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Speaker: Daniel Pink, Bestselling Author and Expert on Innovation, Competitition, and the Changing World of Work

As organizations face a rapidly evolving landscape, they are reexamining their operations and rethinking their priorities. What do they stand for? How should they navigate what comes next? And how might they build cultures where people can do their best work and be their best selves?

In this provocative and practical presentation, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink offers a fresh set of strategies. Pink will draw on an unprecedented two-year study of our most misunderstood emotion: regret. He will show that ignoring or rejecting regrets is a colossal mistake. Instead, confronting regrets systematically can deliver an array of organizational benefits. It can sharpen leaders’ decisions, speed learning and development, and boost individual and team performance.

In particular, he will show how the four core regrets shared by people around the world contain the seeds of a reimagined and more powerful corporate culture. By understanding what people regret the most, we can learn what they value the most — and that can help organizations of every kind attract top talent, deepen employee engagement, and strengthen loyalty and commitment.

With Pink’s trademark blend of big ideas and smart takeaways, compelling stories, and sharp humor, this presentation provides an urgent and inspiring map for flourishing in unpredictable times.

Learning Objectives: 

• How to anticipate — and avoid — the most significant organizational regrets.
• How to transform existing regrets into a positive force and a coherent culture.
• Why regrets of inaction outnumber regrets of action — and how to use that insight to spark innovation.
• Why doing the right thing is more important to employees than most C-suite executives understand — and why, in this fraught moment, being a good organization can pave the way to becoming a great one.

Moderator: Mathew Libordi, CIMA®, CRPS™, Director, CVC Funding, LLC

Speakers: Chris Leslie, Executive Chairman, Real Assets Americas; Senior Managing Director, Green Investments, Macquarie Asset Management
Benjamin Taylor, CFA®, Managing Director, Macquarie Asset Management
Ilias Benjelloun, Senior Vice President, Portfolio Strategy Team, Macquarie Asset Management

Infrastructure is being rebuilt at an unprecedented speed as digitalization, electrification, and decarbonization reshape global demand, while inflation, interest rate normalization, and geopolitical uncertainty continue to test markets. This session examines the macroeconomic backdrop, the megatrends driving infrastructure investment, and how private capital supports the essential systems that enable growth. Panelists will share perspectives on navigating volatility, generating value through active stewardship, and investing in infrastructure designed to meet the demands of a faster-changing world.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the macroeconomic factors influencing infrastructure investment today, including interest rate normalization, inflation persistence, and geopolitical uncertainty.

• Explain how long term structural forces–digitalization, electrification, decarbonization, and shifting supply chains are driving sustained demand for infrastructure globally.

• Understand how experienced infrastructure investors seek to generate value across cycles through disciplined investment processes, active stewardship, and operational engagement.

Speaker: David York, Esq., CPA, Managing Partner, York Howell

This presentation explores the evolving landscape of philanthropy, highlighting how shifting demographics, new giving vehicles, and changing donor priorities are reshaping charitable engagement. It emphasizes that advisors have a critical role in helping clients navigate this environment by aligning philanthropic goals with tax-efficient strategies, legacy planning, and impact-focused approaches. The discussion underscores the importance of understanding both traditional structures and emerging tools to guide clients effectively. Ultimately, it positions advisors as key partners in helping families translate their values into enduring charitable impact.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand the modern shift from traditional charity to blended-purpose planning. Participants will be able to explain the evolution from the old bifurcated model of “business over here, philanthropy over there” to a unified framework in which purpose, mission, and enterprise operate together, grounded in concepts such as Carnegie’s "The Gospel of Wealth" and today’s purpose-driven business structures.
• Evaluate and apply emerging legal structures and advanced planning tools to achieve integrated social and financial objectives. Participants will learn the practical uses, advantages, and limitations of B-corporations, purpose trusts, 501(c)(4) entities, beneficiary well-being trusts, and program- or mission-related investments, and will be able to apply these tools to client scenarios to align governance, tax strategy, and long-term impact.
• Use charitable-planning strategies to broaden advisory offerings and meet clients’ evolving philanthropic goals. Participants will understand how to leverage modern charitable vehicles and hybrid structures to address shifting donor priorities (such as impact-driven giving, social-enterprise support, succession-aligned philanthropy, and multigenerational purpose) thereby expanding the advisor’s toolkit and enhancing client outcomes.
  

Speaker: Annalee Kruger, President of Care Right, Inc. and Author of "The Invisible Patient: The Emotional, Financial, and Physical Toll on Family Caregivers", Care Right, Inc.

