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April 12, 2026
Insurance’s critical role in global resilience
In this episode, Matthew Grant speaks with Rachel Delhaise, Chief Sustainability Officer at Convex, about what climate sustainability really looks like inside a modern insurance business.
April 5, 2026
From black holes to bordereaux: building AI agents for insurance
In this episode, Robin Merttens speaks with Sasha Haco, CEO and co-founder of Unitary, about how AI is being applied in practical, high-impact ways across insurance operations.
March 29, 2026
Partners’ Chat uncut – straight from the horse’s mouth
In this episode, Matthew Grant and Robin Merttens hit the 400-episode mark and ask a slightly uncomfortable question: after all these conversations, are we still human or just very convincing AI?
March 22, 2026
Rethinking claims: from ‘boring but brilliant’ AI to real industry change
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Martha Dreiling, co-founder and president of Reserv, to explore how AI is actually transforming claims, and why the biggest breakthroughs are happening in places most people overlook.
March 15, 2026
The tax playbook for insurance and insurtech
In this episode, Matthew Grant is joined by KPMG's Richard Louden and Candy Staples to explore a topic that many insurance and InsurTech businesses underestimate until it becomes expensive: tax.
March 12, 2026
Exponential Risk London 2026 – Photos
View the photos from Exponential Risk London 2026, our two-day conference dedicated to catastrophe, climate and exposure analytics. Hosted at The Mermaid in London, the event brought together more than 500 professionals from across the insurance ecosystem to explore the evolving drivers of risk, advances in modelling and analytics, and the practical challenges of applying data to real-world underwriting and risk management decisions.
March 8, 2026
Portfolio underwriting in 2026
In this episode, Robin Merttens moderates a panel with Tessa Wardle of QBE, Emily Stanford of Gallagher and Jonathan Spry of Envelop Risk, recorded live at the InsTech London event Some lead, others follow: Smart underwriting and broking strategies for 2026.
March 1, 2026
Rethinking Build vs Buy in insurance
In this episode, Matthew Grant sits down with Nicola Turner and Alex Ley, co-founders of Scrub AI, to explore one of the most pressing strategic questions facing insurers today: Build vs Buy in the age of generative AI.
February 26, 2026
From flood data to flood decisions: making intelligence actionable
Previsico and InsTech examine how outdated flood data creates blind spots in underwriting and operational decisions, and what advanced flood intelligence can deliver in practice. Featuring perspectives from Liberty Specialty Markets and Whitbread, this webinar explored how insurers and corporates can work together to make flood data actionable, from risk selection to real-time continuity planning.
February 22, 2026
Building the modern MGA
In this episode, Robin Merttens sits down with Frank Perkins, CEO and Co-founder of inari, to explore what it really takes to build and scale a modern MGA in 2026.
February 20, 2026
The golden age of underwriting and how to reach it
In this webinar, Matthew Twist of Concirrus, Piers Williams of Diesta and Lisa Rowe of Specialty MGA UK explored what a “golden age of underwriting” looks like on the ground.
February 17, 2026
Talent over travel: an offer of help if your employer is not supporting your career development
A special deal if you are struggling to get approval to attend Exponential Risk 26
February 15, 2026
How automation is shaping the future of claims in the Lloyd’s and London market
In this episode, we bring you a live panel from InsTech’s May event at CodeNode, exploring how automation is reshaping claims in the Lloyd’s and London market — and why the belief that specialty is too complex to automate no longer stands.
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 2, 2026
Catastrophe modelling gaps exposed by 2025’s natural disasters
Insured losses from natural catastrophes surpassed $100 billion for the sixth consecutive year in 2025. However, the absence of peak-zone hurricane landfalls offers a window to address critical gaps in catastrophe models. Claire Souch, independent consultant gathered four senior practitioners to examine what the year's events reveal about modelling assumptions and operational readiness.
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 23, 2026
Europe exposed: Modelling, markets and the next generation of cat risk
This webinar brought together leading voices in risk modelling, insurance markets and policy development to examine how Europe can better anticipate, quantify and manage these growing risks.
January 22, 2026
The coastline is moving: Is your model keeping up?
Storm surge remains one of the hardest perils to underwrite with confidence. In this webinar hosted with Ocean Ledger, who focus on the underlying coastal drivers of storm surge, and KatRisk, we explored how you can use up-to-date standardised, scalable data inputs alongside established models to reduce uncertainty and improve risk selection.
