Galia Beer Gabel

Managing Partner Team8


Galia Beer-Gabel is a Managing Partner at Team8, where she builds and invests in Fintech companies.

She supports founders with the ideation, building, and scaling of their businesses. As well as financial expertise, Galia has experience with B2B sales methodologies and intrapreneurship.

Prior to joining Team8, Galia spent six years at PayPal where she held multiple business development and sales leadership roles across the sub-Saharan African, Israeli, and Eastern European markets. She led product innovation, business development activities, strategic partnerships, enterprise sales, and geo-expansion efforts. She led product-driven partnerships with banks, alternative payment methods, and credit card providers in emerging markets; for example, she drove PayPal’s strategic partnership with M-PESA, which democratized access to financial services and global ecommerce for Kenyan businesses and consumers. Galia also worked as a commercial lawyer at Amit, Pollack, Matalon & Co. where she founded and led the firm’s business development and legal marketing department.

Galia has an MBA from Reichman University (formerly IDC Herzliya), and an LLB in Law and Economics from Tel Aviv University. She is also a graduate of the Executive Education Program at the Wharton Business School.


2026 Agenda Sessions

Is agentic commerce the next major shift in consumer behaviour?

Agentic commerce is transforming how buying decisions are made, shifting influence from human consumers to autonomous AI agents that optimize for price, convenience, and personal preference. This session examines what happens when AI becomes the primary decision maker across discovery, product selection, and checkout, and the implications for merchants, retailers, and payment providers.

We explore how the retail landscape changes when agents, not people, control product and search discovery, redefining competition, visibility, and loyalty. The discussion highlights the operational and commercial shifts required for companies to stay relevant in an autonomous first world.

Takeaways
• How agentic commerce changes consumer behavior and the path to purchase
• What merchants, PSPs, and retailers must rethink as AI agents take over discovery, choice, and checkout
• The new risks and opportunities created when autonomous agents transact on behalf of customers

Wednesday 01 April 08:50 - 09:30 Payments

Add to calendar 04/01/2026 08:50 04/01/2026 09:30 Is agentic commerce the next major shift in consumer behaviour? Agentic commerce is transforming how buying decisions are made, shifting influence from human consumers to autonomous AI agents that optimize for price, convenience, and personal preference. This session examines what happens when AI becomes the primary decision maker across discovery, product selection, and checkout, and the implications for merchants, retailers, and payment providers.

We explore how the retail landscape changes when agents, not people, control product and search discovery, redefining competition, visibility, and loyalty. The discussion highlights the operational and commercial shifts required for companies to stay relevant in an autonomous first world.

Takeaways
• How agentic commerce changes consumer behavior and the path to purchase
• What merchants, PSPs, and retailers must rethink as AI agents take over discovery, choice, and checkout
• The new risks and opportunities created when autonomous agents transact on behalf of customers
Payments US/Pacific