This course helps financial professionals recognize hidden risks that traditional planning often overlooks and introduces practical ways to add value through better questions, collaboration, and informed referrals. Participants will gain awareness of the real human factors that influence portfolios, client decisions, and long-term relationships — positioning advisors as trusted, holistic partners in an increasingly complex planning landscape.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify how aging, caregiving, and dementia create financial and planning vulnerabilities.
• Recognize the emotional, physical, and financial toll on family caregivers.
• Understand common misconceptions about aging-at-home and senior care costs.
• How to ask more effective questions to uncover hidden client challenges.

Speaker: Laura Martin, CFA®, CMT®, Senior Analyst, Needham

Hyperscalers are expected to spend more than $500 billion in capital expenditures to build out their artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities in 2026, and a total of $2 trillion over five years, according to our estimates. This session will address key investor concerns, including: Are hyperscalers spending too much? If so, do all of them lose, or do some lose more than others? If the $2 trillion in generative AI spending is justified, which sectors of S&P revenue are displaced by hyperscalers to generate a 10% annual return, or roughly $200 billion per year, on their generative AI investments?

Learning Objectives:

• The role of research analysts on Wall Street.

• Whether we are in a generative AI investment bubble, i.e., all hyperscalers lose.

• If generative AI is the next tech disruption, which S&P 500 sectors are most vulnerable?

• How to handle the uncertainty created by generative AI, where valuation shifts may be defined by winner-take-most economics.

Speaker: Tim Steffen, CPA/PFS, CFP®, CPWA®, Director of Advanced Planning, Private Wealth Management, Baird

This session will cover how Social Security benefits are calculated, available claiming options, and strategies to consider for both single individuals and married couples. The discussion will also address the future of the Social Security Trust Fund and what may be required to ensure its long-term stability.

Learning Objectives:

• Know what factors go into calculating a benefit.

• Understand the options a retiree has for when to claim benefits, and how those decisions affect how much they collect.

• Examine strategies for married couples, and how the decision of one spouse can affect the benefit paid to another.

• Understand the financial outlook for the trust fund, and variety of options available to provide short-term and long-term stability to the system.

Speaker: Sarah Mouser, CFP®, CDFA®, CES™, CTS™, CCFS®, ELA™, Managing Director of Financial Planning, Verdance Capital Advisors

Looking to build capacity and streamline processes to scale your business? Join Sarah Mouser of Verdence Capital Advisors to learn how she has developed and implemented platform processes, centralized support to increase advisor capacity, enhanced service offerings to add value to client relationships, and expanded advisory teams to support growth and succession needs. This session also highlights strategies for increasing capacity to focus on high-value expertise, empowering support staff as subject matter experts, implementing efficiencies through data-driven process development, and recruiting and hiring next-generation talent with defined career paths.

Learning Objectives:

• Strategies to implement at multiple stages of growth to scale.

• How to build a career track to attract and retain talent for depth of subject matter expertise and potential internal succession planning.

• Recruiting, hiring, and training tips.

Moderator: Chris Jenkins, CIMA®, CPWA®, CEPA®, Private Wealth Business Development Manager, Capital Group Private Client Services

Panelists: Siobhan Broadbery, Public Private Solutions Sales Specialist, Capital Group
Connor DeLaney, Director, Global Client Solutions, KKR

Relying solely on public markets may mean missing meaningful opportunities—but it also requires additional diligence. This session focuses on how advisors can incorporate illiquid and semi-liquid strategies in a disciplined way, balancing return potential with liquidity needs, governance, and tax considerations. Using real portfolio insights, we will explore how advisors and family offices structure investment policies, manage liquidity risk, and align private market exposure with long-term wealth and estate planning goals.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze the structural, regulatory, and market forces driving the expansion of private markets.

• Assess the yield, liquidity, and risk trade offs inherent in private market investments, including the role of interval funds in balancing access with return potential.

• Apply a disciplined implementation framework for private markets in high-net-worth portfolios, incorporating diversification, manager selection, tax-efficient asset location, and estate planning considerations.

Speaker: Ross Riskin, DBA, CPA/PFS™, CCFC, MS Tax, Chief Creative Officer, visiWealth

The passage of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) has reshaped the tax and financial planning landscape, creating both new opportunities and new challenges for advisors and their clients. This session will focus on using visuals to conceptualize and simplify various planning strategies that will apply to diverse client groups, such as young families, young professionals, business owners, and high-income/high-net-worth individuals who are focused on "planning with purpose" by using philanthropic and multigenerational tax planning strategies to reach their immediate and long-term goals.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key provisions of the OBBBA that significantly alter individual, business, and multigenerational tax planning strategies.

