Agenda
Registration and Networking Breakfast
WELCOME ADDRESS
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David Harrison
Founder PaySavi
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David Harrison
Founder PaySavi
David has over 25 years’ experience in the payments industry and was previously with a major UK Commercial Card issuer before being asked to join Visa Europe. He held a series of senior leadership positions including Head of Commercial Card Products, Head of Government Services, Head of European Market Development and Regulatory Workstream leader. David established PaySavi in 2018 to develop payment optimisation solutions for scheme, issuer, fintech and business association clients in EMEA, North America and Asia Pacific. PaySavi is also an approved supplier of Payment Consultancy Services to UK Government organisations. Since 2021, David has been working with Hi55, a new platform financing the payroll of any employer, whilst paying their staff sooner, and is currently Head of Cards & Payments.
March 10th 2026-
08.50am -09.00amWELCOME ADDRESS
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Presentation: European & global economic outlook
How global and European macro trends are shaping corporate spend, liquidity, FX exposure, and business confidence as economic context for forces influencing payment volumes, investment decisions and risk appetite.
Presentation: Geopolitics & threat intelligence
Insight into the latest threat actor behaviours and practical strategies for strengthening operational resilience. How geopolitical instability, cyber-aggression and supply-chain risk are reshaping threats to payment infrastructure.
Regulatory Discussion: Preparing for PSD3, Dora & UK regulatory evolution
Regulatory leaders outline the forthcoming PSD3 framework, Dora timelines, and the UK’s National Payments Vision and UK regulatory convergence- what’s coming and what it means. How these changes will influence client relationships authentication, risk controls, onboarding processes and cross-border operations for B2B payment providers. What issuers must prepare for now.
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Monica Monaco
Founder & managing director Trust EU Affairs
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Monica Monaco
Founder & managing director Trust EU Affairs
Based in Brussels since 2003, Monica is the owner and managing director of TrustEuAffairs. TrustEuAffairs advises its clients since 2013 on Eu legislative relevant initiatives, with a focus on payment systems and digital payments, including crypto assets.
Monica has previously been Senior Manager for EU Relations and Regulatory Affairs in the Legal Department of Visa for more than ten years, being responsible for the relations with the European Institutions as well as with various national regulators.
Monica holds a Master’s Degree in Economics, European Law oriented, from L.U.I.S.S.- Guido Carli University in Rome, Italy.March 10th 2026
NETWORKING BREAK
Leadership Panel: Building the payments organisation of 2030
A forward-looking discussion on future talent, culture, governance, AI capability-building, and program delivery operating models to capture B2B payment growth. What to insource versus what to outsource when building a winning payments proposition?
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Duygu Tasdelen-Stavropoulos
Head of EMEA commercial card Bank of America
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Duygu Tasdelen-Stavropoulos
Head of EMEA commercial card Bank of America
March 10th 2026-
11.20am -12.00pmLeadership Panel: Building the payments organisation of 2030
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Brian Tomkins
Managing director, global head of commercial cards, global payments solutions HSBC
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Brian Tomkins
Managing director, global head of commercial cards, global payments solutions HSBC
Brian Tomkins is managing director, global head of commercial cards for HSBC’s Global payments solutions business. He leads the business, strategy, product development, and commercialisation for the full suite of Card products and solutions and has been with HSBC for 10 years. Prior to joining HSBC, Brian spent 15 years at Citi, where he held various senior roles in Europe and the U.S.
March 10th 2026-
11.20am -12.00pmLeadership Panel: Building the payments organisation of 2030
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ROUNDTABLES: BREAKOUTS
Select one of the following roundtable discussions to attend
- Security and fraud
- Embedded payment
- Travel booking automation through AI led by Patrick Diemer, senior adviser, Arthur D. Little
- Virtual card in B2B
- AP/AR automation through AI
- Expense management with AI
- Rebate management
- Working capital
- Harnessing regulation to win clients and deliver growth
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Patrick Diemer.
Chairman, European business travel association and senior advisor Arthur D. Little
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Patrick Diemer.
Chairman, European business travel association and senior advisor Arthur D. Little
Patrick is senior advisor at Arthur Dr. Little managing consulting firm. He also active as business angel, board member and investor in travel & payment start-ups. Patrick was CEO at Lufthansa AirPlus where he headed their global expansion strategy and developed AirPlus into one of the leading commercial card issuers. Earlier he led Visa Germany, and was SVP consumer marketing at Commerzbank. In his career he worked in the USA, UK and Germany, several times in start/scale-ups. He holds a Master of economics degree of Hamburg University. 2017 Patrick was named one of the ‘25 most influential’ by Business travel news. Currently Patrick volunteers for VDR, the German business travel association. He leads their task force ‘restart business travel’.
