Airline & Travel Payments Summit B2B 2026

ATPS B2B Lead Sponsor

KoraPay
Date: February 24th-25th, London
Location: London, UK (Royal College of Physicians, Regent’s Park)
Delegates: 100+

ATPS Co-Host

UATP-New

The travel industry’s B2B payment landscape is changing rapidly. ATPS B2B 2026 provided attendees with the opportunity to learn how to cut costs, streamline operations, and combat fraud. Attendees explored virtual cards, API integrations, and other cutting-edge solutions.”

By focusing on the specific challenges and solutions, and by highlighting the benefits for attendees, ATPS B2B 2026 was a highly effective event.

Note: the event PowerPoint presentations that we were able to share can be found below in the agenda.

Event Recap

Sponsors

 

ATPS B2B 2026 Hot Topics

  • AI and B2B Payment and Fraud
  • Coporate Treasury Management
  • The Move to the Cloud
  • Regulation & Compliance
  • Real Time & A2A Payments
  • Managing Fraud in B2B Payments
  • Costs – from infrastrastructure, FX and frand
  • Agentic B2B Payments – what’s coming?
  • VCCs – next big thing or already old tech?
  • Open finance & B2B Payments

Agenda

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ATPS B2B 2026
Tuesday 24th of February

5:30pm –8.30pm

UATP-New
Networking Reception Sponsored by UATP
ATPS B2B 2026
Wednesday 25th of February

8:30 – 9.10am

Welcome Coffee, Registration and Networking

09.10am – 10.00am

Welcome Remarks from Conference Chairman & Opening Speaker

Laurie Gablehouse, Airline & Travel Payment Expert

>Download Presentation Here
Issues and Challenges in B2B Payments for Airline & Travel sellers

Andrea Caulfield Smith, MD Global Business Travel, Advantage Business
Andrea Feinberg, Head of Payments, Loveholidays in conversation with
Kevin Trill, CEO, TMC Consulting

10.00am – 10.30am

AI Agentic Payments:  What they are and how they are going to impact your payments strategies

Peter Marriott, Co-Founder, Dataiera.com (processor of the first Agentic AI payment!)

>Download Presentation Here

10.30am – 11.00am

Optimising Group Treasury systems

11.00am – 11.40am

Coffee Break & Networking

11.40am  – 12.30pm

Panel Session: Payment & Frauds in B2B – issues, challenges & solutions

Moderator
Laurie Gablehouse, Airline & Travel Payment Expert

Panellists
– Dumindanie Gunasekara, Ecommerce Services Manager, SriLankan Airlines
Matthew Bell, Regional Director EMEA, Telesign
David Cabreza, Travel Payment Expert & Consultant
Gregg Turner, Commercial Director Airlines & Travel, Grain

12.30pm – 1.00pm

Payment Orchestration for B2B Payments: Marketing hype or deliverable?

– Masha Cilliers, Principal Consultant, Payment Options

>Download Presentation Here

1.00pm – 2:30pm

Lunch & Networking

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Good bots or bad bots?   What Agentic AI means for fraud in your B2B Payments

Craig McClure, Director Relationship Management, Chargebacks911
Harlan Hutson, Director Strategic Partnerhsips, Chargebacks911

>Download Presentation Here

3:00pm –3.30pm

From ticket sale to settlement: B2B payment flows in Africa

Victor Nwauwa, Senior Quality Assurance Engineer Lead, Kora Pay

>Download Presentation Here

3:30pm –4.10pm

 Coffee and Networking

4:10pm –5.00pm

Closing Remarks and Key Take Aways

With the advent of AI – especially Agentic AI – B2B Payments & Fraud are truly at a tipping point.  Whether it is cost drivers, regulation or just removing complexity, AI is already making an impact for B2B.   Our closing session will be a chance to draw together the issues raised by the panellists and speakers and allow a chance to delve further in some of the more contentious issues raised.

Moderator
Michael Smith, Board Advisor, Ai Events

Panellists
Laurie Gablehouse, Airline & Travel Payment Expert
–  Oliver Ranson, Consultant, Airline Revenue Economics
– Dave Ballard, Commercial Support Manager EMEA, UATP
–  Stephen Oluwatobi, Chief Operating Officer, Kora Pay

5:00pm – 6:00pm

KoraPay
Networking Reception Sponsored by Kora

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Companies Registered for ATPS B2B 2026:
Note: Companies will be added as they register

actuary.aero
Advantage Travel Partnership
Aerticket GmbH
Air Europa
Airline Revenue Economics
Amex
APEXX global
Aviation Business News
Avis Budget Group
Cellpoint Digital
Damisa
Datiera
Discover Financial Services
ECTAA
epag
Evervault
Fexco
Fyorin
Hitit Bilgisayar Hizmetleri A.S.
Jetblue
JP Morgan
Juspay
KoraPay
Loveholidays
Mastercard
Mobi
Nuvei
Pay.com
Pay Fly Stay
PaySpace Magazine
PCI.Booking
Proximus Global
Sprinter Health
Srilankan Airlines
TMC Consulting
Travolution
Turkish Airlines
UATP
US Bank(Elavon)
Visa
WEX
Worldline
Worldpay

Previous Conference Media

Airline & Travel Payments | Interview with Kristian Kish, WEX

Airline & Travel Payments | Interview with Alexandra Limerick, WEX



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