UPDATE: iA Strategy & Tech will be entirely virtual in 2020.
Hear from the sharpest minds in collections strategy.
Experience the newest in industry tech. No travel required.
Coming July 21-23.
You can't separate optimized strategy from tech.
That's why, at iA Strategy & Tech, you'll hear from credit and collections strategy experts with the broadest, most data-informed and practical points-of-view, plus you'll get to vet innovative, applicable new technology - all from your office or home.
Real, practical expertise
Combined with tech demos and digital networking
Hear from the experts who can help transform your strategy.
You don't want to spend one unnecessary cent on your accounts. Find out how evolving ideas in strategy, cutting-edge tactics and a sophisticated blend of technology can get you much, much closer to that ideal.
Speakers at this year's iAST will deliver deep, insightful strategy and tech expertise - with a strong emphasis on collections and recovery innovation and analytics. You'll get up-to-the-minute briefings on information / data management, batch processing, digital strategies, artificial intelligence, models, account prioritization, outsourcing strategies (near and off-shore) and much, much more.
Want to present? Make your case.
See the latest industry tech.
Need to know about new industry tech and how it could aid or transform your strategy? Get the insight you need to assess your technology options right here, where the latest in industry tech will be live on-stage.
iAST demo sessions are not canned presentations or PowerPoint wish fulfillment. Demoing companies must show their product in real time, which means you get to see how these solutions actually work.
We vet piles of demo applicants to find the newest, most practical or most transformative offerings. Get the industry-wide technology overview you need, all in one place. Does your tech belong on our stage? Make your case.
Learn more about applying to demo.
The conversations you want will be here.
You’ll join hundreds of senior executives in strategy, operations and tech from across credit and collections as well as tech experts from outside the industry with relevant ideas and insight. And you'll be able to connect with them through multiple digital channels.
Plus, attendees will have access to our networking app, which means that when you hear about or encounter new, potentially relevant tech, you can connect with the executives behind that tech immediately. You won’t find a more networked networking space in the industry.
The Agenda
Strategic Planning
We've designed a full set of panels to cover what you need to know to plan and make your case for innovation.
The Path to Innovation Part 1 - How to Gain Legal and Compliance Support
The first in a series of panels focused on how to drive large and small scale innovation. Along the innovation journey, the first step is understanding how to identify and mitigate risks in a way that garners legal and compliance support.
The Path to Innovation Part 2 - The Power of Influence
When the time comes to ask for money for a new strategy or technology, your business case is the differentiator. Learn how to build a case that will influence stakeholders to invest.
The Path to Innovation Part 3 - Building and Deploying Innovation
Getting approval to innovate is the first step, but the process from vendor selection to deployment can be a long journey. Hear what other leaders have learned on their own personal journeys to innovation.
Technology
We're curating a select group of organizations to bring you the latest new technology that supports your evolving strategies. See them demo live on stage (demos only, no Powerpoints, no marketing pitches), vote on what you think are the most impactful new applications, and meet on-site with those you want to learn more about.
The Core Disciplines
Our breakouts will cover the gamut of collections strategies. iAST is like a master class for analytics and strategy professionals -- and everyone who supports them.
Customer Modeling and Segmentation - Determining how to dissect your portfolio to get the highest return with the least amount of investment is at the heart of what we do in strategies. Hear the latest approaches here!
Data and Inventory Management - how to incrementally streamline your data infrastructure, with or without investment.
Judgment Strategies - Non-performing judgment strategies - how do we model better on the front end to reduce non-performing judgments on the back-end.
Debt Settlement - When to partner with them, how to do so efficiently and effectively, while also advocating for your consumer.
Integrating Treatment Strategies - Entry day strategy, intensity, blended strategies (letter, dialer, text, email, IVR, etc.).
Digital Collections - The latest in channel innovation, including controls, preference and multi-channel integration.
Debt Sales - Latest regulatory trends and strategies.
Elevating the Skip/Locate Game - There’s a great deal of inefficiency in the skip tracing process. Learn the latest the industry has to offer and how you can streamline without losing effectiveness.
Breaking Down Barriers to Consumer Self-Service - More and more consumers prefer to help themselves. We’ll discuss where the market is headed and the value of helping customers help themselves.
Modernizing Payments - New and modern payment methods have flooded the market. Find out how they’re being leveraged and what you have to gain.
- New Tech DemosBuckle up for the biggest, most efficient tech review you've ever conducted.
You'll see all the newest, most useful and most innovative industry tech and you'll get instant access to the teams behind that tech at iA Strategy & Tech 2020. See the actual tech. Make your own assessment!
Do you think you and your tech solution belong on-stage at iAST 2020? Apply today.
Who Should Attend
ANYONE working in credit and collections strategy, technology and analytics - from first-party to third-party and from consumer to commercial - belongs at iA Strategy & Tech.
- Executive/Head of Collections and Recovery
- Executive/Head of Credit Risk
- Head of Collections/Recovery Strategy and Analytics
- Operational Strategy and Execution Executives
- Director of Business Intelligence/Reporting
- Head of Collections/Recovery Operations
- Collections Strategists
- Dialer/Outbound Calling Manager
- Digital Collections Director
- Director of Financial Services
Manager of Financial Services
Chief Revenue Officer
Director/VP of Revenue Management or Cycle
Director/VP of Finance
Senior Manager Credit to Cash
Senior Manager Order to Cash
Senior/Junior Credit Analyst
- and more
How will you prepare for a new economic phase?
If you are working to reduce the cost to collect through improved efficiency and effectiveness, if you need to improve or benchmark the fundamental processes within your organization, and if you need to know if new tech might be the right tech to support these critical changes, this is the conference for you. The best part? It's all online. No need to leave the office.
Sponsorship at iA Strategy & Tech
You won't find a bigger, better, more engaged audience.
Connect with hundreds of strategy and analytics executives tasked with reducing the cost to collect through improved efficiency and effectiveness and with improving fundamental processes. They're looking to engage with new ideas and fresh data in strategy and they want to vet new tech solutions to support it. Is this your crowd? Get involved.Start-up?
Are you a small start-up looking for exposure in the credit and collections space? We're setting aside exhibit space just for you. Email us for more information.
Have something new?
Also, if your tech is ready for prime-time, please consider applying to demo at iAST 2020.
Platinum Sponsors
Silver Sponsors
Lunch Focus Group Sponsor
Networking App Sponsor
About iA Strategy & Tech
iA Strategy & Tech (virtual in 2020) is a new event from iA, the premier resource for handcrafted credit and collections news, analysis and events.
This event is a significant expansion and redesign of our long-standing and well-regarded conference, the First Party Summit. As strategy and technology became a bigger and bigger part of the Summit's agenda, we realized we had to give this event a much broader scope. Well, here it is. If you valued the content and engagement at the First Party Summit, you're going to love iA Strategy & Tech. We hope to see you online, July 21-23.
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