March 10th 2026-
12.00pm -12.30pmROUNDTABLES: BREAKOUTS
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LUNCH & NETWORKING
Panel Discussion: E-invoicing mandates across Europe and implications for B2B Payments
As e-invoicing becomes mandatory across Europe, this session explains what corporates and issuers must change in AP/AR processes. Will e-invoicing displace Level 3 data or unlock richer analytics and automation across procurement workflows? Impact on supplier onboarding, reconciliation, AP automation. What issuers, acquirers & buyers must change now.
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Johanna Waara
SVP, corporate solutions lead Europe Mastercard
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Johanna Waara
SVP, corporate solutions lead Europe Mastercard
March 10th 2026
Panel Discussion: B2B merchant acceptance: Europe's biggest bottleneck
Examining why European suppliers resist cards. US vs EU maturity. Acquirer role & gaps in tech. How AI & automation reduce acceptance friction Suppliers, acquirers, issuers and networks discuss the practical blockers to card acceptance across Europe—including economics, integration friction, sector-specific behaviours and market norms. Real supplier case studies reveal what actually changes adoption decisions.
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Rebecca Hopkinson
Vice president, corporate solutions Mastercard
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Rebecca Hopkinson
Vice president, corporate solutions Mastercard
March 10th 2026
Data intelligence, spend visibility & the next generation of level 3 data
Level 3 data has long been costly, fragmented and under-utilised — but new approaches are reshaping what’s possible. We will explore emerging methods for capturing invoice-level and item-level detail without relying on legacy scheme rails, and how AI now unlocks deeper enrichment, categorisation and policy intelligence. How real-time spend visibility, automated data layering and intelligent compliance controls are redefining procurement, reconciliation and corporate payment strategy.
NETWORKING BREAK
Case Study: Agentic AI & autonomous commerce
Leading innovators showcase real-world case studies demonstrating how agentic AI is reshaping payment operations—from intelligent transaction initiation to fully automated approval routing, reconciliation, fraud checks, and virtual card issuance. Addressing the governance frameworks, compliance safeguards and operational boundaries required to deploy autonomous commerce responsibly within regulated financial environments.
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Ian Cheng
Enterprise digital strategy leader Jaguar Land Rover
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Ian Cheng
Enterprise digital strategy leader Jaguar Land Rover
Ian Cheng is a visionary business executive with the proven track record of driving innovation and profitable growth at Fortune 500 companies across automotive, luxury retail, supply chain, semiconductors, and financial services sectors.
Currently serving as the enterprise digital strategy leader at Jaguar Land Rover, Ian is spearheading the AI, Data, Cloud, and Technology strategies, and transformation initiatives in partnership with the C-suite. By aligning technology with the company’s modernist design philosophy, Ian is driving desirability and emotional engagement with global clients. He is instrumental in shaping the company’s digital vision and priorities, overseeing a global innovation portfolio of AI, Web3, automation, connectivity, and electrification initiatives. By prioritising actionable execution and managing the end-to-end process, Ian ensures these initiatives deliver tangible business outcomes and a sustainable competitive advantage.
A passionate advocate for using technology to build a more connected and sustainable future, Ian graduated from London Business School in MBA with Distinctions, and Harvard University in Computer Science, Data Analytics.
March 10th 2026-
03.30pm -04.00pmCase Study: Agentic AI & autonomous commerce
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Virtual cards - adoption acceleration, controls & fraud trends
Experts review the state of virtual cards in AP and mobile provisioning of virtual cards for infrequent users / contractors, including new fraud typologies and the role of intelligent controls, tokenisation and automation. The session showcases the newest use cases emerging through AI-enabled workflows.
Innovation Showcases: Shaping the future of payment innovations
This session will spotlight emerging fintech companies driving innovation in the commercial payments space. It will also include a competition where participants can present their innovative solutions, with the audience voting to determine the winner.
16:30-17:00 Innovation Showcases:
Moderator: Patrick Diemer, senior adviser, Arthur D. Little
17:10 INNOVATION AWARD
Innovation Awards announcement voted by the CPI audience
Moderated by
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Patrick Diemer
Chairman, European business travel association and senior advisor Arthur D. Little
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Patrick Diemer
Chairman, European business travel association and senior advisor Arthur D. Little
Patrick is senior advisor at Arthur Dr. Little managing consulting firm. He also active as business angel, board member and investor in travel & payment start-ups. Patrick was CEO at Lufthansa AirPlus where he headed their global expansion strategy and developed AirPlus into one of the leading commercial card issuers. Earlier he led Visa Germany, and was SVP consumer marketing at Commerzbank. In his career he worked in the USA, UK and Germany, several times in start/scale-ups. He holds a Master of economics degree of Hamburg University. 2017 Patrick was named one of the ‘25 most influential’ by Business travel news. Currently Patrick volunteers for VDR, the German business travel association. He leads their task force ‘restart business travel’.
