The Payments Summit 2024 - Canada | The Payments Canada Summit | 29 May 2024 | Beanfield Centre, 105 Princes' Blvd, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3, Canada

This summits is where the best minds in payments join to connect and collaborate. We invite you to attend this transformational event and unlock the future of payments alongside fellow innovators, leaders and experts.There are many exciting updates and announcements on the horizon. Be sure to bookmark this page and check back frequently.

2023 Past Speakers

David Birch
Director of Innovation, Global Ambassador, Consult Hyperion

Tracey Black
President & CEO, Payments Canada

Nick Catino
Global Head, Policy & Social Impact, Wise

Cyrielle Chiron
SVP, Product Strategy & Innovation, Peoples Group

Mike Cook
Global Payments Lead, IBM

Miguel Diaz
Head, Toronto Innovation Hub Centre, Bank of International Settlements (BIS)

Garry Foster
Chair, Board of Directors, Payments Canada

Debbie Gamble
Chief Officer, Innovation Labs & New Ventures, Interac Corp.

Stephanie Hughes
Reporter, Financial Post

Zayna Khayat
Senior Advisor & Futurist, Life Sciences & Healthcare, Deloitte Canada

Robyn King
Director, Industry Relations, Payments Canada

Sasha Krstic
President, Mastercard Canada

Angie Lamarsh
Head, Sustainable Finance, Commercial Banking, HSBC Bank Canada

Kristina Logue
Chief Financial Officer, Payments Canada

Grant MacKenzie
President & CEO, Peoples Group

Darrell MacMullin
SVP, Products & Platforms, Mastercard Canada

Ron Morrow
Executive Director, Supervision, Bank of Canada

Saba Shariff
Head, New Product Development & Corporate Strategy, Symcor

Nick Stanescu
SVP, Business Executive, FedNow, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Wade Stayzer
Chief Operating Officer, Merdian Credit Union

Abraham Tachjian
Open Banking Lead, Department of Finance Canada

Michael Torrance
Chief Sustainability Officer, BMO

Shawn Van Raay
Chief Information Officer, Payments Canada

Hanna Zaidi
Chief Compliance Officer, Payments, Wealthsimple

Tom Zschach
Chief Innovation Officer, Swift

Rania Ahmed
Director, Enterprise & Payment Product Risk, Payments Canada

Mohamad Al-Bustami
Managing Director, Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions

Ruxandra Aldea
VP & Head, Strategic Accounts, Feedzai

Jean Amiouny
Co-founder & CEO, Shakepay

Paul Amisano
VP, Product - FedNow, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

Peter Atkinson
VP, UK, Canada & International Sales, ebankIT

Cristian Baigorria
Managing Director, Valstroom Inc.

Beatrice Bairos-Driedger
VP, Chief Internal Audit & Risk Officer, Symcor

Tricia Balfe
CEO, XMLdation

Roxana Baranowski
Deputy Chief Risk Officer, Payments Canada

Sonia Baxendale
President & CEO, Global Risk Institute

Garry Baxter
Senior Director, Enterprise Project Management Office, Payments Canada

Jonathan Bell
President & Head, Client Relationships, RedCompass Labs

Michelle Beyo
Founder & CEO, FINAVATOR

Shreya Bhashyakarla
Head, Digital Product Development, BMO

Kalyani Bhatia
Global Head, Payments & PMI, Swift

Jagjit Bhogal
Vice President Enterprise Architecture & Technology Innovation, Coast Capital Savings

Lincoln Blades
Cultural Impact Consultant, All Things Being Equal

Carlos Eduardo Brandt
Head, Pix Management & Operations, Central Bank of Brazil

Julien Brazeau
Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Finance

Drew Brown
VP, Consulting, CGI

Karen Budahazy
VP Digital Enablement, Peoples Group

Duke Butler
CEO, Prairie Payments Joint Venture

Marcos Cameron
Global SPOC, ISO 20022 & Transaction Manager, Swift

Terry Carpenter
Director, Sales, North America iGaming, Paysafe

Brigit Carroll
Policy Lead, North America, Wise

Brian Castelli
Partner, PwC

Glen Chancy
Product Director, Infor

Matthew Charette
Director, Cybersecurity, Payments Canada

Soumak Chatterjee
Partner, Financial Services, Deloitte Canada

Christopher Chazin
Director & North America Product Head, Emerging Payments & Receivables, Citi

Charlene Cieslik
Chief Compliance Officer & Head of Customer Support, Localcoin

Victoria Clark
Managing Director, Payments, ATB Financial

Brody Clements
Lead, Industry Relations, Payments Canada

Laurence Cooke
Founder & CEO, nanopay

Andrew Darley
VP, iCasino & iLottery, Ontario Lottery and Gaming

John Davis
Managing Director & Head, Product Management, Treasury & Trade Solutions, Canada, Citi

Raymond den Hond
Chief Commercial Officer, Partners, MX

Alisa DiCaprio
Chief Economist, R3

Kristy Duncan
Founder & CEO, Women in Payments

Milos Dunjic
Payments Innovation Technology Practice Lead, TD Bank

Alex Eadie
Chief Financial Officer, Firma Foreign Exchange

Daniel Eberhard
Founder & CEO, KOHO

Layial El-Hadi
Executive Director, Fintech Cadence

George Evers
SVP, Customer Solutions Group, Product, Mastercard

Mario Falvo
Chief Financial & Risk Officer, Interac Corp.

