Monday, November 9 | 9:30-11:00 am CST  

Explore why digital is no longer a separate initiative but a core component of enterprise strategy and executive leadership. 

Monday, November 9 | 2:00-3:30 pm CST 

Understand the customer behaviors, demographic shifts, and competitive forces reshaping deposit growth and engagement. 

Tuesday, November 10 | 9:30-11:00 am CST 

Examine how digital investments influence funding costs, operating leverage, customer acquisition, and long-term franchise value.

Tuesday, November 10 | 2:00-3:30 pm CST

Evaluate emerging payment ecosystems and their strategic implications for community banking leadership. 

Thursday, November 12 | 9:30-11:00 am CST

Discover how AI and modern marketing create measurable growth while establishing governance and executive accountability. 

Thursday, November 12 | 2:00-3:30 pm CST  

Understand how executive leaders balance innovation, vendor management, regulatory expectations, and organizational resilience. 

Friday, November 13 | 9:30-11:00am CST

Building the right digital strategy is only half the battle. The real challenge comes when it’s time to get your team to actually embrace it. This session tackles the leadership side of digital transformation head-on: how to lead change in a way that gets buy-in instead of resistance, turns skeptics into champions, and makes new tools and processes stick long after the rollout. You’ll walk away with practical approaches for managing the human side of change, so the strategies and systems you’re building throughout this program don’t stall out when they hit your organization’s culture.

Tuesday, November 17 | 9:30-11:00 am CST 

Integrate the program’s key concepts into an executive action plan focused on strategic priorities, organizational alignment, and long-term competitive positioning.