Keynote
A tailored talk that gives the room a new lens on what is reshaping payments, and one decision they should not postpone.
Keynote inquirySPEAKER · MODERATOR · PAYMENTS OPERATOR
Make the payments conversation useful for the people in the room.
I turn infrastructure, AI, and strategy into a point of view your audience can use the same week. Operator experience. No recycled fintech TED talk.
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34K+ LinkedIn followers · 8K+ Substack subscribers
20+ speaking engagements each year
LIVE FROM THE STAGE
PAYMENTS · PEOPLE · PROGRESS
PAYMENTS · PEOPLE · PROGRESS
CONFERENCE STAGES
01 / THE POINT
Not another generic
fintech talk.
Your audience already knows payments are changing. They need someone who can make sense of the change, and make it matter to the people in the room.
I connect infrastructure and impact, innovation and adoption, strategy and the humans responsible for making it real.
Start a conversation
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The room changes
when the story lands.
02 / THE FORMAT
One speaker.
Three ways in.
Pick the format that fits the agenda. The job is the same: a sharper conversation and an audience that leaves with something useful.
✦Available virtual year-round · live in speaking season (Sep to mid-Dec, Feb to end of Jun)
Panelist
A candid operator voice who makes complex points land without losing nuance, and keeps the panel from drifting into product pitches.
Panelist inquiryModerator
A prepared guide who gets past surface answers, protects the audience's time, and leaves a conversation people still talk about in the hallway.
Moderator inquirySELECTED ROOMS
Payments companies and teams I have worked with.
RECENT SESSIONS
On stage in the last twelve months.
Keynotes, main stages and moderated panels across Europe and North America. Every session is built for the room it is in.
- Jun 2026ACI Payments Unleashed EMEALondonModeratorSovereignty without Fragmentation: Can Europe Take Control and Still Scale?
- Jun 2026Money20/20 EuropeAmsterdamModeratorPaymentology Issuer Masterclass
- May 2026Mastercard Business SummitBudapestKeynoteBuild, Partner, or Wait: The Agentic Payments Decision Facing German Banks
- May 2026Worldpay Rethink AmericasMiamiMain stageRecovering Revenue at Checkout: The Authorization Playbook for Merchants
- Apr 2026Mastercard Space4CommerceFrankfurtKeynoteAgentic Payments: Competing Business Models and Strategic Acceptance Decisions
- Dec 2025Amazon NEXTLondonKeynoteAgentic Commerce: From “Add to Cart” to Autonomous Execution
Also: SafeCypher Fraud Forum Toronto · RBI Payment Acceptance Conference · IXOPAY Connect London · MPE Live TV · The Paypers webinar series
“Thank you once again for your great presentation. It was truly engaging and very well received by our audience.”Julia Anna Zombori · Advisors & Consulting Services, Mastercard
“The feedback so far has been extremely positive with the content being received as insightful and thought provoking.”Philip Harding · Commercial Director, Cashflows
ON CAMERA
Video that builds interest, not just views.
Feeds serve video by interest now, not by who follows whom. A sharp conversation keeps finding the right payments audience long after it is published.
The Paypers Executive Conversations
Host. Seven episodes with payments leaders, recorded during Money20/20 Europe.
Watch the series
MPE Live TV, Voice of the floor
Host. 12 episodes recorded on the floor at Merchant Payments Ecosystem in Berlin.
Watch the series
The Fraud Economy, with Incognia
Host. How fraud became an industry, and what institutions cannot see about their own customers.
Watch the series03 / THE CONVERSATION
What should your audience be thinking about next?
Every talk is shaped around your moment. These are the territories I return to most.
Discuss your brief01
Agentic Commerce
How intelligent agents are changing discovery, decision-making, and checkout.
02
Stablecoin Infrastructure
What stablecoins mean for rails, risk models, and global payments.
03
Modern Acquiring & Legacy Transformation
The practical path from inherited complexity to a more resilient stack.
04
Payments Strategy for the Future
The choices leaders need to make now to stay relevant.
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Applying Artificial Intelligence in Payments
Learnings from 20+ years as a Data Scientist in Payments.
THE DIFFERENCE
Smart enough for the experts. Clear enough for everyone.
I work in the space I speak about. That means I can go deep with specialists, then bring the whole room with me.
“Your agentic economics framing gave the room a proper way to think about where value actually accrues, and the three strategic paths landed well.”Mark Phillips · CEO, SafeCypher
04 / HOW IT WORKS
Easy to book.
Hard to forget.
From first brief to final applause, I make the process simple for the people behind the event.
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Brief
Align on your audience, objective, format, and the one thing you want people to remember.
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Build
Shape the talk or conversation around your event, not a recycled deck.
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Deliver
Deliver a confident, considered session that respects the room and raises the bar.
