8:00am Annual ACUMA Golf Tournament The Badlands

ACUMA SHOTGUN Golf Outing The Badlands Golf Club is the site for this year’s Fall Golf Outing.

1:00pm “Communicate with Strength: 19 Words that Undermine Your Effectiveness”
Karen E. Purves, Innovative Impact

Are you unintentionally turning away new business and revenue? Do you have unresponsive or difficult coworkers? Are people holding up the information you need to do your job? Simply changing some of the words you use will affect your success with others. Your choice of words has the power to enhance relationships, open lines of communication, improve your credibility and convey integrity – or do just the opposite! Karen will share 19 words you can remove or reduce from your vocabulary to help you increase your influence with business associates, family, friends – and yourself! How many words that could be costing you collaborative, productive relationships do you use? Find out with this not-to-miss session.

3:00pm “The Legislative Agenda”
Jeff Markowitz, Vice President of State and Industry Relations at Freddie Mac

2007 and 2008 have been extraordinarily turbulent years in the housing market, raising a host of public policy issues. Mr. Markowitz will discuss how Congress, the states, and the industry, including the Government Sponsored Enterprises, have grappled with these issues and where we are today.

5:30pm Welcome to Las Vegas Reception

7:30am Registration & Networking Breakfast

8:30am Chairman’s Welcome
John Reed, President/CEO, Maine Savings FCU

8:40am Opening Keynote: “Outlook 2009”
Featured speaker Jeff Thredgold

Jeff will take us on an entertaining, informative, and humorous “tour” of the U.S. economy, financial markets, education, employment, the global economy, retirement, technology, and the future.

 

Some highlights:

• Why prospects for the U.S. housing market are about to improve
• Why inflation will remain under control
• Why the mortgage market will rebound in 2009
• Why retirement at 65 will give way to “bridging”
• Why in terms of technology... “You ain’t seen nothin’ yet!”

10:45am “Electronic Mortgage Lending…”
Joe Brancucci, EVP – Chief Lending Officer, BECU

Paperless mortgage lending is here. Why paperless? Three reasons. First, fully electronic lending keeps every party to the transaction fully informed in real-time. The second reason, of course, is the greater efficiency, lower cost and better member experience that underlies keeping everyone fully informed. Finally, paperless lending is environmentally friendly. Mr. Brancucci will talk about the journey to paperless lending, expound on the benefits and discuss member acceptance to all electronic real estate transactions.

12:00pm Wonderful Buffet Lunch

1:30pm Break Out Sessions: (Choose One)

#1 FHA Lending – A Comprehensive Review… Tracy Jean Ashfield, Strategic Mortgage Solutions
The Return of FHA as an Exciting Alternative! - Why all the buzz around FHA? FHA is not new, in fact, like the VW bug… back in style. During this breakout Credit Union Mortgage expert, Tracy Ashfield, will walk you through the logistics, features, and the power of FHA loans, putting more of your credit union members in homes.

#2 What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You Facilitator – Dan Thurman, Business Development Manager, Credit Union Solutions at First American CoreLogic
As the real estate industry continues to experience anxiety over the subprime mortgage debacle, credit unions have a unique opportunity to address those concerns with property data analytics. In this session , Dan Thurman, Business Development Manager, Credit Union Solutions at First American CoreLogic will discuss how to leverage property data to reduce credit union member flight risks. He will highlight how to identify the hidden dangers in mortgage portfolios and demonstrate the power of combining member data and property data, given the current market conditions. As part of this session, attendees will learn about tools and data available to uncover business opportunities, gain competitive intelligence and reduce loan acquisition cost and attrition, and identify hidden collateral risk.

#3 Title Insurance – What Does It Take to be Successful? Speaker Barry Sticklin – VP Lending,Tower FCU
Several Credit Unions and CUSOs have now amassed knowledge and expertise in offering Title Insurance in conjunction with the mortgage loans they originate. How does this work? What is involved? What about Compliance Issues? Learn the answers to these questions in this session.

3:30pm Break Out Group Review

4:30pm Sponsor Forum Showcase Wine & Cheese Reception

Before your Thursday evening activities spend time with our Conference Sponsors and feast on light h’dourves and fine wine & cheese.

7:30pm “The Showgirl Must Go On”
The Incomparable Bette Midler

Join with other ACUMA participants for a Las Vegas show to remember…

 

7:30am Networking Breakfast

8:45am General Session “An Incredible Journey”
Allison Levine Oxygen Not IncludedTM

Every climb requires a unique approach, whether it’s up the face of Everest, the corporate ladder, or into a position of market leadership. Alison Levine draws upon two decades of business experience in order to deliver a focused and relevant message to her audiences. Her presentation offers a unique perspective on the topics of leadership, teamwork, innovation, and dealing with a changing environment. Her breathtaking visuals will take you on a journey to Mount Everest, the North Pole, and up the slopes of mountains from every continent on the planet; where determination is every bit as important as skill when it comes to survival... and willpower is an essential piece of equipment.

10:45am “Ideas to Get Your Message Through to Members...”
Drew Allen Miller

Drew Allen Miller has spent more than 35 years in marketing, advertising, and corporate design. Drew has developed an astonishingly simple 3-step process called Strategic Ideation®. Drew has used this process to create marketing concepts that have won more than 100 awards. Prepare yourself for a roller-coaster presentation of jaw-dropping gasps and belly-bouncing humor as you witness breakthrough ideas being formed in a truly unique visual presentation. Here’s your chance to supercharge your creativity... and your career.

Attendees will learn:

• Why “Marketing Genius... isn’t!”
• How to generate breakthrough marketing ideas on demand
• The ‘Trigger Mechanism’ that produces a non-stop flow of ideas
• The secret behind Madison Avenue’s Award-winning creativity

12:15pm Farewell Luncheon Buffet