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Sessions keynote

Sessions keynote

Sessions is a free conference for payments leaders, developers, founders, and curious observers. Through product talks and workshops, Stripe leaders share new details about forthcoming Stripe products. External speakers explore the technological forces shaping the world. All the talks are now available on demand.

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Product talks

Unify online and in-person payments

Unify online and in-person payments

See how platforms and retailers use Stripe Terminal to extend payments to the physical world, and how our new features help you accelerate global expansion, streamline operations, and deliver a seamless omnichannel payments experience.

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Tamara Winter interviews Maya Horgan Famodu

Tamara Winter interviews Maya Horgan Famodu

Stripe’s Tamara Winter interviews Maya Horgan Famodu, Founder and Managing Director of Ingressive Capital, a venture capital fund focused on early-stage African tech, on Africa’s growing tech ecosystem, regulatory hurdles, and how the rest of the world can learn from Africa’s unicorns.

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Workshops

The future of conversion optimization

The future of conversion optimization

In this workshop, we’ll explore the important details that are often overlooked when thinking about payment conversion. You will learn how to interpret and benchmark authorization performance, why you should focus on customers (not transactions), see results from authorization experiments run across thousands of issuers, and get a preview of upcoming trends.

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Workshops

Monetizing payments and beyond

Monetizing payments and beyond

Adding payments and commerce solutions to your platform is a powerful way to provide more value to customers and create new revenue streams, but there are a lot of factors to consider, from building your product to planning your GTM strategy. In this workshop, we’ll detail what you need to know to launch and grow your payments business as well as expand your offerings beyond payments.

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Ideas for progress

Building a market for carbon removal

Building a market for carbon removal

For the past year, the Stripe Climate team has worked to catalyze a market for large-scale carbon removal technologies. This video, featuring climate scientists, project footage, and Stripe Climate users, will recap the progress to date and provide a glimpse of the future of Stripe Climate.

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Workshops

Commerce after COVID: new priorities for payments

Commerce after COVID: new priorities for payments

COVID-19 accelerated years of growth in ecommerce. As the dust starts to settle, we’ll look at the implications for doing business in this new landscape. Payments analyst Lily Varon of Forrester will equip you with frameworks for assessing modern payments capabilities, the tradeoffs we have to make in the online economy, and how they’ll impact your business objectives.

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Workshops

The future of conversion optimization (APAC)

The future of conversion optimization (APAC)

In this workshop, we’ll explore the important details that are often overlooked when thinking about payment conversion. You’ll learn how to interpret and benchmark authorization performance, why you should focus on customers (not transactions), see results from authorization experiments run across thousands of issuers, and get a preview of upcoming trends.

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Workshops

Going global: playbook for modern expansion (EMEA)

Going global: playbook for modern expansion (EMEA)

In this workshop, we’ll explore the three phases for a modern approach to global expansion, covering evaluation, launch, and optimization. We’ll break down ways technology is fueling faster and cost-effective alternatives to traditional expansion, providing strategies you can implement for country launches and product localisation across Europe and beyond.

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Going global: playbook for modern expansion (APAC)

Going global: playbook for modern expansion (APAC)

In this workshop, we’ll explore the three phases for a modern approach to global expansion. We’ll break down ways technology is fuelling faster and cost-effective alternatives to traditional expansion, providing strategies you can implement for country launches that meet your customer’s expectations across Asia-Pacific and beyond.

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Workshops

Optimizing conversion for European payments

Optimizing conversion for European payments

In this workshop we’ll highlight three key levers of conversion optimization. These levers each have tradeoffs, so we’ll share how you can find your own unique balance and how to prepare for changes, such as new SCA regulations that impact European transactions.

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Workshops

Reshaping retail: trends for post-pandemic Europe

Reshaping retail: trends for post-pandemic Europe

In this workshop we’ll explore the challenges retailers have faced during the pandemic and what will happen as economies reopen. Will consumers revert back to old habits, or has their behavior changed permanently? How will regulatory changes such as SCA and Brexit change online retail? Finally, what are the lessons learned in conversion and fraud management that will endure?

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Workshops

Going global: playbook for modern expansion

Going global: playbook for modern expansion

In this workshop, we’ll explore the three phases for a modern approach to global expansion, covering evaluation, launch, and optimization. We’ll break down ways technology is fueling faster and cost-effective alternatives to traditional expansion, providing strategies you can implement for country launches and product localization.

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Ideas for progress

Technological progress in China

Technological progress in China

A conversation with The Atlantic writer and author James Fallows and Gavekal economics researcher and writer Dan Wang on industrial policy in East Asia, technological progress, and post-pandemic opportunities for economic growth. They’ll discuss Chinese industrial policy and technological progress, pandemic performance, US-China relations, and progress (or not) in semiconductors and deep tech.

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