Airline & Travel Payments Summit 2025

ATPS Co-Host

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Date: 20-21 May, Dublin
Location: Dublin, Ireland
Delegates: 500+
Attend: REGISTER NOW! Pricing: Merchants, Airlines, Hotels & OTA´s: $399 USD  / Vendors: $1899 USD

Lead Sponsor

IDData

The 2025 Airline & Travel Payments Summit worldwide conference is the only annual event dedicated to the global airline & travel industry on payments and fraud prevention. The theme for 2025’s conference is: Revenue, Retail, Results.

Last year’s event brought us payment insights from the likes of Air Europa, Norwegian and Iberia, as well as take-aways from fraud prevention professionals, including those from British Airways, Southwest Airlines and Hyatt Hotels, all sharing front line and practical insights. ATPS 2025 is shaping up to be an even better place to get ahead of payment and fraud trends in the airline and travel industry.

ATPS 2025 is being held alongside Airline Information’s “Mega Event” for Loyalty Marketing and Ancillary Revenue professionals from airlines and travel-related companies. Delegates will be able to mix and match sessions as the worlds of loyalty and ancillaries meets payments and fraud. Loyalty fraud, for example, has been growing, and the Loyalty Security Alliance (LSA) conference (part of ATPS) is also being held at the same time.

Payments is increasingly seen as a way of increasing revenues and is a key part of the retailing concept that many airlines are adopting. Items like NDC and mobile payments  can be the difference between one airline/OTA making the sale – if it’s done well – as opposed to it going to a competitor. Sitting behind these customer-facing issues are all the challenges relating to the likes of real time/open banking payments, managing across borders, as well as how AI will (or will not) impact payments.

The fraudsters, however, are using AI more and more. Card Not Present fraud is down in most parts of the world, but in the absence of Digital IDs, fraud is moving more and more to call centres – often seen as the weakest link. The fraudsters are also targeting loyalty accounts, and ATPS/LSA 2025 will be hearing from the frontline of the likes of Booking.com and United Airlines (to name but two!) on how they are managing in this fast-changing area.

Interested in sharing your insights and story with ATPS/LSA delegates?   We’d love to hear from you –  please contact Michael Smith at speaking@aiconnects.us.

Sponsors of combined Dublin Conferences

Venue

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The venue for this event is the conference centre at the Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport in Santry Park in Dublin.

Special Price of €239 (includes taxes and breakfast)

Venue for ATPS 2025:

Crowne Plaza Dublin Airport
Northwood Park, Santry Demesne, Dublin, D09 KN66, Ireland
Phone: +35318628888

Agenda

Day 1
20 May 2025

 

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Registration

Hotels Only: Fraud Discussion Group (1:00pm-2:00pm)

Hotels Only. Click Here to register

2:00pm – 2:15pm

Welcome and Opening Remarks from the Conference Chairs

– Michael Smith, Board Advisor, Ai Connects
– Mustafa Ozalcin, Founder, UKasii
William Pershke, VP Airline Consulting, Elavon
– Sol Zia, Executive Director, Calgary Hotel Association
– Mark Lenahan, Consultant Director, Lenahan Consulting
– Erik Knoester, Senior Travel Risk Consultant , Visa

 

Chargebacks University (2:00pm-3:30pm)

Registration Necessary. Click Here to register (Merchants Only)

Chargebacks

2:15pm – 3:00pm

ChatGPT, AI, Machine Learning And Big Data | Everything you need to know for airlines & travel

We’ve all heard of them. We all know a bit about them, but what beyond the hype are they? Everything you wanted to know, explained in a relevant way!

– Kevin O’Shaughnessy, CEO, CityHook

Chargebacks University (2:00pm-3:30pm)

Registration Necessary. Click Here to register (Merchants Only)

Chargebacks

3:00pm – 3:30pm

Airlines in The Cloud – transforming travel amid uncertainty

– Tedd Evers, Global Partner Leader Travel & Hospitality, Amazon Web Services

Chargebacks University (2:00pm-3:30pm)

Registration Necessary. Click Here to register (Merchants Only)

Chargebacks

3:30pm – 4:10pm

Diners-Club-New

Coffee Break Sponsored by Diners Club International

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 2025 and ATPS.  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.

Ringmaster and Lions (Judges)

Phoebe Tan, VP Financial Services & Insurance, IAG Loyalty
Jason Clampet, Chief Product Officer & Co-founder, Skift
– Michael Pool, VP Global Credit Cards, Marriott
Amanda Campbell, Director, Sparkling Communications (Chief Judge)


Pitchers

– Sherpa
– Obsidian
– Brainpay

……..only one pitching slot left!