• Understand how visuals can be used to simplify and communicate complex planning concepts for diverse clients—ranging from young families and professionals to business owners and high-net-worth individuals.

• Evaluate tax-efficient approaches to "planning with purpose," including philanthropic giving, legacy design, and multigenerational wealth transfer strategies under the new rules.

Speaker: Pascal Noel, PhD, MSc, Singh Family Professor of Finance, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Households face a wide range of financial shocks—from job loss and income volatility to health expenses, and market risk—yet many are poorly prepared to absorb them. Drawing on economic theory and recent empirical research, this session explores how households actually behave when their finances are under stress. Why do so many households struggle to smooth spending? What triggers financial distress and delinquency? And how can advisors design strategies that better protect clients from unexpected shocks? Participants will gain insights into the role of liquid reserves, behavioral biases, and real-world financial frictions in shaping household financial outcomes. The session highlights practical ways investment and wealth advisors can help clients build greater financial resilience and make better long-term decisions.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain why households struggle to smooth consumption in the face of income and expense shocks, despite strong theoretical incentives to do so.

• Identify the key factors that lead to financial distress, including income volatility, unexpected expenses, and insufficient liquidity buffers.

• Apply behavioral insights to client advice, using tools such as liquidity planning, defaults, and automation to strengthen household financial resilience.

Speaker: Kurt Heinen, Regional Vice President, Private Placement Solutions, Prudential Individual Life Insurance

Affluent clients are increasingly seeking strategies that maximize efficiency while supporting long-term wealth growth and transfer. Private Placement Variable Universal Life (PPVUL) and Private Placement Variable Annuities (PPVA) offer a sophisticated solution by combining the established advantages of insurance and annuity products with customizable alternative investment options. These vehicles allow high-net-worth individuals, family offices, and institutions to align their tax planning, investment preferences, and estate transfer goals in a flexible, highly personalized way. This session provides an overview of private placement solutions, the types of clients who benefit most, and how to determine the right product fit based on client objectives and circumstances.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand private placement solutions.

• Identify ideal clients profiles.

• Select the right private placement investment strategy.

Speaker: Steve Parrish, JD, RICP®, ChFC®, CLU®, RHU®, AEP®, Co-Director Center for Retirement Income, Adjunct Professor, Advanced Planning, The American College of Financial Services

This session examines the unique challenges business owners face when planning for retirement and offers potential solutions. It includes an overview of the current environment for small businesses, including taxation and business valuation, and addresses strategies for converting business capital into retirement income.

Learning Objectives:

• Highlight timely financial issues in today's economic environment that concern small business owners contemplating retirement.

• Consider exit planning and succession solutions, including legal, tax, and product strategies.

• Discuss a process for advisors to help their business Owner clients deal with exit and retirement planning.

Speaker: Cindy Nagel, CFP®, ABFP®, HolistiPractice

Clients don’t always make financial decisions based on logic. Money is emotional.
Cracking the Code: Behavioral Finance & The Client Mindset explores how clients interpret money through a behavioral lens, often responding emotionally to uncertainty, perceived risk, or conflicting information. Financial professionals will learn how to identify primary factors influencing client decisions, apply behavioral finance principles in everyday conversations, and help clients stay aligned with their long-term goals.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key factors influencing client decisions to better understand their actions.

• Reframe conversations to address biases like loss aversion and confirmation bias.

• Apply behavioral finance principles to enhance communication and client engagement.

• Enhance office environments and interactions to boost client confidence.

Speaker: Todd Buchholz, Former White House Director of Economic Policy and Managing Director of Tiger hedge fund

The economy never sleeps, and neither can your business. As the United States navigates new policies under the Trump White House, and the European Union and United Kingdom wrangle over Brexit, energy, and immigration, Todd Buchholz explains the forces that will determine whether the economy climbs higher — and what that means for you.

Learning Objectives:

• Learn how White House policies on trade, regulation, and Federal Reserve Board policy are impacting the economy.
• See how the latest gyrations in the stock market and interest rates are altering long-term growth prospects and the financing of businesses.
• Discover how demographics, technology, and globalization are reshaping the future for the United States and countries throughout the world.
• Pinpoint the signs of stock market rallies, and the warning signs of slumps.
• Identify the political pressures from trade, debt, and interest rates on the United States, European Union, and China. 

