Moderator:

David Clamp, Managing Director, Merlin Digital Consulting

Speakers:

James Breeze, Digital Artificial Intelligence & Analytics Lead, AXA XL

Pamela Negosanti, Global VP of Insurance, Expert System

Embed Analytics Into The Heart Of Your Organisation

• ​​​​Treat data as your biggest asset, and create an insights-driven business model that propels efficiency, profitability, and client engagement

From Tactics To Strategy: Enable Pre-Bind Analytics, Scenario Modelling And Human-Machine Collaboration To Drive Competitiveness

• Drive successful and profitable returns by capitalising on a growing market for new offerings around operational, cyber, technology, and supply chain

• Move beyond historical post-bind analytics to pre-bind analytics based on scenario modelling

• Leverage data analytics and automation to improve efficiencies in data and policy issuance, and provide overall transparency in the workflow

• Execute a single platform for data-sourcing, data-sharing, and automation to enable pre-bind analytics, scenario modelling, and human-machine collaboration to drive competitiveness

MGAM is a managing general agent in the London insurance market, providing underwriting services to carriers, using the latest insurance technology solutions, to manage and process coverholder and binder business, data and back-office services particularly suited to high-volume, low-cost business. Using its specially configured integrated management system, the MGAM solution incorporates a bordereaux data management solution, coverholder management system, a comprehensive reporting platform, an insurance broking accounts system and an online quote and bind portal.

Speaker:

Jason Anthony, CEO, MGAM

Rachel Clemo, Investment Associate, Highland Europe

 

 

James Poole, Managing Director , Agile Risk Partners

 

Jason Anthony, CEO, Fractal Industries

 

Laurent Sabatié, Founder/Director, Skyline Partners

Unlock Superior Underwriting Performance With Artificial Intelligence

• Get to grips with how commercial insurers can transform their underwriting using artificial intelligence (AI)

• Understand how to automate repetitive processes which are predominantly manual and time-consuming today

• Develop a roadmap for removing frictional costs in the insurance value chain and deliver the benefits of reduced costs to both insurers and commercial clients

Speaker: 

Richard Hartley, CEO, Cytora

AI = Actionable Insights in SME Insurance

• Discover how machine learning and AI are transforming SME insurance

• Explore real-world use cases of human-enabled AI, with case studies from QBE, Hiscox, and Euler Hermes

• Find out why Digital Fineprint has been named ‘Best Global InsurTech’ and received multi-million funding from leading investors

Speakers: 

Erik Abrahamsson, Founder and CEO, Digital Fineprint

James Hibbert, Strategic Development Manager - Commercial E Trade, RSA

DLT, Automation and AI: Are They Partners In Crime?

• Automation and AI are both already here; they leverage data. How and where does distributed ledger technology (DLT, blockchain) play a part in bringing to life these new technologies?

• As always data continues to play a pivotal role, but how do you ensure the security and quality of the data that is fuelling your automated processes and supporting your AI?

• Examine what automation and AI really do in insurance, and how their power can be exploited by DLT

Speaker:

Antonio Di Marzo, Product Owner Commercial Insurance, B3i

Slice Labs is the insurance engine behind tomorrow’s cloud-based, on-demand digital services ecosystems. Through its Insurance Cloud Services platform, Slice is enabling insurers and technology companies to build truly intelligent and intuitive pay-as-you-go digital insurance products. As the power of data, AI, and behavioural science is a catalyst to further integrate on-demand insurance into major aspects of customer life cycles, the company announced Slice Mind, a new business unit and insight engine that makes use of AI/ML, data and behavioural science to create products and services that help companies with personalisation, experimentation, simulations, predictions, risk modelling recommendations and decision-making.

 

Speaker:

Philippe Lafreniere, Chief Growth Officer, Slice Labs

McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) analyses rich data from space, air, IoT and ground-based sensors to provide the most timely, robust and holistic view of a nat cat event. We combine machine learning algorithms with our in-house, military-trained damage assessment experts to provide the hard facts about the situation on the ground before, during and after the event. Delivered via our easy-to-use platform, our global insurance industry clients access the information they need to provide a differentiated customer service from catastrophe and business interruption claims, and enhanced data for exposure management analysis

 

Speaker:

Forbes McKenzie, CEO, McKenzie Intelligence

Previsico is a global provider of real-time, street level flood prediction and analytical solutions, building round-the-clock resilience. We continuously model inundation using the latest combinations of rainfall predictions. Previsico launched as a Spin-Out from Loughborough University this year having piloted our systems with several early adopters including the Cabinet Office.

