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Product Evenings NYC: Emerging Trends in Payments & AI

Nikita Surya, Director of Product, Emerging Data Signals at Mastercard, and Dre Cunningham, Product Strategy & Commercialization at Visa, shared a candid conversation on the evolving intersection of AI and payments, including agentic payments, open banking rails, and the next generation of payment experiences.

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Mar 12, 2026

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Nikita Surya

Director - Product, Emerging Data Signals
Dre Cunningham

Product Strategy & Commercialization, Visa

"You are no longer just marketing business-to-consumer; you are working business-to-agent. You have to communicate in machine-readable language."

- Nikita Surya, Director - Product, Emerging Data Signals at Mastercard

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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