Web Seminar Replays

Vitality Strategies for a Thriving Career and Life In Today's Fast-Paced, High-Pressure Work Environment In today’s fast-paced, high-pressure work environment, sustaining both career success and personal well-being requires intentional strategies. This session will equip you with practical, science-backed approaches to manage stress, boost energy, and optimize recovery —so you can thrive at work and in life. Penny Foskaris is a nutritionist, anti-aging expert, longevity biohacker, and the creator of Red Light Pro Devices. She is also the founder of the LongevityRX System, a comprehensive wellness program taught to clinics across the United States. This system combines advanced testing, red light therapy, data-driven nutrition, targeted supplementation, stress-reduction modalities, and sleep optimization strategies to deliver rapid, lasting results. Her mission is simple: to help individuals extend their healthspan, optimize vitality, and age with strength and confidence.

Understanding Ratings in the Equipment Finance Industry Credit ratings play a critical role in shaping access to capital, funding costs, and long-term stability for equipment finance companies. In today’s shifting economic landscape — with higher interest rates, ongoing tariff impacts, and evolving capital structures — understanding how ratings work and what factors matter most is more important than ever. This webinar, hosted by ELFA in partnership with KBRA, will demystify the ratings process, explore current macroeconomic and industry trends, and provide insights into both corporate and ABS ratings. Attendees will hear directly from experts on the risks, opportunities, and innovations influencing creditworthiness in the equipment finance sector. Moderator: Valerie Gerard, The Alta Group Speakers: Van Hesser, KBRA Kenneth Martens, KBRA Michael Dodge, KBRA

ELFA's Innovation Experience: Leading AI Change Learn about the cutting edge of AI. This is our most intensive session yet, prerequisites include a technical background (Product or Engineering) OR having attended ALL four previous Innovation Lab Experience webinars. Read the tea leaves and place bets in conditions of uncertainty in the age of cutting edge AI. Learn about models as commodities (fact or fiction?), organizational data, structuring embeddings, and preparations for agentic AI. Become a technical thought-leader in your organization, with the ability to assist business executives navigating medium and long-term AI change. Speakers: Moto Tohda Vice President / IS Tokyo Century (USA) Inc. Ritchie Cotton Co-Founder CTO Valiant Finance Ping Du VP Product Valiant Finance

ELFA's Innovation Experience: Leading AI Change What is your organization's mindset on AI? After this webinar, you will be empowered with the tools you'll need to lead practical AI change in your organizations. This week's discussion will cover planning for the cost of AI, the risks of moving too quickly, organizational prerequisites for AI, preparing your colleagues and staff for AI change, and more. A practical demonstration will show how to rapidly turn an idea into a prototype using AI tools. Gain a competitive advantage with an AI mindset! Speakers: Moto Tohda Vice President / IS Tokyo Century (USA) Inc. Ritchie Cotton Co-Founder CTO Valiant Finance

Economic Outlook: What Q3 Means for the Equipment Finance Industry Join us for a one-hour webinar and Q A session focused on the current state of the U.S. economy and what it means for the equipment finance industry. Delivered by Jeff Jensen, Partner at Keybridge Research, this session will provide attendees with the latest industry-relevant data and break down the key economic and public policy developments that will shape the industry landscape over the remainder of the year, including tariffs, Fed policy, labor markets, inflation, and industry-relevant implications of the recent tax law. Whether you're a lender, lessor, or service provider, this webinar will provide the insights you need to stay informed and proactive in today’s shifting market.

ELFA's Innovation Experience: Strategic Applications in Equipment Finance Hear what's here now and what's on the horizon for AI adoption with the top 3 Equipment Finance value chain segments ripe for disruption and how it may play out. Our guest speaker will discuss some real examples, from credit decisioning, AI agents, or regulations and complaints handling. After a showcase of day-to-day applications of AI in financial services and a practical demonstration of Valiant Workbench, you'll surely be motivated to discover and apply AI use-cases, both immediate and future, in your own Equipment Finance value chain.

ELFA's Innovation Experience: 100x Executives In this second webinar of the series, experts Ritchie Cotton and Ping Du from Valiant Finance will provide an overview of AI’s abilities to play the role of an executive’s thought partner, research assistant, content generator and coach, as well as how it works, its strengths and limitations, guiding principles, and practical tips. There will be a practical demonstration of setting up multiple AI personas including ‘the customer’, ‘the regulator’, ‘the team member’, and ‘the partner’. There will also be an in-session prompt-along to help develop your own executive AI persona!

In the first webinar of our Innovation Experience webinar series, experts Ritchie Cotton and Ping Du from Valiant Finance will demystify GenAI and help build your confidence and skill for daily usage. The webinar will also include a practical demonstration and in-session prompt-along on how to effectively instruct LLMs to perform tasks, from the simple to the complex. You will also learn common data privacy pitfalls to be aware of when using AI.

