Submissions are open
Submit your proposal by January 13th, 2027. You can save a draft and come back to it.
What the committee looks for
- Merchants love hearing from other merchants. Sessions at PaymentsEd must include a merchant speaker.
- Please ensure you provide original material that hasn't been presented at other conferences during the same calendar year.
- Case studies and real-life applications are always top-rated sessions.
- Teach what works in production, including numbers where you can share them.
- Most sessions are 45 minutes. Please plan for 30 minutes of content with 10 minutes for Q&A.
Key dates
- Submissions open
- Submissions close
- Speakers notified
Topics of interest
Authorization
- My authorization rates are lower than expected: where do I start?
- Improving payment success rates using strategic card-on-file practices
- Fine-Tuning 3D Secure Rails for Maximum Authorization Success and Minimum Friction
Routing & Orchestration
- Mastering Payment Orchestration: Smart Routing, Multi-Acquiring, Fallback Architecture, and When to Build vs Buy
- Optimizing Network Tokens Across Sales Channels
- How do I know if Debit Routing is right for me?
Checkout Experience
- Building an omnichannel payment experience that reduces repeat customer friction
- A/B testing your checkout: how to experiment with payment methods and flows
- Using payments to drive loyalty: closed-loop wallets and incentives
Alternative Payments
- Deciding if BNPLs in a card-present environment is right for your business
- How to assess Instant Payments
- Optimizing your eCommerce flows with Open Banking and Account-to-Account (A2A) Payments
- Expanding beyond your headquarters country: choosing the right local payment methods
Fraud, Risk & Compliance
- Stopping fraud without blocking good customers: identity verification and false positives
- A playbook for chargebacks and friendly fraud
- PCI and payments regulation: staying compliant year-round
- Preparing your payment stack for the Global Merchant Audit Program (GMAP)
AI & Future Trends
- How to prepare your payment environment for AI Shoppers
- Implementing AI in your dunning flow to increase performance of subscription payments
- Trends and the future of consumer payments
Partners & Strategy
- Partnership Management 101: choosing and managing acquirers, gateways and software vendors, including the RFP
- Selling payments internally: building the business case, structuring your team, and partnering with treasury
Payment Economics
- The economics of payments: cost, conversion, surcharging and dispute rights by payment type
- B2B payments: what changes when your buyer is a business
Have a topic that isn't listed here but would interest the payments community? We still encourage you to submit it.