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Moderator: Mike Kurz, CIMA®, CPWA®, RMA®, CFP®, CAIA, Managing Director of Certification Programs, Investments & Wealth Institute

Speakers: John Nersesian, CIMA®, CPWA®, CIS, CFP®, Founder, Nersesian Wealth Education LLC
Steve Siegel, JD, LLM, President, The Siegel Group

Designed for Certified Private Wealth Advisor® (CPWA®) certificants seeking to deepen their expertise and elevate client outcomes, this CPWA® Masterclass translates advanced wealth management concepts into practical, client-ready strategies. Participants will explore real-world scenarios involving tax planning, estate considerations, concentrated wealth, and behavioral dynamics to refresh their skills and deliver more confident, comprehensive guidance to high-net-worth and ultra-high-net-worth clients.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply advanced CPWA® frameworks to identify and address key planning opportunities for high-net-worth clients.

• Evaluate tax-aware wealth strategies and explain trade-offs in clear, actionable terms to clients.

• Assess complex client balance sheets, including concentrated positions and liquidity events, to improve decision-making and outcomes.

• Incorporate estate and legacy planning considerations into holistic client conversations and recommendations.

• Use behavioral coaching techniques to strengthen client engagement and improve implementation.

Speakers: Michael Silver, Founder and Managing Director, AlphaScale

David Finley, Senior Strategy Consultant, AlphaScale

Unlocking the Power of Positioning Strategy and Wealth Demographics for Financial Advisors. In today’s increasingly crowded advisory landscape, success is no longer about offering more services—it’s about becoming the clear leader in the minds of the clients and prospects you serve. A key differentiator in achieving that leadership is client relevance and reputational authority. One of the most powerful ways advisors can elevate credibility and market perception is through professional designations and specialized credentials. This workshop is a high-impact, strategy-driven experience designed for financial advisors who want to sharpen their positioning, better understand wealth demographic opportunity, and strategically leverage the advantages of Investments & Wealth Institute certifications to stand out in competitive markets. The workshop goes beyond theory to illustrate specific, real-world approaches working right now to help advisors build trust faster, reinforce specialized expertise, and attract ideal affluent clients.

Learning Objectives:

• Define a differentiated competitive positioning
• Leverage wealth demographic trends shaping investor needs and behaviors
• Adopt the strategies top advisory leaders are using to win in competitive marketsStrengthen authority and credibility through elevated positioning
• More effectively showcase professional designations and expertise

Speaker: Ross Riskin, DBA, CPA/PFS™, CCFC. MS Tax, Chief Creative Officer, visiWealth

This dynamic, roundtable-based workshop flips the script on traditional case study formats. Instead of being handed a fully baked client profile, each table will focus on a specific dimension of a client scenario—such as family structure, income source, or lifestyle—and collaborate to select a representative client situation based on real-world experiences. Participants will first share insights and anecdotes from their own practices related to the assigned category. Then, using a quick digital poll accessed via QR code, each table will vote on the client profile that best reflects common or complex planning dynamics. The winning profile from each table will appear live on the screen—building, piece by piece, a fully crowdsourced case study for everyone in the room to analyze together. By the session’s end, you’ll help build the client and explore how these variables intersect to influence holistic planning decisions.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify and articulate key client dimensions — such as family structure, income source, and lifestyle—and assess how they impact financial planning strategies.
• Collaborate with peers to synthesize real-world experiences into representative client profiles through structured discussion and digital polling.
• Analyze a fully crowdsourced client case study to evaluate how intersecting client variables influence comprehensive, holistic planning decisions.

Speaker: Samir Kerbage, Chief Investment Officer, Hashdex Asset Management

Crypto index exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are emerging as a new access point for investors seeking diversified exposure to digital assets. Since 2018, Hashdex Asset Management has been a global leader in defining this new category of investing, launching the world’s first crypto index ETF and the first multi-asset crypto ETF in the United States. Hashdex’s chief investment officer, Samir Kerbage, will discuss the evolution of crypto index ETFs, how they are structured to meet the needs of advisors, and what this new category means for portfolio construction. Kerbage will focus on market adoption, diversification benefits, and how indexing is shaping the next phase of crypto investing.

Learning Objectives:

• Understand how crypto index ETFs work, how they are structured, and how they differ from single-asset products.

• Evaluate the investment case for crypto indexing and learn why indexing is gaining traction as a preferred access point to digital assets, including diversification benefits, market adoption trends, and considerations for long-term investors.