Jim Filice
VP & Head, New Payments, Visa Canada

Carrie Forbes
CEO, League Data

Teresa Frick
Director, Supervision, Financial Consumer Agency of Canada

Marilu Gaudio
President, Merchant Services Canada, J.P. Morgan Chase

Dhiraj Girdhar
CIO, ONroute

Elena Gomez
Global Head, Domestic Payments, Director, Treasury & Trade Solutions, Citi

R. Andrew Gómez
Board Advisory Group member, Lipis Advisors

Akshath Goyal
Lead, Product Partnerships, Shopify

Martin Grunewald
Chief Customer Officer, BankservAfrica

Kamran Haidari
Chief Technology & Data Officer, Payfare Inc.

Steve Haley
Director, Market Development & Partnerships, Mojaloop Foundation

Brian Hans
Director, Modernization, ATB Financial

Doug Hatton
VP, Client Solutions, Moneris

Ruhling Herbst
Acting Strategy & Transformation Officer, Executive Head: Africa Business Development, BankservAfrica

Abdi Hersi
Senior Manager, Payments Strategy, Wealthsimple

Chantal Hitchcock
Lead, Industry Relations, Payments Canada

Mike Hoganson
Director, Lynx, 1-8Payments Canada0

Lance Homer
Global Head, Digital Payments, Equinix

David Hooper
VP, Open Banking & Payments Consulting, CGI

Jean Hope
Director, Banking Relations & Innovation, Province of BC

Azadeh Houshmand
Director, CX Design Strategy, Royal Bank of Canada

Shirley Hsu-Leftick
Director, Cash & Payment Operations, Wealthsimple

Jeremy Hutchinson
Lead, Program Delivery Office, Bank of Canada

Edwin Isted
Senior Manager & Payments Lead, Financial Services Solutions, KPMG

Ramesh Jayakrishnan
VP, New Payments Platforms, Mastercard

Kellie Johnson
SVP Product Sales Lead, Treasury and Trade Solutions, Citibank Canada

Lauren Jones
Director, Market Development, Open Banking Exchange

Grace Jung
Head, Industry Relations, Payments & Operations, Square

Anurag Kar
AVP, Money Movement Products, Interac Corp.

Koleya Karringten
Executive Director, Canadian Blockchain Consortium

Robert Kavcic
Sen////07ior Economist, BMO

George Kawar
Insights Director, RFI Global

William Keliehor
Chief Commercial Officer, Interac Corp.

Dan Kelly
President, CEO & Chair, Canadian Federation of Independent Business

Alana Kendrick
SAP Strategist, ATB Financial

Dan Killey
VP, Customer Engagement, ebankIT

Soo Jin Kim
Senior Economist, Bank of Canada

Chris King
Managing Partner, Valstroom

Gregory Kirstein
VP, Business Development, iGaming, Paysafe

Howard Klein
Head, Payments, Community Federal Savings Bank

Romi Kohli
VP, Development, PMO & Innovation, Everlink

Leslie Konecny
Head, Product, Global Transactional Services, Canada, Bank of America

Daniel Kornitzer
Fintech & Payments Advisory Board Member

May Lam
CIO, Australian Payments Plus

Emma Landriault
Product Lead, Block0chain & Digital Currency, Scotiabank

Joshua Lerner
Manager, Lynx & Emerging Policy, Payments Canada

Judy Li
Director, Information Management, Data Analytics & ISO, Payments Canada

Gareth Lodge
Principal Analyst, Celent

Robert Magee
Program Director, ISO 20022 Industry Migration, Australian Payments Network

Deepti Malhotra
Director, Procurement, Vendor Management, Technology & Operations Integration, Payments Canada

Gautam Marwaha
Director, Product Development, Digital Payments, Mastercard Canada

Oksana Matviyenko
Director, Cross-Border Treasury & Payment Solutions, BMO

Rob Matys
Associate Partner, Payment Solutions, Strategic Systems Integration & Delivery, IBM Payments Center

Tony McLaughlin
Managing Director, Emerging Payments & Business Development, Citi

