Day One
Monday, February 1
Training, Networking & Arrival Experiences
Make Monday count with focused learning, time to connect, and an energizing start to Summit week.
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Golf Event
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Registration Open
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Solutions Lab & User Training
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Welcome Reception
Day Two
General Sessions & Breakouts
Tuesday, February 2
Executive Client Panel
Choose Your Track
Breakout SessionsNetworking Party
Insights from the Biggest Stage
Featuring Troy Aikman
Day Three
Industry Perspectives & Closing Sessions
Wednesday, February 3
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Breakout Sessions
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Breakout Sessions
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Featured Session: Insights from the Biggest Stage Main Stage Featuring Troy Aikman
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Industry Outlook with the MBA Main Stage Bob Broeksmit, MBA President and CEO, and Mike Fratantoni, MBA Chief Economist
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Breakout Sessions
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Conference Concludes
Explore the Breakout Tracks
Choose the conversations that move your business forward
Explore four focused tracks spanning AI, growth, operational strategy, and transformative technology. Expand a track to preview featured sessions.
Leverage AI, Data & Automation
Explore how AI, data, and automation are changing the way organizations make decisions, improve productivity, anticipate market shifts, and uncover new business opportunities. These sessions will bring together practical applications and forward-looking perspectives to help leaders understand what is possible today, what may be coming next, and how these capabilities could influence the future of their businesses.
Featured breakout sessions include:
- Beyond the AI Hype
- Secret Value of Mortgage Data
- How to Build a Data Team Without People
- Which Data Predicts the Future
- The Data Elements Used for Smarter Business Decisions
- AI’s Next Steps and What Big Steps Are Coming to Mortgage
Grow Your Business
Discover practical strategies for pursuing new opportunities, protecting profitability, strengthening business relationships, and realizing more value from your technology investments. From new market segments and execution options to adoption, margin management, and measurable business outcomes, these sessions will help leaders identify ways to drive sustainable growth across their organizations.
Featured breakout sessions include:
- Proof Over Promises
- Non-QM: The New Growth Engine
- Tips & Tricks of High-Adoption Lenders
- The Hidden Basis Points
- Agency Direct: Smarter Execution at Your Fingertips
- How to Hear What Your TPOs Have Already Told You
Operational Excellence
Learn how leading organizations are navigating increasingly complex pricing, risk, execution, and operational decisions. These sessions will examine strategies for improving readiness, managing risk, expanding execution options, connecting decisions across the mortgage life cycle, and strengthening capital markets performance.
Featured breakout sessions include:
- 5 Ways to Expand the Execution Playbook
- How to Plan for the New Credit Scores
- The Hedging Strategy Required for Non-QM
- The Pull-Through Shift: Behavioral Intelligence for Better Hedges
- How to Maximize Profitability From Rate Sheet to Servicing
- Why Risk Is Not the Enemy of Growth
Business-Changing Tech
See transformative technology in action and explore how modern interfaces, connected platforms, integrations, automation, and actionable intelligence can improve the way work gets done. These sessions will highlight opportunities to simplify complex workflows, increase adoption, strengthen decision-making, and unlock greater value across mortgage operations and capital markets.
Featured breakout sessions include:
- Increase Your ROI Without Spending a Penny
- The Future of UI for Secondary Markets
- Trading Integration Secrets That Move the Needle
- How Ratesheets Have Become Margin Intelligence Tools
- Connect the Journey: Prospect, Lock, and Hedge Through an Integrated Capital Markets Platform
- The Next Big Thing
Sessions are subject to change. Full session descriptions, speaker and panelist details, and schedules will be available on December 1 in the official Summit 2027 conference app.
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