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Industry Engagements

Representatives from the Federal Reserve attend live and virtual events throughout the year to discuss trends, timely topics and continued advancements in the payment system. See below for upcoming engagements, organized by month. To request a speaker at your event, please review and complete this form.

Visit the Industry Events page to view key conferences where we’ll attend with an exhibit booth, onsite event and/or speaker(s). It’s also easy to stay informed by signing up for timely email communications. For additional ways to reach us, find a contact here.

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Fintech Devcon (Off-site)

Mark Gould, chief payments executive, will participate in a fireside chat about the future of instant payments and how software engineers can drive innovation forward, on Monday, August 3.

EPCOR Payments University (Off-site)

  • Chris Gilbert, senior national account relationship manager, will be giving an update on topics like the new limit, popular use cases, new tools, realized benefits, what’s currently happening on the network, information that financial institutions need to know about the FedNow® Service on Tuesday, August 4.
  • Amanda Compton, payments strategies industry consultant, will present on the Federal Reserve’s fraud mitigation offerings and tips on Thursday, August 20.

ePayResources-Payments University (Off-site)

  • Ryan Evans, director of secure payments, will be speaking on Thursday, August 6 on increased fraud threats, including scams and identity attacks, and highlight the trends and strategies for improving digital trust and resilience.
  • Chris Schnieper, director of secure payments, will be speaking on increased fraud threats, including scams and identity attacks, and highlight the trends and strategies for improving digital trust and resilience on Thursday, August 27.

MasterClass (Off-site)

Dan Gonzalez, vice president and national account director, will be on a panel that will discuss network updates and future plans on instant and faster payments on Wednesday, August 12.

Florida SBDC Small Business Success Summit (Off-site)

Joni Hopkins, vice president of customer and industry relations, will be engaging on a practical, hands-on small business topics to bring small businesses in regard to finance, payments, or funding models in their business by utilizing payments and the FedNow Service on Monday, August 17.

Diebold Nixdorf (Off-site)

  • Robert Bujas, AVP, FedCash, will be on two panels that will discuss cash usage trends while panelists will share what trends and perspectives, they are seeing in the cash ecosystem on Monday, August 17.
  • Alex Bau, vice president of data and policy analysis, FedCash Services®, will participate in two fireside chats discussing cash usage trends in the United States over the past decade with focus on demographics and locations on Monday, August 17.

Fisev Fourm Client Conference 2026 (Off-site)

  • Erik Van Bramer, senior vice president and head of customer and industry relations will be providing commentary on the growth of instant payments, why A2A transfers are an important first use case, checklist content, and any other content FRFS deems important to a topic around sending instant payments on Tuesday, August 18.

Fintech South 2026 (Off-site)

Blake McDaniel, assistant vice president of the FedNow Service, will participating in two sessions on Tuesday, August 18:

  • What happens when instant payments meet open banking? Blake McDaniel explores how FedNow and consumer-permissioned data are unlocking A2A's full potential—driving down costs, cutting fraud, and rewriting the rules of financial services. Attendees will walk away with a clear picture of where instant payments stand today and where they're taking us next.
  • Scaling A2A isn't just a technology problem—it's an execution problem. Bring your toughest questions to this ask-the-expert roundtable with the Federal Reserve. We'll dig into technical readiness, operational requirements, and the partnerships that make real-time, low-cost, low-fraud payments work at scale.

Accelerate (Off-site)

Erik Van Bramer, senior vice president and head of customer and industry relations, will be participating in two sessions:

  • Fraud, Risk & Compliance in RTP: explore the evolving risk landscape of immediate payments, discuss fraud mitigation strategies, regulatory expectations, and how credit union can build resilient compliance frameworks and more on Tuesday, August 18.
  • FedNow Ecosystems and Welcome back/Coffee chat with TCH and FedNow: will be a discussion on what is happening at TCH and the FedNow Service on Wednesday, August 19.

Joni Hopkins, vice president of customer and industry relations, will be participating in two sessions:

  • Fraud, Risk & Compliance in RTP: explore the evolving risk landscape of immediate payments, discuss fraud mitigation strategies, regulatory expectations, and how credit union can build resilient compliance frameworks and more on Tuesday, August 18.
  • FedNow Ecosystems and Welcome back/Coffee chat with TCH and FedNow: Discussion around what’s going on at TCH and FedNow moving into RFP on Wednesday, August 18.

Solutions Payments Conference (Off-site)

  • Dan Gonzalez, vice president and national account director, will present on Monday, August 24 on two topics:
    • Elevating Customer Experience and Driving Growth Using Instant Payments, exploring how instant payments can transform customer experience, why they’re essential for competitive differentiation, and how financial institutions can leverage this innovation to deepen relationships and unlock new revenue streams.
    • Instant Payments Panel: a discussion of where instant payments are now and their future.
  • Mike Timoney, vice president of payments system improvement, will present on two topics on Monday, August 24:
    • Stopping Scams in Their Tracks: Tools, Tactics, and Teamwork, will talk through real world scenarios and discuss what frontline teams are doing when customers are scammed. They will also engage on practical tactics for faster intervention, point to resources that make it easier to educate customers and share timely intelligence across the industry.
    • Inside the Fraud Factory: How Real-Time Payments are Rewriting the Rules of Risk: this session pulls back the curtain on how modern fraud operations work and how leading financial institutions are fighting back in real time with live case studies of instant-payment fraud patterns, learn how data intelligence and behavioral analytics can expose synthetic identities, and discover new collaborative models emerging across networks.

SHAZAM Payment Assn. webinar (Off-site)

Erik Van Bramer, senior vice president and head of customer and industry relations, will be participating in a session on FedNow that features an update on the service and provides an overview of the recent enhancements and how these updates are driving innovation across the instant payments landscape on Wednesday, August 26.

