Sessions Agenda | Payments 2026

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Monday, April 27

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

The Game-Changing Influence of AI on Payments

Event

In-person

Track

AI-Driven Innovations and Strategies

Steven Bernstein

Head of N. America Strategic Business Development

J.P. Morgan

Eric Foust

VP, Banking Partnership

Trustly

Joseph Proto

Board Chairman, Director and Advisor to Emerging FinTechs

Brian Rogers

CEO

LanaiLabs.ai

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Digital Natives Are Rewriting the Rules of B2B Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Jessica L. Cheney, AAP, CTP

VP of Product Management and Strategic Solutions, Banking Solutions

Bottomline

Greg Miles

EVP, Head of TM Products and Services

Regions Bank

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Spotlight Session: Ensuring Business Continuity with Emerging Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Practical Strategies

Spotlight Sessions

Drew Bingham

Chief Technology Officer

OTR Solutions

Adam Rigby, AAP, CTP, MBA, PMP

Emerging Payments Product Leader

Truist Financial Corporation

Veronica Thompson

Sr. Principal Team Leader

Chick-fil-A

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

New IAT Rules

Event

In-person

Track

ACH

Amy Morris

Senior Director, ACH Network Rules

Nacha

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

How Corporates Are Winning with Instant Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Payments in Practice

Tessa Naroditsky

SVP, Director of Payments Strategy

Comerica Bank

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

The Stablecoin Shift: What It Means for Money, Movement, and the Future of Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Stablecoin Strategies

Chris Colson

Program Director

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

Peter Tapling, AFPP, APRP

Managing Director

PTap Advisory, LLC

Adrian Wall

Chief Executive Officer

Digital Sovereignty Alliance

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

FTC Investigations and Enforcement of Payments: What FIs and Fintechs Need to Know

Event

In-person

Track

Legal Considerations in Payments

Keith Barnett

Partner

Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders LLP

Katia Lewis

Legal Counsel

Nuvei

08:00 AM

Monday, 08:00 AM - 08:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Reimagining ACH Payment Flows for Today's Instant Economy

Event

In-person

Track

ACH

Jane Hennessy

Senior Banking and Payments Consultant

Finzly

Shawn Princell

Executive Vice President, Sales

ValidiFI

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Corporates & FIs: There is More That Unites Us Than Divides Us

Event

In-person

Track

Payments in Practice

Olivia Maciel, AAP, APRP

Vice President, Treasury Management Senior Product Manager

Regions Bank

Lee-Ann Perkins

Assistant Treasurer, Senior Director

Ankura Consulting Group

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Executive Session: View From the Top: Navigating the Future of Financial Services

Event

In-person

Track

Executive Series

Payments in Practice

Phil Bruno

Executive Vice President, Head of Global Payments

PNC Bank

Carl Slabicki

Executive Platform Owner, Global Payments & Trade

BNY

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Fraud in the Fast Lane: Defending ACH and Merchant Payments in Real Time

Event

In-person

Track

ACH

Emily Howell

Corporate Treasurer

Copart

Marie Mui

Executive Director, Merchant Services Growth Leader

Wells Fargo

Kolin Whitley

Head of North America Acceptance Risk

Visa Inc.

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Making the Case for Pay by Bank: One-time v. Recurring Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Payments Experience

Summer Francisco, AAP

Sr. Vice President, Domestic Payments

BNY

R. Andrew Gomez

Senior Advisor

Paylume

Andrea Madden

Director

BNY

Ross McFerrin

Vice President, Enterprise Growth

Trustly

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

360 Degrees of BillPay: Current and Future Strategies for Effective Deployment

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Payments Experience

EdaBeth Brown, AAP

Associate Vice President, Order to Cash

DirecTV

Steven Bernstein

Head of N. America Strategic Business Development

J.P. Morgan

Kevin Tholke

Director, Bill Pay Partnerships

Mastercard

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Diving Into Digital Assets: Managing Risk, Compliance and Consumer Protection

Event

In-person

Track

Compliance & Regulatory

Clinton Graham

Managing Director and Lead Client Portfolio Manager

Wellington Management

Jeffery Hunter

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Matthew Luzadder

Managing Partner Chicago Office

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Chini Reddy

Assistant General Counsel

TRM Labs

Adrian Wall

Chief Executive Officer

Digital Sovereignty Alliance

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Beyond APIs: The Strategic Value of Data Out in Open Finance

Event

In-person

Track

Practical Strategies

Glenn Stanzione

Vice President, Sr. Manager - Open Banking

PNC Bank

Florian Wahl

Product Strategy

Akoya

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Stablecoins at the Crossroads: Innovation, Regulation, and the Role of Financial Institutions

