Agenda at a glance

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Engage with top industry experts, senior executives from the world’s fastest-growing companies, and Stripe leadership. Stay tuned for more speaker announcements. 

Speakers

Patrick Collison

Cofounder and CEO

John Collison

Cofounder and President

Michael Truell

Leopold Aschenbrenner

Founder

Jeff Titterton

Chief Marketing Officer

Kevin Kelly

Chief Investment Officer

Chad Jones

Stanco25 Professor of Economics

Randal Quarles

Chairman, The Cynosure Group; Former Vice Chairman, Federal Reserve System

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Andrew Ng

Daniel Danker

Chief Product Officer

Denis Yarats

Cofounder & CTO

Jack Forestell

Chief Product and Strategy Officer

Jackie Reses

Kevin McCarthy

55th Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives

Matt Huang

Cofounder and Managing Partner

Zach Abrams

Eileen O’Mara

Chief Revenue Officer

Emily Sands

Head of Data and AI

Rahul Patil

Chief Technology Officer

Executive Summit is an invitation-only gathering of global business leaders that takes place during Sessions—Stripe’s annual conference. 

Join us for roundtable discussions and fireside chats hosted by Stripe’s cofounders. Together we’ll explore market shifts, discover new opportunities, and plan for the future of global commerce.

Stripe Executive Summit

Stripe Sessions 2026 | The global internet economy conference

Executive Summit is an invitation-only gathering of global business leaders that takes place during Sessions—Stripe’s annual conference.

Join us for roundtable discussions and fireside chats hosted by Stripe’s cofounders. Together we’ll explore market shifts, discover new opportunities, and plan for the future of global commerce.

Overview

Stripe Sessions is a 2-day, in-person event with discussions about important internet economy trends, the future of commerce, and Stripe product updates. Register now to secure your spot.

Sessions 2026

Join business leaders, founders, and developers from the world's most ambitious companies to learn about the latest advancements in payments and financial technology. Plus, hear how other experts in your industry are solving real-world growth challenges.

Stay tuned for more speaker announcements.

Featured

Will Gaybrick

President, Technology and Business

Kate Royer

Chief of Staff

Georgios Konstantopoulos

Ginger Baker

VP, Product Management, Fintech and Payments

Kevin Miller

Business Lead for Payments, Risk, Support and Global

Neetika Bansal

Head of Money Management and Crypto

Kate Jensen

Head of Americas

Guillermo Rauch

Cristina Cordova

Chief Operating Officer

Daniel Gross

Investor and Entrepreneur

Nat Friedman

Sessions puts your business in front of decision-makers from enterprises, platforms, and startups actively seeking solutions for their next phase of growth.

Affirm 

American Express 

Clerk

Discover 

Klarna 

Mastercard 

Verifone 

Visa 

Conference passes

What’s included

Conference pass

A limited number of conference passes are available for purchase on-site at Moscone West.

Conference pass + training bundle

Why attend

s26 Why attend highlight reel

Head to the main stage to see our biggest product announcements live, hear from renowned business leaders, and explore what’s next for global commerce as AI-native models, agentic commerce, and crypto reshape how business gets done.

See what's next in payments and commerce

Build your own agenda of breakout talks covering the next wave of revenue models, AI-powered payment optimizations, designing exceptional customer experiences, and more. Whether you’re a newcomer or experienced practitioner, you’ll find talks that match your expertise.

Learn how to meet the trends impacting your business

Topics:
- Increasing conversion and lowering network costs
- Fighting fraud and managing disputes
- Building your recurring revenue engine
- Establishing a marketplace or vertical SaaS platform
- Increasing the global reach of your business with stablecoins
- Developing an AI agent-ready checkout experience

Included: On-site certification exams and hands-on workrooms (Wednesday and Thursday)


Expand your skills with training and certification

Meet our partners and discover tools that extend Stripe’s capabilities through demos and talks. Between sessions, join focused meetups to share ideas with peers, find opportunities to solve business challenges, and connect with the Stripe community that supports you year-round.

Make new connections in the expo hall

Learn to use Stripe Billing to simplify the launch and management of subscription or usage-based pricing plans. We’ll walk through the process of launching a subscription and setting up usage-based billing, from configuring pricing to handling failed payments. Then, we’ll explore a variety of API flows through interactive demos and hands-on coding with Workbench, a Stripe developer tool to help you build, test, and debug your integration. Finally, you’ll revise a demo application to practice making Stripe API calls for specific user flows.

Learn about:
- Designing both recurring and usage-based pricing models
- Selling implementations using quotes and one-time invoice items
- Deciding how your application should handle trials, upgrades, and downgrades
- Dynamically responding to payment failures to help customers recover more revenue

This training is for developers with professional experience building web applications using Node.js.