• Assess portfolio implications and future growth by exploring what this emerging category means for portfolio construction today and how crypto index ETFs may shape the next phase of crypto investing.

Speaker: Kim Ledger, Senior Vice President of Complex Assets, Ren

2025 marked a turning point in philanthropy. Clients became more strategic, advisors more involved, and complexity the norm, not the exception. In this session, we’ll explore the most important philanthropy trends that emerged in 2025 and unpack how they are reshaping client expectations, advisory conversations, and planning strategies in 2026. Advisors will leave with practical insights to stay relevant, add value, and lead with confidence in a rapidly evolving philanthropic landscape.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify the most impactful philanthropy trends emerging from 2025 and assess how they are shaping client expectations and charitable planning strategies in 2026.

• Examine how growing complexity and increased advisor involvement are transforming philanthropic conversations and apply practical frameworks to lead more strategic client discussions.

• Develop actionable approaches to position yourself as a trusted philanthropic advisor by proactively addressing evolving client needs and integrating trend-informed strategies into your practice.

Speaker: Blake Spivey, CFA®, Head of Enterprise Wealth—Americas, S&P Dow Jones Indices

What happens when active funds are combined into a traditional 60/40 portfolio? This session explores why most multi-asset active blends have struggled to outperform comparable index allocations and what that means for portfolio construction.

Learning Objectives:

• Analyze how combining active funds within a traditional 60/40 portfolio structure impacts overall performance compared to comparable index-based allocations.

• Evaluate the key factors that have contributed to underperformance in multi-asset active blends.

• Apply insights from performance comparisons to inform more effective portfolio construction decisions.

Braindates are pre-scheduled, peer-to-peer networking meetups centered around the wealth management topics that matter most to you — giving you an opportunity to directly explore specific ideas, challenges, and solutions with speakers, fellow members, or CIMA®, CPWA®, and RMA® professionals.

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Speaker: Carl Richards, Creator of the "Sketch Guy" Column, The New York Times

This isn't about performance or products — it’s about the emotional side of money and the real work of advice. Through a carefully curated selection of sketches, Carl Richards helps advisors move beyond rigid financial plans toward a more adaptable, values-based approach. By exploring the critical tensions that define the advisor-client relationship, this session equips attendees with the language, metaphors, and frameworks to help clients make better decisions and have the conversations that truly matter.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key behavioral biases that impact financial decision-making and learn strategies to help clients navigate uncertainty with confidence.
• Develop specific language and frameworks to improve client communication, fostering trust and long-term engagement.
• Differentiate between rigid financial planning and an iterative, client-centered process that embraces uncertainty and course correction.
• Utilize sketches and simple visual frameworks to clarify complex financial concepts and facilitate deeper client understanding.
• Learn how to balance facts and emotions in financial discussions, using empathy and behavioral insights to guide clients toward better financial outcomes.

Moderator: Bob Powell, RMA®, CFP®, Editor-in-Chief, Retirement Management Journal

Panelists: Moe Allain, RMA®, CPWA®, AAMS®, Vice President, Financial Advisor, Baird; 
David Blanchett, PhD, CFA®, CFP®, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Retirement Research, PGIM DC Solutions

Join retirement researcher David Blanchett and financial advisor Moe Allain for a timely fireside chat exploring why inflation-adjusted spending typically declines over the course of retirement, and what that reality means for how individuals save, invest, and draw income. The conversation will unpack the data behind changing retiree spending patterns, the ongoing impact of inflation and healthcare costs, and how these trends should shape asset allocation decisions before and during retirement. Attendees will come away with practical insights to help better align retirement strategies with how people actually spend later in life.

Learning Objectives:

• Explain the pattern of inflation-adjusted spending in retirement and findings on why retirees outlays tend to decline over time.
• Describe the interaction between inflation risk and retirement spending needs, especially the role of healthcare costs that often rise faster than broad inflation.
• Assess how declining real spending patterns should influence pre-retirement savings rates and portfolio asset allocation decisions.
• Evaluate strategies for sequencing retirement income and spending, including the roles of guaranteed income sources verses market-dependent withdrawals.
• Identify planning implications of the "retirement spending smile" and how spending needs shift across retirement stages.

Speaker: Donna Krohn, CFP®, GFP Fellow, Financial Planner, Retirement Wealth Advisors

U.S. citizens living abroad face complex financial, tax, and investment challenges that differ significantly from those of other expatriates. This session provides a practical overview of the most critical do’s and don’ts — from avoiding PFIC pitfalls and maintaining tax compliance to making informed decisions about retirement accounts, insurance, and long-term financial commitments. Attendees will gain clear, actionable guidance to help globally mobile clients navigate cross-border planning with confidence.

