Program | Annual Convention

7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

REGISTRATION OPEN

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM

INDUSTRY HOT TOPICS BREAKFAST

Join us for a breakfast discussion where industry experts will explore hot topics. Enjoy great food, gain valuable insights into emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the banking landscape from industry partners.

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

OPENING GENERAL SESSION

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

BREAK IN THE HUB

Featuring over 100 partners, The Hub is your one-stop shop for building strategic vendor relationships, meeting with leading industry providers and having some Salt Lake City-style fun with peers.

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM

KNOWLEDGE SESSIONS

These sessions allow you to focus on the issues that matter most to you and network with senior banking leaders who feel the same. Choose from sessions in innovation, profitability, leadership and talent management, and customer experience. View full session details.

• Six components you must have in your next strategic plan

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

KNOWLEDGE SESSIONS

These sessions allow you to focus on the issues that matter most to you and network with senior banking leaders who feel the same. Choose from sessions in innovation, profitability, leadership and talent management, and customer experience. View full session details.

• Bank risk management in 2026: The challenges that matter most

12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

INDUSTRY HOT TOPICS LUNCH

Join us for a lunch discussion where industry experts will explore hot topics. Enjoy great food, gain valuable insights into emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the banking landscape from industry partners.

12:00 PM – 1:15 PM

GUEST PROGRAM

This year, hear from an impressive keynote speaker bristling with authenticity, humor, honesty and hard-earned wisdom: U.S. Olympic Champion, Jessie Diggins. View program details.

Guests or spouses who are not in financial services or banking-related fields are eligible for this special program and rate. Bankers should register their guests when they secure their own Annual Convention registration.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

GENERAL SESSION

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

BREAK IN THE HUB

Featuring over 100 partners, The Hub is your one-stop shop for building strategic vendor relationships, meeting with leading industry providers and having some Salt Lake City-style fun with peers.

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

GENERAL SESSION

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

EVENING RECEPTION IN THE HUB

7:00 AM – 1:30 PM

REGISTRATION OPEN

7:30 AM – 8:00 AM

INDUSTRY HOT TOPICS BREAKFAST

Join us for a breakfast discussion where industry experts will explore hot topics. Enjoy great food, gain valuable insights into emerging trends, challenges, and opportunities shaping the banking landscape from industry partners.

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

BREAK IN THE HUB

Featuring over 100 partners, The Hub is your one-stop shop for building strategic vendor relationships, meeting with leading industry providers and having some Salt Lake City-style fun with peers.

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM

KNOWLEDGE SESSIONS

These sessions allow you to focus on the issues that matter most to you and network with senior banking leaders who feel the same. Choose from sessions in innovation, profitability, leadership and talent management, and customer experience. View full session details.

10:30 AM – 12:15 PM

WORKFORCE EXCELLENCE FORUM

Beyond the deal: Navigating culture integration in bank mergers

It’s time to go beyond the deal. New this year at Annual Convention, bank leaders are coming together to address one of the most critical and complex challenges in mergers: the process of integrating two cultures into one. View full session details.

11:30 AM – 12:15 PM

KNOWLEDGE SESSIONS

These sessions allow you to focus on the issues that matter most to you and network with senior banking leaders who feel the same. Choose from sessions in innovation, profitability, leadership and talent management, and customer experience. View full session details.

• Bank boards and CEOs: Let’s talk quantum computing
• Protecting banks rights to make banking decisions: Freedom to Invest

12:15 PM – 1:30 PM

GENERAL SESSION

Partner Game Changers session

Join us for a rapid-paced, Shark Tank-style session where you’ll discover solutions built to meet the evolving needs of your bank. Ambitious industry partners will facilitate two-minute pitches on their products, and a panel of bankers will ask them hard-hitting questions. You’ll walk away with new ideas, practical insights and a drive to address your bank’s real-life challenges with newfound solutions.

Lunch will be served during this session.

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

GENERAL SESSION

2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

CLOSING RECEPTION

See you in Cleveland!

Join us to say a fond farewell to Salt Lake City and celebrate the location of our 2027 event...Cleveland!