Travel payments fraud: Why it’s far from over?  (4:10pm-4:35pm)

– Andreea Pap, Head of Business Development, Precision by Etraveli Group

Fireside Chat – Fraud: movement from transaction to identity-based
(4:35pm-5:00pm)

– Spencer Crane, Vice President of Product, ID Dataweb
– Chris Staab, Co-Founder, LSA

Fraud Discussion Group (5:00pm-5:45pm)

– Andreea Pap, Head of Business Development, Precision by Etraveli Group

6:00pm – 8:00pm

Travel-Massive

Welcome Reception in Association with Travel Massive

Day 2
21 May 2025

Payments Track

Fraud Track

09:00am – 09:30am

Regulatory & Standards Update: The front line view

– Greg Toussaint, Director, Edgar, Dunn & Company in conversation with
– Laurie Gablehouse, Travel Payment Strategies & Solutions, Worldline
– Livia Vite, CEO, Actuary

The Role of Fraud Prevention in Enabling Customer Trust

Hayley McCormick, Director of Digital Fraud, United Airlines in conversation with
Spencer Crane, Vice President of Product, ID Dataweb

Hover for Mega Event Track

9:30am – 10:00am

Payments and NDC:  Everything you need to know

Fatih Özkan, Director Airline Acceptance, Mastercard in conversation with
– Paul van Alfen, Travel Payment Strategist, Up In The Air
Isabel de Pablo Soto, Senior Solutions Consultant, Worldpay

Cyberfusion and Identity Fraud

Sondra Feinberg, Head of Sales, myNetWatchman

Hover for Mega Event Track

10:00am – 10:30am

How Innovation is driving a single payment hub at Lufthansa Group

Lukas Müller, Product Payment Manager, Digital Hangar at Lufthansa Group
Sebastian von Harder, Senior Product Owner, LH Systems

Bulletproof Marketing: Securing Your Campaigns Against Fraud

Remo Hulsbosch, Marketing Fraud Operations Manager, Booking.com

Hover for Mega Event Track

10:30am – 11:10am

Coffee Break

Payments Track

Fraud Track

11:10am – 11:40am

Optimising the Payments Value Chain

Ishan Sharma, Head of Business Development, Juspay

Bashant Tahiliani, Head of Digitial Marketplaces, Indigo Airlines

Part 1: Results of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Global State of Fraud and Identity Report

– Jason Lane-Sellers, Director Market Planning EMEA, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Hover for Mega Events Tracks

11:40am – 12:00pm

Driving Revenues with innovative payment methods:  Air Europa Case Study & Results

– Yago Casasnovas, Payments & Fraud Prevention, Air Europa
– Samuel Flynn, CEO, Hands In

Part 2: Results of the LexisNexis Risk Solutions Global State of Fraud and Identity Report

– Jason Lane-Sellers, Director Market Planning EMEA, LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Followed by:

 

Part 1: Delivering Deception vs. Detection: The Battle for Trust in Travel

– Chris Staab, Co-Founder, LSA
Alexander Hall, Trust and Safety Architect, Sift in conversation with
Becca Roach, Director, Trust & Safety, Hertz

Hover for Mega Events Tracks

12:00pm – 12:30pm

Payment Flexibility – the new currency for B2C and B2B

– Tal Dadia, CEO, Leeway

Part 2: Deception vs. Detection: The Battle for Trust in Travel

– Chris Staab, Co-Founder, LSA
Alexander Hall, Trust and Safety Architect, Sift in conversation with
Becca Roach, Director, Trust & Safety, Hertz

Hover for Mega Event Tracks

12:30pm – 2:00pm

Lunch

2:00pm – 2:30pm

The View from the Travel Agency Front Line 

– Andrea Caulfied-Smith, MD Global Business Travel, Advantage Travel Partnership
– Paul Nunn, COO, Advantage Travel Partnership

Fraud is Mobile – Both on Smartphones & Across Boders:  Lessons from LH Group in Managing Fraud & Law Enforcement

Michael Stiefler, Senior Security Architect, Lufthansa Systems

Hover for Mega Event Tracks

2:30pm – 3:00pm

Open banking and A2A Payments – the future for airline & travel payments?

Patrick van der Knoop, Global Commercial Lead Airlines, nuvei in conversation with
Lior Cohen, Payment Transformation, Swiss Airlines
– Simon Eve, VP Travel & Ecommerce, Trustly

Lessons on Working with Cybersecurity

Annette Matthews, Fraud Manager, British Airways
– Catherine Malec, VP/GM EMEA, Accertify

Hover for Mega Event Tracks

3:00pm – 3:40pm

Panel Session: Payment Innovation:  A cost centre or revenue generator?  Should airlines/travel companies invest in the likes of payment orchestration, split payments and other services?

