Erin West will deliver the Impact Keynote at the opening session of the Association of Payment Professionals Level Up conference on April 21.

Her keynote, “The Billion-Dollar Heist of a Generation—and How We Stop It,” outlines how pig butchering scams are not just financial crimes, but a national security crisis.

Organized criminal networks are stealing a generation’s worth of wealth, exploiting psychology at scale, and destabilizing trust in financial systems. This is an attack that demands collective action: law enforcement, regulators, financial institutions, tech platforms, and the public all have a role to play.

Level Up is a conference for professionals in the payments ecosystem. The event focuses on six disciplines central to payments: Risk, Compliance, Regulatory, Security/PCI, Disputes/Chargebacks, and Underwriting/KYC.