THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12TH

6:45am – 9:00pm - Registration Desk Open

6:45am - Coffee with Exhibitors

6:45am – 3:00pm - Exhibitors Booths Open

7:15am - Breakfast

7:45 am- Fintech Engagement – Why it’s Important for Community Banks – Charles Potts

The community banking landscape is changing and keeping up with those changes is more challenging than ever before. The increase of fintechs in the banking space has given rise to unprecedented competition. To stay relevant in today’s market, community bankers must embrace these new companies and the benefits they can provide to a bank’s customer base. Finding the sweet spot between high tech and high touch is crucial to surviving and thriving in this exciting new competitive landscape.

8:45 am- Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

9:00 am- ICBA Update, Derek Williams, ICBA Immediate Past Chairman

10:00 am- Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

10:15 am- Concurrent Sessions

• Community Banks - M&A (is not dead, only sleeping) & Raising Capital - Paul Foster, Paul Foster Law Offices, PC

M&A: A highly experienced, frank, and Oklahoma-centric take on current and future M&A from both Buyer and Seller Perspectives.

Raising Capital: A community banker’s primer on raising capital and what it takes.

• Having Tough Conversations in the Workplace, Jackie Rolow

Conflict is inevitable — in work and in life. Managers must address performance issues, and colleagues with competing priorities must figure out how to work together. These situations call for having tough conversations. Jackie will explain how to conduct tough conversations, build communication skills and enhance relationships — leading to better business performance. Jackie will also discuss how to identify underlying differences in work styles, goals, and power dynamics and change the way you view conflict. As a bonus, she’ll provide practical tools to help you prepare for your next difficult conversation and make sure you choose words that won’t alienate the other person.

11:00- Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

11:15am- Concurrent Sessions

• Recent Supreme Court Decision That Impacts Community Banks, Gale Simons-Poole

The session will discuss recent Supreme Court decisions that overturned a long-standing legal doctrine (the Chevron deference) that significantly impacted banking policy, regulation, and enforcement for 40 years. With the demise of the Chevron doctrine, we’ll discuss how regulatory interpretation of ambiguous laws will change, the court systems redefined role in determining what is “reasonable”, and the overall potential impact on community bank supervision programs.

• Cattle Market Update and Risk Management Overview, Caitlyn Grudzinski

Our basic market presentation will cover a range of areas directly applicable to the audience's needs and risk profile. We will present an update on market fundamentals as well as broadly outlining forward expectations. This fundamental discussion will provide the basis for understanding the risk management tools available to the audience and their methods of implementation. We will specifically focus on futures, options, and the Livestock Risk Protection insurance product as the building blocks for the risk management portfolio.

12:00pm- Refreshment Break with Exhibitors

12:30pm- Lunch

Charles A. McCall, III, Speaker of the House, Oklahoma House of Representatives 

50 Years of the CBAO - Mick Thompson, Commissioner, Oklahoma State Banking Department 

CBAO History and Achievement Over 50 Years - Craig Buford 

2:00pm- CBAO Annual Meeting

5:00pm- Gala Celebration
This exciting evening will consist of a cocktail reception, celebration of leadership and dinner. Make sure you don’t miss this evening of fun! It is a great way to enjoy yourself, see old friends and make some new, and celebrate the people who have made CBAO a true success. We are also very excited to have singer songwriters perform at this year’s Gala - Chris DeStefano, JT Harding, Wynn Varble . This is a unique opportunity to hear the stories behind how some of the most beloved songs came to fruition and sung by country legends.