September 23, 2026: 10:00 AM PT | 1:00 PM ET

Most finance teams have automated a piece or two of accounts payable: maybe bill capture, maybe payment execution. But the full cycle, from the moment a vendor contract is signed to the moment that payment is reconciled, still runs through a patchwork of spreadsheets, email threads, and manual double-checking.

This session brings together Stackpack and Forwardly to walk through what a genuinely end-to-end AP lifecycle looks like when AI handles the whole thing, not just the middle part.

Stackpack covers the vendor and contract layer: tracking spend, flagging renewals before they surprise you, catching duplicate or "ghost" vendors, and routing approvals automatically.

Forwardly covers the payment layer: capturing bills, executing payments, and reconciling transactions without someone manually matching line items at month-end.

Together, they close the loop from contract to cash out.

Who should attend

CFOs, controllers, AP managers, and finance operations teams who are tired of stitching together their accounting software, vendor contracts, and payment tools by hand.

What you'll walk away with

• How combining vendor management and payment automation creates a genuinely complete AP workflow, and which part of your own cycle to automate first

• The manual gaps that persist across the AP lifecycle, and what they're quietly costing you

• How AI-powered vendor management gives real-time visibility into spend, flags renewals, catches ghost vendors, and routes approvals automatically

• How AI-powered payment automation handles the execution side, and how it connects back to the vendor management layer

Highlighted guests

Sara Wyman

Sara Wyman, Founder & CEO, Stackpack Before founding Stackpack, Sara spent seven years at Affirm leading the Consumer, SMB, and Travel business lines, and later built the Strategic Partnerships team behind Affirm's Shopify and Stripe deals. Earlier in her career, she oversaw Finance and Operations at Reformation and built Payments at Etsy from scratch. Now she's applying those lessons to the infrastructure layer connecting companies to the AI tools and vendors that power them.

Nick Chandi 

Nick Chandi is the CEO and Co-Founder of Forwardly, an AI-native payments platform built to modernize AP and AR for accounting firms and growing businesses. Before Forwardly, Nick built and exited multiple successful businesses during his two-plus decades in accounting technology. He regularly speaks and writes about payments, cash flow, and building scalable financial operations.

Moderator: Jane Ingram, Director of Operations and Marketing, Forwardly Jane has been with Forwardly since day one, with over five years in fintech and eleven years across marketing and operations in tech, manufacturing, and hospitality. She's a member of the BC Tech CMO Council and brings a practical, no-hype approach to AI and payments.

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