The Robots are Coming!
The Rise of Agentic Payments & What’s Ahead 2026
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Charlie Wilson, Head of Venture Capital and Startup Partnerships, Stripe
Charlie Wilson is a seasoned leader with more than 20 years of experience building and scaling high-growth technology and payments companies. He currently serves as Head of Venture Capital and Startup Partnerships and Interim Head of Startup Sales, Americas at Stripe, where he leads strategic relationships with startups and investors powering the next generation of businesses. Over his career, Charlie has held senior leadership roles at Visa, Green Dot, Dutchie, and Commerce Sync (acquired by Constellation Software), driving significant revenue growth, leading transformative mergers and financings, and helping scale platforms to billions in processed volume.
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Erik Reppel, Head of Engineering, Coinbase Developer Platform
Erik leads Engineering at Coinbase Developer Platform. He began his career at Coinbase on the Machine Learning Platform before taking on engineering leadership roles at Clubhouse and Zora. At Zora, he oversaw engineering across protocol, backend, frontend, mobile, and security. After three years, Erik returned to Coinbase to lead the development of next-generation developer tools and x402, the AI payments protocol.
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Kahlil Lalji, Co-founder and CEO of Natural
Kahlil is the CEO & Co-founder of Natural, where they build payments infrastructure for AI agents. They're raised over $10m from Abstract, Human Capital, Restive, Forerunner, Genius, Bridge, Ramp, Brex, Mercury, Privy, Vercel, and many others. Before Natural, Kahlil started Ivella (YC S21) a consumer fintech company.
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Cameron Peake, Partner, Restive Ventures (Moderator)
Cameron is an entrepreneurial leader who has launched, built, and scaled fintech companies around the world. She is a Partner at Restive Ventures, where she identifies and supports early founders to build the world’s best fintech companies. Cameron was previously the CEO and Co-Founder of Azlo, a leading digital banking platform for small businesses in the US. There, she grew the company to support the financial and business needs of small entrepreneurs, and was recognized as one of Fortune Magazine’s 40 under 40 for her work to deliver financial services to businesses impacted by COVID. Cameron also worked at the international development agency Mercy Corps, where she launched mobile money and banking products in countries including Haiti, Indonesia, the Philippines and Zimbabwe. Cameron has a BA from McGill University and an MBA from Wharton.