Payments Canada SUMMIT 2026
5 May 2026 – 7 May 2026
Automotive Building, Toronto, Canada
The 2026 Payments Canada SUMMIT was the annual payments conference hosted by Payments Canada, held at the Automotive Building in Toronto from 5 to 7 May 2026 under the theme Accelerate Economic Growth. The programme ran across a main stage, the Idea Exchange and six content streams (Accelerated, Connected, Data-Powered, Digital, Global and Risk-Resilient Payments), with half-day deep dives on the third day.
101 sessions · 287 speakers
Organiser (1)
Media Partners (9)
The Paypers · Fintechs Canada · Financial Technology Frontiers · Money20/20 · Canadian Prepaid Providers Organization · Women in Payments · Canadian Credit Union Association · Trade Finance Global · Central Bank Payments News
Sponsors (47)
Capco · Swift · Scotiabank · Banfico · Royal Bank Of Canada · Clarity Global · Shakepay · IBM · OpenText · TD · Finastra · PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited · Sardine · Cognizant · CGI · Trend AI · Central 1 Credit Union · DataVisor · Trace Financial · Kyriba · Intellect Design Arena · Boston Consulting Group (BCG) · Visa · RedCompass Labs · IR · Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions · J.P. Morgan · FreedomPay · Mastercard · Symcor · Verafin · Amazon Web Services · Vyntra · RS Software · Outseer · NICE Actimize · Deloitte · EY · Peoples Group · Bank of Montreal · Interac · KPMG Canada · Feedzai · Discover Network · CIBC · Dynatrace · Infosys
Exhibitors (32)
Banfico · Azul Systems · IBM · OpenText · TD · Finastra · Alogent · Paybilt · CGI · Trend AI · Trace Financial · Intellect Design Arena · Randstad Digital · Visa · IR · Lexis Nexis Risk Solutions · SEEBURGER · Moneris · FreedomPay · Symcor · Verafin · SurePay · Vyntra · Outseer · Virtusa · XMLdation Ltd · Peoples Group · Interac · Plaid · KPMG Canada · Feedzai · Dynatrace
Speakers (287)
- Susan Hawkins President and CEO, Payments Canada
- Rondev Bhattacharya Director, Industry Relations, Payments Canada
- Saba Shariff C-Suite Leader, Symcor
- David Hooper Partner & Vice President, Banking and Payments Consulting, Toronto Financial Services, CGI
- Todd Roberts Senior Partner, Market Infrastructure & Payments Leader, Deloitte
- Walid Ghannouchi Director, Product Enablement, Data Intelligence & Business Controls, Payments Canada
- Jon Purther
- Shayle Rothman Chief Executive Officer, DoBusiness.com
- Michelle Beyo
- Abraham Tachjian Managing Director, Payments and Open Banking, Accenture
- Dougal Middleton Managing Director - Head of Payments & Treasury Services, Canada, JPMorganChase
- Michele Poole Co-Founder & Vice Chair, Finclusiv Edge
- Kristina Logue Chief Financial Officer, Payments Canada
- Paulo Barbosa Chief Operating Officer, Banfico
- Keith Ajmani Senior Vice President, Chief Technology and Information Officer, Symcor
- Jude Pinto Chief Delivery Officer, Payments Canada
- Shawn Van Raay CTOO, Payments Canada
- Kellie Johnson Senior Vice President Payments Americas, RedCompass Labs
- Joyce Wong Executive Director, Client Revenue Optimization, JPMorganChase
- Braulio Lam Vice President, Engineering, EQ Bank
- Adriana Vega Executive Director, Fintechs Canada
- Vivek Dwivedi Group Managing Director, Infosys
- Anurag Kar Vice President & Head, Interac e-Transfer, Interac
- Anshul Tripathi Manager, ISO 20022, Payments Canada
- Simona Salter Executive Vice President - Cards, Payments, Loyalty & Client Experience, Scotiabank
- Hande Tokdemir Manager, Network and Directory Services, Payments Canada
- Bruno Simoes Senior Solutions Engineer, TREND
- Avner Primor Director of Business Development, Clarity Global
- Mark Sam
- Antoine Daccache Manager, Application Development, Payments Canada
- Lorna Godin Senior Director Everyday Payments, CIBC
- Jim Bowers Transact and Infrastructure Sales Engineer, IR
- Iain Pickup Lead, Member Engagement, Payments Canada
- Kerri Behrendt Senior Legal Counsel, Payments Canada
- John Lueders Vice President of Partner Technology, FreedomPay
- Stephanie Zee
- Isak Penttila
- Diana Halder EY Canada Payments Leader, Ernst & Young LLP (EY)