 

 

Sam Evans, Founding Partner, Eos Venture Partners

 

Philippe Lafreniere, Chief Growth Officer, Slice Labs

Forbes McKenzie, CEO, McKenzie Intelligence

Dr Avinoam (Avi) Baruch, Chief Operating Officer, Previsico

• Get the detail on how a mid-size firm is tackling claims transformation to deliver maximum impact with moderate investment

• Benefit from lessons around how to engage consultants, work across operations, business units and IT, and get buy-in from internal stakeholders

• Explore how to evaluate key components of the claims journey to assess the viability of automating routine elements of larger losses for high-end commercial and low-end corporate clients

Speakers:

David Fineberg, Head of Claims, Generali Global Corporate & Commercial

Melissa Boyars, Claims Operations Manager, Generali Global Corporate & Commercial

• Access unique insights from Beazley’s data initiative with Stanford University to develop benchmarking analysis on medical malpractice claims

• Explore how NLP offers new opportunities to analyse large, historical, and text-based datasets, and how to uncover valuable insights on the jurisdiction, cost, and severity of claims

• Understand how US hospitals clients are benefiting from new data-driven insights on the drivers of medical malpractice claims

Speakers:

Valentina Minetti, US Hospitals Focus Group Leader and Underwriter, Beazley

 

 

• Explore the non-traditional business models enabled by cross-industry partnerships, e.g. usage-based insurance, parametric-based propositions, and insurance as a service, and hear what works to encourage policyholders to share granular data with brokers and insurers

• Hear real-world examples of how marine insurers are harnessing automation to improve the reliability of vessels and reduce frictional operating costs, while also facilitating safe operations and ultimately lowering risk

• Develop a strategy that enables the effective organisation of internal data to support the development of new analytics insights and capabilities, and secures access to external data that enriches and complements internal datasets

• Get up to speed with the latest tools available to enable underwriters to select and monitor vessels and build a high performing well-diversified insurance portfolio

• Debate the cost-benefit scenario of a blockchain-based overhaul for marine, and explore how smart contracts could simplify the settling of premiums, the payment of claims, and enable shippers to track assets and share data with brokers and insurers, and for insurers to track their exposures in near-real time

Moderator:

Wyn Jenkins, Managing Editor, Intelligent Insurer

Speakers:

Claes Westman, Head of Marine Insurance/Lead Risk Advisor, Maersk

Madeline Bailey, Independent Strategic Change Professional.

• Debate the prediction that commercial lines will inevitably move away from traditional commoditised products, and towards more bespoke and innovative solutions tailored to meet unique risks and changing demands

• Sidestep the disintermediation debate, and consider what it takes for insurers and brokers to share insights and collaborate more closely to structure innovative client solutions that increase value to the end customer

• Harness data-driven insights to build closer relationships with clients, and identify empirical measures to support new business and renewals

Moderator:

Paolo Cuomo, Co-Founder, InsTech London

Sonya Homewood, Chief Operating Officer (Commercial Risk Solutions), RSA

George Woods, Senior Vice President, Guy Carpenter

Tshidi Hagan, Programme Director, Startupbootcamp

Tapoly is an insurtech platform that offers on-demand insurance to freelancers, contractors, SMEs, and everyone in the sharing and gig economy. We act as both a distributor and a technology provider to established insurers and brokers who wish to explore these under-served markets.

Kovrr monitors millions of ongoing incidents in real time. The platform uses public, open-source, proprietary and third-party data to build advanced AI machine learning engines to create risk scenario models from cyber incidents, intelligence exposure data and claims incidents data. Kovrr provides immediate visibility into internal and external cyber risks to support the underwriting processes of cyber insurance policies. Their solution helps insurance professionals prospect and select risks, grow their book according to risk appetite, and manage portfolio risks accumulations.

Speaker:

Tom Boltman, Head of Strategic Growth, Kovrr

Powering The Data-Driven Underwriter Of The Future

• Get to grips with the latest technologies available to enhance the underwriting process including sensor-based technologies and semantic web applications, and explore how new tools are being applied to improve the quality and efficiency of the underwriting process

• Understand how pricing decisions will become more statistically grounded in sophisticated analytics and rules-based decision support, and get ready to move beyond existing pricing models to develop data-driven pricing decisions and a quantification culture

• Identify the new specialist skills that will complement core underwriting competencies including data-driven product development, portfolio management and pricing analytics, and hear tried and tested methods for reorganising underwriting teams to start developing future skills and capabilities now

• Debate the prediction that underwriters will soon contribute significantly more value to prospecting, sales pursuit, account retention and account servicing, and explore scenarios for brokers and underwriters collaborating more effectively to develop bespoke risk management solutions for clients

Speaker: 

Susan Fallon, Global Head of Commercial Property, Zurich