Senior Women Leaders from the Card Brands share their perspectives on careers, leadership skills and how they prepared themselves to work at the brand level.

A CEO experienced in startup companies, including PayPal, Google, and WePay, shares his insights in coping with a changing workforce, and improving culture in the fintech and tech space.

This session is for you if you want to understand how diversity in your team and company can produce better results and make companies more successful. Joe will also address how bias can affect you and your job and how you can thrive in this changing environment. Conscious or unconscious bias can keep minorities from equal pay, promotions and affect hiring practices. Joe’s academic research and executive education engagements have given him unique insight into corporate strategy, decision making and business performance. You will get tools to deal with change in your business and personal lives in this interactive session.

In a smaller group setting, you can tap into the knowledge and experience of high-level paytech women who have excelled in their careers while embracing the disruption around them. Each has faced their own personal and professional challenges, overcome bias and kept going. You will be inspired. This is interactive and not a lecture, so prepare your questions now!

Women in the Workplace is a study of the state of women in corporate America conducted annually byLeanIn.Org and McKinsey & Company. The Women in the Workplace study is one of the largest comprehensive studies of the state of women in corporate America.

Since 2015, 462 companies employing almost 20 million people participated—making it the most comprehensive annual review of its kind.

This is an annual research effort that provides benchmarks on talent pipeline, HR practices, and employees’ experiences related to career advancement, work-life issues and diversity. It gives companies and employees the information they need to advance women and improve gender diversity within their organizations.

A keynote that will share with us the challenges faced throughout her career, how she made it through them and how we can all take calculated risks to advance our careers.

Joe Carella comes back for a session that will be more personal than the morning. He will lead you through some fun activities, and get you motivated for success. Practice makes perfect so prepare to stay awake after lunch and get your creative juices flowing to deal with change in a safe and comfortable setting with your peers.

We will open the floor for some table talk with our special guests. Your fellow attendees represent a wide variety of companies and cultures in the payments and fintech space. Interested in the behind-the-scenes of a fintech startup? Want to learn how to interact with enterprise clients? Wondering if work-from-home is for you? Want to network with new and interesting people? Come prepared to interact and be involved in the discussions. We promise you will learn, from both the guest speakers and your peers, ideas and leadership skills you can apply successfully in our own job right away.

Volunteers from the audience have a chance to be on the podium and be a leader too. What did you learn from the keynote speakers and from your breakout sessions? How is today going to help your with your career and life? Who did you meet that was most interesting?