Moderator
– Greg Toussaint, Director, Edgar, Dunn & Company

Panellists

Louise Garratt, Head of Relationship Management, Apexx Global
Ian Citulsky, SVP Air Partnerships, Flex Pay
– Joachim Söderling, Senior Manager Global Business Development, Discover
Michael Butler, Executive Director International Virtual Card, JP Morgan (invited)

Fraud Panel:  How to get ahead of the fraudsters as they start to use big data and AI to outwit current anti fraud measures

Moderator
Michael Smith, Board Director, Ai Events

Panellists

Andreea Pap, Head of Business Development, Precision by Etraveli Group
Peter Moorhead, Account Director, Smart Numbers
Matthew Bell, Regional Director, Telesign
Stuart Melim, Co-founder & CFO, Status Match

Hover for Mega Event Tracks

3:40pm – 4:20pm

Access-New

Coffee Break Sponsored by Access Development

4:20pm – 5:00pm

Closing Panel:  Conference Roundup & Key Lessons

– Michael Smith, Board Advisor, Ai Connects
William Pershke, VP Airline Consulting, Elavon
– Sol Zia, Executive Director, Calgary Hotel Association
– Mark Lenahan, Consultant Director, Lenahan Consulting
– Erik Knoester, Senior Travel Risk Consultant , Visa

5:00pm – 6:00pm

Diners-Club-New

Networking Reception Sponsored by Diners Club International

Companies that have registered for the Dublin event 2025:
Note: Companies will be added as they register!

3Toro Consulting
Accertify Inc.
Access Development
actuary.aero
Advantage Travel Partnership
Aegean Airlines
Aer Lingus
Aerticket GmbH
Agent Flights Limited
Air Caraïbes
Air Europa
Air France KLM
Air India
Airportr
Amazon Web Services
AMEX GBT
APEXX Global
ARC
Arkose Labs
Arrivia Travel
Atlantic Airways
Bankhawk
Belvera Partners
Best Western Hotels
BICS
Boeing Ireland
Bond
Booking.com
brainpay.de
British Airways
Calgary Hotel Association
Caravelo
Caribbean Airlines
Cathay Pacific
CELITECH
CellPoint Digital
CITYHOOK
Continuum Commerce
Coras
Delta Airlines
Discover
DoiT
Dublin City Tourism Unit
Duffel
EBANX
ECTAA – The European Travel Agents’ and Tour Operators’ Associations
Edgar, Dunn & Company
Elavon/US Bank
Engage People Inc
Enterprise Mobility
Etihad Airways
Etraveli group
Euroairlines
evervault
Expedia Group
Experian
Fexco
Fingeprint
Fyorin
Gigak Holdings
Groopeze
Hands In
Head for Points
Hertz
Hilton
Hopper
IAG Loyalty
Icelandair
ID Dataweb
IdeaWorksCompany
Indigo Airline
Jet2.com & Jet2holidays
JM Consulting
JP Morgan
Juspay
Justt Fintech
Kerry Airport
KLM Royal Dutch Airlines
KM Malta Airlines
Korapay
KYROS
lastminute.com
LATAM Airlines
Leeway
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
LOT
Loyalty Partner Solutions
Loyalty Status Co
Lufthansa Systems
Marriott International
Mastercard
Merit Incentives
Modulr
Monavate.
MONEX FINANCIAL SERVICES LIMITED
MyNetWatchman
Norse Atlantic
Nuvei
Obsidian
Odynn
Paybyrd
Payments Taking Off
PCI Proxy by Planet
Pegasus Airlines
Pipl
Planitas
Plusgrade
POINTS
Porter Airlines
Porter Airlines
Protect Group
Qatar Airways
Retail inMotion
Riverty
Ryanair
S7 Airlines
Sabre
Sherpa: Easy travel visas
Shift4
Sift
Signifyd
Skift
SKUx
SkyTeam
Smartnumbers
Sparkling Communication
Spirit Airlines
Spirit Airlines
StatusMatch.com
Stein Secure
Swiss
TAROM
Telesign
Tenable
The 30 Group
The 30 Group
THINKINK Communications
Transmit Security
Travel FraudGuard
Travel in Motion AG
Travelport
Travelstart
Travolution
TreviPay
Tribe Payments
Trustly
Turkish Airlines
TWAI
UATP
UKasii
United Airlines
Up in the Air
Upgrade
US Bank (Elavon)
VELA Payments
Visa
Volotea
Vueling Airlines
WEX
Widerøe
Worldline
Worldpay
Ypsilon.net

ATPS 2025 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
  • 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?

Are we missing a topic/area that you think needs addressed for the 2025 event?  Please drop an email by clicking on the hyperlink to Michael Smith, the Conference Chairman, or to speakers@AiConnects.us

Sponsorship Hot Items

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 (1 of 3 Coffee Breaks Sold)

Podium Plaque – The conference podium will bear your logo front and center
$1,499 USD (Ancillary room available. Payments, Fraud & Loyalty – Sold)

Post Conference Drinks – An exclusive client networking event featuring a planespotting experience and drinks for 20 guests at the 28 Runways Bar.
$3,499

Conference Videos

Spencer Crane - Fraud Organizational Structure

Fraud Orchestration with Spencer Crane

Identity Fraud with Alexander Hall

  • AIRLINE / TRAVEL MERCHANTS

    • $399 USD
    • Payment by Credit Card.
    • Note: Registration prices are $100 additional by bank transfer.

    Register Now!

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    • $1899 USD
    • Payment by Credit Card.
    • Note: Registration prices are $100 additional by bank transfer.

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