Most Influential Women in Payments Conference Opening & Welcome Remarks

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Daniel Wolfe (00:08):

I want to welcome everyone to Payments Forum and specifically to this morning where we feature the most influential women in payments honorees. It is a unique and exciting, fascinating look at a different aspect of our industry than you might see on the main conference stage because the honorees that we will feature here this morning are willing to and very open about sharing their experiences, not just in the industry, but in their own careers, and sharing advice and tips and predictions about how things are going and what you can do to follow their examples as well. So my name is Daniel Wolfe. I am an Editor with American Banker. I wanted to just kind of run down what this morning will be before we hit into the main conference. We're going to have three sessions. The first moderated by my boss, Chana Schoenberger, the Editor in Chief of American Banker, about the hybrid work environment and how that affects the career ladder.

(01:10):

Then I'm coming back and I'm going to talk to three of the honorees about AI and how that's affecting the workplace and business and how people advance in their careers. And then my colleague, Kate Fitzgerald, is going to talk to a few folks about advancing beyond that middle rung of the career ladder. So it's a really exciting set of sessions and after that you get to participate and I do encourage people to participate before then with questions and raise your hand, put us all on the spot. But we're going to have a meet the honorees session where you will be able to sit at a table and talk to individual honorees. The ones that have agreed to do this are Katie Whalen from Fiserv, Elena Whisler from the Clearing House. Katie is the head of North American Issuer Processing at Fiserv. Elena is the Chief Client Officer at the Clearing House, Celeste Schwitters, SVP, and Head of Community Accounts at Visa. Yaminah Sattarian, Senior Vice President and Group Lead for Institutional Payments at KeyBank and Judith McGuire, SVP of Global Products for Discover. So if you want to put any of those people on the spot and ask them your most burning questions, this will be your opportunity. And then we will break into the lunch where you will actually, you might still be able to continue those conversations. It will feed you while you're doing it. So I want to thank everybody here and hand it off to my boss, the editor in chief of American Banker Chana Schoenberger.