From Implementation to Impact: Accelerating ROI

Community and regional banks face unprecedented pressure to modernize their technology infrastructure while managing costs, regulatory compliance, and customer expectations. With 43% of bankers prioritizing efficiency drivers like automation and AI, the challenge isn't just choosing the right technology, it's implementing it quickly and cost-effectively to achieve measurable ROI.

This fireside chat brings together fintech industry experts and community bankers to explore how strategic partnerships and purpose-built solutions can dramatically reduce implementation timelines, lower costs, and accelerate time to value. You'll discover practical strategies for evaluating technology vendors, hear real-world success stories, and learn how to build a business case for modern banking solutions that deliver measurable results.

Discussion Highlights

• Speed to Value Strategies: How to evaluate and select technology partners that prioritize rapid deployment without sacrificing functionality or security, reducing implementation times by 60-70% on average
• ROI Acceleration Methodology: How to quantify and achieve faster return on investment through thoughtful implementation, including real metrics on cost savings and productivity gains
• Customer Success Blueprint: Direct insights from Emprise Bank on their technology transformation journey, including specific challenges overcome, measurable improvements achieved, and lessons learned that you can apply to your own institution
• Vendor Partnership Best Practices: Essential criteria for evaluating fintech partners, including due diligence frameworks, implementation and ecosystem adaptability, support expectations, and questions to ask that separate true partners from software providers.

Speakers

Joe Belsan is the VP, System & Process Optimization Manager at Emprise Bank. Joe’s team is responsible for administration of several complex systems at Emprise, as well as optimizing processes and finding efficiency opportunities across their company. He has been at Emprise Bank for 12 years.

Brandon Lokits serves as a Principal Product Specialist with nCino, the worldwide leader in cloud banking. In his nearly 7 years at nCino, he has worked closely with existing customers advising on optimization and adoption strategies as a Sr. Customer Success Manager and, more recently as a Principal Product Specialist, he demonstrates nCino functionality across all lines of business to current and prospective customers. Prior to nCino, Brandon worked in wealth management for 10 years and before that he worked in local news as a meteorologist. Brandon is a graduate of Mississippi State University.

Law Helie serves as the Executive Director, General Manager, Consumer Banking at nCino. His responsibilities include driving the product roadmap, understanding market direction and improving efficiency in the product organization. Prior to nCino, Law spent two decades in financial services, including roles at Cloud Lending, FIS and Bank of America. He is a graduate of Salve Regina University and holds an MBA in management.

As VP of Global Professional Services at nCino, Adam oversees delivery, managed services, and consulting for nCino solutions. Adam brings a unique dual perspective to financial services technology, combining over a decade of hands-on banking experience with nearly ten years of innovation at nCino. His journey from working within one of the nation's largest financial institutions to leading global professional services gives him an unparalleled understanding of both the challenges banks face and the solutions that work.