1:00 PM
Registration Opens

1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Pre-Conference Workshop #1:
Morphing from an Origination-centric to a Buyer's Market
Moving from survival to growth requires working closely with investors, who now dictate terms of what loans will be made to whom and how. Mortgage companies need technology that will outlast expansions and contractions of the market. Learn About:

• Wall Street's demand for due diligence technology services.
• How to avoid missed sales opportunities due to a lack of access to shared current information and notification.
• Forensic underwriting, regulatory compliance and secondary markets requirements.
• The new Microsoft" .NET 3.0 framework that provides a durable, competitive platform to support a business.
• What makes for good mortgage-backed securities.
• Problematic, separate systems and data silos that many loan companies create in the mortgage transaction.

Featured Speakers:
Rachel Jones
Vice President, Due Diligence Services
Digital Risk LLC

Craig Bechtle
Senior Vice President
MortgageFlex

Jim Morse
Vice President of Lending Information Technology
Virtual Bank

3:15 PM - 4:45 PM
Pre-Conference Workshop #2:
Surviving This Market: How to Manage IT and How the Technology Vendors Can Survive
The current downtrend is impacting all aspects of the mortgage industry. Management must adopt their IT departments to the new realities. Secondly, the mortgage technology vendors themselves must manage to survive.

• What areas are viable for reducing costs and what areas should be considered off limits
• When is the right time to invest in new technologies
• Recognize when you vendor is in trouble
• Dealing with an ailing vendor
• Vendors have to scale back costs, but where
• Increasing market share in a down market
• Where best to deploy capital if it's available
• What changes should be made

Featured Speakers:
Scott Cooley
Consultant
Cooley Consulting

Dave Matthews
SVP and CIO
Federal Home Loan Bank of Chicago

*Workshop fee is $99. Registered conference attendees only. Please see registration page for details.

5:00 PM - 5:45 PM
Keynote Address
Technology: Bringing Hope to the Current Market
Technology has infiltrated our rapidly changing industry, offering solutions that automate the numerous previously manual processes of the mortgage cycle. While automation can save time and money, true success comes from selecting and leveraging the right technologies that align with specific business objectives. Wachovia's Steve Daniels discusses the top five technology tools for today's market and explains how we, as an industry, can use--and not use--technology to bring about a profitable and secure tomorrow.

Steve Daniels
SVP and Director of National ELOC Operations
Wachovia Mortgage Corporation

5:45 PM - 7:00 PM
Opening Night Networking Reception