Course level: Advanced

[__Sign in or create a profile__](https://register.stripesessions.com/2026/form) to add training at checkout.

Gregor Richardson

Technical Curriculum Developer

Vishnu Samavedula 

Product Manager, Global Partnerships

Max Walden

Implementation Consultant

Building your recurring revenue engine

Revenue engines

This training is designed for payments and finance leaders who are interested in learning about the basics of stablecoins and the broader crypto ecosystem. It will cover how stablecoins can help businesses expand globally, manage their treasury, make payouts, and develop new financial products. We’ll focus on business use cases and strategy, not technical details or implementation specifics.

You’ll learn about the paradigm shift that crypto technology is bringing to global money movement, and then dive into specific use cases enabled by Stripe’s crypto stack. Lastly, we’ll cover how you can use that information to inform your strategy going forward.

Course objectives: 
- Understand the basics of stablecoins and blockchain networks—and how they contrast with established money movement rails.
- Learn about the benefits of applying stablecoins for global money movement and other real-world use cases.
- Discuss trade-offs of using stablecoin and crypto technology for your business versus existing implementations or alternatives.
- Gain an understanding of how stablecoins can inform your strategic roadmap.

This training is intended for individuals who want to: 
- Learn about the fundamentals of stablecoins and blockchain networks
- Use stablecoins to help their business expand globally, reach more customers, and solve money movement challenges
- Influence strategic change for their business

Course level: Foundational

[__Sign in or create a profile__](https://register.stripesessions.com/2026/form) to add training at checkout.

Sanjay Bansal

Solutions Architect, Stripe Crypto and Stablecoins

Ria Bhutoria

Specialist Solutions Architect

Increasing the global reach of your business with stablecoins

SaaS platform economy

Learn how to implement Stripe Connect to embed payments and financial services for your users. First, we’ll discuss how platforms (such as Squarespace and Mindbody) and marketplaces (such as Lyft and Instacart) can use Connect in different ways. Then, we’ll explore different API flows through interactive demos and hands-on coding with Workbench, a Stripe developer tool to help you build, test, and debug your integration. Finally, you’ll revise a demo application to practice making Stripe API calls for specific user flows.

Learn about:
- Onboarding merchants and collecting Know Your Customer (KYC) information to comply with payment regulations
- Helping users manage their business through the Stripe Dashboard or embedded components
- Managing merchant risk, reselling payments, and controlling payouts
- Picking a merchant of record for payments in multisided marketplaces

This training is for developers with experience building web applications using Node.js.

Course level: Advanced

[__Sign in or create a profile__](https://register.stripesessions.com/2026/form) to add training at checkout.

Liz Jacobs

Kathy So

Establishing a marketplace or vertical SaaS platform

SaaS

This training is designed for current and prospective Stripe users who are interested in learning about adapting their business for the era of agentic commerce, where consumers turn to AI agents (like ChatGPT) to help make purchasing decisions.

Course objectives: 
- Explore how agentic commerce is transforming consumer behavior, moving the buying journey from clicks to conversational prompts and agent apps.
- Understand how agents can collect payment information from customers and securely pass it to your application.
- Make your product catalog and checkout API-ready, turning AI agents into a powerful new channel that increases engagement and conversion.
- Ensure your business remains the merchant of record, retaining control over fulfillment, fraud signals, and the customer relationship—even as the AI agent mediates the purchase.

This training is intended for individuals who want to: 
- Prepare their business to sell to agents from the top AI providers.
- Understand the terminology and processes involved in agentic checkout.

Course level: Foundational

[__Sign in or create a profile__](https://register.stripesessions.com/2026/form) to add training at checkout.

Kyle McMeekin

Partner Solutions Architect

Danny Smith

Solutions Architect Global Lead, Agentic Commerce

Developing an AI agent-ready checkout experience

Rando temporary track

This training is designed for current and prospective Stripe customers who are interested in learning about ways to reduce losses due to fraud and disputes, and help protect their business’s bottom line. You’ll learn about fraud and dispute detection directly from Stripe experts.

Course objectives: 
- Develop the skills to help combat fraud effectively while maintaining positive standing with payment networks and customers.
- Learn best practices for responding to disputes, including when to respond and what information to provide to maximize your dispute win rate.

This training is intended for individuals who want to: 
- Gain relevant industry information for payment operations
- Minimize their fraud and disputes exposure

Course level: Foundational

[__Sign in or create a profile__](https://register.stripesessions.com/2026/form) to add training at checkout.

