🏷 Registration & Setup

🕙 10:00 AM – 6:00 PM | Registration Open (Required for All Sessions)
🕚 11:00 AM – 4:00 PM | Exhibitor Setup (Exhibit Hall Open Only to Exhibitors)

 

💎 Diamond Sponsor Breakouts (Open to All)

🕘 9:00 AM – 1:00 PM | Waterfront Conference Center (Rooms 1 - 7)

• Room #1: Netevia – "Netevia 101"

• Room #2: EPI – "EPI Meet Up & POS Lab"

• Room #3: NMI – "Grow Your Business & Improve Merchant Success with NMI’s Smart Solutions"

• Room #4: Global Payments – "Global Payments POS Journey: Vital to Ovation to Genius POS to Heartland POS"

• Room #5: Merchant Industry – "Merchant Industry 101"

• Room #6: SignaPay – "SignaPay 101"

• Room #7: GETTRX – "GETTRX 101"

 

🎤 Afternoon Educational Sessions (Speaker Hall)

🕐 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM | High-Risk Panel
💬 Moderator: Peggy Olson, Strategic Marketing
🎙 Panelists:

• Fadi Cheikha, USAG

• Tom Olk, Grailpay

• Josh Fochek, Global Payments

• Naomi Mastera, NMI

• Jason Noto, Polsinelli

🕑 2:00 PM – 2:45 PM | New Offerings, New Opportunities for ISOs
💬 How partners are co-creating products to deliver more value to merchants
Moderator: Todd Huff, DD3 Media
🎙 Panelists:

• Marla Ellerman, Executive Director, MPC

• Michele Johnson, Sandler Partners

• Chris Soucie, New Horizon Communication

• Maureen McAneny O’Connell, Comcast

 

⏸ 2:45 PM – 3:00 PM | Break

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🤖 Catapult AI 2025

🕒 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM
🔹 New Focus for 2025: AI Innovation
💡 A competition featuring four companies presenting their unique AI applications in payments, with Q&A from investment panelists and cash prizes for winners.
🎤 Judges:

• Stephen Kane, CEO of Stephen D. Kane Enterprises

• Keith Sampson, SURV (2024 Winner of Catapult)

• Sebastian Builes, Arcum

• Taylor Medford, Goldman Sachs

 

🍹 Evening Networking Events

🕠 5:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Opening Cocktail & Hors d’oeuvres Reception (Exhibit Hall)
🕗 8:00 PM – 10:00 PM | Meet & Greet Party Around the Pool
🔹 Thanks to our Ruby Sponsor: Netevia