SARATOGA, CA (July 21, 2026) |
CULytics, North America's leading credit union data, analytics, and AI advisory community and consultancy, today announced the full agenda for CULytics Day 2026, a virtual conference taking place Tuesday, August 18, 2026. Complimentary registration is open to credit union professionals at events.culytics.com/culytics-day-2026.
This year's theme, “The AI-Augmented CU Data and Analytics Professional,” reflects a shift already underway across the industry. For years, data and analytics professionals were measured by the quality of their reporting and dashboards. Today, they are increasingly being asked whether they can govern AI systems their institution did not build, enable leaders to make faster decisions without sacrificing accountability, and prepare their organizations, and their own careers, for a future where AI is part of nearly every decision.
“The industry has spent the last several years discussing what AI can do,” said Naveen Jain, Founder and CEO of CULytics. “The more pressing question now is what AI requires from the people responsible for data, governance, and decision-making. That is the conversation CULytics Day is built to advance.”
CULytics Day has already drawn strong engagement from the industry's largest institutions. Nine of the top 20 U.S. credit unions by asset size, and 23 of the NCUA Top 50, had at least one staff member register for CULytics Day 2025. Thirty-eight of last year's registering institutions held $5 billion or more in assets, reflecting the event's reach among the credit unions doing the most complex AI and data work.
Sessions Throughout the Day
Throughout CULytics Day 2026, sessions will examine the changing responsibilities of the AI-augmented analytics professional, including:
- How business intelligence is evolving from reporting performance to enabling decisions.
- What credit union executives are really telling their teams about AI, workforce transformation, and the future of analytics roles.
- Why organizational decision rights, not data quality alone, often determine whether AI creates business value.
- How practitioners can build the data foundations that allow AI initiatives to generate measurable growth instead of isolated experiments.
- Lessons from adjacent industries that have already navigated the shift from traditional analytics to AI-enabled work.
- Which technical and human skills will become more valuable as AI automates routine analytical tasks.
- How credit unions can responsibly govern vendor AI platforms, agentic systems, and third-party models they neither built nor fully control.
The program brings together credit union CEOs, senior executives, department heads and staff, and analytics and AI leaders alongside practitioners navigating these questions from inside their own organizations.
CULytics Day 2026 is designed for professionals responsible for data-driven strategy and decision-making, including Chief Financial, Marketing, Operations, Data, Information, and Technology Officers; analytics, AI, and innovation leaders; data scientists and engineers; and risk and governance leaders shaping how their institutions adopt AI.
Registration is complimentary for credit union professionals. The full agenda and registration are available at events.culytics.com/culytics-day-2026.