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

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)

– Rob Burgess, Editor, Head for Points

Pitchers
– Mace
– Airportr

Open Discussion: Loyalty Fraud Trends (Fraud Track)

5:00pm – 7:00pm

Welcome Reception

8:30am – 9:00am

Welcome Coffee

9:00am – 9:30am

From APIs to Autonomous Booking: The Payment Challenges

– Cátia Silva, Payments & Fraud Manager, Vueling
– Adam Kissane, International Director, Juspay

Booking.com Fraud Case Study

– Mark Nairn, Fraud Analytics Manager, Booking.com
– Remo Hulsbosch, Marketing Fraud Operations Manager, Booking.com

9:30am – 10:00am

Kenya Airways Case Study:   Redefining Payment Reconciliation

– Dennis Lore, Credit Control Accountant Manager, Kenya Airways
– Jean Adadevi, Payment Reconciliation Product Owner, Lufthansa Systems

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

A-commerce and the Impact on Fraud

– Andrea Feinberg, Head of Payments, Loveholidays
– Dmitri Lerko, Head of Engineering, Loveholidays
– Benjamin Barrier, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer, Datadome

10:30am – 11:10am

Coffee Break & Networking

11:10am – 11:40am

Payment Orchestration – redundant in an AgenticAI world or more important than ever?

– Louise Garratt, Head of Relationship Management, Apexx Global & airline client (invited)

11:40am – 12:00pm

A new approach to payment system testing: The Silent Guardian of Travel Conversion

– Eric Liebman, VP Worldwide Partnerships, Testlio

Security & Frictionless Customer Experience:  Rethinking fraud decisions

– Elpida Ioannidou, Senior Director, Precision Risk
– Benjamin Sibbald, Head of Payments, Hahnair (invited)
– Nicolas Ortiz Luengo, Global Head of Airline & Hospitality Payments, Sabre (invited)

12:00pm – 12:30pm

A year long trip: Cyberfraud & Digital Trust Best Practices

– Hayley McCormick, Director of Cyber Fraud, United Airlines in conversation with
– Spencer Crane, VP Threat & Risk Intelligence, ID Dataweb

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm – 2:30pm

Aviation Payment Flows:  How to keep travellers moving

– Will Plummer, CEO, Trust My Group
– Alex Mifsud, CEO, Weavr.io

Monitoring the Dark Web and Telegram for your brand:  A practical guide

– Or Golan, Product Manager, elephant.online

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 from Kiwi.com and Signfyd (invited)

3:00pm – 3:40pm

Panel Session: Payment Standards, Regulations and managing AgenticAI payments

Moderator
– Laurie Gablehouse, Airline & Travel Payment Expert

Panellists
– Stephen Baxendale, Technology Partnerhsip Manager, Advantage Travel Partnership (invited)
…Others to be announced

Fraud Panel: Fraud Trends from the Frontlines

Moderator
– Chris Staab, Co-founder, Loyalty Security Alliance

Panellists
– Dumindanie Gunasekara, Ecommerce Services Manager, SriLankan Airlines
– Jon Lawson, Senior Manager Risk Management, Hilton (invited)
…Others to be announced

3:40pm – 4:20pm

4:20pm – 5:00pm

Closing Panel:  Conference Roundup & Key Lessons
– Michael Smith, Board Advisor, Ai Connects

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Networking Reception