Powering Retail Agents with ADK, UCP & Apigee X

Powering Retail Agents with ADK, UCP & Apigee X Learn how to build a secure, governed "Chat-to-Checkout" experience using Apigee X, Gemini, and the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP). In this session, Maria Liampoti and Tyler Ayers demonstrate how to move beyond basic chatbots to production-ready AI shopping assistants. You’ll see how Apigee X acts as a critical "Trust Layer," using Model Armor to prevent prompt injections and token limits to control costs, enabling enterprises to deploy scalable, observable, and secure AI-driven commerce. Key Highlights: → The Evolution of Agents: Moving from standalone LLMs and RAG to agentic workflows that perform real-world actions via APIs. → Standardizing Commerce: An introduction to the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) and how it standardizes cart management, payments, and discovery for the agentic web. → Interoperability (A2A & MCP): Understanding the "Inner" and "Outer" connections—how Model Context Protocol (MCP) handles tool execution while Agent-to-Agent (A2A) facilitates peer dialogue. → Apigee as the AI Gateway: A technical demo showing Apigee X managing the entire lifecycle—proxying Gemini, transcoding REST to MCP, and enforcing security policies like loop prevention and PII masking. → Production-Ready Demo: A hands-on look at a shopping assistant navigating product discovery, ingredient analysis, and a secure checkout flow. Resources: → Apigee demo source code: https://github.com/tyayers/apigee-ucp... → UCP ADK samples repository: https://github.com/Universal-Commerce... → UCP docs: https://ucp.dev/ → Shopify UCP docs: https://www.shopify.com/ucp →Google Merchant UCP docs: https://developers.google.com/merchan... Next Steps: Ready to scale your AI initiatives? Contact a Google Cloud sales specialist for guidance 👉🏼 https://goo.gle/4cP73Hi Check upcoming Community TechTalk sessions here 👉🏼 https://goo.gle/madinapitalks