- Marek Komor The Toronto Dominion Bank
- Lisa Ford
- Jeff Mulholland Partner, IBM Consulting
- Ales Novak VP, Technology Program Delivery, Payments Canada
- Asad Joheb AVP, Enterprise Payments, TD Bank Group
- Kushank Rastogi Head, Emerging Payments, TD Bank Group
- Geoff Morton VP, Fraud Management, Royal Bank of Canada
- Ali Hussein Lead, Senior Full Stack Developer, Payments Canada
- Erin Elofson President, Mastercard Canada
- Kayal Palani Head of Global Payments, Industry Advisory, Microsoft
- Ryan Fifield Solution Architect, DataVisor
- Judith Hamel Director General, Financial Services Division, Financial Sector Policy Branch, Department of Finance Canada
- Eyal Sivan General Manager, North America, Ozone API
- Tyler Pichach Global Head of AI Strategy and GTM for Payments and Banking, Microsoft
- Ryan Duquette Partner, National Lead of Digital Forensics, MNP LLP
- Conan French
- Paul Ruskin Director - Business Development, Trace Financial
- Jana Mackintosh MD of Payments, Innovation & Resilience, UK Finance
- Nate Soffio Head of Reusable & Agentic Identity Products, Prove Identity
- Bhavna Kaushal Principal & Lead Executive: Strategy | Partnerships | Product Innovation | Payments | Loyalty, BK Advisory & Fractional
- Steve Boms Founder and President, Allon Advocacy, LLC
- Frank Van Driessche Federal Reserve Bank of N.Y
- Mireia Guisado-Parra Founder, Aqpay Services
- Inderpreet Batra
- Courtney Trimble Principal, Global and U.S. Head of Payments - KPMG LLP, KPMG US
- Shenela Tavarayan Director, Product Development, Interac
- Philippe Daoust Vice President Innovation, National Bank of Canada
- Jeremy Wilmot President and CEO, Interac
- Andy Renshaw SVP Product Management, Feedzai
- Elizabeth St-Onge
- Stefanie Marotta Foreign Correspondent, 2025 Arthur F. Burns Fellow, The Globe and Mail
- Khadir Ahmed Vice President, Canada Payments, Global Treasury and Payments, ADP
- Darrell Jantzi Director of Fraud, Payments Canada
- Garry Foster Member of the Board of Trustees, SmartCentres REIT
- François-Philippe Champagne Minister of Finance and National Revenue, Government of Canada
- Yulia Shvetsova Fraud Solutions Executive, NICE Actimize
- Kathleen Woodard Head of Banking, Industry Advisory, Americas, Microsoft
- Mohneet Gujral Canada Head of Payments, Citi
- John Hutton Global Head of Payments - Senior Director Payments Efficiency, LexisNexis
- Surinderjit Kaur Bhatti CEO & Founder, Fathom4sight
- Megha Sharma Head of Fintech, Lazer Technologies
- Ramesh Jayakrishnan Vice President - New Payment Platforms, Mastercard
- Tom Hewson Chief Executive Officer, RedCompass Labs
- Will Keliehor Kai
- Elena Litani Head of Value Added Services (VAS), Canada, Visa
- Heather Lamont Co-Founder, Chief Customer Officer, Tuhk
- Michiel Wielhouwer President and Country Manager, Canada, Visa
- Janet Lalonde Vice President, RTR Operations, Payments Canada
- Shruti Awasthi Vice President, Payments, Element Fleet Management
- Mark Hewlett Group Head of Banking and Infrastructure, Ebury
- Francisco Rivadeneyra Senior Director, Payments Policy, Strategy & Research, Bank of Canada
- Alfredo Lanzillotta Member, Stakeholder Advisory Council (SAC), Payments Canada
- Rohitash Hurla Associate Vice President, Strategic Accounts, Peoples Group
- Stephen Yun Senior Analyst, Product & Market Research, Payments Canada
- John Collinson Head, RTR, Technology and Operations, Interac
- Heather Davis Sr Director Innovation, CIBC
- Victoria Clark Associate Vice President, Payment Products, ATB Financial
- Josh Rowat Banking & Expansion - North America, Wise
- Alyssa Notta Director & Head of Market Management, Transaction Banking & Digital Assets, TD Securities
- Holger Kormann President & CEO, Symcor
- Eddie Beqaj CRO, Flinks
- Ranjit Sarai VP Digital GTM, Western Union
- Ashley Woodroffe Head of GTM Canada, Plaid
- Brian Green Country Head, Canada, Fiserv
- Tom Pawelkiewicz Vice President - Digital Payments, Mastercard
- Alexander Peh Head, North American Merchant Acquiring & Canadian Cards Operations & Delivery, Bank of Montreal
- John Filby Chief Executive Officer, Outseer
- Derek Rego Chief Information Officer, Payments Canada
