A peer-led conversation with community bank leaders on how they're leveraging technology to improve efficiency, empower employees, and scale — without losing what makes them different.
What's Inside
This isn't a vendor pitch. It's an unscripted conversation between community bank leaders who are actively solving the same challenges your team faces — and they share exactly how they're doing it.
Eliminating Manual Workflows
Practical steps to identify and remove friction from internal processes so your team can focus on relationships, not repetitive tasks.
Making Technology Actually Stick
How to evaluate, adopt, and train staff on tools that get used — not tools that collect dust after rollout.
Empowering Your People
The management philosophy that gets staff bought in, builds trust through transparency, and turns teams into advocates for change.
Scaling With a Growth Mindset
Why community banks that aren't growing are falling behind — and how to approach expansion without sacrificing what makes you different.
Keeping the Community Focus
How to deploy modern technology while preserving the personal touch and local decision-making that defines community banking.
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From the Panelists
Technology should be a forced multiplier — it should do things to take things off of human beings' plates so human beings can do things they're good at.
Darren Gragg
Chairman, President & CEO — Bennington State Bank
If you involve your staff in what's going on and they see the direction you're heading — you're going to build that trust with them rather than just coming in and saying, this is what we're doing.
Sheila Weaver
Operations, IT & Compliance Officer — Security State Bank
The Panel
Darren Gragg
Chairman, President & CEO
Bennington State Bank
Sheila Weaver
Operations, IT & Compliance Officer
Security State Bank
Paul Loftus
Chief Executive Officer
ASI
