MBA Annual24: General Sessions
Here’s a handy guide to general sessions at MBA Annual24 in Denver.
Numerous companies will exhibit their products and services in THE HUB, which opens Sunday night with a reception and will be open through Tuesday.
For more information, click the links below or visit the Convention website.
SATURDAY, Oct. 26
8:00 AM – 6:00 PM
mPowering You: MBA’s Summit for Women in Real Estate Finance (Separate Registration Required)
Mile High Ballroom
SUNDAY, Oct. 27
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM
SPECIAL SESSION: Market Outlook
Mile High Ballroom
5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
MBA Opening Ceremony: Installation of 2025 Officers, CMB & Future Leaders Graduations & Awards
Mile High Ballroom
6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Welcome Party in THE HUB EXPO: ELEVATE Your Experience
THE HUB EXPO, Exhibit Hall F
Market Outlook Q&A with MBA’s Research Team
THE HUB EXPO, Exhibit Hall F
Speakers include: Joel Kan and Marina Walsh, CMB
MONDAY, Oct. 28
8:00 AM – 10:00 AM OPENING GENERAL SESSION: What’s Ahead for the Global Economy
Mile High Ballroom
Speakers include: Speakers include: Robert D. Broeksmit, CMB, President & CEO, Mortgage Bankers Association; Mark Jones, 2024 MBA Chairman and President, Union Home Mortgage; David Sheeler, Senior Executive Vice President, Freedom Mortgage Corporation; Laura Escobar, 2025 MBA Chair and President, Lennar Mortgage; Mike Fratantoni, Ph.D., Chief Economist and Senior Vice President, Research and Business Development, Mortgage Bankers Association; and Mohamed A. El-Erian, President of Queens College, Cambridge, Chief Economic Advisor, Allianz; Former CEO and Co-Chief Investment Officer, PIMCO
10:30 AM – 11:45 AM
GENERAL SESSION: Hear from Housing Leaders
Mile High Ballroom
During this session, hear from top leaders of the institutions that are foundational to our economy and housing ecosystem.
Speakers include Robert D. Broeksmit, CMB; Christine Chandler; The Honorable Rohit Chopra; The Honorable Sandra Thompson; The Honorable Adrianne Todman
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
GENERAL SESSION: GSE Update
Mile High Ballroom
Speakers include: Laura Escobar, Priscilla Almodovar, Mike Hutchins
TUESDAY, OCT. 29
8:30 AM – 10:00 AM
GENERAL SESSION: mPower Event with Goldie Hawn
Mile High Ballroom
Speakers Include: Speakers include Julie May, Vice President & General Manager, B2B Scores, FICO; Marcia M. Davies, mPower Founder and Chief Operating Officer, Mortgage Bankers Association; and Goldie Hawn, Academy Award-winning Actor and Advocate
10:30 AM – 11:30 AM
GENERAL SESSION: A Conversation with Former Speaker of the House John Boehner
Mile High Ballroom
Moderated by MBA President and CEO Robert Broeksmit, CMB
11:45 AM – 12:30 PM
GENERAL SESSION: The Promise and Possibility of AI
Mile High Ballroom
Speakers include: Laura Escobar, Olivia Peterson and David Tepoorten
6:00 PM-7:30 PM
Concert MBA Featuring Gloria Estefan
(Doors open at 5:30 PM. Convention Badge Required)
Mile High Ballroom
WEDNESDAY, Oct. 30
GENERAL SESSION: Consumer Identity and Authentication in the Age of Digital Fakes
8:30 AM-9:15 AM Room 401
Generative Artificial Intelligence is providing new methods for bad actors to defraud lenders. Understanding the evolving risks and how to combat them will be critical to protecting mortgage transactions. Sponsored by KPMG.
Moderator: Rick Hill, Vice President, Industry Technology, Mortgage Bankers Association
Lori Daigle, Program Specialist, Identity Management, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators.
Pat Kinsel, Chief Executive Officer and Founder, Proof
GENERAL SESSION: Creating a Resilient Company
9:15 AM-10:15 AM Room 401
Protect corporate assets and consumer information – and keep your organization out of the headlines – by creating an efficient yet resilient company. In this session, speakers show how entities are improving their security posture while creating a flexible and cost-effective infrastructure. Sponsored by KPMG.
Speakers: Rick Hill, Rick Hill, Vice President, Industry Technology, Mortgage Bankers Association
Laurent Domb, Chief Technologist Worldwide Federal Financial Services, Amazon Web Services
John Hickman, III, VP – Head of Product, Common Securitization Solutions
Manoj Shetty, Vice President, Head Of Infrastructure & Cloud, Common Securitization Solutions
GENERAL SESSION: Implementing GenAI Guardrails in Production
10:30 AM-11:00 AM Room 401
Chatbots are great, but there’s so much more to successful implementation of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GenAI) in mortgage. Join us to see a production implementation of human-in-the-loop (HITL) content curation, retrieval augmented generation (RAG), and other guardrails deployed in a unique GenAI solution. See it in action in a live demo of Phoenix Burst and be ready to ask all your questions about building production applications using GenAI.
Speaker/Facilitator: Tela Mathias, CEO and CTO Phoenix Burst, COO PhoenixTeam
GENERAL SESSION: Cybersecurity Tabletop Exercise: Strengthen Your Incident Response
11:00 AM-12:00 PM Room 401
Join us for an interactive workshop designed to test and improve your organization’s readiness for cyber incidents and operational disruptions. Designed for both business leaders and technical professionals, you’ll participate in realistic scenarios tailored to the industry’s unique challenges, collaborate with cybersecurity experts to solve complex problems, gain insights from anonymized data collected during the conference’s cyber lab exercises to see how your peers would respond to incidents, and leave with actionable strategies to enhance your incident response and business continuity plans. Sponsored by KPMG LLP
Speakers:
Parker Brissette, vCISO/Senior Cybersecurity Advisor, Richey May
Michael Nouguier, CISO and Director of Cybersecurity Services, Richey May
Chris Williams, vCISO/Manager of Cybersecurity Services, Richey May