- Karl Lee Senior ISO 20022 Analyst, Payments Canada
- Oscar Roque Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Beem Credit Union
- Vicky Wang AI Industry Solutions Lead, Swift
- Anne Butler Managing Director Supervision / Directrice Générale Supervision, Bank of Canada
- Craig Reiff Senior Vice President, Core Payments, Mastercard
- Rob Mayer SVP Central Market Infrastructure and Payments, CGI
- Dina Vardouniotis Chief Executive Officer, PAYMENTS+PARTNERSHIPS
- Rojin Nair Dreamer Thinker Designer Creator, VoPay
- Lacy Lauks Vice President, Head of Consulting & Analytics, Visa Canada, Visa
- Ruchi Bhardwaj Principal Product Manager, Financial Services & Strategic Programs, OpenText
- Amisha Parikh Vice President, Product Management, Cyber & Intelligence Solutions, Mastercard
- Kesem Frank Chief Maven, Mavennet
- Mark Hines Vice President & Head of Fraud Product, Interac
- John MacKinlay Executive Chair of the Board, Peloton Technologies
- Aakash Sahney Head of Product, Stripe Connect, Stripe
- Edgar Barbosa National Consulting Markets Leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited
- Brian Cooper Vice President & Head, Interac
- David-Jan Janse CEO & Co Founder, SurePay
- Donna Kinoshita Chief Payments Officer, Payments Canada
- Ted Vozzella Payments Product Management Leader, Scotiabank
- Guru Sahajpal Industry Lead, Financial Services & Fintech, Cognizant
- Martin Ho Vice President, Retail Payments, Scotiabank
- Joshua Lerner Manager of Policy, Payments Canada
- Louis-Étienne Bérubé Directeur Principal - Paiments Particuliers et Entreprises, FEDERATION DES CAISSES DESJARDINS DU QUEBEC
- Barclay Hancock Interim President and CEO, Central 1 Credit Union
- Dan Iwachiw VP, Head of Canada Product, Visa
- Jose Ribau Founder & CEO, R5 Innovations
- Nicole Apata Advisor, Payments Policy, Canadian Bankers Association
- Patricia Yun Head, Digital Commerce, TD Bank
- Vignesh Venkataraman CIO, US B2B (Commercial Bank & Capital Markets), Bank of Montreal
- Azadeh Houshmand Director of CX, Scotiabank
- Salil Vijay Chief Product & Innovation Officer, Haventree Bank
- Edwin Isted Executive Director - Payments Modernization & Banking Transformation, KPMG Canada
- Katerina Goros Chief Human Resources Officer, Peoples Group
- Nitin Sehtya Managing Director- Corporate and Global Transaction Banking Client Services, Scotiabank - Global Banking and Markets
- Shirley Hsu Owner & Principal Consultant, Rubik Ventures Ltd
- Jay Dorey Head of Global Strategic Initiatives & Head of Canada Government Affairs, Visa
- Carla Calderon Director Business Development, Americas & Global Accounts, Women in Payments
- Julia Cipollone VP, Client Experience, Scotiabank
- Michael Klopchic Senior Vice President and Head of Transaction Banking and Specialized Sales, RBC Bank
- Seng Phung-Lu Leader, Observability, Interac
- Adeel Syed SVP, Payments, Business Development, Client & Partnership Management, Peoples Group
- Alain Desmarais Senior Vice President Data, Cards, Payments and Portfolios, National Bank of Canada
- Sheila Vokey President and CEO, Central 1 Credit Union
- Jacqueline Tsai Chief Legal Officer, Paybilt
- Samantha Whynot Manager, Retail Payment Products, Payments Canada
- Sunny Soin Vice President, Payment Products, Central 1 Credit Union
- Geoff Jordan Global Head of Strategy & Planning, Global Transaction Banking, Scotiabank
- Kris Zanuldin Head, Konek, Interac
- Rachel Jolicoeur Director Customer Protection & Industry Engagement, Scotiabank
- Charlene Lee Director, Cross Border Payments Transformation | Global Transaction Banking, Scotiabank
- Karen Hunter Senior Director, CIBC
- Marko Savic Director, Custody Payments Product Innovation, RBC Investor Services
- Zarin Ahmed Director, Emerging Payment Products, Payments Canada
- Carlo Campisi Senior Policy Manager, Shakepay
- Paul Atkinson Head of Product Growth Kinexys Liink JPMorgan, J.P. Morgan
- Sherry Jong Managing Director, Head of Client Management, Corporate Cash Management, TD
- Suman Sahota VP, Global Payments Engineering, Scotiabank
- Susan Meyer Vice President, RTP Product Development, The Clearing House
