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October 22, 2025
More models, more choice – navigating your evaluation journey – Photos
View the photos from our October Evening event, where industry leaders, regulators and innovators came together to discuss the future of catastrophe modelling and the power of multi-model strategies in an evolving risk landscape.
October 19, 2025
What are we still missing in catastrophe modelling?
In this episode, a panel from InsTech’s The Future of Catastrophe Risk event, explored the limitations of current catastrophe models and how the insurance industry can evolve its approach to risk.
October 12, 2025
Why insurance still struggles to move money
In this episode, Robin Merttens is joined by Julian Schoemig, CEO and Co-founder of Diesta, to explore why payments and settlements remain one of the insurance industry’s biggest unsolved problems, and what it will take to fix them.
October 9, 2025
Agentic AI – friend not foe
InsTech hosted a webinar with OIP Insurtech, joined by speakers from Google, HDI Global and WTW, highlighting how Agentic AI is redefining underwriting and operational workflows, clarifying where it delivers the greatest value in complex, context-dependent processes and helping insurers move from theoretical understanding to practical, real-world implementation.
October 5, 2025
Hurricanes and climate change: are we ready for a Cat 6?
In this episode, Ruth Petrie chairs a live panel discussion with Emma Watkins, Chris Weller and Tom Philp to explore how leading voices in catastrophe risk are challenging long-held assumptions about extreme weather, preparedness and what it means to be “modelled”.
October 1, 2025
The hidden impact: climate risk and property value loss – Is subsidence the next flood?
InsTech hosted a webinar with PriceHubble and MIAC Analytics, highlighting how property-level climate risk modelling uncovers hidden subsidence vulnerabilities, reveals geographic patterns of emerging “uninsurable” zones, links rebuild costs to asset value erosion, and helps insurers strengthen underwriting, portfolio management and exposure assessment.
September 28, 2025
Modelling the future of reinsurance
In this episode, Matthew Grant sits down with Matthew Eagle, Head of Global Model Solutions and Advisory at Guy Carpenter, to explore how one of the industry's most respected voices sees the future of modelling, capital management and advisory in reinsurance.
September 26, 2025
When forecasts meet fickle weather
Hurricane season stays quiet (for now), Verisk warns of rising catastrophe losses, and ZestyAI bakes mitigation into storm scoring. Plus: new quake, flood and underwriting models, and a look back at Katrina and Plainfield’s F5 tornado.
September 21, 2025
Transforming risk in insurance: lessons from Cytora’s journey
In this episode, Matthew is joined once again by Richard Hartley to reflect on a major milestone in Cytora’s journey: its acquisition by US-based Applied Systems.
September 15, 2025
Fixing the friction – delivering speed to quote with MSIG Europe and Insurants AI
InsTech hosted a webinar with Insurants and MSIG, showcasing how digitising Schedules of Values and restructuring the submission workflow improved quote accuracy, reduced rekeying, sped up turnaround times and laid the foundation for MSIG’s broader digital roadmap.
September 14, 2025
How portfolio thinking and data science are rewiring cyber reinsurance
Jonathan Spry, CEO and co-founder of Envelop Risk, joins Robin Merttens for a deep dive into how data science, AI and portfolio-level modelling are transforming cyber reinsurance.
September 9, 2025
Specialty claims are ready for automation – here’s why
On 7 May 2025, InsTech hosted an evening event on claims automation in specialty insurance – tackling the myths, showcasing real-world adoption and exploring the role of AI. Speakers included carriers, Lloyd’s representatives and technology firms, alongside pitches from four early-stage innovators.
September 7, 2025
The global push: Why US insurance tech is eyeing Europe
Robin Merttens speaks with Chris Quirk, VP and General Manager at Insurity, to unpack the drivers behind the company’s international expansion and what it signals for the wider market.
August 31, 2025
From ratios to risk ops: what the next chapter means for insurers
In this special edition of the InsTech podcast, Robin introduces listeners to new colleague Chris Eberly, Insurance Practice Lead at Datos Insights, following Datos’ recent acquisition of InsTech.
August 24, 2025
Where is specialty insurance headed in 10 years?
In this panel discussion from InsTech’s Outpace. Outprice. Outperform event, Robin Merttens leads a conversation with four senior experts on the future of the market and the forces that could reshape it.
August 21, 2025
Hard to insure, harder to ignore
Wildfire cover gets a way back in California, storm and wildfire losses drive a record-breaking first half, plus global floods, quakes and heat keep testing the models - and the markets.
August 19, 2025
Climate risk at the property level – what insurers need to know
Ahead of our 24 September webinar, a new PriceHubble–MIAC Analytics study reveals that property-level climate risk modelling uncovers hidden exposures with subsidence and rising rebuild costs emerging as critical challenges UK insurers can’t afford to overlook.
August 17, 2025
Partners’ Chat – What the future holds for InsTech and beyond
In this milestone edition of Partners Chat, Robin and Matthew sit down for their first episode since InsTech's transition to new ownership.
August 14, 2025
The Future of Specialty Insurance – where will we be in 10 years time?
In this panel from InsTech's New York event, industry leaders from Google Cloud, Cytora, Concirrus and Insurance Thought Leadership share predictions on the future of the insurance model and how key parts of the value chain from underwriting to distribution are evolving.
August 10, 2025
What startups get wrong about risk, data and dilution – and how to get it right
In this episode, Matthew Grant catches up with Bob, CEO and Co-founder of PropertyLens and former CEO and founder of Hazard Hub, to hear what he’s learned across three startups, why he’s building again post-exit and how he’s turning deep domain expertise into tools that actually help people.
