Mason Nystrom sits down with Gareth Davies, Chief Product Officer at Okta, to explore how identity is becoming the most critical primitive in the agentic economy and why Okta's partnership with World ID is the foundation that makes trusted agent commerce possible.

Without a trust layer that binds agents to verified humans, commerce breaks down, fraud proliferates, and the full potential of the agentic economy cannot be unlocked.

Key Topics:

• The agentic landscape today: real scaled applications and agentic experiences are being built, but identity and security are foundational blockers
• Binding agents to humans: why trust is lost the moment you cannot verify that an agent is working on behalf of a real, verified individual
• The proliferation of agents: there are now more agents than humans, and the 
• World ID as the trust credential: how a verified human identity can be transacted and bound to an agent so downstream service providers can trust who is calling their APIs
• Why trust unlocks commerce: when you can trust, new product experiences and B2B commerce models become possible that simply cannot exist without it
• Auth0 for AI agents: a suite of tools to help developers manage the full agent life cycle
• The economic value of verified identity: as agents take over more aspects of labor, knowing a human is behind them becomes increasingly valuable

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