Having an effective tech strategy is not just a nice-to-have for your business; it’s crucial to achieving long-term business goals, serving customers and spearheading scalable growth. It’s essential to optimize your company’s strategy before competition leaves you behind. In this livestream, we will unpack the ‘you don’t know what you don’t know’ adage and discuss how important it is for your quest for information to be a part of your everyday process.
This livestream will leave you with a playbook on how to align your strategy with the right technology and how to encourage your team to adopt and implement new technology that will boost productivity and make employees’ lives easier.
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Innovative leaders in our industry and beyond are taking action to build future-ready teams. All too often, innovation is equated with technology, but there’s much more to it. Innovation is all about solving problems to improve the human experience. While tech is often involved as an enabler, it always takes humans to bring awesome solutions to life.
Is it possible to systematize innovation? What does it take to build a continuous innovation capability? There is a lot of talk about the importance of building an innovative culture and we hear about open floor plans, co-location, virtual collaboration and on and on. But culture is beyond what happens at the water cooler or in the breakroom. In a world that is changing rapidly, it is vital for resilient and future-ready teams to intentionally build both culture and capability that enables innovation.
The human side of innovation cannot be ignored. But what does it take to build up your team to be future-ready? How do you foster an innovation culture? What does that even mean? More importantly, what does it look like in practice and what are the practical actions we can take day-to-day?
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We are more connected than any other time in history. And that connectivity continues to mature exponentially. In fact, 90% of the world’s data was created over the past two years. We are now living in the early stage of what is known as Industry 4.0 or the fourth wave of the industry. And, unlike its predecessors, this fourth stage of the industrial revolution knows no boundaries. It’s evolving at an exponential rate rather than a linear pace. One example of Industry 4.0 that we can all relate to is what the market calls IoT – or the internet of things. There’s a growing network of internet-enabled and connected devices that we use every day: mobile devices, fitness trackers, security systems, refrigerators, farm machinery, automobiles, etc.
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Moderated by Monitor Editorial Board Member Sohini Roy this Live+ Event featured Dr. Elliot Eisenberg’s presentation designed to provide an overview of the current economic climate, covering GDP, the impact of labor force shortages and inflation, and how the actions of the Fed could impact the economy.
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Moderated by Deborah Reuben of TomorrowZone, this Live+ Event features panelists Brian Mohr of Anthym, Nick Fong of AP Equipment Finance, Naomi Kool and Alex Scepansky of DLL Group. The event featured a detailed discussion of how to effectively facilitate digital collaboration, looking at not only technology but human aspects as well. The panel talked about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to digital collaboration and how to create the safety required for teams to communicate and collaborate effectively.
In part two of “Monitor Live+: Syndicating Like it’s 1999? Unpacking and Overcoming the Mindset of a Resistant Culture” moderated by Greg Thompson of nCino and featuring panelists Alistair Canal of Syndifi, Marci L. Slagle, CLFP of BankFinancial, Shari Williams of Nexseer Capital and Chris Pagano of Mitsubishi HC Capital America. The event featured a detailed discussion of the concerns about digitization and its potential to impact important facets of syndication, such as security, entrenched processes and more.
To celebrate Women’s Month, Monitor and Odessa are partnering to deliver a special conversation with Candice Matthews Brackeen, General Partner of Lightship Capital, where she finds and funds high growth, minority-led companies operating in underserved ecosystems throughout the Midwest.
Launched in 2020, Lightship Capital is raising $50 million for investment into underrepresented founders operating in the CPG, e-commerce, sustainability, artificial intelligence, and healthcare spaces. Brackeen is also the founder and CEO at Lightship Foundation, the inclusion-focused entrepreneur enrichment program guiding minority founders with instruction in product development, brand building, leveraging artificial intelligence for business and fundraising.
Brackeen expands upon her work driving representation in innovation with her role on the Lunar Surface Innovation Consortium for NASA, where she leads diversity of thought as new cultures and economies are developed. She also sits on the advisory committee and selection committees for technology for the Ohio State University and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Medical Center, ensuring that as technology is commercialized from these entities, diversity is at the forefront of decision making.
A panel of experts in sales, credit, products and transparency discuss how to make necessary changes that will ensure the health of your company for years to come. The panel covers the following topics: a practical definition of innovation and what it can mean to your company, real-world examples of innovation inside and outside of equipment finance, understanding the importance of empathy to change behaviors and create innovation, focusing innovation on your organization and customers and key actions and cultural characteristics that foster innovation in your organization.
In part two of “Monitor Live+: Thinking BIG: Reimagining the Leasing Product?” With the help of moderator Denis Stypulkoski, panelists Larry Scherzer of Cisco Capital, Mike McKie of LEAF Commercial Capital, Kathy Canum of Canon Financial Services, Courtney Dioguardi of Innovation Finance and Sumandeep Kaur of Odessa discussed the reshaping of the leasing product, how companies are positioning themselves to deliver on their visions and how the industry is preparing to respond to inevitable future disruptions. Thank you to our exclusive sponsor Odessa.
