Venue
Moscone West
Moscone West, 747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA

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Qwoted is a free expert network: we help reporters connect with experts & we help those same experts build relationships with top reporters.

Event Date Tue May 6 PDT - Thu May 8 PDT (22 days ago)
In your timezone (EDT): Tue May 6 3:00am - Thu May 8 3:00am
Location Moscone West
747 Howard St, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA
Region Americas
Details

This event brings together the payments and financial technology community to share ideas that drive progress. Join us in San Francisco for talks on moving your business forward, opportunities to network with fellow leaders, and the first look at major upcoming product releases in the Stripe ecosystem—all designed to grow your revenue.

What to expect:
Keynotes and conversations:
Explore the future of the internet economy and the technology that's enabling its progress.
• Product keynote: Get the first look at new Stripe products designed for revenue growth
• Future of commerce keynote: Hear about the trends we think will shape the next decade of payments and global trade
• Fireside chats: Be in the room for candid conversations with some of the biggest names in business
• Stripe cofounders AMA: Submit your questions for the speakers and hear their answers live

Breakouts:
Learn about emerging ideas, new tools, and creative strategies in payments and financial technology.

Hot topics:
• Why stablecoins are transforming global payments and money movement
• What an agentic future means for online commerce
• Emerging fraud trends and how to fight them

Practical strategies:
• Building and testing subscriptions, usage-based billing, and advanced pricing models
• Lowering costs and enhancing user experiences with emerging payment methods
• Turning tax compliance obligations into opportunities for growth
• Expanding in-person audiences with seamless and secure transactions
• Using AI to grow your revenue

Tailored insights and tutorials:
• Best practices for platform businesses to acquire and retain users
• Hands-on workshops for developers building with Stripe
• Industry deep dives for leaders in retail, insurance, hospitality, and media

Stripe product roadmap previews:
• Payments, including checkout surfaces, payment methods, optimizations, and fraud prevention
• Revenue, including subscriptions and usage-based billing, tax and compliance, and data analysis
• Platforms and marketplaces, including global onboarding, merchant risk, payouts, embedded financial products, and monetization tools

Interactive experiences and networking:
• Meet peers in your industry or field, see new applications of AI, and learn from innovative technology partners in our biggest-ever expo.

Speakers

2025 Speakers

John Collison
Co-Founder and President, Stripe

Mark Zuckerberg
Founder and CEO, Meta

Caryn Seidman Becker
Chair and CEO, Clear

Will Gaybrick
President, Product and Business, Stripe

Tessa Barnett
VP, Finance, Thinkific

Andrew Bates
Director, Development Product Owner, USAA

Laura Collinson
VP, Payments and Fintech, Jobber

Curtis Crawford
Director & GM, Fintech & Loyalty Organization, Wayfair

Julianna Hayes
CEO, Philo

Paul Klein IV
Founder and CEO, Browserbase

Youhana Naseim
Head of Engineering, Antithesis

Salvatore Salpietro
Chief Community Officer, FundraiseUp

Camila Serna
EVP, Global Revenue Officer, Digital Business, Chubb

Josh Sperling
Product Lead, Payments, Turo

Richard Valtr
Founder, Mews

Traci Young
Head of Ops, Rye

John Affaki
Business Lead, Payments, Stripe

Neetika Bansal
Head of Payments Engineering, Stripe

Michelle Bu
Engineering, API Design and Quality, Stripe

Emily Sands
Head of Information, Stripe

Sponsors & Partners

2025 Sponsors

DIAMOND SPONSORS:
• Amazon Pay
• Freedom Pay
• Klarna

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• American Express
• Clerk
• Visa

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Affrim
• Amdaris
• AWS
• Boomi
• Check
• Stigg

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Antithesis
• Big Commerce
• Billit
• Chargeflow
• Churnkey
• Discover Global Network
• Factor Flex
• Hiveway
• Myers-Holum
• Novamodule
• Ordway
• Rippling
• Sourcegraph
• Sunbit
• Synthesis
• Temporal
• Xero
• Yeeld

STARTUP SPONSORS:
• Accord
• Estuate
• Leapfin
• Pilot
• Suite Function
• Chargeblast
• Flycode
• Method
• Pulley
Synder
• Clockwise
• Fragment
• Neon
• Remark
• Taxually
• dhango.
• HitPay
• Payteros
• Salesbricks
• This Dot Labs