January 13th, 2025 | 2 PM - 3:30 PM CST

The Fort Worth Club
306 W 7th St.
Fort Worth, TX 76102

Parking is available in the building.

Event room: 12th floor, Trinity Room

AI & Commercial Banking:
Industry Applications & Use Cases

A panel and professional gathering of family offices, regional lenders, and commercial brokers

Registrants represent the following firms

Frost Bank
Encore Bank
First Financial Bank
Guaranty Bank & Trust
Third Coast Bank
Happy State Bank
Simmons Bank
Cadence Bank
Vantage Bank
Valliance Bank
PlainsCapital Bank
Downtown Fort Worth Inc.
Lampados Financial Group
Generational Equity
Tuttle Equity
StoneCastle
The Tobin Firm
Proactive Intelligence
Emerald Consulting Partners
Briggs Freeman Sotheby's
Wealth Management of Raymond James
TCU Neeley School of Business
University of North Texas
JTaylor & Associates
Spectrum Business
Capital Title Commercial
Stream Realty Partners
Condon Tobin
AnsidCFO
IB Supply
EJF Ventures
Cien.ai

Origin Bank
BMO Bank
Truist Bank
Ernst & Young
Fidelity Investments
Edward Jones
Higginbotham
Millbank Capital
Clotine Capital
Bearcat Capital
Northern Trust
The Business Press
Whitley Penn
Albertsons Companies
Cantey Hanger, LLP
Harris Cook, LLP
C.C. Zamora Construction
CJF Manufacturing
Champion Insurance Agency
Basey Insurance
ZT Corporate
The Channel Advisors
DELTASTRATEGIES
Swingle Collins
Fort Worth Counseling
Leverage Sports LLC
NOW CFO
Peoplease
Mejeticks
National Claims Negotiators
AI Innovation Association
DeepSee.ai

Whiteglove AI
Musselwhite Marketing
Juicy MKTG
Clover IQ
Qualia AI Consulting
Dallas Digital
Data Science Services
Superior Data Science
Kiwisoft
KAISARS Group
JPAR Real Estate
Zuri Realty Group
Gutman Custom Homes
Versant Commercial Real Estate
Holt Lunsford Commercial, Inc.
LanCarte Commercial
SVN Dunn Commercial
SS&C Mineralware
Arun-SLD-America
Gallagher Insurance
The Zenith Group
Texas Secured Notes
Military Brand Advisor
Bitpetro, LLC
LA Airsoft
ReKonnection
Business Lynx International
Beyond Stocks
Plug and Play
Solomon Bruce Consulting
Alternative Wealth Partners
SEI
Persystent AI

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Featured Panelists

Kelly T. Slaughter, Ph.D.

Director, Business Information Systems Program

TCU Neeley School of Business

Jeff Sinnott

CEO

Vantage Bank

Dr. Kelly T. Slaughter serves as a Professor of Professional Practice in Information Systems and Supply Chain Management at the TCU Neeley School of Business. He is also the Director of the Business Information Systems Program at the TCU Neeley School of Business. He offers the following fintech program courses, Digital Assets and Payment Technologies; and Deep Learning Technologies. His research includes examining humans' evaluation of GenAI financial advice.

Dr. Slaughter's career includes roles in both academia and industry. He earned a BBA in finance and MIS from the University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from the University of Chicago with a concentration in economics, and a Ph.D. in Information and Decision Sciences from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management.

As Director at the Center for Information Technology and Management at UT Dallas, he worked with companies in applied research, such as AT&T and TD Ameritrade to analyze customer data.

In industry, Dr. Slaughter worked for PricewaterhouseCoopers (consulting) and a start-up consulting firm sold to Grant Thornton. He consults outside his academic service, most recently with Life2, Inc. developing predictive models for health claims data.

He can be reached at: kelly.slaughter@tcu.edu

Jeff Sinnott is the President, CEO, and a member of the Board of Directors at Vantage Bank. Joining in 2018 as Chief Operations, Technology, and ERM Officer, he spearheaded a transformation of the bank's operations and technology, enhancing its omni-channel customer experience.

With 25 years in commercial banking and technology, Mr. Sinnott began his career as a software engineer on Bank of America's Model Banking Program. He has since led major technology and operations initiatives at numerous banks and global consumer goods firms, including PepsiCo, Heinz, Walmart, and Danone.

Returning to banking in 2003, he became Chief Information Officer at Summit Bank, N.A., and later served as Chief Operations Officer at Southwest Bank in Fort Worth, overseeing operations, technology, and Treasury Management sales. At Vantage Bank, he has significantly improved product and service delivery since 2018.

A graduate of Texas A&M University with a degree in Business Analysis/Management Information Systems, Mr. Sinnott also graduated with honors from the Graduate School of Banking in Colorado. He serves on the Texas Bankers Association Board of Directors and has previously held roles with the Tarrant County Bankers Association and Digital Insight's Business Digital Banking Product Advisory Board.