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Hosted by
Karin Keller-Sutter
Federal Councillor & Head of the Federal Department of Finance, Switzerland
Saira Zahid
Director, Agentic Payments
Amazon
Saira Zahid leads Amazon's Agentic Payments team worldwide, pioneering the future of AI-driven payment experiences. With 11 years at Amazon and 4 years in Payments, Saira brings deep expertise in building products that simplify complex systems at global scale.
Prior to Payments, she spent 7 years on Amazon's Marketplace team, where she built products and services to remove compliance friction for sellers worldwide. Before joining Amazon, Saira honed her craft at Procter & Gamble, building customer-favorite brands.
A passionate product builder with an insatiable curiosity for human behavior, Saira believes in driving change.
Speaking at
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11:50am–12:30pmWed 24 JunForum StageKongresssaal, Level 1Open
Next-Gen Transactions
The Agentic Checkout: When AI Becomes the Buyer
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Mamerto TangonanDeputy GovernorBangko Sentral ng Pilipinas
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Saira ZahidDirector, Agentic PaymentsAmazon
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Sam Hinton-SmithHead of International Public PolicyStripe
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Shayan HazirChief Digital Officer, Asia (xHK) & MENATHSBC
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Tom MuttonExecutive Director of Payments Innovation & FintechBank of England
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Nicole SandlerChief Ecosystem OfficerUbyx IncModerator
About this session
AI agents are already booking travel, managing subscriptions, and initiating B2B purchases - without a human clicking confirm. As agentic commerce scales, the payments infrastructure built for human decision-makers faces fundamental questions: how do you authenticate a machine, assign liability for an autonomous transaction, and prevent fraud when the buyer never sleeps? This session examines the emerging architecture of machine-to-machine commerce and what it means for every layer of the payments stack.
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