Conferences & Education

A whole new world in community banking is on the horizon – but it needn’t be a wild ride! Prepare yourself for what’s to come at this comprehensive community bank-focused conference. Explore opportunities for efficiency, growth and ways you can contribute to improved bank profitability.

Leading industry professionals, regulators and peers will provide insight and knowledge, bringing you up-to-date on the industry changes. You’ll share challenges and opportunities with peers and problem-solve “real world” scenarios, giving you concrete ideas to take back to the bank. Register today to lock in Early Bird pricing!

Schedule

General Sessions

Leadership

Hitting a Homerun in Leadership: A Success Story from the Baseball Diamond to the Board Room
Through humor and insight, we’ll illustrate the characteristics of great leaders, demonstrating how to lead and motivate various types of people and personalities. Learn about yourself and gain a deeper understanding of how to motivate and lead customers, teammates, managers and anyone else you may come into contact with. Whether applying this to your business or to your personal life, you’ll leave knowing how to bring out the best in yourself so that you can bring out the best in others.

Innovation

Using Disruptive Innovation to Increase Customer Demand
Our expert speaker will share new findings on consumer needs, the role of the bank in serving those needs and how to affect profitability by increasing demand. With insight, tools and examples, our speaker takes the audience through a process of exploring his or her own organization’s success and how to shape a differentiating and thriving position for the bank in the future.

Brand Loyalty

Lessons from a Leader
Branding is a transformative process that must be embraced within every aspect of the organization and carried throughout the customer experience. Brand loyalty is a reciprocal relationship that begins with the business and ends with loyalty from your customer. We’ll hear from a representative of one of the world’s top brands about how your bank can begin a transformative process that builds your brand reputation so that it may establish a lasting position in the marketplace.

Economic Forecast

The Economics of a Whole New World in Community Banking
A refreshing spin on an economic update for 2013 and beyond. We’ll shift your point of view and provide a new perspective on the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead in this whole new world of community banking. 

Working Group Peer Sessions (new for 2013!)

New for 2013, Working Group Peer Sessions leverage the experience of attendees to build practical takeaway tools that can be implemented at your bank.

Talent Management Dashboard Workgroup

Talent Management is described as the science of using strategic HR to improve business value and make it possible for companies and organizations to reach their goals. It includes all elements of strategic workforce planning: recruiting, employee retention, professional development, rewards programs and performance management. You’ll work with peers to review current Talent Management Dashboard models and pull together a “best-in-class” dashboard that manages your bank’s talent in the best way possible.

Business Resumption Workgroup

We’ll provide practical guidance and preparedness for worst-case scenarios that cause significant business disruptions. Gain awareness into the stability and readiness of your bank’s current continuity plan. You will take away guidance on how to measure the critical components of your plan and test your bank’s ability to recover. By the end of this drill, you’ll be able to validate what your organization is doing right and reveal critical areas where you can improve your total disaster recovery plan.

Merger & Acquisition Workgroup

Using market data and scenarios, you’ll be joined by real-world investment bankers and M&A attorneys who will “consult” with you and assist in making the right decision for both shareholders and employees. You’ll walk away with a better understanding of what is needed when considering
a merger or acquisition in the community banking space.

Risk Assessment Dashboard Workgroup

This hands-on exercise provides an opportunity to create a Risk Assessment Dashboard, designed to provide a quantitative and qualitative analysis for identifying and evaluating key risk categories. Explore the options and define the process so that you are able to develop best practices for your bank.

More Value

Sessions from four Education Summit & Expo conferences will be running concurrently – as an attendee at the 2013 Education Summit & Expo you can mix and match sessions that suit your needs at no additional cost!

Registration Fees

Early Member: $795
Early De Novo Bank*: $695
Early Nonmember Bank: $995
Early Bird Registration good through July 25, 2013

Regular Member: $845
Regular De Novo Bank*: $745
Regular Nonmember Bank: $1,045

Registration includes Breakfast Monday through Wednesday, Lunch on Monday and Tuesday, A Night at California Adventure on Monday, access to Expo and all breaks and learning sessions.

