Sydney

Date
19 August 2026
Time
8:30 am–5:45 pm AEST

Join fellow business leaders and builders at Stripe Tour Sydney to explore the latest in payments and financial technology. Connect with the local business community while learning from industry experts and growing companies. You’ll leave with strategies for growing your business, responding to market shifts, and building lasting customer relationships.

Why attend

See what’s next in payments and commerce

Learn how AI, new business models, and evolving regulations are changing revenue opportunities and risk management in global markets.

Solve for the trends impacting your business

Attend breakout talks on the next wave of revenue models, payment optimisations, designing exceptional customer experiences, and more.

Meet Stripe experts and make new connections

See new technology in action, get hands-on help with your Stripe integration, and join focused meetups to network and discuss your business challenges with peers.

Expand your skills with training and certification

Participate in hands-on workshops on payments optimization and recurring revenue, or get Stripe-certified to validate your expertise. Learn more.

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Agenda

18 August
Pre-event training
8:00 am–9:00 am

Registration and breakfast for training participants

    9:00 am–12:00 pm

    Training workshop: Increasing conversion and lowering network costsInfo iconRegistration required

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      Location

      Room c2.6

      Details

      This training is designed for current and prospective Stripe customers who are interested in learning about industry best practices and key business operations that keep payments programs healthy. You’ll learn about conversion optimisation, card payments optimisation, and cost analysis directly from Stripe experts.

      Course objectives:

      • Understand the key considerations for optimising your payment processes
      • Learn how to streamline costs when using cost-plus pricing

      This training is intended for individuals who want to:

      • Gain relevant industry information for payment operations
      • Refresh their Stripe operations knowledge
      • Optimise their payments implementation

      Course level: Foundational

      9:00 am–3:00 pm

      Training workshop: Building your recurring revenue engineInfo iconRegistration required

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        Location

        Room c2.3

        Details

        Learn to use Stripe Billing to simplify the launch and management of subscription or usage-based pricing plans. We'll walk through the process of launching a subscription and setting up usage-based billing, from configuring pricing to handling failed payments. Then, we'll explore a variety of API flows through interactive demos and hands-on coding with Workbench, a Stripe developer tool to help you build, test, and debug your integration.

        Learn about:

        • Designing both recurring and usage-based pricing models
        • Selling implementations using quotes and one-time invoice items
        • Deciding how your application should handle trials, upgrades, and downgrades
        • Dynamically responding to payment failures to help customers recover more revenue

        Course level: Advanced

        11:30 am–1:00 pm

        Registration and lunch for training participants

          19 August
          Main event
          8:30 am–10:00 am

          Registration and breakfast

            8:30 am–4:00 pm

            Certification exams

              Location

              Details

              Elevate your professional standing and formally validate your Stripe skills by taking one of our official certification exams on-site. This structured testing opportunity is designed to assess and recognise proficiency in two key role categories essential for using Stripe products effectively:

              Fundamental certification: Assess your foundational knowledge of Stripe's offerings and core concepts—perfect for entry-level and novice users.

              Architect certification: Validates your expertise in designing and implementing complex internet economy solutions, covering advanced featured in Stripe Payments, Stripe Billing, and platform solutions.

              Preregister at stripe.training or walk in anytime (space permitting).

              If you want to get a head start before on-site training and with certification preparation, check out stripe.training for comprehensive study guides and practice exams.

              11:00 am–11:30 am

              Networking break

                11:30 am–12:00 pm

                Agentic commerce under the hood

                  Location

                  Darling Harbour (Main stage)

                  Details

                  Agentic commerce is an entirely new type of sales channel—one where algorithms evaluate your products, initiate transactions, and become repeat buyers. Learn about the production challenges of making catalogues legible to agents, embedding customer context into agent-mediated flows, and rearchitecting fraud and pricing models for autonomous buyers. Drawing from Stripe’s work with early partners and the Australia and New Zealand businesses getting ahead of this shift, we’ll share what the most forward-thinking teams are doing today.
                  11:30 am–12:00 pm

                  The stablecoin advantage: Faster growth, fewer borders

                    Location

                    Pyrmont Theatre

                    Details

                    Stablecoins are enabling businesses to accept payments globally, move money across borders in seconds, and provide borderless financial services. Hear from leaders across payments, banking, and financial services on what stablecoins mean for Australia and New Zealand businesses—and how to prepare as this infrastructure matures.
                    12:00 pm–1:30 pm

                    Networking lunch and partner theatre sessions

                      12:20 pm–12:35 pm

                      Payments intelligence: How AI-native infrastructure drives revenue growth

                        Location

                        Partner theatre, Expo hall

                        Details

                        Presented by Yuno

                        As payments fragment across rails, wallets, and PSPs, teams have data but not answers. And when approvals drop, revenue leaks in real time. Yuno’s Leslie Lim explains why payments must be AI-native. They’ll dive into why payment systems should read live performance signals, pinpoint what changed and why, recommend next actions, and learn from every outcome. The goal: move payments ops beyond dashboards and ticket queues into autonomous optimization.

