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.

• Profit by design: Using AI insights to drive smarter growth 
• The AI-ready bank: Governance, oversight and strategy 

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

OPENING GENERAL SESSION

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

BREAK IN THE HUB

The Hub is transforming into something big — an experience that breaks the mold of a traditional exhibit hall. New in 2026, The Hub will serve as a curated, interactive and intentional extension of what you’ll learn during Annual Convention’s knowledge sessions. Come with questions, challenges or ideas — and The Hub will provide you with a clear path forward.

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.

• Tokenization, stablecoins and deposits: How banks can protect growth and payments revenue 
• Six strategic planning components used by high-performing banks  
• Mortgage lending: Market update and policy priorities
• Mitigating cybersecurity risks posed by frontier AI models

10:30 AM – 12:15 PM

EMERGING LEADERS PROGRAM

The Emerging Leaders Program at Annual Convention provides development opportunities that help rising professionals prioritize growth and strategic career transformation while finding ways to serve their bank’s mission at a higher level.  View full session details.

• Blueprint for top performance
• Beyond the blueprint: An honest conversation on leadership

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.

• Responding to the risks threatening bank growth, capital and profitability in 2026
• The outlook for interest rates: How's the new Fed chair doing?
• Using multiple payment rails to grow deposits and payments revenue  

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.

• Transforming commercial lending: Technology that drives growth  
• From experiment to engine: How AI delivered real business results  

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

The Hub is transforming into something big — an experience that breaks the mold of a traditional exhibit hall. New in 2026, The Hub will serve as a curated, interactive and intentional extension of what you’ll learn during Annual Convention’s knowledge sessions. Come with questions, challenges or ideas — and The Hub will provide you with a clear path forward.

3:30 PM – 5:00 PM

GENERAL SESSION

5:00 PM – 6:00 PM

EVENING RECEPTION IN THE HUB

Find new solutions and unwind after a fast-paced day. Indulge in specialty drinks and bites inspired by Salt Lake City's charm and continue making the important connections that count. Create a custom takeaway salt blend, craft your own dirty soda, try out our downhill ski simulator, and more!

7:00 AM – 1:30 PM

REGISTRATION OPEN

8:00 AM – 9:30 AM

GENERAL SESSION

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.

• Gen X is the key to Gen Z: The family banking playbook  

9:30 AM – 10:30 AM

BREAK IN THE HUB

The Hub is transforming into something big — an experience that breaks the mold of a traditional exhibit hall. New in 2026, The Hub will serve as a curated, interactive and intentional extension of what you’ll learn during Annual Convention’s knowledge sessions. Come with questions, challenges or ideas — and The Hub will provide you with a clear path forward.

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.

• Balance sheet under siege: Defending deposits and managing margins
• Payment scams are soaring: How banks can reduce fraud losses and operational risk

10:30 AM – 11:15 AM

EMERGING LEADERS PROGRAM

The Emerging Leaders Program at Annual Convention provides development opportunities that help rising professionals prioritize growth and strategic career transformation while finding ways to serve their bank’s mission at a higher level.  View full session details.

• Speed mentoring for emerging leaders (invitation only)

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: Prepare for quantum computing before encryption risks become a crisis
• Protecting banks rights to make banking decisions: Freedom to Invest
• Outsmarting first-party fraud in the lending lifecycle

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.

• Participating partners: Cari Network, FIS, Kadince, Navanta, StrategyCorps, Temenos and TNS

1:30 PM – 2:30 PM

GENERAL SESSION

Making miracles happen: Gold medal leadership across generations  

What does it take to win? Learn firsthand from two Olympic champions who delivered historic upsets and fought tirelessly to bring home gold to the United States. In this powerful session, they’ll reflect on their successes and setbacks, the role of perseverance in leadership and how motivation looks different across generations. Discover how elite performance in sports and mission-driven leadership are intertwined.

• Elana Meyers Taylor, 2026 U.S. Olympic Bobsled Gold Medalist, 6x Olympic Medalist
• Mike Eruzione, 1980 Miracle on Ice Team Captain, Olympic Gold Medalist 

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!