Accelerate 2025
Forging Human Connections in a Digital World
Accelerate 2025 brought together industry leaders, innovators, and visionaries to redefine what’s possible in our industry—where AI has already shifted how we engage customers, create and deliver content, and enhance our workflows. Now, it’s time to turn the momentum from those conversations, insights, and ideas into actions that deliver impact for your organization and your customers.

From vision to value
An AI Sales Assistant that’s not all talk
Accelerate opening session
Total Expert Founder & CEO Joe Welu set the tone for this year’s event with a powerful vision for the future of customer engagement in an AI-enhanced world—one that will be defined by organizations that deliver authenticity, personalization, and empathy at scale. In his keynote, Joe explored emerging market forces shaping financial institutions, the evolving expectations of modern consumers, and the pivotal role that technology will play in helping organizations form human connections through every touchpoint.
Industry insights with HousingWire CEO Clayton Collins
Joe Welu sat down with Clayton Collins, CEO of HousingWire, for an unfiltered look at the forces shaping the housing and mortgage landscape. Together, they explored AI’s role in the industry—and whether it’s a true revolution or just another piece of flashy tech—and discussed how leading organizations are adapting, investing, and positioning themselves for the next market cycle. Clayton brings a unique macro-level perspective from his vantage point across housing, real estate, mortgage, and lending that adds much needed context to the FinTech conversation.
Platform innovations and product roadmap
Our Chief Product Officer Pete Karns and Director of Product Integrations and Innovations Mike Russell took the stage with a colossal collection of platform updates, product demos, and real results. Together, they walked through our platform roadmap and held a real-time conversation with our AI Sales Assistant to show how it navigates a conversation with customers, collecting information, qualifying opportunities, and determining when it’s time to connect the customer with a human representative. But that was just one part of our continued efforts to help organizations deepen their engagement, supercharge sales teams, and scale intelligently. From next-generation integrations to agent-assistive AI features, this session previews the tools that will define the future of your customer experience.
Reflections on Accelerate 2025
And the Expy goes to...
Congratulations to all our Expy Award winners this year! See a full list of this year's winners and see how their innovative use of Total Expert earned them the honor.
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The ABCs of Accelerate
To close out Accelerate 2025, we asked attendees to describe their experience in one word or phrase, then we compiled their responses into “The ABCs of Accelerate. The result is a vibrant mosaic that celebrates the event, the energy, and the community of amazing people we’re lucky enough to call our colleagues friends.
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