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Payment Beats Hamburg 25

11. September 2025 Rickmer Rickmers

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THE EVENT

After bursting at the seams last year in the Chilehaus, we are moving this year's event to the iconic tall ship Rickmer Rickmers, located in the heart of Hamburg’s harbor

  • Gathering of 150 decision-makers and experts from the DACH region
  • Focus on current trends and developments in card issuing, online payments, and acquiring
  • Speaker and participants: senior payment professionals from issuing, retail, and merchant services​
  • A mix of keynotes and panel discussions
  • Diverse networking opportunities during the conference and on deck at sunset
  • The Rickmer Rickmers is a 97-meter-long three-masted ship built in 1896
  • Hosted by Arkwright, FAN Network and Otto Payment

When​

11. September 2025, admission from 13:00, start content at 14:00 until open end​​

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Where​

At the three-master Rickmer Rickmers, directly at the jetties with a view of the Elbe and Hamburg harbour​

Employees in a meeting together discussing ideas(Bei den St. Pauli-Landungsbrücken 1a, 20459 Hamburg)
Note: Limited parking option​​

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Overview of topics​

Banking perspective:

  • Keynote "Highlights 2025" - What current developments and key trends are we seeing in the area of card payments and mobile payment in Germany and Europe?
  • Panel​ "Migration in the card business" - Business opportunities, operational risks, and lessons learned. When is it worth taking the step and what factors truly matter?

Online payments perspective:

  • Keynote "From e-commerce to agentic commerce" - The evolution of buying. What is agentic commerce and why is it more than just a buzzword? An overview of the role of AI between customers, merchants and platforms.
  • Panel​ "Agentic commerce" - When AI decides how to buy and how to pay. Will merchants retain access to their customers? What new rules will emerge? How will the roles of the players change?

POS payments perspective:

  • Keynote "The point of sale in transition" - Current trends, technologies, and challenges in in-store payments. An overview of innovations, shifting customer expectations, and new players in POS payments.
  • Panel "Pain points at the POS - and what merchants need for payments to excite?" - What barriers exist at the point of sale - and how can they be overcome? From technology and UX to regulations: What's needed to ensure payment doesn't slow things down, but truly excites?

Speaker & Panelists​

Oliver Behrens

Leiter Zahlungssysteme & Mobilitätstechnologien, Deutsche Tamoil

Francesco Burelli

Partner, Arkwright Consulting

Stefan Hölscher

Lead Expert Payments, Otto Payments

Steven Jacob

Partner, Arkwright Consulting

Moritz Königsbüscher

Payments Consultant, FAN Network

Mirko Krauel

CEO, Otto Payments

Gerrit Meier

CCO, Hanseatic Bank

David Ostah

Managing Director, PSA Payment Services Austria

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Price: 299 EUR Excl, VAT

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