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2026 Success Summit Agenda
February 3, 2026 | Doubletree by Hilton McLeans

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NAIFA-Greater Washington, D.C.

2026 Success Summit Agenda

February 3, 2026 | 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

7:30 am
Registration begins
Continental Breakfast
8:30 am
Welcome from NAIFA-GWDC President, Nathan Moore
8:45 - 9:45 am
Advisor Tech: Ted Talks
Asset-Map (Financial Planning)
Alison Susko – Head of Community
Holistiplan (Tax Planning)
Torie Happe – Head of Partnerships

Vanilla - Speaker TBD
Session Description: How are you making life easier for yourself? How are you improving efficiencies, streamlining daily business activity, and client communication, and follow up? These three enterprise technology solutions can help grow, differentiate, and improve the quality of advice you are presenting to prospects and clients.
9:45 - 10:15 am
Keynote Session:
Implementation of Technology to Refine Storytelling
Jennifer Biack, MBA, CFP, CDFA
VP, Financial Planning Group, Mercer Advisors
Congratulations! You have curated the most effective tech stack to properly serve your clients! What is next? Learn how the Vice President of Financial Planning at one of the fastest growing RIA’s, Mercer Advisors, leverages financial planning and tax technology to better communicate with clients and win new business.
10:15 - 11:00 am
Keynote Session: Basis, Basis, Basis – The BBB Tax Act
Moderator:
Paul Dougherty, LUTCF, FSS, LACP
Panelists:
Bonnie Treichel - Chief Solutions Officer, Endeavor Retirement
Gary Altman, Esq.,- Founder, Altman & Associates
Diane Boyle, NAIFA
SVP Government Affairs
The BBB Tax Act is changing how clients and planners look at estate planning, particularly in view of the elimination of Federal estate tax for most individuals and married couples. Instead, planning to achieve a basis step up for all of a married couple’s assets at the first death, or even before death, is a bigger concern and goal for most individuals and married couples. Learn how to get a new basis by the creative use of general powers of appointment.
11:00 - 11:45 am
Breakout Sessions
Estate Planning for Short Life Expectancies
Gary Altman, Esq., Altman & Associates
What do you recommend when a client tells you that he is likely to die within the next 90 days?

Purse Strings & Power Plays: The New Era of Female Clients
Carmen Bississo, Vanessa Echeverria, Sara Mikulsky, Erika Marino, Suzanne Scherer She Invests, She Decides - the Future of Finance is Female. According to two recent studies that show women are increasingly making the financial investment decisions for their family. How does that change the playing field for financial advisors?

Diversify Your Business by Through Holistic Planning
Asset - Map, Holistiplan
11:45 AM - 12:15 PM
Working Lunch
4 Under 40 Award Presentation
Presented by Nathan Moore and Gaffar Chowdhury, CAP
12:15 - 1:00 pm
General Session
Best in the DMV Panel
1:00 - 1:45 PM
General Session: 2026 Economic Forecast
Speaker TBD
1:45 - 2:30 pm
Breakout Sessions
Tax Planning Session
Speakers:
Rachel McCrocklin, CFP, CeFT
Sara Mikulsky

Fee-based Annuities
Speaker:
Joseph Magretti - Jackson National

Leverage COI’s to Prospect
Speakers:
Erika Marino - BF Saul
Nick Sposa - Kings View Advisors
Rebecca (Becky) Powers – Pure Insurance
2:30 - 2:45 pm
Networking Break
2:45 - 3:45 pm
Closing General Session
Speaker TBD
3:45 - 4:30 pm
Reception with Exhibitors