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February 8, 2026
Automated underwriting: a pioneer’s perspective
Featuring perspectives from Marek Shafer of Vave, Tom Squires of AEGIS London and Jonathan Spry of Envelop Risk, this episode explores three early movers in automated underwriting sharing hard-earned lessons from building digital underwriting propositions that have survived real market cycles.
February 1, 2026
AI, insurance software & the future of policy admin
In this episode, Liselotte Munk, CEO of Fadata, joins Robin Merttens to unpack how artificial intelligence is reshaping the software layer of insurance.
January 25, 2026
Creating a new kind of assurance & insurance framework for AI-related risks
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Tobi Schneider, Sector Engagement Lead for Financial Services & FinTech at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, to unpack one of the most ambitious research initiatives currently shaping the future of AI risk in insurance.
January 18, 2026
Building a bootstrapped exit with Matthew Grant
This week we bring you an episode of Bootstrap Confidential featuring InsTech’s very own CEO, Matthew Grant, who joined Charles Green in the latter half of 2025 to reflect on the eight-year journey of building InsTech.
January 11, 2026
Bringing the joy back to underwriting
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Andy Yeoman, CEO of Concirrus, to unpack how a key player in marine insurance tech has reinvented itself as a core platform provider for the specialty market, and what that transformation says about where the industry is heading.
January 4, 2026
Showing the world how to revolutionise modelling
Matthew Grant is joined by David Wood, Managing Director at JBA Risk Management, and Jochen Papenbrock, Head of Financial Technology (EMEA) at NVIDIA, to explore how accelerated computing is unlocking new ways to simulate and manage flood risk.
December 28, 2025
Where is the industry today? – a view from the C-suite
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Dr Thomas Kuhnt (HDI Global SE), Ed Ackerman (Qover) and Vincent De Ponthaud (AXA) for a rare C-suite perspective on Agentic AI — what it is, how it's being deployed and why senior leaders are walking a tightrope between bold innovation and operational risk.
December 21, 2025
How insurers can better evaluate cat models in a multi-vendor world
In this episode, Claire Souch is joined by Tom Philp, James Lay and Stephen Martin for a timely discussion on the future of catastrophe model evaluation, and why it's no longer enough to simply trust what’s in the black box.
December 14, 2025
The rise of niche model vendors
In this episode, Brian Owens is joined by Dana Foley, Joss Matthewman and Olivia Sloan to explore the growing influence of specialist model vendors in catastrophe risk modelling and why they’re anything but “niche”.
December 7, 2025
Reinventing risk engineering with AI
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Jack Miller, CEO and Co-founder of nettle, to explore how generative AI is being applied to one of insurance’s most complex and resource-constrained challenges: risk engineering.
November 30, 2025
What it takes to scale insurtech across markets
Richard Gunn, President & CRO at hyperexponential, joins Matthew Grant to discuss the company's UK-to-US expansion and evolution into a decision infrastructure provider. He shares insights on winning American clients, navigating cultural differences, and how AI is reshaping underwriting.
November 23, 2025
What it really takes to change insurance from the inside out
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Tim Hardcastle, CEO and Co-founder of INSTANDA, to reflect on what it takes to turn a contrarian vision into a global insurtech platform and what the next decade of innovation might look like.
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