In 2025, more than seventy senior leaders from US banks, credit unions and the technology firms working with them took the stage at Banking Transformation Summit USA.
The 2026 lineup is being confirmed now, and new names are added as they are announced.
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Speaker announcements roll out as each name is confirmed. If you have a story senior US banking and credit union leaders need to hear, apply to join the 2026 program.
Darius Wise
CEO and President
Red Rocks Credit Union
Laurie Stewart
CEO
Sound Community Bank
Mira Ness
CEO
New York University Federal Credit Union
Alex Arnold
Chief Enterprise Control & Change Officer
Truist
Chip Caddell
CIO
Grow Financial Federal Credit Union
Chris Ortega
CIO
Lake Michigan Credit Union
Shaundra Warren
Chief Strategy and Risk Officer
Sharonview Federal Credit Union
Bob Schukai
CIO
PNC Bank
Gurpreet Atwal
Chief Data Officer (Consumer and Small Business Banking)
Truist
Eric Ferri
Chief Risk Officer
Pathward
Peter Gasparro
Chief Development Officer for US Consumer Bank
BarclaysÂ
Becky Reed
CXO
BankSocialÂ
Matt Shilling
Executive Director, Fraud and Servicing Assessments
JPMorgan Chase
Eric McDowell
Managing Director, Head of Shared Operational Platforms
Citi
Akshay Pore
Managing Director, Data Modernization and AI Transformation
Bank of America
Christian Bohmfalk
Executive Director, Deposits
USAA
Jamie Kerr
EVP, Director of Commercial Banking Administration & Operations
SouthState Bank
Sundeep Tangirala
SVP, Director – Enterprise Data, Data Science & Innovation
First National Bank
Carlos Rodriguez
SVP, AI and Machine Learning
KeyBank
Donnamarie Tyler
SVP, Deposits and Retail Strategy
Avadian Credit Union
Mike Storiale
SVP, AI Technology & Transformation
Synchrony
Poorani Jeyasekar
SVP, Business Transformation Officer
Pathward
Brad Moats
SVP, Card Product & Portfolio Strategy
State Employees’ Credit Union
Henan Li
SVP, Process, AI and Technology
Citi
Sanjoy Sarkar
SVP, Senior Director – Application Development & Support
First Citizens Bank
Ankana Carpenter
Head of Deposit Technology
TD Bank
Kapil Shukla
GFC KYC Leader
Bank of America
Jennifer Adelhardt
Director, Product Management
USAA
Steven Brazzell
Senior Director, Risk Reporting and Analytics
Ally Financial
John Quartironi
Director of Strategic Risk & Initiatives
First Horizon Bank
Rajat Baijal
Director, Enterprise Risk Management
Citi
Poonam Rao
SVP, Data & AI Product Strategy
Citizens Bank
Alex Shenkar
SVP, Senior Model Validation Officer
Truist
Lara Lyberg
SVP, Digital Asset & Platform Lead
Citizens Bank
Patrick Dalessandro
Head of Digital Transformation
KeyBank
Taylor Farris
Head of CashPro Security Product
Bank of America
Rakesh Yadav
Principal Engineer
Wells Fargo
Marina Kounoupa
SVP, Head of Marketing Technology
Truist
Zailong Wan
Head of Model Risk Management
TD Bank
Rajat Bhatnagar
Head of Third Party Risk
BBVA
Ash Kaduskar
Head of Artificial Intelligence
First Citizens Bank
Stephen Turley
Head of Retail Growth and Transformation
TD Bank
Joe Fuqua
Head of Enterprise Data Frameworks
Truist
Gaurav A Kshirsagar
VP, Lead Software Engineer
US Bank
Sonia Beach
AEVP, Deposits and Operations
State Employees’ Credit Union
Casey Ferguson
Head of MarketingÂ
Zoot
Vinod Haval
Senior Director, Cloud Engineering, Financial Services
Oracle
Ajay Kumar
VP, Principal Solution Architect
US BankÂ
Justin Marchi
Member
Executive Council for Leading Change
Ginger Goode
VP Leadership Development
State Employees’ Credit Union
Sudheer PratapÂ
VP, Lead Software Engineer
US Bank
Brilene Feyler
Vice President of Sales
Performline
Tiffany Degbotse
Founder and CEO
Governance in Knowledge
Shahid Rana
Director of Economic Development
City of Charlotte
Amit Kumar Srivastava
Associate Vice President
US Bank
Marc Rehberger
Principal Advisor
Anvil & Forge Advisory
Mandy Carroll
Partner, Digital Assets
BDO
Lynne Marlor
Founder
Women in Digital Assets Forum
Lucy Pearson
President USA
Risky Women
Reba Beeson
General Counsel
AlphaPoint
Dr. Wenwen Dou
Professor
University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Nalan Karakaya Mulder
Risk and Compliance Leader
Independent
Sirlapu Srinivasarao
SVP, Head of Agentic AI Governance and Ethics
Independent
Amanda Fitzpatrick Abdur-Razaaq
Award-Winning Journalist & Communications Director
Independent
November 9 and 10 brings together 100 speakers for 50 sessions, across five themes and two days.