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So, what should companies be doing now?

The organizations that weather outages best are the
ones that treat resilience as fundamental engineering,
not optional insurance. In practice, that means:
Association Shows: • Eliminate single points of failure. Design systems
with multiple cloud providers, intelligent routing
Clarion Events and strong fallback mechanisms.
Payments Leaders’ Summit USA
• Embed cybersecurity in operations. CISOs and
Highlights: Payments Leaders’ Summit (PLS) is an exclusive, compliance leaders need meaningful authority
invite-only gathering tailored for senior payments leaders, de- and budget.
cision-makers and budget holders. Attendees include seasoned
professionals in such positions as chief financial/treasury officer, • For payment providers specifically, the private-
group global treasurer, finance director, director of payments, head cloud-versus-public-cloud debate often comes up.
of financial risk, head of risk and compliance, senior vice president The reality is that private clouds are extremely
of payments, vice president of finance, and more. costly and rarely match the global reach or reliabil-
This intimate two-day event prioritizes quality over quantity—think ity of major cloud platforms. A multi-cloud strat-
80+ enterprise-level executives engaging in curated one-on-one egy, backed by thoughtful redundancy planning,
meetings, roundtable discussions by industry vertical, and candid is far more realistic for maintaining availability at
conversations about real-world payments challenges. Experience scale
senior-level thought leadership, build meaningful connections, and
engage in open, peer-led discussions designed to strengthen your • Use AI as an accelerator, not a replacement. AI
payments strategy can detect abnormal traffic patterns, surface early
When: June 23 – 24, 2026 signs of infrastructure stress, and trigger auto-
Where: The Westin Nashville mated failover – but it cannot replace architectural
Registration: https://www.payments-leaderssummit.com/ thinking or the operational discipline required to
payments-leaders-summit-june build true resilience
Turning disruption into a breakthrough
Midwest Acquirers Association
MWAA 2026 To their merit, major platforms treat outages with the
gravity they demand. Reputational risk alone demands
Highlights: The Midwest Acquirers Association’s 24th annu- it. Cloudflare sits behind everything from WAF pro-
al meeting will be a friendly, action-packed two-day conference tection to edge routing, and when it goes down, every
offering a rich combination of educational and networking oppor- business depending on it is forced to examine its own
tunities, dynamic speakers, and an exhibit hall featuring the latest exposure.
payments and value-added products and services.
Rod Katzfey, MWAA president, will kick things off with a welcome This latest incident should be exactly that: a moment of
message and opening remarks. The keynote speaker will be Damon honest appraisal. The goal isn't perfection. It's design-
West, author of The Coffee Bean: A Simple Lesson to Create Positive ing a system that doesn't collapse because one provider
Change. Among the special features planned are a merchant level falters.
sales forum, PayTech Women discussion, industry achievement
awards, cyber connect area, and presentations addressing current Resilience must become an everyday discipline. If our
compelling topics in payments digital economy relies on shared infrastructure, then
When: July 22 - 23, 2026 every organization has a responsibility to design for
Where: Chicago Marriott Downtown Magnificent Mile failure, rehearse for disruption and invest in the capa-
Registration: https://midwestacquirers.org/regis- bilities that keep services available when the unexpect-
ter/?ac=register ed happens.

2026 Events The question for every financial institution is simple:
when the next outage hits, will you be a calamity or a
case study in resilience?
All Wireless & Prepaid Expo Aug. 18 - 19, 2026, Las
Vegas , NV
Fadl Mantash is chief information security officer at Tribe Payments
WSAA 2026 Sept. 15 - 17, 2026, Palm Springs , CA (https://www.tribepayments.com). Find him on LinkedIn at https://
www.linkedin.com/in/fadl-mantash-423391235.
Visit www.greensheet.com/datebook.php for more
events and a year-at-a-glance event chart.

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