2026 Access Softek Client Conference (Off-site)

Joni Hopkins, vice president of customer and industry relations, will be on a panel: Federal Reserve Update: The Payments Landscape & What It Means for Credit Unions, giving updates on the latest on instant payments and a specific focus on security, anti-fraud and the workings of Network Intelligence on Tuesday, September 1.

CHECKED Summit (Off-site)

Mike Timoney, vice president of payments system improvement, will be discussing actional items financial institutions can use to prevent fraud on Tuesday, September 1.

Money Movement Ecosystem (Off-site)

Mollie Markham, manager of industry relations and engagement, will be talking about the key learnings from scaling FedNow across 1,500+ institutions, how the Fed is enabling broader adoption and real-world use cases beyond early adaptors and more on Wednesday, September 9.

ePayResources-Payments University (Off-site)

Mike Timoney, vice president of payments system improvement, will participate in a session: Forging Resilient Defenses on Tuesday, September 1.

WesPay Payments Symposium (Off-site)

Dan Gonzalez, vice president and national account director, will be participating in two sessions on instant payments, plus giving network updates on any future plans on Thursday, September 10 and Friday, September 11.

MoneyLIVE North America (Off-site)

Erik Van Bramer, senior vice president and head of customer and industry relations, will be participating in a panel: Readying Corporates for Real-Time: The Commercial Opportunities, addressing commercial payments opportunities, applications of FedNow, and the specific opportunities for banks in this space on Monday, September 14.

Financial Crime & Cybersecurity Forum (Off-site)

Staci Shatsoff, assistant vice president of payments system improvement, will speak on how financial crime has entered a new era through generative AI, this forum brings together the industry's leading fraud, AML, and cybersecurity executives to explore how to mitigate risk on Tuesday, September 15.

UMACHA Navigating Payments (Off-site)

Tim Boike, vice president of customer and industry relations, will be participating in the panel: Instant Payment Send: A Competitive Edge for Community Banks and Credit Unions, where attendees will learn how smaller financial institutions can successfully implement instant payment send capabilities, operational considerations, and how real-time disbursements can drive loyalty, growth, and innovation in today’s real-time economy on Wednesday, September 23.

Mike Timoney, vice president of payments system improvement, will be on the panel: Inside the Fraud Factory: How real-time payments are rewriting the rules of risk. This session will peal back the curtain on how modern fraud operations work and how leading financial institutions are combating them in real time on Wednesday, September 23.

Joni Hopkins, vice president and deputy head of product management, will be on the panel: The Evolution of Payments: Insights Shaping Today’s Financial Landscape, exploring the latest trends shaping the U.S. payments landscape, including insights from recent consumer and business research, adoption patterns across faster and instant payments, and what these shifts mean for financial institutions on Wednesday, September 23.

Leslie Lee, lead project manager for payments product management, will be participating on a panel: Unlocking the Power of ISO 20022: How Fedwire® Enhancements Will Transform Payments, exploring the next phase of enhancements for the Fedwire Funds Service rolling out in November which will include data quality, streamline high value payment operations, and enable greater automation across the domestic and international banking ecosystem on Wednesday, September 23.

Innovators Retreat (Off-site)

Erik Van Bramer, senior vice president and head of customer and industry relations, will be speaking on key developments on FedNow, its place in the future of the payments ecosystem, fraud mitigation and more on Wednesday, September 23.

Catalyst Strategic Summit (Off-site)

Dan Gonzalez, vice president and national account director, will be participating in a payments roundtable discussing instant and faster payments and the FedNow Service on Wednesday, September 23.

Solutions Payments Conference (Off-site)

Joni Hopkins, vice president of customer and industry relations, will be on an instant payments panel giving updates on the FedNow Service and more on Monday, September 28.

Mike Timoney, vice president of payments system improvement, will be participating in two sessions on fraud and instant payments on Monday, September 28.

  • Inside the Fraud Factory: How real-time payments are rewriting the rules of risk
  • Stopping Scams in Their Tracks: Tools, Tactics, and Teamwork

Joni Hopkins, vice president of customer and industry relations will be on the panel: The Send Blueprint: Secure, Scalable, Compliant Instant Payment Flow, exploring real-time expectations reshape the financial ecosystem and more on Monday, September 28.

Sibos 2026 (Off-site)

Bernadette Ksepka, vice president and deputy head of product management, will be on a panel: From Checkout to Treasury: Embedded Payments go B2B, bringing together banks, corporates and technology providers to unpack how embedded cross border payments are transforming treasury, marketplaces and B2B platforms on Monday, September 28.

Amy Burr, executive vice president and chief product and relationship officer will be in a session: Right first-time: how proper payment preparation determines outcomes, exploring how institutions are using smarter validation and richer data to reduce expectations, accelerate processing and strengthen both security and client outcomes on Wednesday, September 29.

Money20/20 (Off-site)

On Sunday, Oct. 18 through Wednesday, Oct. 21, connect with Federal Reserve Financial Services representatives on the current landscape and future of payments.

Jack Henry Connect 2026 (Off-site)

Join representatives from Federal Reserve Financial Services on Monday, Oct. 19 through Wednesday, Oct. 21 to connect on timely payments topics.

American Bankers Association Annual Convention

Bank leaders and their teams will gain executive-level insights to embrace disruption and fuel growth in payments on Sunday, Oct. 25 through Tuesday, Oct. 27.

AFP 2026 (Off-site)

Representatives from Federal Reserve Financial Services will be discussing payments industry topics on Sunday, Nov. 8 through Wednesday, Nov. 11.

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