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GENERAL SESSION: State of AI - Use Case Demos, Policy Priorities, Operational Realities

Friday, May 16, 2025 8:30 AM-10:00 AM
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Don't miss this State of Mortgage AI super session with lending and fintech perspectives on operationalizing AI safely, and AI use cases that are having the most impact right now. This lively format features panel discussion interspersed with fast live demos so you can see how AI is being deployed today by lenders and servicers. Come get eyes on the latest in lender/servicer AI products and get up to speed on how AI is rewiring the tech stack overall. Discussion includes delineating generative AI from decisioning AI for operations and compliance, how generative AI can (or shouldn't) reset tech development priorities, rethinking human-in-the-loop workflows in AI context, and more!

Speakers

Introductions

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    Alisha Sears

    Director, Regulatory Counsel, Mortgage Bankers Association

    Alisha Sears is Director and Regulatory Counsel in the Residential Policy and Strategic Industry Engagement Department at the Mortgage Bankers Association. Sears covers legal issues, trends in litigation, and regulatory compliance matters, and staffs the Legal Issues and Regulatory Compliance Committee and the Regulatory Compliance Subcommittee. Prior to joining the MBA, Sears was with the Conference of State Bank Supervisors (CSBS). Sears is a member of the Maryland State Bar Association, the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee, and Women in Housing and Finance.

    • Moderator

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    Julian Hebron

    Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Basis Point

    Julian Hebron is founder of The Basis Point, a sales and strategy consultancy to banks, lenders, and fintechs, and a consumer finance media brand. He advises top innovators in lending, banking, and housing on their most important and complex issues. With over 25 years in executive sales and marketing roles for companies like UBS, Wells Fargo, loanDepot, and LendUS -- as well as today's fintech disruptors -- Julian’s accessible analytical style distills the noisy consumer finance and real estate space into clear insights that banking, housing, and fintech leaders can relate to.

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    Theo Ellis

    CEO, Friday Harbor

    Ellis is CEO and Co-Founder of Friday Harbor, a mortgage technology company that emerged from the Allen Institute for AI in Seattle. Friday Harbor ensures clean files from the start by putting the knowledge of an expert underwriter into the hands of the loan officer. Previously, Ellis was VP of Growth for Altisource Portfolio Solutions, and Head of Growth, US at consumer credit AI/ML pioneer Pagaya Technologies. Ellis joined Pagaya Technologies as one of the first US employees and led the launch of multiple new business verticals prior to the company's $8.5bn Nasdaq public listing. Earlier in his career he worked at PIMCO and McKinsey and Co.

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    Christopher McEntee

    Vice President, Corporate Development, ICE

    McEntee is responsible for Mergers and Acquisitions and corporate development at ICE Mortgage Technology. He started at ICE in 2011 as Senior Director of Corporate Development. Prior to joining ICE, McEntee worked at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Atlanta as a Director and managed the marketing of wholesale lending products, supported new product development and the affordable housing grant program. McEntee began his career as a financial journalist at The Bond Buyer and was the National Editor until 1999. McEntee currently serves as the Vice Chairman of the Mortgage Industry Standards Maintenance Organization (MISMO) and is on the board of MERSCORP Holdings, Inc.

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