The Future of Commerce Is Agentic. Is Your Business Ready?

From Product Search to AI-Powered Shopping.

AI is reshaping how consumers discover, evaluate and buy products. As shopping moves into AI assistants and conversational experiences, retailers face a new challenge: ensuring every recommendation, answer and purchase is powered by accurate product data, relevant retrieval and the right business logic.

Join Algolia and a select group of retail, ecommerce and digital leaders in New York for an executive dinner exploring what agentic commerce means for your business - and how to turn emerging AI experiences into measurable commercial value. 

AI Is Changing the Shopping Journey. Retrieval is What Makes It Work. 

From ChatGPT and Gemini to AI shopping assistants on retailers' own websites and apps, product discovery is moving beyond the traditional search bar.

But smarter interfaces are only part of the equation. Behind every useful recommendation is a foundation of accurate product data, real-time inventory, pricing, shopper intent and merchandising rules.

Without it, AI risks recommending the wrong products, undermining customer trust and missing commercial priorities.

For retailers, the opportunity is the move beyond keyword search and build AI-powered shopping experiences that are relevant, trustworthy and true to their brand. 

The more AI does, the more retrieval matters.

Four Conversations Shaping the Future of Commerce.

1. Agentic Commerce Is Here - Who owns the customer relationship when AI owns discovery? As shoppers discover products through AI assistants, retailers must rethink traffic, brand control and the digital P&L. Explore what happens when the shopping journey starts outside your storefront - and how to remain relevant when the agent makes the recommendation.

2. Product Data is the Foundation for AI - Can your product catalog earn an AI agent's trust? AI is only as good as the information it retrieves. Discuss how product attributes, inventory, pricing and structured catalog data enable accurate recommendations, reliable answers and better shopping decisions.

3. From Search Bar to Shopping Assistant - How do you make conversational commerce feel like your brand? Explore the shift from keyword-based search to guided, conversational shopping across ecommerce websites, apps and modern storefronts. Discover how retailers can deliver more intuitive experiences without losing the brand voice and customer understanding that set them apart.

4. The Future of Merchandising in an AI-First World - Who controls what the shopper sees next? As AI influences product recommendations and purchasing decisions, merchandising priorities still matter. Discuss how retailers can protect promotional strategies, margin, inventory priorities and brand positioning - and how the merchandiser's role must evolve.

The Questions Retailers Should be Asking Now

The future of commerce will not be defined by AI adoption alone. It will be defined by the value it creates for customers and the business.

• As more product discovery happens inside AI assistants you don't own, how are you protecting your direct customer relationships?
• How confident are you that your product data is ready for AI agents to recommend accurately - and what is holding it back?
• Where have conversational and agentic shopping experiences delivered real customer value, and where have they fallen short?
• What would an AI shopping agent need to prove in conversion, margin, customer trust or cost before you rolled it out across your digital storefront?

These are not just technology questions. They are questions about growth, differentiation and the future of the retail customer experience. 

Join the Conversation

Join Algolia for an executive dinner in New York.

Bring together a select group of retail, ecommerce, digital experience and merchandising leaders for an open discussion about the opportunities and challenges of AI-powered commerce.

Exchange perspectives on emerging shopping behaviours, compare approaches to product data and retrieval and explore what it takes to turn conversational and agentic experiences into outcomes that matter.

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