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AI in Banking: What’s Real, What’s Hype, and What’s Actually Delivering Results?

Tuesday, November 10, 2026
12:00 PM CT
30 minutes | Free to Attend

AI is everywhere. Results are harder to find.

As banks and credit unions put AI into practice, leaders face growing pressure to separate hype from reality, identify applications delivering measurable value, and determine where investment is justified. The challenge is understanding what’s working today, what obstacles institutions are encountering, and where AI can make the greatest impact.

Join this FREE Converge Executive Exchange webinar for a candid conversation built around four questions.

1. Where Is AI Delivering Real Results?

2. Where Is the Hype Ahead of Reality?

3. What Have Financial Institutions Learned?

4. What’s Next for AI in Banking?

Expect 20 minutes of moderated discussion, followed by 10 minutes for your questions. 

Tuesday, November 10, 2026
12:00 PM Central Time | 30 minutes | Free virtual event

Four questions. No slide decks.

Where is AI delivering real results today?

The use cases moving beyond pilots and experimentation—and what measurable value actually looks like.

Where is the hype still ahead of reality?

Which applications sound compelling but aren't yet delivering enough value to justify the investment, complexity, or risk.

What have financial institutions learned from putting AI into practice?

The organizational, data, governance, technology, and adoption challenges once AI moves from strategy to execution.

What should banking leaders be thinking about next?

Where AI investment may be headed and how executives should evaluate the opportunities competing for attention and budget.

Hear from leaders doing the work.

Sarah Grooms currently serves as Chief of Staff, Banking Strategies for Wintrust Financial Corporation.
Akash Nikam is Head of AI Products and Engineering at Vanguard, part of the firm’s AI Center of Excellence.

Modernize, Integrate or Leave It Alone? The Technology Decisions Banks Are Making for 2027

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
12:00 PM CT
30 minutes | Free to Attend

How do you know which decision is the right one?

As banks plan for 2027, technology leaders have to determine where modernization will create enough value to justify the cost and disruption, where integration can extend the life of existing technology, and where the smartest decision may be to leave something alone.

Join this FREE Converge Executive Exchange webinar for a candid conversation built around three questions.

1. Modernize or Maintain?

2. Integrate or Replace?

3. When to Move

Expect 20 minutes of moderated discussion, followed by 10 minutes for your questions. 

Tuesday, October 27, 2026
12:00 PM Central Time | 30 minutes | Free virtual event

THE QUESTION

Does it actually need to change?

New technology isn't automatically better technology. Every modernization decision comes with a tradeoff: cost, implementation time, integration complexity, operational disruption and the opportunity cost of putting resources here instead of somewhere else. Hear how banking technology leaders are deciding which systems deserve investment—and which ones don't.

THE CONVERSATION

Three questions. No slide decks.

MODERNIZE OR MAINTAIN?

Separate the technology creating real constraints from the technology that's simply been around a while.

INTEGRATE OR REPLACE?

Explore when connecting around existing technology can deliver what the bank needs and when another integration just adds complexity.

WHEN TO MOVE?

Look at the signals that tell leaders it's time to stop working around a system and start changing it.

THE PERSPECTIVES

Meet the leaders making these decisions

Hear directly from banking technology leaders responsible for balancing modernization, integration, risk, resources and business priorities. No prepared presentations. No slide decks. Just different perspectives on the technology decisions banks are making for 2027.
Dipankar Saha is a Principal Solutions Architect at RBC Wealth Management
Jerry Reese Senior Solutions Engineer​ ​ebankIT
Jason Tilley is an accomplished technology executive with over 30 years of credit union IT experience and a strong track record of strategic leadership in the financial services sector.

Beyond the Hype: Which Banking Technologies Will Actually Deliver ROI in 2027?

The CIO.
The fintech strategist.
The AI practitioner.
Where would each put the next technology dollar?

Watch On-Demand - Free!
30 minutes

Technology budgets are under pressure to produce results. AI is drawing attention and investment, but banking leaders still have to decide what earns more funding, what needs a closer look, and what can wait.

Join this FREE Converge Executive Exchange webinar for a candid conversation built around three questions:

1. Where are financial institutions seeing measurable technology ROI today?

2. Where is AI producing real results, and where is the hype still ahead of reality?

3. If you had incremental technology budget for 2027, where would you invest more, and where would you invest less?

Expect 20 minutes of moderated discussion, followed by 10 minutes for your questions. The panelists will bring different perspectives to the same investment decisions, and the moderator will press on the places where their answers diverge.

THE QUESTION

Your 2027 budget has to go somewhere.
What has earned it?

Hear leaders weigh measurable outcomes against the promise of the next
technology wave.

THE CONVERSATION

Three questions. No slide decks.

01 / ROI NOW

Where are institutions seeing measurable technology
ROI today?

Which investments are paying off, and how do leaders know?
02 / AI REALITY

Where is AI producing results, and where is the hype ahead?

Look past the attention and budget to the business impact.
03 / NEXT DOLLAR

What gets more investment in 2027? What gets less?

Compare the bets each perspective would make.

THE PERSPECTIVES

Meet the voices behind the budget debate

Dan Carmody is the founder of Converge Events
Jason Tilley is an accomplished technology executive with over 30 years of credit union IT experience and a strong track record of strategic leadership in the financial services sector.

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