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2024 Program

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Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2024

Time Event
8:30 – 9:30 a.m. Breakfast and Networking
9:30 – 9:45 a.m. Symposium Opening Remarks

  • Austan D. Goolsbee, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
9:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Panel Session: Global Payments

  • Erin McCune (Moderator), Partner, Bain & Co. 
  • John Jackson, Head of Payment Strategy, Payments Directorate, Bank of England 
  • Pariwat Kanithasen, Deputy Director, Payments & Fintech, Bank of Thailand 
  • Adrian Lovney, Chief Payments & Schemes Officer, Australian Payments Plus 
  • Mehdi Manaa, Chief Executive Officer, Buna (UAE) 

Panel presentations (PDF)
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Lunch
12:00 – 1:00 p.m. Luncheon Keynote: Forces & Factors Shaping Financial Services in 2030

  • Tom Barkin, President & Chief Executive Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond
  • Linda Bernardi, Former Chief Innovation Officer, IBM, Serial Entrepreneur and Innovation Author
1:00 – 1:15 p.m. Networking Break
1:15 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. Panel Session: Evolution of Instant Payments

  • Nick Stanescu (Moderator), Chief FedNow® Executive, Federal Reserve Financial Services 
  • Lou Grilli, Senior Innovation Strategist, Velera 
  • Justin Jackson, Senior Vice President, Head of Enterprise Payments, Fiserv 
  • Matt Marcus, Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer, Modern Treasury 
  • Kathy Mertes, Vice President, Executive Leader for Digital Payments, Conduent 
  • Carlos Netto, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, Matera

Panel presentation (PDF)
2:30 – 3:00 p.m. Keynote

  • Nellie Liang, Under Secretary for Domestic Finance, S. Department of the Treasury

Speech transcript (Off-site)
3:00 – 3:30 p.m. Networking Break
3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Panel Session: Innovation on Top of Current Payment Rails

  • Eric Schurr (Moderator), Chief Strategy Officer, National Products, Sunrise Banks 
  • Sarah Arnio, Director, Digital Payments, Walmart 
  • Eric Foust, Vice President of North American Banking Partnerships, Trustly 
  • Keith Riddle, Senior Vice President, Business Development, Payfinia (a Tyfone company) 
  • Brian Tate, President and Chief Executive Officer, Innovative Payments Association

Panel presentation (PDF)
5:00 – 6:30 p.m. Reception and Networking

 

Thursday, Oct. 11, 2024

Time Event
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Breakfast and Networking
8:00 – 8:10 a.m. Day 2 Opening

  • Mark Gould, Chief Payments Executive, Federal Reserve Financial Services 
8:10 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. Cybersecurity Keynote

  • Alex Stamos, Chief Information Security Officer, SentinelOne; Former CISO, Facebook; Adjunct Professor, Stanford 
9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Panel Session: Scams, Security & Information Sharing

  • Liz Buser (Moderator), Senior Advisor, Fraud Prevention Programs, AARP 
  • Maanas Godugunur, Senior Director, F&I Market Planning, LexisNexis® Risk Solutions 
  • Jim Hitchcock, CAFP, CAMS, Vice President, Fraud Mitigation, American Bankers Association
  • Michael Timoney, Vice President of Payments Improvement, Federal Reserve Financial Services 
  • Jaime Zetterstrom, CCSP, Vice President, Product Management, Somos, Inc. 

Panel presentations (PDF)
10:30 – 10:45 a.m. Panel Session: Digital Currency, Digital Assets and Settlement

  • Matthew Blumenfeld (Moderator), Global and U.S. Digital Asset Leader, PwC United States 
  • Yuliya Guseva, Professor of Law, Director, Fintech & Blockchain Research, Rutgers Law School 
  • Matthias Schmudde, Head of Payments Division (Digital Euro Working Group), Deutsche Bundesbank 
  • Nelli Zaltsman, Head of Platform Settlement Solutions, Onyx by J.P. Morgan

Panel presentations (PDF)
12:00 – 12:05 p.m. Event Wrap-Up

  • Ellen Bromagen, First Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago