November 4-5th, 2021
The Big Transaction is a two-day, single track virtual conference dedicated entirely to the art of payments engineering. Join us in November and learn the best strategies, architectures, tips, and tricks for building high quality payment systems that work at scale!
Our Conference Focus
Surviving Payments
Building a payment system is no easy feat given the ever-changing needs and regulations for businesses. Yet almost all companies need to deal with these challenges in some form. As such, we want to create a series of talks focused on the monitoring, testing, and architectural strategies that will ensure you can always sleep at night after shipping.
Our conference will feature 12 speakers, with each talking about their own experience on wrangling complexity, solving real-life scenarios, and creating robust and flexible payment systems.
Get your tickets today!
Tickets are on sale now. General Admission tickets are limited so make sure to get yours today!
Ticket Types
| Early Bird (Until August 15th) | SOLD OUT |
| General Admission | $30.00 |
| Sponsorship Tickets | See below |
Our Audience
Would I Like This Conference?
The Big Transaction is all about sharing knowledge and exploring how to create better payments and billing systems. We feel strongly that the best way to do this is to bring people together in a common space to talk and learn from each other. If any of the examples below sound like you, we think you would really enjoy this conference:
- Your company has an antiquated payment system you want to improve, but you're not sure where to start.
- You work in the payment space and want to learn the latest in payments engineering methodologies and best practices.
- You find the constant changing in payment laws and compliance in different parts of the world difficult to follow and are looking for clarity.
- You love working in payments and want to share your thoughts and learn from others to take your skillsets and ideas to the next level.
- You prefer conferences where you are intentionally given time and opportunities to build real connections with like-minded developers in the payments space.
Updates
We Are Now Fully Virtual!
Our dream was for The Big Transaction to be an in-person conference. But with the rise of COVID Delta variant, we no longer felt we could put on an event in November and still keep our attendees safe. And yet, our planned speaker lineup turned out to be so strong that canceling the conference altogether felt like it would be a huge waste of knowledge to the payments engineering community.
So we made the call and turn The Big Transaction into a virtual conference. And though we'd love to meet everyone in person, running a virtual conference comes with some unique benefits. Specifically, without the overhead of a venue, we can pass those savings in ticket costs back to you! As such, our General Admission ticket prices have been reduced to just $30.00!
Our conference will be hosted on AirMeet, which provides many features and options for attendees, speakers, and sponsors alike. We recommend taking a look at this video to get an idea what it's like from the attendee perspective and their features to directly engage with other attendees, speakers, and sponsors.
Refund Policy
We support refunds until October 15th, 2021.
Code of Conduct
All attendees must agree to follow our Code of Conduct to ensure our conference is safe and welcoming for everyone.
Have a Question?
If you have questions for us about anything at all, feel free to email us anytime. We are dedicated to being as open and transparent as possible to ensure all attendees have a fun and safe conference experience!
Speaker Lineup
Our speaker line-up this year features 12 experts from a wide variety of companies and covering a range of payments engineering areas: payment processing, fraud, billing, tokenization, scaling systems and more!
The Venue
The Big Transaction uses Airmeet as it's virtual event platform. We chose Airmeet as we felt it had the best balance between high quality video sessions and networking between attendees.
Schedule
Thursday, November 4th
| 9:00-9:15am MT | Dom Saulet | Recurly | Intro & Welcome |
| 9:15-9:25am MT | Miguel Carranza Guisado | RevenueCat | Surviving In-App Subscriptions |
| 9:30-10:15am MT | Bart de Water | Shopify | How Shopify Builds Resilient Systems to Handle the Biggest Flash Sales in the World |
| Break + Speed Networking | |||
| 10:30-11:15am MT | Fiona Manzella | Patreon | Across The Pond: Processing Payments in the EU vs the US |
| Virtual Table Discussions | |||
| 12:00-12:45pm MT | John Crepezzi | GitHub | Common Billing Problems at Scale |
| 12:45-12:55pm MT | Marlin Boggs | Spreedly | Smart Routing in Payments (An Introduction) |
| 1:00-1:45pm MT | Chris Trag | Stripe | Stacks on stacks on stacks: Payments, API upgrades, and Open Source |
| Virtual Table Discussions | |||
| 2:30-3:15pm MT | Dathan Bennett | Netflix | Robust Recurring Payments |
| Break + Speed Networking | |||
| 3:30-4:15pm MT | Sam Aarons | Modern Treasury | ISO 20022 is Eating the World |
| 4:15-4:30pm MT | Dom Saulet | Recurly | Closing Remarks |
friday, November 5th
| 9:00-9:15am MT | Dom Saulet | Recurly | Intro and Welcome |
| 9:15-9:25am MT | Albert Drouart | Pagos | Intelligent Payment Infrastructure for Commerce |
| 9:30-10:15am MT | Christian Block | TaskRabbit | Tackling Payments Fraud with Limited Resources |
| Break + Speed Networking | |||
| 10:30-11:15am MT | Jimil Patel | Spreedly | Building a System for $20 Billion in Payments |
| Virtual Table Discussions | |||
| 12:00-12:45pm MT | Shawn Krisman | Affirm | Scaling Feature Development by Making Clients Dumber |
| Break + Speed Networking | |||
| 1:00-1:45pm MT | Colin Luce | Basis Theory | Payments Tokenization & Data Ownership |
| Virtual Table Discussions | |||
| 2:30-3:15pm MT | Albert Drouart | Pagos | (Panel) Payments: a Game of Telephone At Scale |
| 3:15-3:30pm MT | Dom Saulet | Recurly | Closing Remarks |
Our Amazing Sponsors
Our sponsors are the only reason this conference can exist, and we are incredibly thankful for everything they've done to help support The Big Transaction.
Also each sponsor will have their own dedicated virtual table during the conference for attendees to join and ask any questions.
Platinum
RevenueCat makes it easy to build and manage in-app subscriptions. With a few lines of code, RevenueCat provides IAP infrastructure, customer analytics, data integrations, and gives you time back from dealing with edge cases and updates across the platforms. Created by developers, for developers, thousands of the world’s best apps use RevenueCat to power their in-app purchases and subscriptions.
The Payments Orchestration System Built for Growth. Vault, enable, and optimize digital payments with the world's most flexible orchestration system. Enable payments with an independent vault that connects to any payment service via a single API, and optimize payments by dynamically routing to the ideal service for every transaction.
Pagos builds intelligent API-driven microservices delivering the payments data and insights companies need to optimize more easily, scale better and faster while still focusing on what is unique to them and their business.
Gold
Modern Treasury is payment operations software for businesses with a high volume of transactions or complex payment flows. Modern Treasury automates the full cycle of money movement— from payment initiation, through approvals, to reconciliation.
Payloader's real-time alerting and observability solution helps companies monitor the health of their payments infrastructure. Using direct integrations with popular payment providers and other services, Payloader can be set up within minutes and helps teams immediately identify and respond to performance issues around revenue, conversion, fraud and churn.
Retail Payments Global Consulting (RPGC) Group was founded to help and educate merchants grow globally. As an advocate of payments as a strategic asset, RPGC provides advisory services in payments strategy, education, RFP management, and functional architecture design.
Shopify is a leading provider of essential internet infrastructure for commerce, offering trusted tools to start, grow, market, and manage a retail business of any size. Shopify makes commerce better for merchants by offering various financial services, while delivering a better shopping experience for consumers everywhere.
Interested in Sponsoring?
We'd love to talk with you! Take a look at our sponsorship prospectus and email us if you have questions or if you are interested in sponsoring something you don’t see offered! Or wondering why you might want to sponsor? Here are some great reasons:
Promotion
Are you in the payments space? Promote your product and receive direct feedback about it from experienced engineers!
Team Building
Sponsorship packages include conference tickets - send your whole payments team!
Community Support
Your sponsorship goes a long way to helping us keep The Big Transaction accessible and affordable for all.
Multiple tiers
We have tiers for big and small businsses alike - check out the prospectus for further details!