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2026-03-12T18:00:00.0000000

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Product Evenings NYC: Emerging Trends in Payments & AI

Join Nikita Surya, Director of Product, Emerging Data Signals at Mastercard, and Dre Cunningham, Product Strategy & Commercialization at Visa, for a candid conversation on what’s changing right now at the intersection of AI and payments. We’ll dig into emerging themes like agentic payments, the evolution of open banking rails, and how the next generation of payment experiences will be designed, governed, and brought to market.

BrainStation New York
Thu, Mar 12, 2026
2026-03-12T22:00:00.0000000Z – 2026-03-13T00:00:00.0000000Z

136 Crosby St, 4th Floor, New York City, NY How to get here
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Nikita Surya

Director - Product, Emerging Data Signals
Dre Cunningham

Product Strategy & Commercialization, Visa

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Nikita Surya

Director - Product, Emerging Data Signals

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

Product Strategy & Commercialization, Visa

Dre Cunningham leads product strategy and commercialization at Visa, where he focuses on scaling digital commerce and 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, and now works at the intersection of growth, product, and capital to build durable fintech businesses as new payment capabilities move from innovation to adoption.

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Agentic Payments: The Next Wave of Commerce

Agentic payments go beyond recommendations, enabling AI to initiate and complete transactions with proper permissions and safeguards. This section explores emerging use cases and what product teams must get right around trust and user consent.
02
Open Banking as the New Payments Infrastructure

Open banking now powers personalization, underwriting, fraud signals, and new payment experiences. This section examines how the rails are evolving and 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 and scalable. This section explores launching AI-driven payment products, from positioning and risk tolerance to compliance, fraud, and operational readiness.

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Gourmet Light Refreshments – Enjoy a curated selection of artisanal bites and small plates, perfect for connecting with colleagues.
Settle in for easy conversation and good company in a warm, welcoming space. With a thoughtful selection of beer and wine on hand, it’s the perfect backdrop for winding down or catching up.

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Thu, Mar 12, 2026
2026-03-12T22:00:00.0000000Z – 2026-03-13T00:00:00.0000000Z

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