| Date: | May 19th-20th, Dublin |
| Location: | Dublin, Ireland |
| Delegates: | 400+ |
| Register Now: | Register Now! Pricing: Merchants, Airlines, Hotels & OTA’s: $249 USD / Vendors: $1199 USD (Until Friday 13th of March) |
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Venue for ATPS 2026:
Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport
Northwood Park, Santry Demesne, Dublin, D09 KN66, Ireland
Phone: +35318628888
Airline & Travel Payments Summit 2026
In 2026 The Airline & Travel Payments Summit (ATPS) once again joins forces with Airline Information’s Mega Event bringing together professionals in Loyalty Marketing and Ancillary Revenue with experts in Payments and Fraud. This unique co-location means delegates can seamlessly navigate sessions across key areas—from maximizing (and paying for) ancillary sales to mitigating risk.
Additionally, the growth of loyalty fraud makes the concurrent Loyalty Security Alliance (LSA) Spring Event (part of ATPS) essential viewing for all attendees.
Among a variety of topics related to best practice payment acceptance and fraud prevention, this year, all Dublin events will do a deep dive into the growing role of AgenticAI in travel sales. What payment standards are being developed for Agentic Commerce and how will they impact conversion? How is AgenticAI transforming how both fraud teams and fraudsters operate? Agentic Commerce is about to transform how we shop, get paid, do our jobs and interact with our customers. Come to this event to stay ahead of this massive trend!
The list of companies which participated in 2025 (and 2026 will be bigger and better!), some of the hot topics to be covered in this conference and available sponsorship options can be found below. The conference agenda will be published shortly.
What is the included Mega Event and why it is Interesting to Payments
About Mega Event
The Mega Event 2026 is a crucial conference for airline and travel companies, focusing on the industry’s top profit centers: Loyalty Programs (especially revenue generated from co-branded credit cards) and Ancillary Incomes. The event serves as the primary location for attendees to gain best practices and contacts essential for success in these areas.The hot topics to be covered and the conference agenda will be published shortly.
Dublin Conferences Sponsors
ATPS 2026 Hot Topics
- Retailing & Payments
- Keeping up with Regulations & Standards: PSD2, PCI DSS 4.0 and beyond
- Payments & Loyalty
- Loyalty Fraud & Account Takeovers
- Mitigating Account Takeovers
- Payment Standards for Agentic Commerce
- Alternative Forms of Payment: what new forms need to be on your roadmap
- Synergising your Payments Strategy with your Co-branded Credit Card
- e-Commerce, Payment, Fraud, Distribution: what’s the best organizational set-up
- B2B Payments
- Bots: Friend or Foe?
- a-Commerce’s impact on fraud teams
- How Fraudsters are using AgenticAI & How to Stop Them
Are we missing a topic/area that you think needs addressed for the 2026 event? Please drop an email by clicking on the hyperlink to Michael Smith, the Conference Chairman, or to speakers@AiConnects.us
Agenda
Day 1
19 May 2026
1:00pm – 2:00pm
Registration, Networking and Coffee
Hotel Only Fraud Discussion Meeting
2:00pm – 2:15pm
Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Conference Chair (Fraud Track)
– Chris Staab, Co-founder, Loyalty Security Alliance
Ai Fraud Trends
– Darwinium
2:15pm – 3:00pm
The Top Three Lessons about Agentic AI/A-commerce to do when you get back to the office
– Kevin O’Shaughnessy, CEO, CityHook
Open Discussion on Ai Fraud Trends (Fraud Track)
3:00pm – 3:30pm
Is AI going to eat travel distribution and the implications for loyalty, ancillaries & payments
– Mark Lenahan, Consultant Director, Lenahan Consulting
Open Discussion on Ai Fraud Trends (Fraud Track)
– Darwinium
3:30pm – 4:10pm
Coffee Break & Networking
4:10pm – 5:00pm
The Famous Airline Information Lions’ Den | Product Pitching Competition
Back by popular demand the Lions’ Den new products and service pitching contest returns to Mega and ATPS 2026. The session is for innovative start-ups (or brand new products from established players) who pitch for 5 minutes each. Then take 5 minutes of questions from our experienced judges. Judges will choose which they believe is the best product, while the audience will choose the most entertaining pitch.
This is a paid for pitching session and it is a popular option selling out in previous years.
If you have a product that you would like to pitch, please email MSmith@AiConnects.us or speaking@AiConnects.us for more details.
Lions’ (Judges)
– Steve Mathwig, Senior Manager Loyalty Program Engagement, Best Western Hotels (invited)
Open Discussion: Loyalty Fraud Trends (Fraud Track)
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Welcome Reception
Day 2
20 May 2026
8:30am – 9:00am
Welcome Coffee
9:00am – 9:30am
The Key Payment & Fraud Challenges of AgenticAI bookings
– Cátia Silva, Payments & Fraud Manager, Vueling
– Adam Kissanne, International Director, Juspay
9:30am – 10:00am
Case Study: How Emirates is stopping ATOs
– Jason Lane-Sellers, Director Market Planning EMEA, LexisNexis Risk Solutions
– Speaker from Emirates to be announced
10:00am – 10:30am
Case Study: The Digital Transformation at Uzbekistan Airlines
– Sindor Ollaberganov, Head of Sales & Distribution, Uzbekistan Airlines
– Patrick van der Knoop, Global Commercial Lead Airlines, nuvei
Booking.com Fraud Case Study
– Mark Nairn, Fraud Analytics Manager, Booking.com (invited)
10:30am – 11:10am
Coffee Break & Networking
11:10am – 11:40am
Payment Orchestration – redundant in an AgenticAI world or more important than ever?