- Pallavi Tripathi SVP & CIO Capital Markets, Commercial and Treasury Technology, CIBC
- Paula Dunlop Vice President, Policy, Research and Government Affairs, Payments Canada
- Sereena Boparai Chief Revenue Officer, Clik2pay
- Subramanian Viswanathan Associate Vice President, FS Practice Head, Iris Software Inc.
- Daria Hill Vice President Corporate Communications, Meridian Credit Union
- Sam Fuda Vice President, Commercial & Money Movement Solutions, Visa
- Heman Daswani Principal Presales Consultant, Temenos
- Michaela McBean People and Culture Leader, Payments Canada
- Arnaud Richards Chief Revenue Officer, VIXIO
- Dwain Neckles SVP & Regional Head, Mastercard
- Qingling Zeng VP, Fraud Strategy and Analytics, Scotiabank
- Ryan Kinghorn Senior Consultant, Payment Optimization & Strategy, Bank of Montreal
- Anunaya (Anu) Ritwik Managing Director, RBC Investor Services
- Isabelle Bissonnette Principal, Optimus SBR
- Anuj Dhall Group Head & CTO Interac, Interac
- Vincent Charuest Directeur Principal Solutions, Paiement, FEDERATION DES CAISSES DESJARDINS DU QUEBEC
- Aaron Walker Director, Industry Readiness, RTR, Payments Canada
- Olivia Tang SVP Legal, Peoples Group
- Natasha Mohindra Director CX Programs, Client Experience Management Office, Scotiabank
- Nick Cicchino Vice President, Shared Services, Meridian Credit Union
- Donald Charette Senior Analyst - Information Security & Technology Risk, Payments Canada
- Nikolina Zivkovic Strategic Research Analyst, Payments Canada
- Tony Zhuang Credit Risk Expert, TransUnion
- Derek Young VP, Payment Systems Operations, Payments Canada
- Antony Irudayanathan Director - Financial Crimes Unit (Organised Crime, Intelligence, Incident Mgmt), Bank of Montreal
- John Connolly Product Owner, Banfico
- Scott Robertson Product Director, Payment Applications, Central 1 Credit Union
- Tarandeep Singh Vice President of Enterprise Payments Technology, CIBC
- Nancy McNeill SVP Operations, Coast Capital Savings
- Scott Thomson Senior Analyst, Emerging Payment Products, Payments Canada
- Sabrina Larivière Senior Manager - Payments // Directrice Principale - Paiement, National Bank of Canada
- Lavinia Bucur Director, Business Service Payments, Global Transaction Banking Operations, Scotiabank
- Mélanie Massé Directrice Soutien au Développement des Affaires Entreprise, Desjardins entreprise Lanaudière
- Kristi Lewis VP, Marketing & Industry Relations, Paramount Commerce
- Manos Yoganathan Chief Operating Officer and Co-Founder, RemitBee
- Rachel Peterson Risk Strategy and Analytics Analyst, Square
- Paul West Sr Mortgage Loan Advisor, New Penn Financial
- Tania Markovic Vice President of Products, RBC Capital Markets
- Sayantan Chakraborty Fiserv
- Oliver St Clair-Stannard
- Mike Hoganson
- Matthew Loos
- Ryan Powell
- Paul Andrusyshyn Partner, IBM Payments Center, IBM Consulting
- Michael Liberty
- Christine Hunter
- Tracy Lagasse Partner, Canada Payments & Money Movement, Capco
- David Tax Senior Manager, Payments Strategy & Innovation, TD Bank
- Kirsten Fraser Director, Financial Services Innovation, Finance Canada
- John Davis Financial Services Executive
- Kevin O'Neil Account Director, Head of Canada, Swift
- Sladjana Jovanovic CIO P& BB Technology and B2C Data Transformation, Bank of Montreal
- Patrick Devilbiss
- Santiago Duro Director & Head, Open Banking, Scotiabank
- Jas Anand Value Engineering & Sales Enablement Lead, Feedzai
- Aaron McAllister VP, Fraud Threat Management, Scotiabank
- Daljit Singh Head, B2B Payments & Partnerships, EQ Bank
- Eric Richmond General Counsel & Head, Business Development, Shakepay
- Beatrice Kangwa Financial Crime Partner, EY Canada
- Julien Brazeau Assistant Deputy Minister, Department of Finance Canada
- Steve Miller VP, Cash Management, Royal Bank of Canada
- Aviva Klein Independent Consultant
- Daniela Hawkins
- Jude Leclerc Senior Vice President, Transaction Banking, Commercial Banking, CIBC
- Ryan Shaw Director Engineering, Dynatrace
- Casey Buckley Principal, BCG
- Dr Yogesh Patel CTO & Chief Data Scientist, Outseer
- Val Kugathasan ADP Canada