March 10th 2026-
04.30pm -05.10pmInnovation Showcases: Shaping the future of payment innovations
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RECEPTION & NETWORKING
Registration and Networking Breakfast
Welcome Address / Day 1 Recap
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Simon Jones
Independent payments Consultant
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Simon Jones
Independent payments Consultant
Simon has over 30 years of experience in finance, treasury and transaction banking across both developed and emerging markets. Simon was previously Chief Customer Officer at ClearBank and lead the client management, product & marketing teams at the UK’s first cloud based infrastructure clearing bank.
Prior to joining ClearBank in 2019, Simon spent over 20 years at JPMorgan. During his time at the bank, he was responsible for treasury solutions in EMEA, supporting clients around the world. He was also Head of Corporate Sales in EMEA from 2012 to 2015 and Asia Regional Executive for Treasury Services from 2006 to 2010, based in Hong Kong.
Simon is actively involved in UK FinTech as a Mentor for TechStars Accelerator programme.
March 11th 2026-
08.50am -09.00amWelcome Address / Day 1 Recap
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Presentation: Payments State of the Union
Voice of the buyer discussion: Corporate perspectives on commercial payments
Corporates will share insights into what buyers truly need from issuers, networks and fintechs. They discuss challenges, change-management, desired capabilities and the practical realities of implementing B2B payment innovation.
Supplier Panel: Why we accept (or reject) card payments
For the first time, a panel of major European suppliers explains the real economics, operational burdens and perceived risks behind their acceptance decisions. What would make card-based B2B payments more attractive in their sectors. Working capital, embedded lending & the new merchant economy.
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Erwan Le Grand
European head of commercialisation & account management – corporate cards HSBC
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Erwan Le Grand
European head of commercialisation & account management – corporate cards HSBC
Erwan is a seasoned commercial card expert with over 20 years’ experience in customer centric and leadership roles. He is passionate about delivering customer success and is highly skilled in building and leading diverse teams that drive exceptional business growth. With a strong focus on sales and revenue generation, Erwan has a proven track record of developing strategies that enhance customer operations and optimise working capital. Currently, he leads a team of regional commercial card advisors at HSBC spearheading consultations and delivery of complex card projects that leverage innovative card-based solutions.
March 11th 2026-
10.00am -10.45amSupplier Panel: Why we accept (or reject) card payments
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NETWORKING BREAK
Panel Discussion: Fintech–bank collaboration: models that work best
Banks, fintech founders and networks explore what successful collaboration really looks like—covering integration models, risk frameworks, partnership mechanics and lessons from failed engagements.
Panel Discussion: T&E transformation- the next wave of AI & virtual cards
Travel payment leaders discuss how agentic AI, advanced virtual card controls and enriched data are reshaping travel booking, compliance and hotel/airline payment flows. Addressing fraud trends and supplier-side evolution.
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Linda Weston
Head of commercial cards product Lloyds Banking Group
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Linda Weston
Head of commercial cards product Lloyds Banking Group
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Ashley Bowling
VP, corporate solutions business development, Europe Mastercard
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Ashley Bowling
VP, corporate solutions business development, Europe Mastercard
Ashley Bowling is Vice President of the Corporate Solutions Business Development, Europe at Mastercard. He is based in London and leads a team of Payments and B2B Acceptance Specialists across Europe who work with strategic issuers and technology partners to support new commercial growth opportunities. Ashley has over 20 years’ experience in the Commercial Payments industry having worked across the T&E, B2B, and Cross Border Payments segments. Before joining Mastercard Ashley spent several years American Express where he held roles in business development, relationship management, product management & strategy. Ashley’ s early career also included leadership roles in Internet Technology and ERP Systems sales.
March 11th 2026
LUNCH & NETWORKING
Panel Discussion: SME & mid-market payments in Europe: adoption, accounting platforms & open banking
Focus on why SME card adoption has stalled—and how e-invoicing, accounting integrations and open-banking-enabled payments are redefining the competitive landscape. Banks, fintechs and platforms share latest approaches to regain relevance with small business customers.
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Marek Liszewski
Head of product - cards & spend management Allica Bank
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Marek Liszewski
Head of product - cards & spend management Allica Bank
March 11th 2026
Stablecoins & tokenised settlement for B2B commerce
Institutional payments experts explore how blockchain rails, stablecoins and tokenised cash are beginning to reshape settlement processes. Assessment of the use cases emerging in the US and Europe, the regulatory guardrails, and how card schemes and banks may integrate these rails.