‘You Cannot Stop Learning’—Making Payments 2027 a Must-Attend

So for attendees at Payments, they arrive, and they see that the agenda is there, and they see that the, that it is, is set to go, and there's a diverse number of sessions.

There's a lot of work to get to those sessions.

And so I'm hoping that you can just walk through a little bit of the process to bring from the ideas to the sessions that we will see in next year's conference.

And I'll start with you, Stephanie.

Yeah.

You know, it's really important to us to make sure that we're having, um, a, a diverse representation in that room to ensure that we are meeting the needs of all of our potential attendees.

Um, you know, Lisa, as, as the voice of the credit unions, really makes sure that we're talking to them and talking to the community banks.

We have providers who are looking at what's coming next and what are the advancements and how we can do, um, solution provision for folks.

Um, we have the FIs in the room who are looking at what they're doing to ensure that, um, their operations are keeping up with the trends of consumer needs.

So really we're looking for everyone to pipe in and give us these opinions.

Um, you know, we start from all of our proposals that are submitted through the industry and, and we have to whittle it down sometimes.

And there are a lot of decisions that are not easy.

There are decisions that, you know, we have to take this one instead of this one.

Um, and, and it's difficult.

Um, but when we are working together as a group and as one unit for the good of the conference, I think what we're really looking for is to make sure that we are really hearing from a cross-section of the industry.

Yeah, and Lisa, take us inside the room a little bit, like from your perspective of putting together the agenda, what you're hearing, what you were talking about as you're thinking about Smarter Faster Payments 2027.

It's really a collaborative effort, and it's amazing that all the different backgrounds.

We have legal, we have risk and compliance professionals, payments professionals, fintechs.

It's a, it's a, a hodgepodge or lollapalooza of different, different types of people in the room, and we all make it work.

We all bring our perspectives.

Nobody's afraid to, to speak out.

Uh, nobody's afraid to offer suggestions and opinions, and everybody listens and, and welcomes feedback.

That's my favorite, when we're really working together and we see an idea, and we start to pull on the strings for the idea, and everybody starts to...

You know, we, we build a session-

Mm-hmm