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

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Wole Coaxum

CEO and Founder

Mobility Capital Finance

Eralda Hasani, AAP, CTP

Head of Domestic Payments

BNY Mellon

Sean Searby

EVP, Chief Operations Officer

Amalgamated Bank

02:05 PM

Sunday, 02:05 PM - 02:55 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

A Guide to Navigating Cross-Border B2B Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Practical Strategies

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Ruchi Bhardwaj

Principal Product Manager, Financial Services, Business Network

OpenText

Harold Bosse

Vice President, Cross-Border Payment Strategy & Innovation

Mastercard

Mach Flinn

Solution Consulting Director

OpenText

Andrew Joyce, CTP

Managing Director, Head of FX

RBC Capital Markets

04:10 PM

Sunday, 04:10 PM - 05:00 PM (0 hours 50 minutes)

Harnessing Open Finance: A Shift to Reshape the Global Payment Landscape

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Smarter Payments Experience

Sarvesh Kulkarni

Group Product Manager, NA Bank and Alternative Payments

PayPal Inc.

Ramesh Menon

Chief Product Officer

Eftsure

Dal Sahota

Trusted Payments Director

LSEG Risk Intelligence

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

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Carlos Alves

Chief Technology Officer

Cielo

Carlos Netto

Co-Founder and CEO

Matera

Peter Tapling, APRP

Managing Director

PTap Advisory, LLC

08:30 AM

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

The Next Big Thing: Open Banking with ACH Gives Merchants More Control of Payments

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Moa Agrell

Senior Banking Relations Manager

Trustly

Adam Steenhard

VP, Go-To-Market Strategy and Enablement

Fifth Third Bank

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

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Jim Colassano

SVP, Product Development

The Clearing House

Alex Schoemann, CPA

Senior Manager, Business Operations

Possible Finance

Doug Sturm-Smith

SVP, Head of Digital and Real Time Payments

PNC Bank

Justin Zhao

Head of Global Partnerships and Sales, Visa Direct

Visa

04:10 PM

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

Unpacking the Power of ACH: From Workhorse to Racehorse

Event

In-person

Track

ACH

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Bhaskar Banerjee, MBA

Americas Financial Services Lead, Strategy & Consulting Global Network

Accenture

Gene Neyer

Executive Advisor, Payments

Finzly

Zoila Paladino, AAP

AVP, Treasury Operations

EverBank National Association

Tuesday, April 29

08:00 AM

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

Tag it – Transaction Tagging for Pay by Bank Evolution

Event

In-person

Track

Disruptive Ideas & Technologies

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Matthew R. Friend

Head of New Payment Rails

Chase

Rusiru Gunasena, MBA

Senior Vice President, RTP Product Management and Strategy

The Clearing House

Jane Hennessy

Senior Banking and Payments Consultant

Finzly

09:05 AM

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

Back to the Future (of Bill Pay!)

Event

In-person

Track

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Smarter Payments Experience

Irfan Ahmad

Managing Director, Head of US Payments

Bank of America N.A.

Michelle E. Ziolkowski, CTP

Head of Payables, SVP

Truist

11:00 AM

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

Opportunities, Challenges and the Future of Core Payments Rails

Event

In-person

Track

Disruptive Ideas & Technologies

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Richard P. Dzina

SVP, Product Developmentt

The Clearing House

Tony Gerevics

Managing Director, Operations Industry Relations

JPMorgan Chase

Devon Marsh, APRP

Managing Director, ACH Network Rules and Risk Management

Nacha

Allison Shonerd

Head of Global Digital Disbursements, Global Payments Solutions

Bank of America

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

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

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

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

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Benjamin Chance

General Manager, Identity and Payments Risk

Early Warning

Yinglian Xie

CEO and Co-Founder

DataVisor

Wednesday, April 30

08:00 AM

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

A Year Later: How Leveraging an Agile Ecosystem Has Improved KYC and Faster Payments Experience for Citizens

Event

In-person

Track

Disruptive Ideas & Technologies

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Cheri Charpentier

VP, Data Transmissions Platform Manager

Citizen Bank

Ulf Persson

SVP, Strategic Product Management and Analyst Relations

SEEBURGER, Inc.

Michele Vecchio

VP, Sr Payables Product Manager

Citizens Bank, N.A.

09:05 AM

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

The Investment Imperative of Cross-Border Compliance in AML/KYC/Fraud Prevention

Event

In-person

Track

Cybersecurity & Risk

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Patricia Partelow

Managing Director

Ernst & Young

Keith Salmon

Vice President, Legal Compliance

Mastercard

Donna Turner

Founder

Risk Insight Solutions

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

Smarter Faster Payments Zone

Sarah Arnio

Director, Digital Payments

Walmart

Reed Luhtanen

Executive Director

U.S. Faster Payments Council

Andy Schmidt

Vice President, Global Industry Lead – Banking

CGI Technologies and Solutions, Inc.

Michael Thomas

Senior Vice President, Head of Instant Payments

U.S. Bank

In-Person Sessions

Sunday, April 27

Monday, April 28

Tuesday, April 29

Wednesday, April 30