Redesigning specialty underwriting in the London Market

About this event

Specialty underwriting is under increasing pressure. Submission volumes are rising, broker expectations are higher than ever, and a prolonged soft market is compressing margins. Yet many underwriting teams are still working with processes built for a different era – document-heavy, fragmented, and reliant on manual data handling.

As a result, underwriters spend a disproportionate amount of time navigating slips, schedule of values and risk engineering reports, and far too little time applying their expertise to what really drives performance: technical judgement, portfolio steering and broker relationships.

Agentic AI has the potential to change this – but only if it is applied in a way that reflects the reality of complex, specialty underwriting today.

This event brings together senior underwriting leaders to explore how Agentic AI is being used to redesign underwriting workflows without forcing process or technology standardisation or large-scale system change. Rather than multi-year transformation programmes, we will focus on how underwriting teams are delivering real, quantifiable benefits in a matter of weeks.

Key discussion topics

At the core of the event is a panel discussion featuring senior leaders including:

• Haris Khan, CEO & Co-Founder, Novee
• Carol Baker, Head of Digital Strategy, Liberty Specialty Markets
• Alex Priestley, Head of Power & Renewables, Lancashire Insurance
• Kevin Cleary, COO, Volt Underwriting

The discussion will be grounded in practical experience and will cover:

• What AI can genuinely do today to support complex, unstructured specialty submissions
• Why underwriting remains inherently complex, and why full standardisation isn’t realistic or necessary
• Where underwriter judgement is essential, and where automation delivers immediate value
• What it really means to redesign underwriting with agentic AI and how to bring the underwriters along the journey

This will be a candid, experience-led discussion focused on what has worked in practice, what hasn’t, and how underwriters themselves are leading change.

Why attend?

• Understand the tangible, near-term benefits of AI adoption, not just the long-term strategic narrative
• Learn how peers are delivering measurable impact in weeks, without disruptive transformation programmes
• Hear directly from underwriting leaders, about how Agentic AI is being embedded into real workflows
• Explore how Agentic AI can augment underwriting judgement, freeing underwriters to focus on higher-value decision-making

This event is designed for Chief Underwriting Officers, Heads of Lines of Business, senior underwriters, underwriting IT / operations leaders, and anyone interested in how specialty underwriting is evolving in practice.

Following the panel discussion, there will be an opportunity to see live demonstrations of Novee’s platform and explore how decision-led underwriting works in practice.