Dabby Nwabueze

Payments Performance Strategist

Lindsey Thompson

Technical Account Manager

Fighting fraud and managing disputes

Emerging trends

This training is designed for current and prospective Stripe customers who are interested in learning about industry best practices and key business operations that keep payments programs healthy. You’ll learn about conversion optimization, card payments optimization, and cost analysis directly from Stripe experts.

Course objectives: 
- Understand the key considerations for optimizing your payment processes
- Learn how to streamline costs when using cost-plus pricing

This training is intended for individuals who want to:
- Gain relevant industry information for payment operations
- Refresh their Stripe operations knowledge
- Optimize their payments implementation

Course level: Foundational

[__Sign in or create a profile__](https://register.stripesessions.com/2026/form) to add training at checkout.

Nick Levy

Lauren Sickles

Enterprise Network Cost Strategist

Dominick Yin

Increasing conversion and lowering network costs

Frictionless flows

Kick off Partner Summit with context and vision, and set the tone for the rest of your week at Sessions. 
- Gain industry and market context from Stripe leadership, helping you understand the forces shaping global commerce.
- Get a preview of upcoming Stripe announcements, so you can discuss new solutions with confidence. 
- Discover how fellow partners are winning in the market and expanding their businesses through collaboration with Stripe.
- Learn about opportunities for co-selling, co-innovating, and co-marketing—and how they can propel your go-to-market motions.


Katie Ochieano

Product Marketing Lead

Fran Ryan

Chief Business Officer

Partner Summit kickoff

All tracks

Hear how financial institutions and networks can collaborate with Stripe to lead in digital finance. This session will cover core acquiring, agentic trends, stablecoins, and strategies for launching new financial products using Stripe’s infrastructure. Connect with other financial partners and discuss how these market trends can propel your business forward.

Manish Kohli

Head of Global Payments Solutions

Simon Taylor

Head of Market Development

Paris Cribben

President and Chief Trust Officer

Max Segall

Jake Sinsheimer

GTM Head of Agentic Commerce

Nate Starrett

Global Head of Financial Partnerships

Partner Summit breakout: Financial partnerships

Explore Stripe’s expanding payment method partner ecosystem and how you can build with us to maximize distribution, improve integration, and drive adoption. Hear real-world case studies, discover best practices and tools for go-to-market success, and join interactive discussions with peers.

Matt Basta

Principal Engineer

Laura Dechant

Head of Business Operations

Kurtis Moyer

Lead Product Manager, Payments

Raisa Ahmed

Product Lead, Global

Julius Danek

Head of Product DACH and CEE

Mengfei	Gao

Global Head of Expansion and Payment Partnerships

Helen McGrath

Head of Global Payment Method Partnerships

Jonathan Schultz

Partnership Development Manager

Partner Summit breakout: Payment methods

Learn about the Stripe Apps ecosystem and how partners can build, launch, and grow successful integrations. Discover how apps are solving real customer challenges, learn about the latest platform innovations, and access new opportunities and benefits to expand your reach and drive adoption.

Thibau De Rooze

Skye Bacus

Product Manager

Rami Banna

Product Lead

Tanya Boiteau

Product Manager, Extensibility

Hugo Buret

Partnerships, Revenue Suite

Dravya Nataraj

Partner Engineer

Lan Roche

Head of Platform Partnerships

Eddie Serrill

Head of Ecosystem and Startup Products

Partner Summit breakout: Apps

See the latest innovations in vertical retail solutions and the collaborative opportunities available within the Terminal ecosystem. This session will bring together partners from hardware technology, point-of-sale solutions, and retail to explore how we can collectively elevate the customer experience across industries.

Agenda

April 28

Developing an AI agent-ready checkout experienceRegistration required

Fighting fraud and managing disputesRegistration required

Increasing conversion and lowering network costsRegistration required

Increasing the global reach of your business with stablecoinsRegistration required

Building your recurring revenue engineRegistration required

Establishing a marketplace or vertical SaaS platformRegistration required

Partner Summit kickoffFor Stripe partners only

Developing an AI agent-ready checkout experienceRegistration required

Fighting fraud and managing disputesRegistration required

Increasing conversion and lowering network costsRegistration required

Increasing the global reach of your business with stablecoinsRegistration required

Partner Summit breakout: AppsFor Stripe partners only

Partner Summit breakout: Financial partnershipsFor Stripe partners only

Partner Summit breakout: Payment methodsFor Stripe partners only

Partner Summit breakout: Services and technologyFor Stripe partners only

Partner Summit breakout: Unified commerceFor Stripe partners only

Partner networking receptionFor Stripe partners only

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