SVP, Business Lending and Account Services
America First Federal Credit Union
Blake Weathers is Senior Vice President of Commercial Lending at America First Credit Union, where he leads the strategic direction of business lending across commercial real estate, SBA, and small business platforms.
Blake is focused on advancing scalable, disciplined growth by integrating strong credit risk management with forward-looking lending strategies. He has been instrumental in modernizing underwriting practices, strengthening portfolio performance, and guiding expansion initiatives, including complex acquisition integrations and multi-state market growth across the Western United States.
Known for his balanced approach to growth and risk, Blake specializes in aligning lending strategy with long-term institutional resilience while building high-performing teams. His work centers on helping organizations adapt to evolving market conditions, regulatory expectations, and competitive pressures in today’s dynamic banking environment.
The next wave of artificial intelligence goes beyond better tools—it gives them autonomous agents. This session explores what agentic AI means for the future of relationship managers, and how institutions are deploying AI systems to proactively identify cross-sell opportunities, flag at-risk relationships, prepare call briefs, and automate follow-up at scale. Industry leaders will debate where autonomous AI delivers the greatest competitive advantage, where human judgment remains irreplaceable, and how banks are building the governance frameworks needed to deploy agentic systems responsibly. The discussion will examine what the institutions moving first are learning—and what everyone else risks by waiting.