*Banks in Organization, Groups in Formation or WIB Member Banks opened less than seven years from the date of the Conference.

Banker Scholarships
Because continuing education is more important than ever, we’re pleased to support community bankers with scholarships for 50% off the registration fee to this event. State in 100 words or less why you should receive a scholarship. Submit to education@wib.org. You will be notified within 3 business days if you have been selected. Open to member and nonmember bankers. WIB reserves the right to select the candidates with the most compelling needs statement. Scholarships provided by the 2013 WIB Scholarship Campaign, WIB and WIB Service Corporation.

CEU Credits
CEU hours may be available pending  approval by accreditation institutions. Please note: for CPE credits, you will receive a certificate of completion for the number of hours earned only for the conference that you registered for.

Cancellation Policy
Registration fees minus $75 processing fee per registrant will be refunded if cancellation is received by September 9, 2013. No refund if cancellation is received after September 9, 2013. Substitutions welcomed. WIB is not responsible for airfare penalties incurred due to the cancellation of this program.

WIB Guarantee
If you are not completely satisfied with this program, contact us within 10 days of the conference and we will refund your registration fee.

Conference Events

Networking Reception in Expo – Monday, September 23 – 4:30-5:30 pm

Spend some time with our exhibitors and other attendees while enjoying drinks and hors d’oeuvres as you network with colleagues and make some new friends. Guest tickets may be purchased for $50 each.

A Night at California Adventure – Monday, September 23 – 6:30-9:00 pm

All registered attendees are invited to A Night at California Adventure. Start out the evening with a buffet dinner at Stage 17 inside the California Adventure Park.  The evening promises to be fun, with a couple of surprise guests!  Following dinner, you will be escorted to Paradise Bay to provide you with a superb World of Color viewing experience. Witness an enthralling nighttime spectacular weaving water, color, fire and light into a kaleidoscope of fantasy and imagination. Watch Disney characters come to life on a shimmering veil of mist as more than 1,000 jets of water form fanciful shapes in time to the music. Guest tickets may be purchased for $150 each.

Location

Disneyland® Hotel
1150 Magic Way
Anaheim, CA 92802

www.disneylandhotel.com

Combining mid-century cool with modern luxury, the Disneyland® Hotel sets the standard for sophistication and inspiration. Attendees will enjoy newly renovated guest rooms and new amenities, all designed with the business traveler in mind.

Main Phone: (714) 778-6600
Reservation Phone: (714) 520-5005

Reservation Deadline: August 27, 2013

Room Rates
$175/night (plus 17% hotel room taxes)

Make your room reservation now! A limited number of rooms are reserved at this rate. To secure a room please contact the Disneyland® Resort by booking online 24/7 at http://www.mydisneymeetings.com/gdwi13a or by calling (714) 520-5005, M-F from 8 am to 5 pm PST. Reservations must be made by August 27, 2013 or before the group rooms are sold out, so do not delay. Prevailing rates may apply after this date or when the group rooms are sold out, whichever occurs first. Rooms are subject to availability.

Discounted Special Group Theme Park Tickets are available to purchase online after July 1. These special ticket prices are not available once you arrive at the Resort. Tickets valid from September 17, 2013 through September 30, 2013. Our ticket store closes at 9:00 pm PST on September 19, 2013.

Travel

Affordable Air Travel
Flights from all points throughout the West to Southern California are convenient and affordable. Our aim is to help you get the professional development you need while minimizing travel expenses.

The following airports are in the proximity of the Disneyland Hotel:

John Wayne Airport (SNA) – 15 miles
Long Beach Airport (LGB) – 19 miles
Ontario International Airport (ONT) – 34 miles
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) – 35 miles

Rental Car Discounts
Discount rates are available for:

AVIS: (800) 331-1600 – www.avis.com; AWD number J990669
Hertz: (800) 654-2240 – www.hertz.com; convention code 04DT0007
Thrifty: 1-800-THRIFTY (857-4389) – www.thrifty.com; CD# 004C007855