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Share Your Expertise and Passion at an Upcoming APP Event

Are you a solution provider or industry leader and want to join the Association of Payment Professionals (formerly MAC) in our mission to educate the payments industry on risk and compliance matters? Do you have someone on your team that needs a nudge to get on stage and use their voice? Do you have a best practice or case study that you want to share with your industry peers? Then sign up and become part of something awesome. APP has opened the speaking submission window for its events in the upcoming year.

If your answer is yes, then now is the time to submit your speaker proposal for APP's webinars and events.

Upcoming Events	Submission Links
Level Up 27 April 12-14, 2027 Deadline is December 15th Formats: -> 45-Minute and 30-Minute Sessions -> Keynote -> 3-Hour Workshops	Submit a Level Up 27 Proposal
Monthly Educational Webinar Series Openings starting in January 2027	Submit a Webinar Proposal
Regionals Dates and locations for 2027 TBD	Not currently accepting submissions. Expect an update in March 2027.
Speaker Pool	Do you want to be added to the speaker pool but don't want to submit a full proposal? Join the speaker pool and let us know what we can ask you as we build future sessions. Join the Speaker Pool

Requested Topics

We accept all submitted topics. However, sometimes our volunteers identify a gap in the curriculum and seek a speaker on a specific item. The list below is items that APP is actively building for future sessions.

Six Areas of APP Educational Curriculum:

When APP builds an agenda, we strive to cover these six areas. We actively build sessions to cover gaps and consider any submission that covers one of these six:

Risk
Compliance
Underwriting/KYC
Security/PCI
Regulatory/Government Relations/Legal
Disputes & Chargebacks

We're always looking for:

Small ISOs Challenges
PayFac pain points
Case Studies
Fraud trends
Improving Operations
High-Risk Merchant Servicing - Such as Travel, Subscription, or Ticketing.

Open Specific Calls:

We accept all submitted topics. However, sometimes our volunteers identify a gap in the curriculum and seek a speaker on a specific item. The list below is items that APP is actively building for future sessions.

Agentic commerce
AML/BSA
Predictive Markets
Preparing for an Audit
Cash Apps + Digital Wallets
Ethics in Payments
Interchange optimization
Credit Risk
How to Build a Risk Appetite

If you have a topic you'd like us to cover but don't wish to be on stage you can send us an email at education@paymentpros.org.

Past Agendas and Sessions

To get a true sense of the type of sessions APP is looking for, it helps to look at the sessions we have hosted in the past. Here are some samples from past years:

Annual Conferences:

Level Up 26
Level Up 25
Level Up 24
Level Up 23
Level Up 22
Level Up 21
Level Up 20 & Tech Day
Level Up 19 & Tech Day
Level Up 18

Regional Conferences:
2019 Regional
2018 Regional
2017 Regional

Virtual Tech Days:
2021 Tech Days