Media Advisory: The Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) will host the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator Program 11 Showcase on July 23, 2026 at the Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC) in Boulder, Colo. During the event, community bank leaders will engage with growth-stage, bank-enabling fintechs and vote on the solution that best helps community banks flourish.
What: ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator Program 11 Showcase, the culmination of a 10-week collaborative program connecting fintech companies with community banks, regulators, and industry stakeholders to explore practical technology solutions that reflect community bank challenges and opportunities.
Who: ICBA innovation leaders, including ICBA Executive Vice President and Chief Innovation Officer Wayne Miller; GSBC President and CEO Mike Stevens; GSBC students; and fintech companies participating in Accelerator Program 11, including:
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Clox AI detects AI‑generated and manipulated documents while automating workflow to identify tampering, forgery, and deepfakes.
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FinGoal offers an insights platform that enriches transaction data to build user profiles and deliver personalized, transaction-based calls to action.
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Payman AI embeds consumer, small business, and commercial AI agents directly into digital banking to safely initiate payments and execute workflows with policy controls, approvals, and audit trails.
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Swaystack offers a gamified onboarding platform that helps activate new accounts by driving funding, direct deposit, bill pay adoption, and more to win primary relationship status.
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VaultRight modernizes branch operations with a secure, mobile‑ and web‑based platform that replaces paper processes and strengthens audit readiness.
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Warrant offers an AI-powered marketing compliance and digital asset management system that automates regulatory checks, approval flows, and provides full audit trails
Plan to Join: To stream the event live, click here. For more information about the ICBA ThinkTECH Accelerator program, or to apply or nominate a fintech for future cohorts, visit www.icba.org/accelerator.
About ICBA
The Independent Community Bankers of America® has one mission: to create and promote an environment where community banks flourish. We power the potential of the nation’s community banks through effective advocacy, education, and innovation.
As local and trusted sources of credit, America’s community banks leverage their relationship-based business model and innovative offerings to channel deposits into the neighborhoods they serve, creating jobs, fostering economic prosperity, and fueling their customers’ financial goals and dreams. For more information, visit ICBA’s website at icba.org.
About Graduate School of Banking at Colorado (GSBC)
The Graduate School of Banking at Colorado is America’s Premier Community Banking School, providing banking professionals with programming to prepare the next generation of community bank leaders for success. Our programs include the Annual School Session, and the one-of-a-kind Executive Development Institute, a program designed to address succession issues by developing the next generation of executives at community banks. For more information, visit www.gsbcolorado.org.