AmeriCatalyst events

AmeriCatalyst and EuroCatalyst events reposition the role and importance of mortgage credit markets by focusing on their core purpose, and bringing them to life in an environment that educates, inspires, and motivates everyone involved.

Our events are widely renowned for being the most challenging and predictive in the industry, and our reputation is based on more than 20 years of experience in, knowledge of, and vision for global mortgage markets.

We strive to be the best at creating, articulating, and building momentum behind what mortgage market players stand for, and not what they sell. While markets continue to integrate, we help our clients and underwriters differentiate.

Our approach to events

Our events differ significantly from traditional conferences in several ways. Most obvious is our cabaret-style seating, talk-show format, use of electronic interactivity, and editorializing sessions with music. Our overall focus is always to ensure that every aspect of the event, both onstage and off, is educational, interactive, and entertaining What makes us truly unique, however, is the way in which we leverage our core competencies across the entire event: aggregating content, defining context, facilitating communication, building community and accelerating convergence.

Here’s how this works in our events:

Content is crucial. Our greatest challenge with each conference is creating content that is interesting enough to educate an invitation-only audience of senior executives who already believe they know everything there is to know. Our content is provocative, compelling, and engaging – from the program design and session descriptions to the way in which hosts, co-hosts, speakers and panelists are chosen, prepared and interviewed onstage.

Context refers to the setting in which events occur, which in turn determines their meaning. To define the context, the story must be told with exceptional knowledge and credibility. In telling the story we “position” the idea, the concept, the event, the company, the person, or the product. Ideas are powerless without context.

Communication transforms new ideas into common knowledge to be shared among divergent groups. Our events become a communication platform on which to share thoughts, observations and ideas.

Community precedes commerce. No one wants to do business with a stranger, which is why networking is so crucial in building direct relationships. Communities, however, are developed around a concept or common purpose, and not solely around a collection of content. Our events bring leaders together around a common goal of improving their own understanding of the complexities and scope of the industry and the context in which it functions. As participants come to know one another they interact without facilitation, impacting the industry across the sectors in which they work.

Convergence refers to the trend of distinct functionalities overlapping onto others, bringing together multiple products or technologies to form a whole that is worth more than the sum of its parts. Our ultimate purpose in our events is to accelerate this process by pointing out areas in which convergence is possible. In short, we act as the stimulus in bringing about or hastening a result – which is what defines a catalyst.

Education, interaction,  entertainment

The AmeriCatalyst event sets the standard for all mortgage-industry events. Each year, led by Toni Moss and a select team of co-hosts, participants debate business, policy, and technology issues facing the industry, discussing ideas and outlining practical business solutions in the main boardroom sessions.

While others may copy our event format, our program content and audience participation remains unrivaled. We stick to the one subject we know the best: the mortgage life cycle.

Because an idea has no power without a context in which to understand it, the point of our events is to place some aspect of the mortgage industry — if not the entire mortgage industry itself — in the best context to accelerate understanding of its development, challenges, and most of all, its opportunities.

We believe that people attend conferences to drive their business, and not distract them from it.  This is why we focus on education and  interaction in a highly memorable and entertaining environment.  Most executives go to events because they have to.  Executives consistently tell us that they attend our event because they want to.

To read more about our individual events, click Events in the top navigation bar.

What people have said about our events

“No one else can facilitate collaboration among competitors like EuroCatalyst”
–  Fanny Borgstrom, Head of Group Treasury, Nordea

“Brilliant, creative, visionary, passionate.  You clearly love what you do, and your audience loves you for it”
– Todd Groome, former advisor, Monetary and Capital Markets, IMF; current non-executive chairman Alternative Investment Management Association

”DS2009/EuroCatalyst 2009 was the best event that I have ever attended”
− Bill Coppedge, Sun Trust Bank

“The best conference that I have ever attended – bar none”
− Peter Munroe, National Real Estate Ventures

“Thank you for inviting me.  I learned a lot and had a great time”
– William Erbey, CEO, Ocwen Financial

“I have to commend you for putting such a fantastic forum for dialogue on such a timely topic for the nation, global economy, and our industry”
– Ron D’Vari, CEO, NewOak Capital

“This is the perfect setting for grasping the big picture.  And year upon year I am amazed by the collection of such fascinating speakers and participants.  You never know who you’re going to meet, and your biggest deal may be sitting right next to you.…I am a huge fan of yours”
– Jean-Louis Bravard, former head of global financial services, EDS

“The most well-respected and well-connected firm in US and European markets”
– Mike Culhane, Chairman, Oakwood Global

“You (EuroCatalyst) saw the impact of globalization on mortgage markets before anyone else did”
– George Soros and Joseph Stiglitz

“(Toni Moss is) a walking think tank”
– Esther Dyson

“You guys are a tour de force”
– Hoesli Labhart, Citigroup

“Unique, original, and authentic. You are the Davos of the global housing finance and fixed income investment industry.”
–  Alexander Batchvarov, Head of Global Structured Finance Research, Merrill Lynch (BofA)

“I enjoyed the event even more as a delegate than I did as the keynote speaker!“
– Karen Lissakers, senior advisor to George Soros and keynote at EuroCatalyst 2003

“My first distressed servicing and EuroCatalyst conference experience was outstanding! You delivered at the highest level”
– C. David Young, Managing Director, Cross Point Capital

“This was clearly the best conference I’ve ever attended in the past 30 years. The content was perfectly positioned and delivered in such a way for the discussion to be lively, informative and insightful”
– Andy Schell, CFO2Go & Capital Markets, KLS Consulting

“The best event I have ever attended.  And I attend a LOT of events.  This was an entirely different class.”
– Richard Koch, Standard & Poor’s

“I’m not sure I have the words to describe you, but you are indeed rare and irreplaceable. Thank you for such a wonderful experience to learn and grow over the years.”
–  Karsten von Koeller, Chairman, Lone Star Funds (Europe), and former Chairman, EuroHypo

“I have never had to work so hard at a conference!”
–  Amy Brandt, CEO, Vantium Capital