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Keynotes and panels on agentic B2B payments, autonomous settlement, and the orchestration layer that sits above bank rails. Drawn from two decades operating in US healthcare and B2B payments, a $400M P&L, a 350-person org, and $160B in annual payment volume at Change Healthcare. Booking path below.
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Watch · PYMNTS TV · 2024
Watch: Back Office Takes Front Row as Firms Automate B2B Payments (PYMNTS TV)
On-camera interview. Opens on tv.pymnts.com →
Topics
- Keynote · Panel · Fireside
The Orchestration Era of B2B Payments
The decade ahead belongs to platforms that route across bank rails, not platforms that pick one. What changes when multi-bank orchestration becomes the default, and why most middleware vendors will not survive it.
- Keynote · Panel · Fireside
By 2030: One Human and One Agent
A falsifiable prediction about the B2B AP function. The agent runs settlement. The human handles exceptions. The losers are any platform that stops at workflow and never reaches the rail.
- Keynote · Panel · Fireside
Authorization Without Identity
AI agents can initiate payments. The settlement layer still expects a person. Why this gap is about to become a payments infrastructure problem, and what gets built to close it.
- Keynote · Panel · Fireside
Building an $8B Virtual Card Operation Inside a Healthcare Clearinghouse
How a legacy print-and-mail remittance business became an $8B virtual card operation, and what it took to deliver $80M of net-new revenue in 18 months. The operating decisions a 350-person, $400M P&L organization actually has to get right inside the largest US healthcare clearinghouse.
- Keynote · Panel · Fireside
Why Healthcare AP Is the Last Stronghold of Paper Checks
$1.7T moves between US health systems and their suppliers each year. The B2B AP function inside healthcare runs on print-and-mail at a rate the rest of the economy abandoned a decade ago. Why the friction is structural, and what breaks it.
- Keynote · Panel · Fireside
The Operator Playbook: Five Roles, One Pattern
One repeatable pattern across five operating roles, from AIM and UnitedHealth to Change Healthcare, Parasail, and Finexio. Find the friction in a regulated payment flow. Build the orchestration layer that abstracts the rail. Compound until the category bends.
Voice proof
Twenty-two minutes of the flagship essay, narrated by Chris.
Selected engagements
- Back Office Takes Front Row as Firms Automate B2B PaymentsPYMNTS TV interview · 2024
- "What's Next In Payments" SeriesPYMNTS TV interview · 2024
- "What's Next" Live InterviewPYMNTS TV interview · 2024
- Embedded Solutions Transform APPYMNTS TV interview · 2024
- CFOs' Payments Paradox: Tap-to-Pay for Coffee, Paper Checks for VendorsPYMNTS.com commentary · 2025
- AP Takes the High Road to AI-Powered GrowthPYMNTS.com commentary · 2024
- AI Impact in Supplier Enablement & Predictive AnalyticsPYMNTS.com commentary · 2024
Federal Reserve Remittance Coalition participant, 2013 to 2017.
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Booking
For keynotes, panels, and podcast invitations: send a note with the event name, date, audience size, format, and what you would like Chris to address. Response within 48 hours.
Speaking fees vary by event scope. Non-profit, academic, and standards bodies typically waived. Travel arranged through the host.