Current Speakers

Meghan Walls is an Enterprise Sales Executive at IXOPAY, empowering category-leading global enterprises across North and South America to modernize and scale their digital payment infrastructure.

Over her decade-long career in fintech—spanning leadership roles at Versapay and Verifone.  Meghan has guided CFOs, merchants, and digital commerce leaders through complex digital transformations. Backed by extensive expertise in order-to-cash systems, payment routing, and enterprise sales strategy, she offers a sharp, practical perspective on reducing transaction friction and transforming payments into a strategic driver of growth.

Pati Partelow is a forward-thinking strategist, continuously analyzing emerging trends in human behavior, disruptive technologies, and industry events. With a focus on driving transformation and growth, she partners with companies of all sizes, specializing in enhancing financial services’ innovation, accessibility, and security. Pati’s expertise includes business strategy and transformation, P&L management, business development, product innovation, and talent development. She leverages a global perspective to drive success in local markets, excelling in consulting sales and delivery, digital commerce, customer experience, and digital payments. With a comprehensive skill set spanning disruptive technologies and industry expertise, Pati is a dynamic leader poised to navigate the evolving landscape of modern business. 

Aniruddh Vijaivargiya is a product and technology leader specializing in AI/ML-driven retail, big-data analytics and computer-vision, supply chain, logistics marketplace pricing, fraud prevention, and real-time risk decisioning systems. At Walmart, he leads product initiatives focused on scaling last-mile and first-mile delivery, improving operational intelligence and execution via agentic systems, and building technology that strengthens commerce infrastructure across a large retail and delivery network. His decade long experience also spans companies like Kraft Heinz, EXL analytics where he built specialization in developing automated systems to enhance retail growth and pricing, and spearheaded supply chain and logistics transformation through advanced analytics, product innovation, and technology strategy. His work sits at the intersection of agentic AI/ML, pricing, fraud/risk prevention, and scalable delivery platforms for commerce infrastructure. He holds a B.Tech from IIT Delhi and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.

Derek Nicolich is a results-driven ecommerce and digital marketing executive with over 18 years of experience scaling growth across DTC, Amazon, and omnichannel businesses. As Vice President of Ecommerce & Digital Marketing at Kate Farms (Danone), he leads digital strategy across acquisition, retention, and marketplace channels, driving efficient, data-led growth. Derek has held leadership roles across several high-growth CPG and apparel brands and previously founded a consulting agency supporting emerging and established ecommerce brands.

Scott Benson is a cybersecurity executive with deep experience securing retail and payments environments. As Director of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure at Mud Bay, Scott oversees security operations, incident response, cloud and endpoint protection, and PCI compliance, supporting a complex ecosystem of stores, e-commerce systems, and payment technologies.  He is a frequent industry speaker, having presented at SecureWorld and RH-ISAC events, and was recognized as a 2025 Pacific Northwest ORBIE Awards finalist in the CISO category. Scott is passionate about practical security, collaboration, and helping retailers navigate the evolving payments and threat landscape.