20th Annual ACFE San Antonio Conference (Fri, July 31, 2026)

Fri, 31 Jul 2026 13:00:00 GMT

20th Annual ACFE San Antonio Conference

Friday; July 31, 2026 - 8am to 5pm CDT

Norris Conference Center

9 CPE Credits (based on a .50-minute hour)

Robert F. Alonzo, MS, CFE, PI, REALTOR, Retired FBI

Senior Lecturer - College of Arts and Sciences

Texas A&M University-San Antonio

Topic: Remembering 9/11 - 25 Years Later

Bio: Robert F. Alonzo is a seasoned intelligence, fraud, accounting, and criminal justice professional with distinguished service in federal law enforcement, the military, academia, and the private sector. During his career with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), he served in leadership, intelligence, financial analysis, foreign counterintelligence, and white-collar crime roles, including assignments supporting the 9/11 investigation, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the CIA, and overseas deployments. In addition to his FBI service, Mr. Alonzo served in the U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, Department of Defense, and Texas State Guard, where he attained the rank of Chief Warrant Officer 4 and earned designation as a Master Military Emergency Management Specialist.

A former Certified Public Accountant, Mr. Alonzo has extensive experience in accounting, auditing, fraud examination, and investigations. He currently holds credentials as a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), Texas Private Investigator, and Texas Licensed REALTOR®.

Mr. Alonzo is also an accomplished educator and currently serves as Senior Lecturer in the Criminology & Criminal Justice Program at Texas A&M University–San Antonio. He previously held leadership and teaching positions at St. Mary’s University, where he helped establish graduate-level intelligence studies programs and taught courses in intelligence analysis, border security, criminal justice, international relations, and ethics.

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Troy Huth, CFE, CPM

Senior Director, Auriemma Roundtables

Topic: The AI Shift in Fraud: Emerging Threats and Strategic Responses

Artificial intelligence is transforming the fraud landscape, enabling more sophisticated and scalable attacks from AI-driven social engineering to deepfake enabled impersonation. This session explores how fraudsters are leveraging AI, highlights the surprising ease of creating deepfake audio and video, and examines how organizations are responding. Attendees will also gain practical insights on how to leverage AI to strengthen fraud prevention and detection efforts.

Bio: Troy Huth has 32+ years in the financial services industry serving in a variety of roles including branch operations, call center management, IT Management, Product Management, and Fraud Strategy/ Operations while at Bank of America and USAA. While at USAA, he was responsible for fraud strategy and detection for deposit products (acquisition, transactions/payments) and lending acquisition (Auto, Credit Card, and Personal Lending).

Troy is currently a director for Auriemma Roundtables leading several industry roundtables including Bank Fraud, Internal Fraud, Bank Secrecy/AML, Commercial Banking and Deposit Risk Management. He is a featured speaker on topics ranging from fraud to remote deposit capture, where he is named as an inventor of the industry’s first consumer remote deposit capture service.

In his role as Roundtable Director, he leads collaboration sessions bringing industry leaders together to challenge accepted practices while providing them with benchmark and survey data to measure their performance against peers and innovate for the future. Troy has a BS degree in Management from Wayland Baptist University and is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE).

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Michael Yamma

Supervising Senior Investigator

Austin City Auditor’s Office

Presentation Summary:

In a recent investigation involving purchasing card misuse and fake vendors, the Austin City Auditor’s Office issued a report in December 2025 about a city employee who created several fake vendors and misappropriated close to a million dollars of the City of Austin funds. This presentation will go through all the steps of our fraud investigation from initial allegation through report issuance and provide some lessons learned that we used to conduct a detection project aimed at identifying other potential vendor issues throughout the City of Austin.

Bio: Michael Yamma is a supervising senior investigator with the Austin City Auditor’s Office. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) and has ten years of experience in government fraud investigation and auditing. Michael has published articles and given presentations to various outlets including the ACFE, ALGA, and IIA.