- Mark Jarvis Senior Partner, Financial Services, IBM Consulting
- Naveen Sharma SVP, Global Practice Head – Data, AI & Analytics, Cognizant
- Tim Bekaert Director, PwC
- Alana Scotchmer Partner, Gowling WLG
- Andrea Ng Senior Manager, Enterprise Payments Governance, TD Bank Group
- Diana Najda Director, Developer Platform & Tooling, Royal Bank of Canada
- Erin Moore Payments Strategy Leader, Swift
- Mathieu Auger-Perreault Partner & National Fraud Risk Consulting Leader, EY Canada
- Mike Marshall Vice President, Enterprise Program Delivery, Payments Canada
- Sanjay Sharma Analyst, Strategic Foresight, Payments Canada
- Shane Parkhill Director, Payments, KOHO
- Timothy Morris Chief Banking Officer, Neo Financial
- J.D. Penner VP, Wholesale Banking & Payments Practice Lead, Intellect Design Arena
- Alyson Larocque Manager, High-Value Payment System Operations, Payments Canada
- Jason Young CLO, Peoples Group
- Kartik Kamat VP, Product Management, Mastercard Canada
- Caitlin Riddolls National AML Financial Services Risk Leader, EY Canada
- David Prodger Deputy Head of Mission, British High Commission
- Manishi Varma Partner, Business Consulting, Infosys
- Priyan Selvakumar Consultant, BCG
- Al-Karim Kara President & CEO, LTSA
- Alexandra Dostal Senior Assistant Deputy Minister Strategy & Innovation Policy Sector, Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada
- Catherine McNamee Forensics Partner, EY Canada
- Christian Loignon VP, Fraud & Financial Crime, National Bank of Canada
- Colin Smith VP, Risk & Decision Science, Wealthsimple
- Dasha Dyomkina-Reece Head of Cross-Border Real-Time Payments, Global Payment Solutions, Bank of America
- Dean Morrison Chief Strategy Officer - Shaype, Shaype
- Edward Sander Fraud Leader, EY US
- Elba Gomez Navas Economic Product Analyst, Payments Canada
- Elizabeth Tripp Director, Account Activity Fraud Contact Centre, CIBC
- Felipe Priuli Program Director, Tetra
- Fredric Sakthiraj Managing Director & AVP, Canadian Cross Border Wires & Sanctions Technology, TD Securities
- Geoffrey Noftall Senior Director, Head of International Payments & FX, Royal Bank of Canada
- Igor Panov Head, AI & Enterprise Data Architecture, CIBC
- Ilya Shtramwasser VP, Global Payments Technology Engineering, Royal Bank of Canada
- Jessica Binnington Director, Digital Payments Products, Royal Bank of Canada
- Kevin Thomsen Head, Cybercrime, TD Bank Group
- Lilly Richardson Ecosystem Bad Actor Risk Policy + Intelligence Lead, Square
- Maharaja Subramanian Head of Product Management - Americas, Volante Technologies
- Matthew Hickey Sr. Product Manager, Nasdaq Verafin
- Melissa Taylor Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Finance, Ontario Securities Commission
- Michael Coney SVP, Payment Operations, Peoples Group
- Michelle Butler VP, Lending Solutions, Tangerine
- Mike Ward CEO, Mica
- Nilesh Kavia Chief Executive Officer, Affinity Credit Union
- Osama Awwad Software Consultant, Optimiz Inc
- Peter Ashton Project Leader, BCG
- Richard Koldewjin Head of Sales USA & Canada, SurePay
- Sachin Dean Fraud Leader, EY UK
- Sean Deschamps Partner, Agile by Design
- Sriram Darbha Solutions Architect, Bank of Canada
- Sunil Gupta Director, Trade & Supply Chain Finance, BMO
- Tim Schoen Product, Paxos
- Virginia Di Fonzo Director, Wires Modernization, TD Bank Group
Agenda
Showing 80 of 101 sessions.
- Ask an expert: Everything you want to know about ISO 20022 5 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- From onboarding to earnings: how faster processes drive revenue 5 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Unlocking financial health with open finance 5 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- Beyond speed: reimagining the value, intelligence and resilience of modern payments 5 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD
- Perspectives on the Canadian payment landscape: past, present and future 5 May 2026 · Data-Powered Payments - 206 AB
- The next war on fraud: why AI vs. AI is the new reality 5 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- Countdown to launch: lessons from building real-time payment networks and what’s next for Canada 5 May 2026 · Global Payments - 201
