Take your career to the next level with our Ottawa Mortgage Symposium—a must-attend event crafted for mortgage professionals who want to stay ahead. Dive into the latest industry insights and gain practical strategies to conquer business challenges, find fresh solutions, and uncover new opportunities for growth.
Explore our trade show, where companies showcase cutting-edge products and services, giving you an exclusive look at the latest innovations in the marketplace. Don’t miss this unique chance to connect, learn, and elevate your expertise! This event will be presented in English.
Continuing Education Units for AMPs, AMPCs, and PMPCs: Attendees earn 4 CEUs (1 Compulsory Unit, 3 Professional Development Units).
More details to come!
Upcoming Event:
February 4, 2025
Infinity Convention Centre
2901 Gibford Drive
Gloucester, ON K1V 2L9
$125 Members
$175 Non-Members
Registration opening soon!
NOTE: $30 extra for onsite registrations.
Sponsored by:
Joe Jacobs and Lauren van den Berg, MPC
Opening Remarks & Association Update
Hear from Chair Joe Jacobs and President & CEO Lauren van den Berg as they provide an update on the association’s activities including recent government relations initiatives.
Brenna Charles, FCT
Riding the Renewal and Refinance Wave
With over 3 million Canadians having a mortgage up for renewal in the next year, we’ll take a deep dive into those renewal cycles and best practices to ensure your client’s switches and refinances go smoothly. In this session, we’ll review best practices in approaching common challenges, new tools to facilitate better closing, and how to support your clients through to close.
Reuven Gorsht, Deeded
The AI-Powered Broker
In this dynamic presentation, we will explore the role of AI in the mortgage industry, with a focus on practical tips and demonstrations that mortgage professionals can immediately implement into their businesses. The increasing demand for speed, efficiency, and personalized experiences in the mortgage sector necessitates a closer look at AI-powered solutions, that goes beyond practical theory and debating if AI will replace the broker. Rather, the AI-powered broker is someone who is equipped with the best technologies and can scale their business exponentially by being more efficient and competitive.
Reuven is the Co-Founder and CEO of Deeded, the leading Canadian digital home closing platform. Deeded is re-imagining the real estate closing experience, removing the friction, frustration, and delays involved with closing on a home or mortgage. Prior to Deeded, Reuven co-founded MoveSnap, a real estate technology company, which was acquired in 2018. Reuven spent 15+ years working with top Fortune 500 companies, leading their innovation and customer experience strategies. He holds business and human resources degrees and is an alumnus of Harvard Business School.
Jill Moellering, Mortgage Architects
Not Every File
Not every file will fund, should fund or deserves to fund with you. Jill will delve into client psychology to help you navigate rate shoppers, declines and saying no. Creating a do not do list and how to identify those files earlier on in your process, when to cut your losses and save your time for the files that do work. As well as identifying a few sales techniques to help you close more leads.
Jill Moellering is just another mortgage agent, she puts her work sweats on one leg at a time. She started in this industry in 2018 and quickly grew her business convincing hundreds of people to provide her with all of their personal identifying documentation. In addition to running an award winning business personally, she also mentors and coaches a team of agents and contributes regularly on industry facebook forums; particularly the newbie mortgage professionals page of which she is a founding admin. She has presented at numerous MPC New Agent Symposiums, is on the AMBA Board of Directors, runs a successful underwriting training course (The Mortgage Nerd) and is a 2022 and 2023 Women of Influence.
Antoinette Leung, FSRA
Regulatory Update
The Financial Services Regulatory Authority will provide an update on the latest in provincial regulation.
Chris Graham, Tell People
Keynote: Your Story Changes Everything
If someone asked, “Why should I trust you?”, what would you say? Stories about yourself are an effective way to establish trust and build meaningful relationships with clients and colleagues. After all—people form meaningful relationships with other people, not their work product. But what can you say about yourself? How do you know which parts of your life are interesting? Is it OK to be funny? Should you be vulnerable? Chris Graham, head of speaker coaching at TEDxToronto, answers these questions using the same tools used by successful TEDx speakers.
Reuven Gorsht
Deeded
Jill Moellering
Mortgage Architects
Chris Graham
TellPeople
Don't forget to join us for our reception on February 12 from 5:30 PM - 7:00 PM at the Infinity Convention Centre!
To reserve your hotel room at the Homewood Suites by Hilton Ottawa Airport, 3605 Paul Anka Drive, visit www.homewoodsuites.com, enter Ottawa as the city, select your check-in and check-out dates, followed by selecting the special rate codes button and enter MPC in the group code section.
Or, please call (613) 248-1113 and be sure to identify yourself as being with Mortgage Professionals Canada in order to qualify for the group rate.
$191 per night
Cut-off date: January 24, 2024