Elevate Your Mental Wellness We're excited to welcome back Dung Trinh, MD, whose 2024 session sparked real lifestyle changes for many. He returns with insights on emotional and physical health, plus an update on Alzheimer's research. Joining him is Dr. Yoshio Takashima, PhD, a neuroscientist and performance coach, who will guide us through strategies to rewire the brain, manage stress, and elevate performance.

Join ELFA's Kyle Alexandre, VP of State Government Relations and presenters Andrew Alper, Frandzel Robins Bloom Csato, L.C., and Adeline Tungate, Buchalter, for a discussion on the SB 1286 Rosenthal Amendments. The Rosenthal Fair Debt Collection Practices Act is a California equivalent to the FDCPA and prohibits creditors from engaging in unfair or deceptive acts or practices in the collection of consumer debts. Senate Bill 1286 (SB 1286) expands the Rosenthal Act to include not only consumer debts, but certain "Covered Commercial Credit Transactions" as well. These amendments go into effect on July 1, 2025. Our panel of experts will discuss these amendments, how the Rosenthal Act differs from FDCPA, what debt is now covered under Rosenthal, prohibited conduct, disclosures, and much more.

Join us for a timely briefing that unpacks the current political and policy landscape surrounding tariffs and trade. We'll cut through the noise in Washington to provide a clear-eyed view of where things stand and where they may be heading. Then we'll turn the lens inward: what did past rounds of tariffs actually mean for equipment finance providers, lessors, and their customers? What lessons should industry players keep in mind if (or when) new tariffs roll out? Whether you're bracing for impact or just trying to read the tea leaves, this session offers a candid look at how tariffs move from policy to economic reality—and how your business can stay one step ahead.

Flexible Capital Meets ABL Lending: A Growing Market Opportunity In this session leading professionals examine the intersection of flexible capital and asset-based lending - a significant trend reshaping the private credit landscape. Topics include: Market size and type of assets being financed Headwinds and tailwinds for the market The role of banks and private credit firms - competition or cooperation? Investing in commercial assets as a portfolio diversification

"Money has Rules!” and The Rules are A-Changing! A discussion on how syndication is changing and AI will be helping. When economic and technology macro trends align in a way that each supports the other, the result is an innovative overhaul of daily life. Moore’s Law generating exponentially lower cost computing serving the massive selling throughput of Internet-driven ecommerce is one such example. A similar change is coming to equipment finance with the expansion of private capital as a funding source bringing a tremendous diversity of “credit rules” in the technological context of AI-driven improvements in capital markets workflow speed and precision driving unprecedented growth in the asset-based financing. This panel of capital markets practitioners will discuss how private capital is changing the ecosystem of funding and the rules of syndication for sellers. They will discuss how this new money is bringing new rules for credit box definitions, data transparency, and ongoing reporting. They will discuss their experiences using consolidated data warehousing to support faster, more accurate, and more precise workflows as well as how the deployment of AI prediction for both buyer-matching and risk management is expected to be a critical tool for capital markets teams in the near future.

Every company has data. Regardless of whether it is being collected in the obvious places, or scattered across multiple locations, you have data. The question is what data do I really collect, how do I organize it and then what in the world do I do with it? This webinar is designed to help you figure out the answers to those questions, and in turn put that data to use to grow your business, make decisions about your future, and ultimately drive revenue. As ELFA member companies look to each other for guidance, ELFA’s Service Provider Business Council Steering Committee is pleased to present a conversation regarding Data, and how to use it.

This session will delve into the latest tools and technologies to drive marketing victories, explore effective strategies to scale your marketing efforts and provide an interactive Q A segment to address all your burning questions.

Since early this year, various equipment markets have been performing differently. This mid-year update will review the general findings of the original survey—set the table, so to speak—and provide a brief economic forecast, as well as present market updates for selected equipment types through the remainder of 2024.

Dr. Trinh, Renowned Expert in Brain Health, delves into key topics related to brain health and well-being. In this informative session, Dr Trinh provides valuable insights and practical tips on the following topics: Nutrition for Brain Health Preventive Measures for a Healthy Mind Overcoming Sleeping Disorders Reducing the Risk of Alzheimer's

The MAC Protocol is a treaty that provides an international legal framework for the financing of MAC (Mining, Agricultural, and Construction) equipment with the goal of increasing global investment and productivity in the mining, agriculture, and construction sectors. The Protocol allows financiers to provide credit in some countries where they are currently unable to do so. In other countries, the MAC Protocol would allow financiers to provide credit at a lower cost. Increasing the availability and lowering the cost of credit will give entities in the MAC sectors better access to high value, technologically advanced equipment.