Thursday, November 20

The Race to Standardize Agentic Commerce

  • Ai agents
  • Virtual
  • Webinar
AI assistants are learning to shop. As new protocols enable agents to transact on your behalf, questions of trust, identity, and control are taking center stage.
Thursday, November 20, 2025
The Lab hosted Stanford CodeX’s Dazza Greenwood and industry leaders from Stripe, Visa, Skyfire and Consumer Reports for a fast-paced conversation on the future of agentic commerce and what it means for loyal, consumer-first AI.

Dazza Greenwood works specifically on AI Agent systems and legal frameworks and leads the Stanford CodeX Agent Transactions research effort. At law.MIT.edu, Dazza leads research and publishing endeavors to explore AI’s applications in the legal sector. Through Civics.Com, he has trained thousands of lawyers and other professionals on the use of generative AI and directly assists companies in adopting AI to refine their processes and innovate their products, services, and business models.

Kelsey Velemirovich, Esq., is an experienced payments and fintech lawyer. Kelsey leads the Global Payments Acceptance Legal team at Stripe, advising the company’s product and strategy and payment methods organizations on the legal and regulatory aspects of Stripe’s payment solutions.

She counsels on a range of critical issues, including payments regulations, network and card scheme rules, intellectual property, and data privacy and security.

Craig DeWitt is the co-founder and Head of Product at Skyfire. Previously, he launched RippleNet in 2015, scaling it into the world’s first and largest cryptocurrency payment network for financial institutions, processing over $100 billion in transactions. Before Ripple, he earned an MBA from Stanford and worked on financial technology at Bloomberg.

Ginny Fahs is the Director of Product R&D at Consumer Reports, where she leads work on agentic AI, data rights, and digital trust. Her team launched AskCR, a conversational AI feature used by hundreds of thousands of CR members, and the Permission Slip app, which has powered over 3 million privacy requests. She also teaches in Columbia’s M.S. in Technology Management program.

Jalpesh Chitalia leads Growth Products at Visa, where he is at the forefront of shaping the future of agentic commerce and AI-driven product experiences. He drives global initiatives that blend innovation, scalability, and user-centric design to power the next generation of intelligent commerce.

At Visa, Jalpesh spearheads the Agentic Commerce initiative, aligning cross-functional teams across regions to deliver seamless, AI-enhanced payment solutions. His leadership has been instrumental in advancing tokenization frameworks, dispute resolution models for autonomous agents, and scalable platform integrations that support Visa’s global footprint.