Event

In-person

Track

Stablecoin Strategies

Nick Elledge

Co-Founder & COO

Stablecore

Barry Goldbrenner

Senior Counsel, Digital Assets & FinTech Banking

Cross River Bank

Ian Moloney

Chief Policy Officer

American Fintech Council

Keith Vander Leest

US General Manager

BVNK

11:25 AM

Monday, 11:25 AM - 12:15 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Invisible but Everywhere: The Future of Commerce

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Payments Experience

Chris Colson

Program Director

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Benchmarking Open Banking Reforms Around the World

Event

In-person

Track

Compliance & Regulatory

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Executive Session: Strategies for Building a High-Performance Payment Ops Team

Event

In-person

Track

Executive Series

Practical Strategies

Kathryn Decker, AAP, APRP

Director, Payments Strategy

USAA Federal Savings Bank

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Decentralized, Not Disconnected: Sharing Fraud Intelligence

Event

In-person

Track

Disruptive Ideas & Technologies

Shaffer Bond

Payments

Plaid, Inc.

Charles Ellert, PMP

Associate Managing Director, ACH Network Development

Nacha

Matthew Luzadder

Managing Partner Chicago Office

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Gloria Wan

General Manager of Confirm, Route Logic

Kinexys by JPMorgan

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Ripped From The Headlines! Hot Takes On Hot Topics In Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Disruptive Ideas & Technologies

Peter Tapling, AFPP, APRP

Managing Director

PTap Advisory, LLC

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Winning Moves: How Top Gaming Operators Outpace Fraud and Abuse

Event

In-person

Track

Cybersecurity & Risk

Joshua Slaff

Fanatics, Inc.

Ori Snir

GM & Head of Product, Fraud & Identity Solutions

Socure, Inc.

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Optimizing Payment Choice to Drive Customer Satisfaction

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

EdaBeth Brown, AAP

Associate Vice President, Order to Cash

DirecTV

Andrew Stache

SVP, Global Treasury Management

Wells Fargo

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Delivering Faster Payments Through Nested Relationships

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Omri Mor

Co-founder and CEO

Routable

Skylar Nesheim

Chief Treasury Officer

Dwolla

Nick Stanescu

Senior Vice President and Chief FedNow® Executive

Federal Reserve Financial Services

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Laying the Groundwork for Open Banking Success

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Kimberly Keely

Co-Head Emerging Payments Product Solutions Specialist

J.P. Morgan

Monica Mitchem

Director, Billings Operations

HomeServe USA

Shawn Princell

Executive Vice President, Sales

ValidiFI

02:30 PM

Monday, 02:30 PM - 03:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

How Fraudsters Exploit the Gaps You Don't See

Event

In-person

Track

Practical Strategies

Benjamin Chance

General Manager, Identity and Payments Risk

Early Warning

Kathy Mertes

Vice President: Executive Leader for Digital Payments

Conduent Business Services, LLC

Lawrence Pannell, CTP

Partners & Channels Leader

Early Warning

04:30 PM

Monday, 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Mastering Your B2C Payout Strategy

Event

In-person

Track

Payments in Practice

Mark Barfield

Principal Treasury Payment Ops

AT&T

James Chi

Global Payment Partnerships and Operations - Bank, Identity, Risk

Block, Inc.

Refugio Lopez

Vice President, Head of US Money Movement

ADP, Inc.

Stephanee Taylor, AAP, CTP, MBA

Executive Director, Senior Lead Business Growth Strategy Consultant

Wells Fargo

04:30 PM

Monday, 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Futureproofing Payments: Staying Resilient in a World That Doesn't Pause

Event

In-person

Track

Payments in Practice

Larry Fatima, AFPP

Executive Director, Payables Product

Wells Fargo

Booshan Rengachari

CEO

Finzly, Inc.

Arun Selvaraj

Senior Solutions Architect

Amazon Web Services

04:30 PM

Monday, 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Is the Future of Open Banking Going to Find Just Closed Doors?

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Payments Experience

Sarah Kim

Manager

Ernst & Young

Nate Marquiss

Head of Financial Services

Trustly

Mark Ranta

Senior Manager, Payment Technology Transformation

Ernst & Young

04:30 PM

Monday, 04:30 PM - 05:20 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

How Instant Payments Are Gaining Momentum at Community Banks

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Jessica Johnson, AAP, NCP

SVP, Director of Bank Operations

First National Banker's Bank

Reed Luhtanen

Executive Director

U.S. Faster Payments Council

Cassandra Tucker

Head of Operations

ABNB Federal Credit Union