At PayPal Beyond, you’ll hear from PayPal’s senior leadership and industry innovators as they unpack how agentic AI, evolving consumer behavior, and platform transformation are reshaping commerce, from discovery to checkout to global expansion. Through mainstage keynotes, focused breakouts, the Innovation Center, Agentic Store, and curated networking experiences, you’ll gain both strategic clarity and practical insight to drive performance, manage risk, and accelerate durable growth.
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A vibrant moment from the PayPal Beyond Welcome Reception, where new connections spark, ideas begin to flow, and a shared sense of purpose fills the room.
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Step into the Innovation Center to experience PayPal’s platform in action. Explore interactive zones including a live PayPal store, an agentic concierge experience, and seamless biometric access, alongside product demos showcasing payments, ads, and value-added services.
This is where strategy comes to life, giving you a hands-on look at how PayPal is enabling smarter, faster, and more personalized commerce.
The day opens with Suzan Kereere setting a merchant-first tone, followed by Enrique Lores’ keynote outlining PayPal’s vision for the future of commerce. From there, executive discussions explore agentic commerce, platform strategy, and how trust and integrated systems are reshaping checkout and growth.
The focus then shifts to the consumer as a growth engine, with Diego Scotti and Live Nation examining evolving behavior and new paths to engagement and conversion. Sessions with TikTok and PayPal leaders bring this to life—showing how commerce is moving from scroll to sale through optimization and global scale—before turning to the agentic era, where PayPal and Abercrombie share how they are adapting platforms and competing in an AI-driven ecosystem.
Checkout remains the most decisive moment in the customer journey. Every friction point risks abandoned carts and lost revenue. Businesses face the challenge of balancing personalization, flexibility, and speed while adjusting to quickly changing consumer expectations. In this session, PayPal's product leaders will walk through how PayPal's reimagined Checkout stack taps into a two-sided network of over 400M+ accounts across 200+ markets to reduce friction, enable borderless commerce, and foster trust and customer loyalty. Attendees will walk away with clear, actionable strategies to optimize their customer experience and harness checkout and installment payments as growth levers for boosting conversion and strengthening relationships.
Commerce is no longer defined by geography, but by payment networks. As digital wallets, payment platforms, and marketplaces scale globally, trade increasingly flows through interconnected ecosystems rather than singular integrations. This session gives insights to how global networks and interoperable wallet platforms are reshaping global commerce. We will explore the structural shift from fragmented, point-to-point integrations toward ecosystem-based payment platforms that connect merchants to the broader consumer bases through shared infrastructure. The session will draw on industry research showing payment infrastructure is now a strategic growth driver on emerging interoperable wallet frameworks designed to connect users and merchants across borders. In addition, learn why enterprises must rethink architecture to support scale, compliance, FX management, and local payment expectations simultaneously. Participants will gain a clearer understanding of why interoperability, not incremental integrations are becoming the foundation for resilient global commerce, and how network-scale infrastructure can reduce complexity while expanding reach in a r apidly networked economy.
The way money moves around the world is undergoing a fundamental shift, driven by new technologies, evolving regulation, and changing expectations from enterprises and consumers alike. For leaders across industries, the question is no longer whether digital assets and new payment rails will reshape commerce, but how to navigate that transition strategically. This session brings together voices from policy, industry, and commerce to explore what the future of money actually looks like in practice. We'll examine the broader forces reshaping value exchange from the regulatory landscape around stablecoins and digital currencies to the real-world decisions large enterprises are making today about how they send and receive payments at scale. You'll leave with a clearer picture of where the industry is heading, grounded in both high-level perspective and concrete experience from organizations already integrating crypto into their payments strategy.
As commerce fragments across AI agents, martech platforms, and new embedded surfaces, merchants face a growing question: how do you maintain a consistent, direct relationship with your customer across channels you don't always control? This session explores how the infrastructure being built for agentic commerce — structured product data, real-time orchestration, loyalty recognition — also strengthens the customer relationship across established channels like email, SMS, and embedded commerce today. You'll hear how PayPal's Store Sync gives merchants a single integration point to power product discovery on AI agents while deepening engagement through existing martech partners, with loyalty identification, member pricing, and earned privileges built in from the start. You'll leave with a practical framework for investing in customer relationship infrastructure that delivers measurable value now — while ensuring you're ready to extend that relationship into agentic surfaces as they scale.
Agentic commerce is moving fast from concept to implementation — but most enterprises are still navigating a fragmented landscape of protocols, platforms, and unanswered questions around trust, identity, and governance. The gap between experimentation and commerce at scale remains wide.
This session offers a comprehensive look at what we have built so far, and what is to come from PayPal's product roadmap for agentic commerce in 2026 and beyond. Our agentic commerce leaders will walk through PayPal's vision across the full transaction lifecycle and detail how trust, identity verification, and governance are being architected. You'll see how PayPal is building the infrastructure to take agentic commerce from pilot to production.
You'll leave with a concrete understanding of what's coming, when to expect it, and how to plan your enterprise roadmap alongside PayPal's — so you're ready to move when the market does.
Many US merchants already see meaningful global demand - but without the right infrastructure in place, that demand goes unconverted. International shoppers are often looking to buy from US brands, but differences in payment preferences, currency expectations, and checkout experience can impact your ability to convert into sales.