In part one of “Monitor Live+: Thinking BIG: Reimagining the Leasing Product?” With the help of moderator Denis Stypulkoski, panelists Larry Scherzer of Cisco Capital, Mike McKie of LEAF Commercial Capital, Kathy Canum of Canon Financial Services, Courtney Dioguardi of Innovation Finance and Jeff Lezinski of Odessa discussed the reshaping of the leasing product and the leasing industry and industry trends shaping a paradigm shift. Thank you to our exclusive sponsor Odessa.
This livestream takes a deep dive into the trenches of the current syndication model in equipment finance. We address the history of syndication in our industry, the current state and the potential future. The livestream discusses the opportunity to impact change in syndication, simplify the process and introduce operational effectiveness to the secondary market of equipment finance. We address: the current syndication process, industry trends, pain points faced in the marketplace, resistance to change within the secondary market of equipment finance, updating the transition model to compete in the digital age, opportunities within the day to day operations of syndication, solutions to solve the antiquated day to day model and the modern & future syndication process.
In this lively panel discussion, we discuss the equipment finance industry from the perspective of our next generation of leaders. We’ve assembled some of the best of the best young leaders to discuss topics like how to attract brand new talent out of colleges & universities, the importance of developing our young talent for future leadership roles, creating environments which provide meaning and purpose, diversity and inclusion and what our young people want from their leaders.
In this panel discussion, equipment finance leaders discuss the evolving needs of today’s equipment finance professionals. If we learned anything from the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s that our people are resilient, adaptable and without a doubt, our most important and valuable asset. We’ll cover topics regarding technology, diversity & inclusion, today’s remote and/or hybrid workplace and caring about the “whole” person.
This livestream addresses the following questions: has the COVID-19 pandemic made businesses more agile? What changes have occurred to business models, go to market strategies and team working models? What are the challenges of adopting a more agile approach? The best ways to implement change with a team such as fail fast and try again. The key benefits of agility, including customer intimacy and new market opportunities.
This livestream addresses the following questions: has the COVID-19 pandemic made businesses more agile? What changes have occurred to business models, go to market strategies and team working models? What are the challenges of adopting a more agile approach? The best ways to implement change with a team such as fail fast and try again. The key benefits of agility, including customer intimacy and new market opportunities.
This livestream will discuss the reshaping of the leasing product and the leasing industry. How Are Companies Positioning Themselves to Deliver on Their Visions? How Is the Industry Preparing to Respond to Inevitable Future Disruptions?
This livestream will discuss the reshaping of the leasing product and the leasing industry. What Industry Trends Are Shaping a Paradigm Shift? How Are EF Companies Envisioning a Reimagined Leasing Product and Reimagined Leasing Industry?
This livestream takes a deep dive into current and future technology trends in the equipment finance industry. A panel of leaders discuss the necessity of e-signature, evolving self service portals and machine learning in the post-pandemic environment. The panel covers the shifts in demand and reallocation of resources that they have experienced in their technology journeys this year.
In this livestream, economist Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D. outlines what the 2020 post-election results mean for the U.S. economy. Learn how potential shifts in the White House and Congress affect the policies that matter most to the equipment finance industry. Eisenberg also addresses the Supreme Court and its potential to influence the economy.
These 50-minute livestreams provide opportunities to learn about service providers in the equipment finance industry! Learn about each company’s offerings during a 30-minute presentation and get live answers to your questions during a 20-minute Q&A.
The panel discusses how technology adoption has become more important than ever during the global pandemic as well as the following topics: using technology to meet the needs of a remote workforce and customers, supporting business development with technology, the various types of technology our industry is adopting, the impact of accelerated technology adoption on our industry and their vision for the future of equipment finance.
Diane Croessmann, Director, The Alta Group; Vince Belcastro, Group Head Syndications & Capital Markets at Element Fleet Management; and William Perry, President at Regions Equipment Finance Corp, discuss a variety of topics, including: technology adoption during the pandemic, the future of equipment finance, capital expenditure trends, ongoing technology trends, taking care of employees and addressing customer needs.
In this livestream, moderator Robert Moskovitz, Chief Financial Officer at Verdant Commercial Capital, interviews economist Elliot Eisenberg, Ph.D. about the depth of the recession and the road to recovery.
In this livestream, Monitor tackles the lack of Black representation in equipment finance by speaking with African American leaders to not only hear their perspectives but to create a launching pad to generate more opportunities for inclusion, leadership and career advancement for Black members of the industry.
As we return to a “risk on” atmosphere, this livestream event will check in on the current and forecasted forms of risk from insurance to interest rates, pricing to provisioning as well as credit and reputational risk.
As the terminations of many of the 90-day deferral periods are rapidly approaching, the panel discusss the next steps and best practices for equipment finance companies as we dig out from the pandemic. Attendees learn about intricacies in play, including a legal perspective on bankruptcy law, collections and repossessions.
