, AZ, United States

Expert $155k AI Platforms Data Systems Generative AI

about 1 month ago

Director, AI & Data Solution Architect

Las Vegas, NV, United States

Expert $155k AI Platforms Data Systems Generative AI