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The Future of Commerce is Built by People who actually Talk to Each Other

Networking in the Age of Agents: K5 Berlin 2026. Two days full of energy. Workshops, stages, ideas, and then: the Spree.

Philipp Derksen
Philipp Derksen
The Future of Commerce is Built by People who actually Talk to Each Other

The right people. One boat.

Our Boots & Bubbles boat tour was more than a side event. It was the moment where networking became real connection.

20 people. All working on the same question: what does commerce look like in a world of autonomous agents?

Brands, solution providers, technology leaders connecting. Without whiteboards, without slide decks. Just Berlin’s skyline, the water and real conversation.

No performances, everyones thinking out loud. That is rare. And that is exactly the energy that moves an industry forward.

Human connection is the layer that makes everything else work

The irony of Agentic Commerce is this: the more we automate, the more the quality of human relationships determines who wins.

The best context layers are not built from data alone. They are built from clarity and conversations with people who understands your brand deeply enough to feed that knowledge to an agent. And whom you trust enough to build the infrastructure your autonomous systems will run on.

Those are human questions. And they get answered in moments like these.

What stays after K5?

We are closing this eventful week with new contacts, fresh ideas, and the clear feeling that the industry is ready.

Agentic Commerce is no longer a niche topic. It is happening now. In this ecosystem.

Thank you to everyone who was there. To everyone making this shift happen.

The Context Layer. The Agentic Commerce Landscape.

Agentic Commerce only works with a strong foundation. The Commerce Context Layer (CL) gives AI agents exactly what they need: product meaning, brand rules, and conversational memory.

The Agentic Commerce Landscape shows how it all fits together. Four building blocks are connecting to build the new working system of commerce.

The companies building their Context Layer today will win the competition tomorrow.

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