Sessions Agenda | Payments 2025

Sunday, April 27

01:00 PM

Sunday, 01:00 PM - 01:50 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Shifting Payments Options: The New Customer Experience

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Wole Coaxum

CEO and Founder

Mobility Capital Finance

Eralda Hasani, AAP, CTP

Head of Domestic Payments

BNY Mellon

03:10 PM

Sunday, 03:10 PM - 04:00 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Why Corporate Customers Demand Faster Payments (…or Don't)

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Irfan Ahmad

Managing Director, Head of US Payments

Bank of America N.A.

Dr. Leo J. Lipis

Chief Executive Officer

Lipis Advisors

Monday, April 28

08:30 AM

Monday, 08:30 AM - 09:20 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Instant Beer? How QR Codes are Taking Flight

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Sarah Hoisington

Vice President Strategy & Marketing

Matera

Carlos Netto

Co-Founder and CEO

Matera

Peter Tapling, APRP

Managing Director

PTap Advisory, LLC

Paulo Volpe

President/Founder

Jeri Holdings

08:30 AM

Monday, 08:30 AM - 09:20 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

No Passport Required: Successfully Deploying Real-Time Payments Around the World

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Steven E. Bernstein

Head of N. America Strategic Business Development

J.P. Morgan

Josh Rowat

Banking and Expansion Manager

Wise

Joseph Stark

VP, GM Head of Bank & Cross Border Specialized Sales, N. America, Visa Direct

Visa Inc.

08:30 AM

Monday, 08:30 AM - 09:20 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

What’s Driving Innovation in Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Shonda Clay

Executive Vice President, Chief of Product and Relationship Management

Federal Reserve Financial Services

11:40 AM

Monday, 11:40 AM - 12:30 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

“Instant Pay-by-Bank” – A Credit Union and Community Bank Perspective

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Louis Grilli

Senior Innovation Strategist

PSCU

Dean Nolan

Managing Director

Strategic Resource Management, Inc.

Keith Olson

VP, Open Banking Platform

Nuvei

Cassandra Tucker

Head of Operations

ABNB Federal Credit Union

11:40 AM

Monday, 11:40 AM - 12:30 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Reframing the Payments Experience with Smart Partnerships and Innovation

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Alex Schoemann, CPA

Senior Manager, Business Operations

Possible Finance

Joseph Stark

VP, GM Head of Bank & Cross Border Specialized Sales, N. America, Visa Direct

Visa Inc.

Doug Sturm-Smith

SVP, Head of Digital and Real Time Payments

PNC Bank

04:10 PM

Monday, 04:10 PM - 05:10 PM (1 hour)

Instant Payments Retrospective: How Community Banks & Credit Unions Navigated Their First Year

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Colin Eagan

Real Time Payment Administrator

Veridian Credit Union

Mark Majeske

SVP Faster Payments

Alacriti

Anne Sharkey

Senior Vice President & Chief Risk Officer

First Internet Bank

Cassandra Tucker

Head of Operations

ABNB Federal Credit Union

Tuesday, April 29

09:05 AM

Tuesday, 09:05 AM - 09:55 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Instant Payments 202: Build Your ROI & Business Case for Board Investment

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Melissa Ashley

President/CEO

Corporate One Federal Credit Union

Jim Colassano

SVP, Product Development

The Clearing House

Bridget Hall

Leader of Real-Time Payments, Americas

ACI Worldwide

Mark A Ranta, CTP

Senior Manager, Payment Technology Transformation

Ernst & Young

11:00 AM

Tuesday, 11:00 AM - 11:50 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Payments Fortune Telling

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Courtney Barrett

Truist Financial Corporation

Jennifer Lucas

Partner – US Lead for Payments Consulting

Ernst & Young

Christopher Ward, CCM

EVP, Head of Wholesale Payments

Truist Financial Corporation

02:00 PM

Tuesday, 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Boosting Account Opening Conversion Rates through Instant Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Matthew Brazda

Senior Vice President - Real Time Payments

BNY

Keith Gray

Vice President, Strategic Partnerships

The Clearing House

Stephany Kirkpatrick

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Orum

02:00 PM

Tuesday, 02:00 PM - 02:50 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Harnessing Instant Payments to Solve Real Life Business Problems

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

James Chi

Global Bank Transfers

Block, Inc.

Bernadette Ksepka

SVP, FedNow Deputy Head of Product Development

Federal Reserve Financial Services

Kristin S. Walle, AAP, CTP, CAMS

SVP/GM, Global Payments & Compliance

ADP, Inc.

03:55 PM

Tuesday, 03:55 PM - 04:45 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Building a Next-Generation Fraud Risk Management Framework

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Benjamin Chance

Chief Fraud Risk Management Officer

Early Warning

Tara Strazdas

Account Director

The Fletcher Group, LLC

Yinglian Xie

CEO and Co-Founder

DataVisor Inc

03:55 PM

Tuesday, 03:55 PM - 04:45 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

The Push is On! Insights into the Latest Innovative Payment Solutions

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Miles Johnson, CTP

Vice President, Assistant Treasurer

Liberty Mutual Insurance Company

Omeed Nabavinejad

Senior Program Manager, Global Domestic Payments

Amazon

Julie Offen

Global Head B2C Payments Product

J.P. Morgan Chase

Matt Pierce

Founder & CEO

Immediate

Wednesday, April 30

08:00 AM

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

Speeding Up Nationwide Auto Lending Funding Using Instant Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Neetu Bhagat, CPA, MBA

Chief Financial Officer

Origence

Tom Cole

Vice President, Corporate Services

Origence

Mark Keeling

Senior Payments Strategy and Product Innovation Manager

Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union

Glenn Wheeler

Vice President, Payments Strategy and Product Innovation

Catalyst Corporate Federal Credit Union

10:10 AM

Wednesday, 10:10 AM - 11:00 AM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Moving Past Immediacy: Real-Time Payments as a Tool for Customer-Driven Growth

Event

In-person

Track

Faster Payments Experience

Andy Schmidt

Vice President, Global Industry Lead – Banking

CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.

In-Person Sessions

Sunday, April 27

Monday, April 28

Tuesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 30