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Topic: TBD

Mary Breslin, CIA, CFE

Founder of Verracy

2024 ACFE Hubbard Award Winner

2023 ACFE James R. Baker Speaker of the Year

Bio: Mary Breslin is a force in internal audit, risk management, and fraud prevention. With over 30 years of experience, she's led high-impact transformations in audit departments across global organizations. As an award winning speaker and renowned fraud examiner, she's run some of the most complex and high-profile fraud investigations in history, including one of the largest cases ever prosecuted by the DOJ.

Mary is an Advisor to the Technology Committee of the International Ethics Standards Board for Accountants and former Chairman of the ACFE Foundation (2024–2025). In 2024, she won the ACFE Hubbard Award for her article on ChatGPT in Fraud Magazine. In 2023, she received the ACFE James R. Baker Speaker of the Year award. She's also a Top-Rated Speaker for ISACA and was named "Best of the Best" by the IIA.

Her straight-shooting, no-nonsense approach is backed by real-world results, whether she's leading audit functions, rebuilding how organizations approach risk, or mentoring the next generation of auditors.

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Topic: Payments Rails & Fraud Tales

Fraud doesn’t care how the payment moves checks, ACH, or instant payments the threat is real, and evolving fast. With the comeback of check fraud, increasing ACH compromise, and the rising pressure of real-time transactions, banking professionals need to stay ahead of the curve. In this dynamic session, payments professionals will walk through real-world fraud scenarios and risk exposures across multiple payment rails. You'll learn how fraud trends vary by rail, how institutions are responding, and what your organization can do to strengthen controls and meet compliance expectations. Attendees will walk away with fresh ideas, key fraud red flags, and actionable tools to help safeguard their payment environments no matter which rails they’re riding.

Tracy Merritt, AAP, AFPP, APRP, CGMA, CPA, NCP

Senior Vice President, ePayAdvisors

Bio: Tracy has over thirty years of experience in the financial services industry, starting with oversight of accounting and payments processing for a financial institution. She has been with ePayAdvisors, a subsidiary of ePayResources, since 2020, and in her current role she manages the subsidiary and performs payments audits, risk assessments, and customized consulting for Financial Institutions, Third-Party Senders, and Third-Party Service Providers, focusing on identifying and recommending solutions to correct compliance, risk management, and efficiency gaps.

After earning a BS in Accounting, Tracy became a Certified Public Accountant and earned an MBA. Throughout her career she has never stopped learning, achieving the professional designations of Accredited ACH Professional (AAP), National Check Professional (NCP), Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA), Accredited Payments Risk Professional (APRP), and Accredited Faster Payments Professional (AFPP).

Over the years Tracy has also been an active volunteer member of numerous payments industry work groups focusing on rules compliance and risk management.

Crissy Terry, AAP, AFPP, APRP, NCP

Vice President, ePayAdvisors

Bio: As Vice President with ePayAdvisors, Crissy conducts payments audits and risk assessments and provides strategic consulting for financial institutions and Third-Party Senders. Her real-world expertise in compliance and risk management comes from over 28 years of experience in support operations in the financial services industry. With a passion for driving efficiency and supporting financial institutions’ strategic goals, Crissy knows what it takes to balance day-to-day payments operations, fraud and recovery investigations, regulatory compliance, process improvement, and more, while working towards achieving enterprise-wide objectives.

Crissy’s credentials include a Master of Arts in Management and Bachelor of Arts & Science in Business, as well as the Accredited ACH Professional (AAP), Accredited Faster Payments Professional (AFPP), Accredited Payments Risk Professional (APRP), and National Check Professional (NCP) accreditations.

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The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, San Antonio Chapter #18 is registered with the National Association of State Boards of Accountancy (NASBA) as a sponsor of continuing professional education on the National Registry of CPE Sponsors. State boards of accountancy have final authority on the acceptance of individual courses for CPE credit. Complaints regarding registered sponsors may be submitted to the National Registry of CPE Sponsors through its website: www.nasbaregistry.org.

Cancellation Policy and No Shows

Cancellations will not be eligible for a refund; however, substitutions will be accepted.
In the event an attendee does not show up to the event, the registration cost will be forfeited.
The Chapter reserves the right to bar for future registration any attendees who routinely register and fail to pay and/or attend the event.

Complaint resolution:

Complaints should be directed to the Board at comments@acfesanantonio.org

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