Learning Objectives:

• Identify key tax and investment pitfalls facing U.S. citizens abroad, including PFIC exposure.

• Evaluate appropriate insurance and retirement account strategies for expatriates.

• Explain ongoing U.S. tax filing and reporting obligations for Americans living overseas. 

• Assess the financial implications of changes to residency, domicile, or citizenship status.

• Analyze planning considerations related to equity compensation and asset location decisions.

Speaker: Amelia Renkert-Thomas, Founder, Renkert Thomas Consulting

How do you help clients navigate conversations about wealth with their families? Do they avoid the subject, worry about creating entitlement, or question whether heirs will be responsible investors? In this session, Amelia Renkert-Thomas will help you guide clients in opening and sustaining meaningful conversations about wealth with their families.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate key considerations for initiating family wealth conversations, including appropriate timing, meeting structure, and stakeholder participation.

• Apply a framework for presenting a family’s “Wealthscape” to support clarity, alignment, and continuity in intergenerational wealth planning.

• Analyze common behavioral and family system dynamics—such as entitlement concerns, role conflicts, triangulation, and competing narratives—and implement strategies to support productive wealth transfer discussions.

Speaker: John Nersesian, CIMA®, CPWA®, CIS, CFP®, Founder, Nersesian Wealth Education LLC

Executive compensation often represents a significant portion of an executive’s wealth, yet it can introduce complex tax considerations, liquidity constraints, and concentrated stock risk. This session explores how financial professionals can help clients integrate equity compensation—such as stock options, restricted stock, deferred compensation plans, and employee stock purchase plans—into a comprehensive retirement funding strategy. Participants will learn how to evaluate the tax implications of various compensation structures, identify diversification and liquidity strategies, and understand the role of specialized techniques such as net unrealized appreciation (NUA). By the end of the session, attendees will be better equipped to guide clients in managing concentrated employer stock positions while aligning executive compensation with long-term retirement, tax, and wealth transfer goals.

Learning Objectives:

• Evaluate the key types of executive compensation—including stock options, restricted stock/RSUs, deferred compensation plans, and ESPPs—and their role in retirement planning.

• Assess tax considerations and planning strategies associated with executive compensation, including option exercise strategies, Section 83(b) elections, and NUA.

• Develop strategies to manage concentration risk and liquidity needs while integrating employer stock and executive compensation into a diversified retirement income plan.

Speaker: Raja Sampathi, Principal, meanderingSapien

Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping how financial advisors lead, serve clients, and scale their practices. In this focused breakout session, Raja Sampathi explores how wealth management leaders can integrate AI in practical, human-centered ways that enhance executive effectiveness, deepen client and prospect relationships, and strengthen team adoption. This session emphasizes mindset, stewardship, and real-world personal application.

Learning Objectives:

• Leverage AI to support a busy executive lifestyle while reducing cognitive load and improving decision-making.

• Enhance engagement with top prospects and best clients through thoughtful, ethical AI integration.

• Lead AI adoption within a firm by modeling stewardship, building trust, and encouraging team confidence in new tools and strategies.

Speaker: Dorie Clark, Executive Education Professor, Columbia Business School and Duke University's Fuqua School of Business

Now more than ever, we have to be ready to adapt to rapid change – and, even better, predict it. Columbia University executive education professor Dorie Clark – named three times as one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World - will share strategies to help you nimbly adjust when the situation changes, learn from the past, and get smarter about planning for the future.

Learning Objectives:

• Create 'smart networks' that enable you to predict changes ahead of others

• Analyze bad outcomes - before they happen, so you can prevent them

• Seize opportunity by leveraging your unique advantages

• Harness the forces that create serendipity

Speaker: Melissa Kemp, CFP®, AEP®, CAP®, CNAP®, Chief Executive Officer, FPA Arizona

This program fulfills the requirement for CFP Board-approved Ethics CE. It has been designed to educate CFP® professionals on CFP Board's new Code of Ethics and Standards of Conduct effective July 1, 2024.

Learning Objectives:

• Apply the CFP Board’s fiduciary duty.

• Recognize when a CFP® professional is providing financial advice.

• Understand when financial advice requires financial planning.

• Meet the duties when using our referring to other service providers and technologies.

• Become familiar with the process to uphold the code and standards.