Last year, the question was whether AI agents could actually transact. This year, it’s about real transactions through agents.
VGS, the trusted digital and agentic commerce infrastructure, is bringing back Agent Connect, the premier industry gathering shaping the future of agentic commerce. The one-day event is dedicated to the humans building, securing, and scaling the agents that are quietly rewiring how commerce works. Mark your calendar for Agent Connect on March 9, 2027, at Terra Gallery in San Francisco.
From foundation to reality
The first Agent Connect sold out in weeks, and for good reason. It gathered speakers from OpenAI, Shopify, Visa, Stripe, Amazon, and Instacart to wrestle with a then-emerging question: what does the payments stack need to look like when the buyer isn’t a person clicking “checkout,” but an agent acting on their behalf?
A year later, that conversation has changed shape.
“Last year was about building the payments infrastructure and foundation for agentic commerce,” said Chuck Yu, CEO of VGS. “This year, it’s becoming reality as live agentic experiences reach consumers and merchants begin adopting at scale.”
That shift from theory to production is the heartbeat of the 2027 event. As agentic systems get more capable, they raise real, unglamorous, deeply important questions about trust and payments. Agent Connect exists to answer them in practical terms: how do these systems operate securely, efficiently, and at scale, both now and as adoption accelerates?
What’s on the 2027 agenda
Expect a full day of programming centered on panels featuring leading voices across AI, security, fintech, and commerce. Plus, a networking cocktail hour to close things out. The themes this year:
- How AI agents are changing payment flows and decisioning: what happens when the decision-maker is software
- What agent-based systems require from the payments infrastructure: the plumbing behind autonomous transactions
- How tokenization is enabling secure data sharing: moving sensitive credentials without exposing them
- Designing agent-ready architectures that scale globally: building for volume from day one
- The merchant perspective on agentic commerce: what adoption actually looks like on the ground
Who should and will be in the room
Agent Connect is built for professionals across fintech, payments, AI, security, and commerce. Anyone building or planning for agent-enabled payments or agentic commerce infrastructure, or the security behind agents. If you’re thinking about how autonomous systems will act, transact, and optimize on behalf of customers, this is your crowd.
Why you should attend
- Get ahead of the shift, not behind it. Agentic commerce moved from concept to production in a single year. The people in this room are the ones deciding what “at scale” looks like, and you’ll leave knowing where the puck is heading.
- Learn from teams already shipping it. Last year drew OpenAI, Shopify, Visa, Stripe, Amazon, and Instacart. These aren’t hypothetical panels; they’re candid conversations with the people who’ve hit the hard problems and solved them.
- Solve the trust-and-payments problem together. Autonomous systems create thorny questions around security, decision-making, and compliance. Agent Connect is a practical forum for working through them, not just admiring them.
- Build the relationships that matter. One focused day, one room, and a closing cocktail hour with the builders and decision-makers shaping the ecosystem you’re operating in.
- Bring answers back to your team. Whether you’re architecting infrastructure, evaluating adoption, or setting strategy, you’ll leave with a concrete perspective you can act on Monday morning.
Spots are limited, and we sold out in 2026. You won’t want to miss out on Agent Connect 2027.
Want to attend Agent Connect? Spots are limited.
Agentic commerce isn’t waiting, and neither should you. Last year sold out. This year, the room is where the future of AI-driven payments gets decided.
Agent Connect 2027 is on March 9, 2027, at Terra Gallery, San Francisco
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