Speaker to be announced
No Turbulence Here: How Virgin Atlantic Keeps Loyalty Fraud-Free
– Colleen O’Brien, Senior Fraud Analyst – Loyalty, Virgin Atlantic
11:40am – 12:00pm
A new approach to payment system testing
– Eric Liebman, VP Worldwide Partnerships, Testlio (invited)
The Fraud View from the Airline Front Line
– Dumindanie Gunasekara, Ecommerce Services Manager, SriLankan Airlines in conversation with
– Michael Smith, Board Director, Ai Events
12:00pm – 12:30pm
Payment Regulatory Update: PSD2, PCI DSS 4.0 and AgenticAI
Speaker to be announced
Cybersecurity & Frictionless Customer Experience: How to get the balance
Speaker to be announced
12:30pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 2:30pm
Travel Agency and B2B Payments: Will AgenticAI simplify processes and decrease costs?
– Andrea Caulfield-Smith, MD Global Business Travel, Advantage Travel Partnership (invited)
A-commerce and the Impact on Fraud
Speaker to be announced
2:30pm – 3:00pm
Payments & Loyalty: Key trends and developments as loyalty currencies become mainstream
Speaker to be announced
Bots: Friends or Foe in the new AgenticAI world?
Speaker to be announced
3:00pm – 3:40pm
Panel Session: Payment Standards, Regulations and managing AgenticAI payments
Moderator
– Michael Smith, Board Advistor, Ai Events
Panellists
To be announced
Fraud Panel: Fraud Trends from the Frontlines
Moderator
– Chris Staab, Co-founder, Loyalty Security Alliance
Panellists
– Jon Lawson, Senior Manager Risk Management, Hilton (invited)
Others to be announced
3:40pm – 4:20pm
Coffee Break & Networking
4:20pm – 5:00pm
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Networking Reception
Venue
The venue for this event is the conference centre at the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport in Santry Park in Dublin.
Venue for ATPS 2026:
Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport
Northwood Park, Santry Demesne, Dublin, D09 KN66, Ireland
Phone: +35318628888
Room Price, 239€ and includes full Irish breakfast
Sponsorship Options
Sponsorship Options
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- Contact Chris Staab for Sponsorship
- Office at +507 6126 5204
or sponsor@aiconnects.us - (Office hours 9am – 5pm US time)
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Lead Sponsor – Largest Branding Exposure!
Contact us for details
Logo on Conference Site – Event website logo placement in list of sponsors with hyperlink and on the event app
$1,799 USD or $4,299 with 3 Attendees
Signage at Conference – for 2 vertical or hanging signs/displays in conference rooms
$1,499 USD
Video Interview – Onsite video interview of your participants sent to our database and promoted via Social Media
$2,999 USD
Coffee Break, Lunch or Breakfast Sponsorship – Coffee stations will bear place-cards with your logo & great exposure on the agenda. Includes 1 attendee
$3,999 USD
Attending Companies
Companies that have registered for the Dublin event 2026:
Note: Companies will be added as they register
actuary.aero
Aegean Airlines
Air Europa
APEXX Global
ARC
Aviation Business News
Avis Budget Group International
Best Western Hotels
Big Bus Tours
Booking.com
Caravelo
CITYHOOK
CMSPI
Darwinium
Datadome
Delta Air Lines
Discover
Elavon
Expedia Group
Flex Pay
Global Payments
Grain Finance
Hands In
HeyMax
Hilton
ID Dataweb
IdeaWorksCompany
JusPay
KM Malta Airlines
Lenahan Consulting
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Loyalty Status co
Lufthansa Systems
Mastercard
Pay.com
PayRewards
PaySpace Magazine
PCI Booking
PCI Proxy by Planet
Retailaer
Signifyd
Smartnumbers
Srilankan Airlines
Testlio
TrueLayer
UATP
Uzbekistan Airways
Virgin Atlantic
Visa Acceptance Solutions
Vueling Airlines
WEX
Worldline
FAQ
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Will there be Hotel Discounts?
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Can participants also attend Mega Event Sessions
More Information
AIRLINE / TRAVEL MERCHANTS
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- $249.00 USD – Until Friday 13th of March
- Payment by Credit Card.
- Note: Registration prices are $100 additional by bank transfer.
VENDORS, BANKS & FINANCIAL SERVICES
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- $1199.00 USD – Until Friday 13th of March
- Payment by Credit Card.
- Note: Registration prices are $100 additional by bank transfer.
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