Name: Summer School 2026: Payments Reimagined
Start: 2026-07-13T12:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-07-21T15:00:00-04:00
Location: Virtual

Summer School 2026: Payments Reimagined

Summer School Is Back in Session

Ten lessons on the business payments is becoming, before it gets there.

RSVPs Closed

Virtual Event: How to Build an Agile Events Program

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Why Attend?

The payments business you're running today already looks different than it did a year ago. New rails, AI-driven decisioning, embedded finance and software-led distribution are changing how money moves and who captures the value.

This July, PYMNTS On Air's Summer School 2026 breaks it down across ten live, 30-minute sessions built to answer one question: what does all of this mean for your business, and what should you do about it now?

Payments isn't evolving. It's being rebuilt in real time.

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Rethink the revenue stack: where margin comes from when transaction economics stop carrying the business

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Get ahead of AI-native payments: what changes when AI drives the decisioning, and the transaction itself

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Find your real moat: how data, trust and distribution decide who captures value through 2030

Class Schedule

7:00–7:10

All Speakers

Welcome Intro

Hosts will introduce themselves and get you up to speed on the webinar's agenda.

7:10–7:20

Sab Pell, Openlane

Opening Remarks

Host Sab Pell will take you through the hot topics and best practices to move forward with.

7:20–7:45

All Speakers

Panel Begins

Open Q&A between guest presenters and attendees.

7:45-8:00

Jet Rodriguez, Righteous, Inc.

Closing Thoughts

Guest speaker Jet Rodriguez will keep us informed on what the future of virtual events will begin to look like.

Your Hosts

Karen Webster

CEO

PYMNTS

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John Gaffney

Chief Content Officer

PYMNTS

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Hosts

Karen Webster

CEO
PYMNTS

John Gaffney

Chief Content Officer

PYMNTS

Speakers

Billi Jo Wright

Executive Lead, General Manager Integrated & Platforms,
PayFac at Worldpay

Jill Willard

CTO at IXOPAY

Shawn Curtis

GM of Payments at SBT

Prajit Nanu

Founder and CEO of Nium

BEN Catterall

Global Head of Solutions Engineering at Fynapse

Matthew Davies

Head of Global Payments Solutions, EMEA, Bank of America

Class Schedule

All sessions in Eastern Standard Time.

RSVPs Closed

Agenda

7:00–7:10

All Speakers

Welcome Intro

Hosts will introduce themselves and get you up to speed on the webinar's agenda.

7:10–7:20

Sab Pell, Openform

Opening Remarks

Host Sab Pell will take you through the hot topics and best practices to move forward with.

7:20–7:45

All Speakers

Panel Begins

Open Q&A between guest presenters and attendees.

7:45-8:00

Jet Rodriguez, Righteous, Inc.

Closing Thoughts

Guest speaker Jet Rodriguez will keep us informed on what the future of virtual events will begin to look like.

Speakers

Gerardo A Dada

VP, Marketing

Jet Rodriguez is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Jet have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Catchpoint

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Jet Rodriguez

VP, Marketing

Jet Rodriguez is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Jet have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Righteous, Inc.

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Jet Rodriguez

VP, Marketing

Jet Rodriguez is a host of exceptional ability. Studies show that a vast majority of guests attending events by Jet have been known to leave more elated than visitors to Santa's Workshop, The Lost of Continent of Atlantis, and the Fountain of Youth.

Righteous, Inc.

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Your Hosts

Sab Pell

CEO

OPENFORM

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Frank Sides

VP, Technology

TRUST THE PROCESS, INC.

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Resource List

01

A Guide to Agile Event Programs that Can Survive Anything

Explore why the most dynamic leaders are building strategies for agile event marketing with a focus on scaling in-person and virtual events that are fast, flexible, and hyper-effective at driving meaningful connections.

Check it out

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Crisis Mode: Ideas for Managing Events in Challenging Situations

Learn strategies, experiences and lessons learned from top event marketing leaders who have walked through the fire more than once and lived to talk about it.

Register

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How to Build a Rock Solid Agile Events Program

The old way of doing event marketing—a large, inflexible investment in a small number of tentpole events—doesn't fit into a business world that demands adaptability and speed.

Watch now

04

IRL + URL: How to Blend In-Person and Virtual Events

Blending in-person and virtual experiences to create a hybrid event is one way event marketers can lean into this ever-changing operation, reach new audiences, and discover new growth.

Read the article

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