Our 10th annual Executive Payments Summit held at the Gaylord Texan on November 14 brought some of the industry’s most innovative minds together to celebrate how far we have come in the last 10 years, while looking ahead to the next decade of new and exciting opportunities with FedNow®, RTP®, AI, cryptocurrency, and other emerging payments technologies. As Alloy Lab’s Peter Davey, Conference Planning Committee Chair, observed, “We have come a long way, but we still have a long way to go.”
After a morning diving into use cases from instant payments adopters; the operators’ perspectives on our new payments rails; and fraud vectors and defenses, Robbie Roberson of Sentric Consulting guided us through best practices for strategic planning, preparing attendees with the tools needed to work within their organizations to chart their path forward. He emphasized that strategies don’t mean we have all the answers, but they do tell us where we are heading and outline what we need to know.
The invigorating day was wrapped up by keynote speaker Ron Shevlin, Chief Research Officer at Cornerstone Advisors, Senior Contributor at Forbes, and Fintech Snark Tank author, who addressed the impact of generative AI on banking and payments. His executive-level view described what the technology is and isn’t, payments-related use cases for these technologies, and the organizational impact.
Always agile and striving to provide the most value and convenience to our members, the ePayResources Events Team is taking an innovative approach to providing Executive Payments Summit content next year. ePayConnect 2024, our biggest event of the year held at Loews Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando on March 11 – 13, will feature a NEW Executive Track with the topics, insight, and perspectives you’ve come to expect from EPS. Later in the year we will present Payments Summit: Executive Track – Virtual, a 90-minute session that picks up where the ePayConnect Executive Track left off, providing fast-paced, high-level content for all banking and payments professionals.
Thank you to all the attendees, speakers, and sponsors who have made this event such a success over the last 10 years! We look forward to delivering this crucial content to even more payments professionals in 2024.