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With Nikita Surya (Dir. Product, MasterCard), Dre Cunningham (Product Strategy, Visa).
BrainStation, 136 Crosby St, 4th Fl
Mar 12 (Thu) , 2026 @ 06:00 PM
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Join Nikita Surya, Director of Product, Emerging Data Signals at Mastercard, & Dre Cunningham, Product Strategy & Commercialization at Visa, for a candid conversation on what's changing right now at the intersection of AI & payments. We'll dig into emerging themes like agentic payments, the evolution of open banking rails, & how the next generation of payment experiences will be designed, governed, & brought to market.

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Nikita Surya
Nikita Surya

Director - Product, Emerging Data Signals

Mastercard
Director of Product focused on agentic payments & emerging data signals. Leads teams building privacyfirst, AI driven payment systems where consented realtime data powers automated decisions & intelligent financial actions across the payment lifecycle.With a background spanning engineering & finance, she brings a quantitative lens to product strategy, drawing on optimization, mathematical modeling, & machine learning to solve complex problems in financial services & design scalable, efficient solutions.

Dre Cunningham
Dre Cunningham

Product Strategy & Commercialization, Visa

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Dre Cunningham leads product strategy & commercialization at Visa, where he focuses on scaling digital commerce & payment solutions across North America's merchant ecosystem. He began his career in strategic finance managing capital decisions across a multi-billion-dollar portfolio, founded a fintech marketplace while at Harvard Business School, & now works at the intersection of growth, product, & capital to build durable fintech businesses as new payment capabilities move from innovation to adoption.

Agentic payments move beyond recommendations toward AI-enabled experiences that can take action, initiate transactions, & complete payments with the right permissions & safeguards. This session explores what's emerging, where early use cases are gaining traction, & what product teams must get

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Agentic Payments: The Next Wave of Commerce

Agentic payments go beyond recommendations, enabling AI to initiate & complete transactions with proper permissions & safeguards. This section explores emerging use cases & what product teams must get right around trust & user consent.

02
Open Banking as the New Payments Infrastructure

Open banking now powers personalization, underwriting, fraud signals, & new payment experiences. This section examines how the rails are evolving & how product leaders can build for what's next without overfitting to today's constraints.

03
Commercializing AI + Payments in a Regulated World

In payments, products succeed only if they're trusted & scalable. This section explores launching AI-driven payment products, from positioning & risk tolerance to compliance, fraud, & operational readiness.
 
 
 
 
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