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Another fast moving series of chats with more leaders from insurance, technology and data. In this episode, the first half of our 8th July evening at The SteelYard, Robin investigates how Hitachi (2:00), the 7th largest technology group in the world, is making it easier ...

Graham Elliott describes Azur as a “Managing Digital Agency” (MDA). He founded the business in 2015, providing High Net Worth insurance for clients of UK brokers, in partnership with AIG. Matthew Grant and Graham talk about the challenges of becoming a full digital insurer and other ...

A double bill this week. Matthew talks to Robin about his experience of visiting the DIA Amsterdam conference this year with the highlights, lowlights and his meeting with the rising stars from insurtech in Japan.  Dan White, Managing Partner at Ninety Consulting talks ...

In this episode Matthew Grant chats to Sean Ringsted about how Chubb is introducing innovation across the company and he gives some tips to help anyone starting up a new business aimed at selling to insurers. Sean is Executive Vice President for Chubb Group reporting ...

With all the talk of the use of AI and algorithms in insurance innovation we thought we’d better check out some of the potential pitfalls and challenges that need to be considered with using algorithms in financial services. Robin discusses what to do, and ...

More fun from our Algorithm and AI event at the Steelyard on 3rd June in this, our selected highlights from the second half of the evening. We covered the first half in episode 31. Now it’s Robin Merttens turn up on stage talking to ...

Dickie is CEO and co-founder of the open source catastrophe modelling platform Oasis. After a career in reinsurance broking, Dickie has spent the last eight years creating a way to help insurers get access to emerging, niche and academic data & models. Today Oasis ...

With 300 million smartphone users [1], an average mobile data cost of £0.05 per gigabyte, an average age of 25 years [2] and an insurance penetration at 3.69% of GDP [3], India presents an exciting opportunity for InsurTech to transform lives, enables businesses and facilitate growth. Although the ...

InsTech London team is preparing a lineup of new events and we would like to share a glimpse into the future agenda.  Contact us at [email protected] if you are interested to support our events as a sponsor or speaker. 

This week’s podcast features edited highlights of Matthew chatting on stage with leading figures from AIG, Cytora, WhenFresh and Polar Capital at our live event in The Steelyard. Everyone’s talking about AI, but what’s really going on? Questions we asked included how ...

The team from Insurance Insider are regular attendees at our InsTech London events. Bernard Goyder, senior reporter for Insurance Insider was previously covering the London insurance technology and insurtech space but since April he has been based in New York. In this episode Matthew talks ...

In this episode Matthew, Robin and Paolo catch up on what they heard whilst attending the recent Insider Tech event hosted by Insurance Insider. Robin talks about his keynote (read it here) and other themes that were emerging on the back of the release of ...

In this episode, Matthew Grant discusses the challenges in building a cyber model for insurance pricing and portfolio management with Pascal Millaire, CEO of CyberCube over from the US visiting his UK office.   CyberCube was launched in 2018 as a spin-out from Symantec. ...

At InsTech London’s 5th March 2019 event ‘Claims Innovations in 2019’, Robin Merttens interviewed Shift Technology’s Jeff Manricks and Thomas Verduzco-Weisel, after the start-up won $60m investment in a further funding round. Shift Technology is reinventing insurance fraud detection with AI. ...

At InsTech London’s 5th March 2019 event ‘Claims Innovations in 2019’, Robin Merttens interviewed 360 Globalnet’s CEO and founder Paul Stanley about how they’re innovating claims. Founded in 2010, Surrey-based 360 Globalnet are positioned as a leader in the claims innovation space. Having gained his ...

The is the keynote speech given by Robin Merttens at Insurance Insider’s InsiderTech event on 16th May.   Thanks Mark, and thanks for giving me a chance to speak and thanks to all of you for coming to listen. So who here has ...

“Insurance is a community, not an industry”.  We’re back in this week’s episode with highlights from our event on 30th April. Matthew Grant is talking to an insurer, an insurtech and three marketing experts about how to innovate with marketing in ...

“Insurers aren’t bad at marketing, it’s just that they haven’t had to be good at it”. Listen to Robin and Matthew host another set of lively discussions from our ‘Marketing Innovation in Insurance’ event on April 30th.  Creative, and still a ...

We’re hearing a lot about AI, but what about the critical building blocks, the algorithms, that insurers are starting to rely on to make decisions in underwriting and claims assessment without human intervention? Is the industry ready to delegate underwriting to machines? Matthew Grant ...

This month heralds the beginning of a new partnership between Artificial and InsTech London. Not only did our very own CCO David King appear as speaker at a recent InsTech event, it has also been confirmed that we are now corporate members of one ...