Name: Bank Innovation Lab
Start: 2026-06-03T14:00:00-0400
End: 2026-06-03T15:15:00-0400

Welcome to the 2026 CDBA Peer Forum website! Thank you for attending the largest annual gathering of CDFI, MDI, and other mission-focused bank representatives.

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Please contact us at [email protected] if you have any questions.

We’d like to thank our growing list of 2026 Sponsors:
Diamond: IntraFi; FICO; Baker Tilly US, LLP; FICO
Gold: Banc Consulting Partners; Sones & White
Silver: American Bankers Association; HelloBello Financial; Mission Driven Bank Fund; Independent Community Bankers of America
Bronze: Smiley Technologies, Inc.; National Community Investment Fund; Regions Bank; Holman Capital; BNY; Jones Walker; RBC Global Asset Management; Wellthi Technologies; C8 Capital Network; Paul, Weiss
Friend: Community Funding Advisors; TrustPlus; FASTPACE; Renasant Bank; Prosprous AI; Wells Fargo; Logue Advisory Group; FUND Consulting; Performance Trust; Cashy; Nelson Mullins; Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Supporter Plus: RiskExec
Supporter: Conference of State Bank Supervisors; Goldman Sachs; Abrigo
Please reach out to us if you are interested in becoming a sponsor to learn more about sponsorship benefits.

Here’s the Peer Forum at a glance:

Advocacy Day and Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception: Tuesday, June 2, 2026
Peer Forum Conference: Wednesday, June 3rd, 2026 and Thursday, June 4, 2026
Meeting Location: National Housing Center (NHC) Auditorium at:
1201 15th St NW, 1st floor, Washington, DC 20005
Attire: Business casual for all Peer Forum activities

Hotel Information: The National Housing Center is located in downtown, Washington D.C., within walking distance of a variety of hotels offering rooms at a wide range of price points. We invite you to explore some of the options in our “Hotel Options List.” Please note that CDBA has not arranged a room block at any individual hotels for this event.

If you have any questions or concerns regarding Advocacy Day, please email Jack Dunn at [email protected]

Schedule:

June 2: Advocacy Day and Pre-Conference Cocktail Reception
June 3: Sessions from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET
- Cocktail reception at 6:00 pm ET followed by dinner at 7:30 pm ET at Del Mar
June 4: Sessions from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm ET

Bank Innovation Lab

Wednesday June 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT

National Housing Center (NHC) Auditorium

An interactive session highlighting innovative products, partnerships, and platforms serving community development banks.

Speaker

Sarah Oliva

vice president of network partnerships, Cari Network

Sarah Oliva is vice president of network partnerships at Cari Network, where she leads the company’s bank partnership strategy and ecosystem development efforts for Cari’s blockchain-enabled tokenized deposit network. In this role, she helps connect the regulated banking... Read More →

Eugene Ludwig

Founder, Ludwig Institute for Shared Economic Prosperity

The Honorable Eugene A. Ludwig was the 27th Comptroller of the Currency and is a business and civic leader and expert on banking, regulation, risk management, and fiscal policy. He is a sought-after thought leader whose work has been published in the Financial Times, the New York... Read More →

Tom Mongellow

President & CEO, Connecticut Bankers Association

Tom Mongellow is the President & CEO of the Connecticut Bankers Association. During his more than 30 years with the CBA, he has worked in multiple executive capacities and assumed his current role in 2019. He oversees the CBA’s efforts to represent the financial institutions... Read More →

Derek Higginbotham

Founder, Stitch Bank

Derek Higginbotham is the former CEO of one of the top-performing fintech sponsor banks in the U.S. During his tenure the bank scaled annual lending from $1 billion to $14 billion. Today at Stitch, Derek is working with community banks and CDFIs to leverage fintech products safely... Read More →

Dave Glaser

EVP Community Lending, Stitch Bank

Dave Glaser is a finance and community development leader with more than 20 years of experience aligning capital with purpose. He was previously president and chief executive officer of MoFi, a community development financial institution headquartered in Montana, where he led the... Read More →

Craig Maughan

Stitch Bank

Craig Maughan is a strategic business and operations leader in community banking with experience spanning finance, strategy, and organizational scaling. He has held senior operating roles in financial companies where he focused on execution, growth strategy, and cross-functional... Read More →

Vance Smiley

Founder, System61

Vance Smiley is founder of System61, a new cloud-native platform that enables progressive banks to launch unique mobile and web products . He previously spent 15 years leading a family-owned business, Smiley Technologies, Inc., that builds and services core banking technology solutions... Read More →

Jeff Humiston

President, System61

Jeff is president of System61, a new cloud-native platform that enables progressive banks to launch unique mobile and web products. Prior to System61, Jeff held leadership roles in strategy and corporate law, primarily in the telecommunications industry. Jeff holds a bachelor’s... Read More →

Jahi Wise

Executive Director, Southern Communities Initiative

Jahi Wise is executive director of Southern Communities Initiative. He previously served as acting director of the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund at the Environmental Protection Agency and as special assistant to the president in the Biden administration, advising on finance... Read More →

Tom Simpson

Co-Founder & General Counsel, Deposit Coin

Thomas M. Simpson is a co-founder and general counsel of Deposit Coin, a patent-pending stablecoin infrastructure platform designed to unlock FDIC-insured digital dollars by connecting banks, issuers, and exchanges in a compliant, capital-efficient model. He has more than 15 years... Read More →

Brendon Kinney

Director, Sales and Customer Experience, Neighborhood Trust

Brendon oversees revenue and portfolio growth across Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners’ flagship financial wellness solutions: TrustPlus and Pathways to Financial Empowerment. In his 10 years with Neighborhood Trust, he has supported programming implementation for partner organizations of all shapes and sizes, from local businesses with a handful of employees to financial institutions and corporations with a presence in virtually every state. He is... Read More →

Tom Nida

Community Development Banking Institute

Tom Nida's banking career dates back to 1967 as a college freshman and has been centered on community development and banking for the past 40 years. During that time, he has organized a successful downtown revitalization program; preserved a Civil War battlefield site;   founded... Read More →

Colin Bishopp

CEO, FASTPACE

Colin Bishopp is the CEO of FASTPACE, the infrastructure platform powering small-balance and middle-market C-PACE lending for CDFIs and other mission-aligned capital providers. Before founding FASTPACE, Colin served as executive director of PACENation, where he helped grow C-PACE... Read More →

Wednesday June 3, 2026 2:00pm - 3:15pm EDT
National Housing Center (NHC) Auditorium

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