- Live demo: Get to know the Payment File Validation Service 5 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- Networking and coffee in the exhibit hall 5 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- Welcome to the Digital Experience 5 May 2026
- Welcome to The Payments Canada SUMMIT 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- From fragmentation to infrastructure: the hidden risk in Canadian payments 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- The evolution of payments and the future of commerce in Canada 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Canada's Real-Time Rail is a starting line, not a finish line 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Delivering digital prosperity for Canada 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Outsmarting the fraud factories: a collective playbook to stay ahead of fraudsters 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Canada’s path to agentic commerce 5 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Open banking and the imperative of consumer stickiness 5 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD
- Multidisciplinary approaches to first-party fraud risk management 5 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- Confirmation of payee and beyond 5 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- Welcome to the Idea Exchange 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Who will control the future of banking? The next system shift 5 May 2026 · Data-Powered Payments - 206 AB
- Powering payments: Payments Canada explained 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Live demo: Payments Canada API developer portal 5 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- True or false? Your network is your net worth 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Ask an expert: Payments Canada membership and participation 5 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- Leading with AI in the new era of fraud and scams 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Risk-resiliency in payments: building trust and transparency 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Tokenized deposits: bridging the gap to tomorrow's digital economy 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- From crypto to core infrastructure: stablecoins in Canadian payments 5 May 2026 · Main Stage
- High value payments: from critical infrastructure to strategic advantage 5 May 2026 · Special Session - 203AB
- The personalization imperative: how AI builders are redefining the payments experience 5 May 2026 · Global Payments - 201
- Behind the connection: building scalable fintech integrations through modern APIs 5 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- Economies of machines: tokenization for agentic autonomous finance 5 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD
- Finding your path in Canada’s payment ecosystem 5 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Productivity, prosperity and safety: Aligning payment policy with national priorities 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- The cross-border payments fraud playbook: global trends, real cases and a consortium defence model 5 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- ISO 20022 is live — now what? From “Run to you” to “Everything I do”: driving adoption, data quality and real business outcomes 5 May 2026 · Data-Powered Payments - 206 AB
- Thriving in the evolving fintech landscape 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Redefining payments observability with AI 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Product Demo Hour at the Idea Exchange 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Cross-border payments: what does the future hold? 5 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- Banking in disguise: when every app becomes a bank 5 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD
- What makes fraud intelligence sharing essential for real-time payments? 5 May 2026 · Special Session - 203AB