                        12:40 pm–12:55 pm

                        Your customer is an algorithm: Why commerce is shifting to agents—and what it means for payment

                          Location

                          Partner theatre, Expo hall

                          Details

                          Presented by PwC

                          For years we've optimised checkout for a human standing at the counter or browsing a website. But a generation is emerging that has never experienced shopping that way—they ask, and their agent handles the rest. This session makes the case that agentic commerce is a question of when, not if: why consumers will make the shift, and what it does to payments when the customer placing the order isn't a customer at all. For issuers, acquirers, networks and merchants, the old rule—whoever takes the payment controls the sale—is about to break.

                          1:00 pm–1:15 pm

                          Lessons from Canva: Building trusted commerce at scale

                            Location

                            Partner theatre, Expo hall

                            Details

                            Presented by Forter

                            Commerce is moving fast. As AI agents start acting on customers’ behalf, the old ways of judging trust may no longer be enough. Join Canva and Forter for a conversation on making better identity decisions, protecting and growing revenue, and reducing dispute costs—all without adding more friction or complexity.

                            1:30 pm–2:15 pm

                            A conversation with Cliff Obrecht

                              Location

                              Darling Harbour (Main stage)

                              Details

                              Canva cofounder and COO Cliff Obrecht joins Stripe cofounder John Collison for a conversation about building an AI-first company at global scale—and what it takes to reimagine a product used by hundreds of millions of people.
                              2:30 pm–3:00 pm

                              Maximising payments adoption for platforms

                                Location

                                Pyrmont Theatre

                                Details

                                Embedded payments and financial products are becoming a meaningful revenue driver for SaaS platforms. Learn what Stripe is building for platforms and how leading businesses are increasing adoption with new features, strategic pricing, and targeted marketing.
                                2:30 pm–3:00 pm

                                Operating a global business: Trends in cross-border selling and money management

                                  Location

                                  Darling Harbour (Main stage)

                                  Details

                                  Managing international operations is getting more complex—from localised checkout experiences to moving money across borders efficiently. This session explores how leading businesses are improving their global payments and money management, and how Stripe can help simplify the process.
                                  2:30 pm–3:00 pm

                                  Town hall: Commerce in the AI era

                                    Location

                                    Parkside Ballroom A

                                    Details

                                    AI agents are already sending higher-intent traffic to Australia and New Zealand businesses—prequalifying visitors before they arrive. The first challenge is optimising for today’s agent-referred traffic; the next is preparing for a world where agents transact and negotiate pricing on behalf of real customers.

                                    Join us for a town hall to think through both together. Share what you’re seeing, learn about what others are trying, and explore what’s emerging.

                                    3:00 pm–3:30 pm

                                    Networking break

                                      3:10 pm–3:25 pm

                                      Move fast, prove faster: How modern businesses turn security readiness into a growth advantage

                                        Location

                                        Partner theatre, Expo hall

                                        Details

                                        Presented by Vanta

                                        In today’s AI era, you can’t just build a product, you need to also build trust—usually on demand. In this session, see how compliance can help you demonstrate trustworthiness and grow revenue faster, and learn how tikpay, an Australian transport ticketing company, did it with Vanta.

                                        3:30 pm–4:00 pm

                                        Operationalising pricing for AI products

                                          Location

                                          Darling Harbour (Main stage)

                                          Details

                                          What does it mean to treat pricing as a product, and why does it matter? Learn how businesses launching AI-powered products are reshaping monetisation—and why real-time visibility, predictability, and control over spend are now expected. We’ll cover how to operationalise pricing, from experimenting with pricing models to building monetisation infrastructure that drives growth.
                                          3:30 pm–4:00 pm

                                          Surcharging and interchange change: The new regulatory reality

                                            Location

                                            Pyrmont Theatre

                                            Details

                                            Australia’s payments landscape is about to shift. With the RBA’s surcharging reforms taking effect in October, businesses face new questions about pricing strategy, cost absorption, and competitive positioning. Hear from leaders across payments, retail, and financial services on what’s changing, what it means for margins, and how to prepare.
                                            3:30 pm–4:00 pm

                                            Town hall: How AI changes the fight against fraud

                                              Location

                                              Parkside Ballroom A

                                              Details

                                              As AI evolves, so does fraud. Companies face new threats—from free trial abuse to risks tied to agentic commerce.

                                              Join us for a town hall to learn about emerging fraud patterns, how to defend against them, and how AI-driven fraud tools can protect your business without blocking legitimate customers. Share what you’re seeing and learn how others are responding.

                                              4:15 pm–4:45 pm

                                              Indexing the global economy

                                                Location

                                                Darling Harbour (Main stage)

                                                Details

                                                Get a data-driven look at the state of the global economy—what’s shifting, what’s growing, and what it means for the businesses operating within it.
                                                4:45 pm–5:45 pm

                                                Networking reception

                                                  Speakers

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                                                  Getting there

                                                  Address

                                                  International Convention Centre

                                                  14 Darling Dr, Sydney NSW 2000, Australia
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