PRESENTED BY
Connecting the Humans
Behind the Agents
Terra Gallery
San Francisco
Tuesday, March 3, 2026
Agent Connect brings together builders, product leaders, and payments innovators shaping the next generation of agentic commerce. As intelligent agents increasingly transact, route payments, manage identities, and make autonomous decisions, the infrastructure beneath them must evolve.
Who Should Attend
Agent Connect is designed for:
- Payments leaders
- AI agent builders and founders
- Engineering and platform architects
- Payments operations and risk leaders
- Compliance, security, and data infrastructure experts
- Merchants enabling agent-driven experiences
What You'll Learn
How AI agents are changing payment flows and decisioning
What agent-based systems require from the payments infrastructure
How tokenization is enabling secure data sharing
Addressing risk, compliance, and authentication when agents transact
Designing agent-ready architectures that scale globally
Featured Speakers
Andrew Smith
Product Lead, Payments
David Beck
Head of Payments Partnerships
Chris Thompson
Director, Digital Payments
Kausik Rajgopal
Strategy, Corporate Development & Partnerships
Jalpesh Chitalia
Vice President, Agentic Commerce
Cici Northup
Payments Strategy Lead
Gautam Poornachandra
Product Lead, Payments
Kevin Miller
Payments, Risk,
and Support
and Support
Calvin Lee
Head of Core Product
Adi Thacker
SVP, Product Management
Will
Allen
Allen
VP, Product
Ryan Wiggins
VP, Product
Alex Rampell
General
Partner
Partner
Simon Taylor
Founder
Mark Walick
Vice President
of Product
of Product
Debbie Guerra
General Manager, Payments
Kumar Senthil
Founder, CEO
Alfonso Gómez-Jordana Mañas
Cofounder
Don Gossen
Cofounder & CEO
Melissa Shields
Senior Director Revenue
Strategy at VGS &
Chairman at PaymentsEd
Strategy at VGS &
Chairman at PaymentsEd
Arthur Bedel
Director of Revenue at VGS & Cofounder, Connecting the Dots in Payments
Agenda at a Glance
8:00 - 9:00 AM
Registration & Breakfast
9:00 - 12:00 PM
Panels
12:00 - 1:30 PM
Lunch & Networking
1:30 - 4:30 PM
Panels
4:30 - 6:00 PM
Cocktail Reception
Why Attend Agent Connect?
Agent-driven commerce isn't theoretical; it's already here. But payments infrastructure wasn't designed for autonomous actors.
Agent Connect exists to explore:
What breaks when agents transact
What needs to change in payments architecture
How infrastructure providers, fintechs, and merchants collaborate to build what’s next