Dougal Middleton
VP, Enterprise Payments, Scotiabank

Shawna Miller
VP, Marketing & Communications, Mastercard Canada

Jamil Mina
Chief Architect, Financial Services, Red Hat

Andrea Morris
SVP, Merchant Sales Executive, Bank of America

Liz Mulholland
CEO, Prosper Canada

Sridhar Narayanan
CTO, IBM Payments Center, IBM

Mike Nathan
Global Head, Solutions Consulting, Feedzai

Gabriel Ngo
Director, Enforcement, Bank of Canada

Michael Nolan
Head, Digital Strategy & Business Architecture, Prairie Payments Joint Venture

Hamid Noori
CEO & Managing Director, The Cultivated B / Infamily Foods

Ajoké Olorundaré
Senior Analyst, Research, Payments Canada

Maxwell Opoku-Afari
First Deputy Governor, Bank of Ghana

Faye Pang
Country Manager, Xero

Tom Pawelkiewicz
Senior Commercial Lead, Payment Partnerships, Klarna

John David (J.D.) Penner
Associate Partner, Offering Manager, IBM Payments Center, IBM

Isak Penttila
ISO 20022 Advisor, Payments Canada

Fatema Pirone
VP, Enterprise Digital, CIBC

Mahima Poddar
SVP & Group Head, Personal Banking, EQ Bank

Bradley Pragnell
Consultant, Payments Canada

Scott Przybyla
VP, Global Channel Partners, Kount, an Equifax Company

Jon Purther
Director, Market Insights, Payments Canada

Kushank Rastogi
Head, Canadian Real-Time Payments, TD Bank

Alice Reimer
CEO, Fillip

David Renault
Team Lead, SEPA, EBA Clearing

Tim Renew
Chief Revenue Officer, Banked

Neil Ringwood
Director, Fraud, Payments Canada

Andrew Risbin
Director, Risk Assessment, BC Financial Services Authority

Jennifer Ritchie
VP, Partner & Client Success, Payroc

Todd Roberts
Senior Partner, Deloitte Canada

Missy Rose
Senior Product Manager, Apiture

Dominique Samson
Chief Operating Officer, Flinks

Sabena Sandhu
Manager, Policy, Canadian Credit Union Association

Jonathan Savage
Head, Product & Design, Service Line Integration, Canada, Thoughtworks

Amber Scott
Founder, Outlier

Miriam Sheril
Head, Product, U.S, Form3

Jacqueline Shinfield
Partner, Blake, Cassels & Graydon LLP

Allison Shonerd
Head, Global Digital Disbursements, Global Transaction Services, Bank of America

Ritesh Shukla
CEO, National Payments Corporation of India International Payments Limited

Kathy Stares
EVP, Americas, Provenir

Katrina Stuart
Managing Director, NPPA, Australian Payments Plus

Nic Sulsky
Chief Commercial Officer, PointsBet Canada

Giles Sutherland
VP, Business Development, Digital ID, Interac Corp.

Scott Talbott
SVP, Government Relations, Electronic Transactions Association

Peter Tapling
Managing Director, PTap Advisory, LLC

Martin Tardif
Senior Director, Payment Modernization, Desjardins

David Tax
Senior Manager, Payments Strategy & Innovation, TD Bank

Evan Thomas
Head, Legal, Crypto, Wealthsimple

Mark Tiainen
Head, DirectPay, Payment Source

Kris Tsaousidis
VP, Merchant Solutions & Acquiring, Visa Canada

Dean Tseretopoulos
AVP, International Payments, TD Bank

Paul Twigg
Chief Technology Officer, Digital Commerce Bank

Frank Van Driessche
AVP, Head, ISO 20022, FedNow, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Manoj Verma
Co-Founder & Chief Revenue Officer, TabaPay

Ramon Villarreal
Global Head, Payments, Red Hat

Janice Vogtle
Trade Commissioner & Head, Waterloo Region Satellite, Global Affairs Canada

Bo Wang
VP, Tax & Treasury, Cineplex

Terri-Lee Weeks
EVP, Retail Customer, Scotiabank

Brian Weiner
VP & Head, Product, Visa Canada

Elena Whisler
SVP, Sales & Relationship Management, The Clearing House

Sue Whitney
VP, Payments Strategy, Central 1

Patrick Wiltshire
Director, Product, Core Payments, Moneris

Michelle Winsor
Founder & CEO, Accelera Ecosystem

Cheryl Woodburn
Country Manager, Provenir

Jason Young
Head, Legal & Company Secretary, PayPal Canada

Stephen Yun
Senior Analyst, Market Insights, Payments Canada

Stephanie Zee
VP, Enterprise Payments Risk, Scotiabank

Deyra Bladon
Managing Director, Risk and Compliance, Client Experience & Technology Office, ATB Financial

Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & CEO, Financial Networks Analytics (FNA)

Tracy Lagasse
Financial Services Industry Solution Executive, Microsoft Canada

Balakrishnan Narasimhan
SVP & Head of Solution Consulting – Americas, Intellect Design Arena Ltd.

Dave Revell
Senior Advisor, Global Growth Advisory Board Intellect Global Transaction Banking, Intellect Global Transaction Banking