- The ISO 20022 advantage: strategy, integration and impact 5 May 2026 · Data-Powered Payments - 206 AB
- Over 100 years of competition: the cooperative advantage 5 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Rule your world: why payments independence is the new competitive advantage 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Strategies for new payment methods 5 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- Secure what’s next in payments: AI, cloud and cyber risk 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Fighting AI with AI – proactive payment fraud defense and smarter operations 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Keeping business in business 5 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Ask an expert: Payments Canada membership and participation 6 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- Connecting client experience and payments: shaping the future of banking 6 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- The next wave of scams: building trust in Canada’s digital economy 6 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- Data-powered payments: finding value through real-world use cases 6 May 2026 · Data-Powered Payments - 206 AB
- Beyond payments: unleashing real-time innovation 6 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Agentic AI in payments: the future of payments is autonomous—are you ready? 6 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD
- Designing for trust: how Canada can innovate in fraud, payments and open banking—without slowing growth 6 May 2026 · Global Payments - 201
- Remarks from Payments Canada's Board Chair 6 May 2026 · Main Stage
- The builders of tomorrow: how AI is powering the new payments landscape 6 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Defining the future of payments in Canada: the power of global partnerships 6 May 2026 · Main Stage
- From rails to relationships: a conversation about transformation 6 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Igniting growth: how competition will reshape Canadian payments 6 May 2026 · Main Stage
- Frictionless finance: how payment innovation drives working capital efficiency 6 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Shaping payments for tomorrow’s consumer 6 May 2026 · Data-Powered Payments - 206 AB
- Modernizing, innovating and advancing payment solutions 6 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD
- AI in action against fraud and scams 6 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- The art of the possible: leveraging AI to create value in the payment processing lifecycle 6 May 2026 · Global Payments - 201
- Takin’ care of business (every working hour): the RTR reality 6 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- Exchanging ideas with Erin Elofson, President of Mastercard Canada 6 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Balancing safety and innovation: The evolving role of in-house counsel, a legal and policy lens 6 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Live demo: Payments Canada API developer portal 6 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- Real-time payments: Envisioning possibilities and future use cases 6 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Live demo: Get to know the Payment File Validation Service 6 May 2026 · Exhibit Hall
- Women in Payments: The skills you need to thrive in payments – now and in the future 6 May 2026 · Idea Exchange
- Fraud prevention strategies for real-time, open banking and digital payments 6 May 2026 · Risk-Resilient Payments - 204
- We brought payee verification to Canadian banks: what we learned 6 May 2026 · Accelerated Payments - 205
- Evolution of consent for money movement and real-time decisions 6 May 2026 · Connected Payments - 200
- Tokenization isn’t about crypto. It’s about rewriting the economics of payments 6 May 2026 · Global Payments - 201
- From utility to digital growth engine: why remittances have become a strategic battleground in Canada 6 May 2026 · Digital Payments - 206 CD