This session focuses on how to better capture and optimize that existing global demand. We'll draw on PayPal's unique corridor-level insights and consumer behavior trends to identify which international markets are already showing the strongest inbound opportunity. From there, we'll explore the key levers that improve conversion and margin - such as currency presentment and enabling locally preferred payment methods, so global buyers can complete their purchases with greater confidence and ease. We'll also touch on the growing complexity of global trade, from shifting tariff landscapes to duty calculation and cross-border tax collection, and what merchants need to consider to stay operationally ready as the geopolitical environment continues to evolve.
You'll leave with a clearer view of where your highest-value global opportunities lie, and practical steps to convert that demand more effectively - maximizing both reach and return.
Keep the momentum going after a full day of sessions. Join us Tuesday evening to unwind, connect with peers, and continue the conversation, featuring a special live performance by Brandi Carlile in a vibrant, high-energy setting.
Need to check in on Wednesday? Registration will be open throughout the morning and early afternoon.
General sessions at PayPal Beyond open with Suzan Kereere setting the tone, followed by conversations exploring the forces reshaping commerce. Leaders from PayPal and innovators like Alexis Ohanian will unpack how AI is transforming discovery, decisioning, and transactions, highlighting the rise of intelligent agents and what it takes to stay ahead.
The focus then shifts to performance and execution, with Frank Keller and Himanshu Patel (CEO, Verifone) examining how commerce is evolving beyond checkout into a seamless, multi-channel experience. A closing discussion with Yolande Piazza and Travis Kalanick, CEO of City Storage Systems (parent company of CloudKitchens, Otter, Picnic, and Lab37) explores disruption at scale, before Suzan returns to wrap with a clear view of what comes next.
Step into the Innovation Center to experience PayPal’s platform in action. Explore interactive zones including a live PayPal store, an agentic concierge experience, and seamless biometric access, alongside product demos showcasing payments, ads, and value-added services.
This is where strategy comes to life, giving you a hands-on look at how PayPal is enabling smarter, faster, and more personalized commerce.
AI has crossed a threshold. It's no longer just an answer engine; it's become the starting point of the customer journey, reshaping how consumers discover products, compare options, and make purchase decisions before they ever reach a brand's site. As AI captures more of that early discovery moment, how can brands and merchants own the "money moment" when consumers are actually ready to buy? This session will explore how advertising drives the response, becoming the primary vehicle for reaching shoppers who are no longer coming to you. We'll examine how ads powered by real transaction data, trust, and shoppable experiences can intercept consumers earlier, engage them more effectively, and drive purchase in the moment, not just drive traffic to a destination. Attendees will leave with a clearer picture of what effective advertising looks like in an AI-first commerce world, and what it takes to build ad-driven connections that convert the empowered shopper.
Most enterprise payments leaders inherit a stack built for a different era — multiple processors, disconnected vaults, siloed data, and optimization that stops at go-live. It works. Until growth becomes the mandate. Fragmentation has a cost. Every decline is lost revenue. Every disconnected processor creates blind spots in risk and performance data. Every isolated vault becomes an integration you rebuild when commerce shifts. At enterprise scale, these aren't edge cases — they're compounding leaks in your growth engine. The most forward-thinking teams are asking a different question. Not “Which processors do we use?” but “How do we build payments infrastructure that continuously improves, scales globally, and gives us the intelligence to stay competitive?” In this session, we’ll explore what how unified processing, continuous authorization optimization, and network-level intelligence are reshaping what enterprise payments performance means — and what it’s worth. When Grubhub recovered $89M through authorization optimization, that wasn’t a payments tweak. It was a growth strategy executed through infrastructure. You’ll leave with a practical framework to pinpoint where your stack is costing you — in conversion, in cost, and in your ability to move at the speed commerce demands.
The predictions economy isn't emerging – it's here. Regulatory shifts paired with growing consumer comfort around event-driven betting have created an entirely new commerce category that racked up $12B in payment volume over the past two years. From Super Bowl outcomes to presidential elections, consumers now turn live moments into real-time commerce opportunities.
Join us for a roundtable discussion to unpack unpack the future of real-money gaming. We'll chat about how to build trustworthy prediction platforms, navigate evolving market-specific regulations, and build engaging experiences that win consumer trust.
Most payments teams optimize performance in silos: authorization here, fraud there, and disputes handled downstream. The problem is that your P&L doesn't care about silos. Every gap compounds. High-performing payments isn't a complex overhaul. It's a number of small, well-executed decisions made across the entire transaction lifecycle, and knowing which ones matter most. Most of the opportunity is already in your stack — you just need to find it. This session brings the full transaction lifecycle into a single performance view, so you can assess what's actually moving the needle, across authorization rates, network token adoption, fraud prevention, interchange optimization, and dispute recovery. These aren't just metrics. They're revenue decisions hiding in your infrastructure. Come with questions about your own performance. Leave with a clear view of where your biggest opportunities are and the steps to start capturing them.
The foundation of growth isn't just about making a sale—it’s about building lasting customer relationships. Businesses today are discovering how eliminating friction at checkout, offering flexible Pay Now and Pay Later options, and engaging customers with meaningful rewards can foster loyalty and drive sustainable growth. Join us for a discussion featuring PayPal customers who have leveraged PayPal Checkout, Pay Later, and Ads to enhance their customer experience, build trust, and achieve measurable results in a rapidly evolving commerce landscape.