2026 highlights

 

Beyond the transaction: The shift to network intelligence

Modern fraud is no longer a simple checkout problem. Today’s attacks are identity-driven, highly coordinated, and engineered to mimic legitimate customer behavior. With generative AI accelerating these sophisticated threats, single-merchant, transaction-level systems are obsolete and simply too late to stop them.

This session reveals why defending against modern fraud requires a strategic shift. Discover how leveraging massive network scale, dynamic behavioral analysis, and cross-identity relationships allows you to predict and block account takeovers, claims abuse, and fraud long before a transaction even begins.

Veronika Koren, Senior Manager, Merchant Health, Riskified

Robby Snitkof, Data Analyst Team Leader, Riskified

 

Who owns the risk when AI pays? The accountability void in agentic commerce

Agentic commerce is rapidly transforming online payments, but who owns the risk when AI makes the purchase? As autonomous shopping accelerates, it creates dangerous gaps in accountability, visibility, and merchant control. Third-party instant checkouts often obscure crucial decisioning data, while emerging AI-driven threat vectors push fraud upstream into complex account takeovers and policy abuse. 

In this session with the CTO of IXOPAY and the SVP of Digital from Finish Line, we dissect the chaotic evolution of agentic commerce protocols and the hidden liabilities of AI-originated traffic. You will learn why transaction observability, dynamic orchestration, and identity intelligence are critical to closing the accountability void. Discover actionable strategies to build merchant-owned AI experiences that protect your revenue without compromising the customer journey.

Henry Spear, SVP, Digital, JD Finish Line

Jill Willard, CTO, IXOPAY

Jeff Otto, CMO, Riskified

 

Adapting at speed: How Jason Wolfe is innovating for the next era of ecommerce

The rapid evolution of ecommerce requires a new approach to leadership. In this session, Jason Wolfe shares lessons from decades of building successful technology-driven gifting companies. He details how to adapt to rising customer expectations, shifting business models, and sophisticated fraud patterns.

Because digital gifting is a prime target for bad actors, fraud sits at the very center of Wolfe’s business model. Learn how he challenges conventional risk management by eliminating manual bottlenecks to enable instant, real-time fulfillment. His approach proves that a modern risk strategy does more than block threats. It improves the customer experience and supports rapid scale without slowing growth.

Jason Wolfe, CEO & Founder, Wolfe

 

Scaling smarter: Turning fraud decisions into revenue growth

Fraud management is typically viewed as a strict control function, yet it holds the potential to drive significant growth. In this fireside chat, Podium’s Senior Payments Manager, Tyler Roberts, shares how expanding Riskified across its merchant network, streamlining onboarding, and boosting internal adoption unlocked the critical visibility they needed to scale confidently.

Explore how targeted operational improvements transformed their strategy. By utilizing real-time data for sharper forecasting, rapidly resolving performance issues, and leveraging tools like decline override, Podium secured faster order approvals and tighter control over transaction decisioning.

Tyler Roberts, Senior Payments Manager, Podium

Bob Bedetti, Strategic Sales Director, RIskified

 

Stopping fraud before it starts: Identity-driven intelligence for approvals and abuse prevention

As fraud tactics become increasingly sophisticated, merchants can no longer afford to wait until checkout to catch bad actors. In this session, Pangea’s Director of AML Operations, Jorge Sanhueza, reveals how the fintech shifted its defense earlier in the customer journey using identity-driven intelligence. 

Pangea connects rich data signals—including recipient data, bank account details, card tokens, and dates of birth—to proactively block abuse and identify organized fraud networks before transactions even begin. By moving beyond reactive measures, Pangea transformed its risk strategy into a powerful engine for business growth.

Jorge Sanhueza, Director of AML Operations, Pangea

Heather Castrillon, Director, Enterprise Sales, Riskified

 

The Risk-aware CX revolution: Fast-track trusted customers while preventing fraud and policy abuse

Customer experience teams face a difficult balancing act: delivering frictionless service to loyal shoppers while blocking return fraud and GenAI-enhanced abuse. In this session, Maria Vargas, SVP of Member Services at Rue Gilt Groupe, joins Riskified to reveal the missing link to solving this dilemma: risk-aware identity intelligence. Discover how integrating graph intelligence directly into platforms like Zendesk helps customer service agents move beyond fragmented, account-level signals to understand the complete user identity. The presentation explores how clear identity risk categories empower representatives to instantly distinguish high-value members from professional abusers. Walk away with a practical blueprint for making data-driven decisions that confidently fast-track trusted customers, minimize policy abuse losses, and protect your bottom line without compromising the customer experience.

Maria Vargas, SVP, Member Services, Rue Gilt Groupe

Inbal Cooper, Product Marketing Manager, Riskified

Jeff Otto, CMO, Riskified