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Panel Discussion: Engineering Trust Quality in AI-Driven Commerce

on YouTube 01h 01m
Panelat TestMu Conference 2026 · 2026-08-19..08-21· [ai-assisted-development, security]

speakers

name:Sunita McCoy
linkedin:sunitamccoy
name:Nipam Desai
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name:Jason Bryant
linkedin:vernonjasonbryant
name:Rama Gunjaipalli
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name:Krishna C Gangu
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resources

video:https://youtu.be/De5SWQLEtNE
slides:none on file

summary

Retail teams describe concrete shifts: Super Bowl traffic hits 1.5 million pizzas with about 5,000 orders a minute, peak readiness becomes continuous not a one-time war room, and last season 30–40% bot conversion shows agents already drive revenue. Engineering moves trust into data, contract tests and production-like lower environments, treats agents as customers by validating API/data layers, requires explainability and human-in-the-loop checks, and starts by fixing canonical product data and one solid automated journey.

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chapters (46)

  1. 0:00Start
  2. 0:05Panel Opens - Always Open: Engineering Trust and Quality in AI-Driven Commerce
  3. 1:38The Shopper May Now Be an AI Agent, and So May the Tester
  4. 3:42Super Bowl Sunday: 1.5 Million Pizzas in an Evening
  5. 5:16"Ready" Doesn't Mean Green Dashboards - It Means Nobody's White-Knuckling
  6. 6:17Black Friday as the Defining Day for a Fashion Retailer
  7. 7:50New Look: Peak Running From Black Friday Through Christmas
  8. 9:23Automation Coverage, Critical Journeys, Performance and Resilience Testing
  9. 11:26Catalyst Brands: A Multi-Brand Portfolio and Its Many Mini Peaks
  10. 12:27The Traditional Cycle: Prepare in August, Freeze Code in October
  11. 13:27The Three-Legged Race: Platform, Operational and Business Readiness
  12. 15:30Tractor Supply: A Business Built on the Weather Outside
  13. 17:31The Biggest Pre-Agentic Assumption That No Longer Holds
  14. 18:31Readiness Is Not a One-Time Event Anymore
  15. 20:04You Cannot Predict What the Bots Will Do
  16. 21:05Have You Already Seen Bot Activity? Yes - and Blocked It
  17. 22:06The Balance: Security vs Not Missing Agent-Driven Sales
  18. 22:36Twenty Years of E-Commerce and the War Room Era
  19. 24:06Confidence Now Comes From Production-Like Lower Environments
  20. 25:38AI Agent Traffic Rose Sharply - What Are You Actually Seeing?
  21. 26:39The Hard Part: Telling a Bot's Intent Apart From an Attack
  22. 28:42Are We Ready to Let All Bots Transact? Not Yet. Heading There? Yes
  23. 30:15The Bouncer Who Now Has to Learn to Host Guests
  24. 30:45Last Season's Data: 30-40% Conversion Through Bot Traffic
  25. 31:49Agents Don't Look at Your Store - They Hit the Data Layer
  26. 33:58When an Agent Can Browse, Compare and Buy - What Changes in Testing?
  27. 35:32With Decision-Making Bots, It's the Whole Journey That Matters
  28. 36:03Trust Gets Established When the Agent Proves It Can Be Trusted
  29. 38:05Layered Security and Trust Deep in the Platform, Not at the Edge
  30. 39:08Same Price, Inventory and Promotion Whether via ChatGPT or Your Site
  31. 40:09Agentic Commerce as an Entirely New Revenue Stream
  32. 42:12Contract Testing Across Consumers and Providers
  33. 42:43If an Agent Buys for a Customer, You Must Be Able to Explain Why
  34. 43:44How Test Design Changes With No Single Correct Output
  35. 45:15The Search Example: "Find Me a Summer Dress Under This Amount"
  36. 47:47From Search Engine Optimisation to Answer Engine Optimisation
  37. 50:19The Chipotle Conversational Chat Incident
  38. 51:49Golden Customer Journeys That Stay Deterministic
  39. 52:50The Only Reliable Hallucination Check Today Is a Human in the Loop
  40. 53:20Cash Isn't King Anymore - Context Is King
  41. 54:22The One Shift to Make First With Agentic Commerce
  42. 55:56Get Your Data Strategy Right - AI Is Only as Good as Your Data
  43. 57:27Equip Your Security Team to Make Informed Allow/Block Decisions
  44. 58:29Keep It Simple: Build One Bot That Does One Thing Well
  45. 58:59Start With People, Not Technology
  46. 59:32Pick One Solid Journey and Build Trust Internally From It

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