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November 10, 2020
InsTech London 2021 live events
We are now hosting Live Talk video events (like webinars but more engaging), mostly through our BrightTALK channel.
Future events and past recordings below.
If you’re interested in sponsoring an InsTech London event, contact us at [email protected].
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November 10, 2020
Insurer as a digital partner: Serge Corel, Wakam
Formerly known as La Parisienne Assurances, 2020 has been a big year of change and innovation for Wakam. Serge Corel, Country Manager for the UK and Ireland, talks to Robin about topics including developing new parametric and usage-based solutions, and what Wakam is looking for ...
November 6, 2020
Insurance analytics for 21st century risk management
Insurance might be “swimming in data” – but without actionable insights that data is just noise.
Matthew catches up with Paul Mang, Chief Innovation Officer at Guidewire to explore the latest developments in innovation, modelling and interpreting data to advance the understanding and management of risk.
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October 23, 2020
Life/Health at Gen Re: Reinventing customer care
We’re back talking directly to a senior executive from a major reinsurance company about their views on innovation and what they see as the industry’s major challenges.
Andres Webersinke, Global Chief Underwriting Officer for Life/Health at Gen Re, joins Matthew on Podcast 108 ...
October 16, 2020
Legal platforms and partnerships
Insurance is about managing risk, but so is law – and both industries are discovering the changes and challenges from new sources of data, remote working and the power of platforms.
LawBite was founded in 2011 to provide affordable and accessible online access to legal services and ...
October 9, 2020
Agile products and speed to market
Staying relevant and able to embrace new technology is a big challenge for any established company.
Despite being 20 years old, Genasys Technologies continues to innovate and work on new solutions for emerging and establishing companies, deploying policy administration systems for insurance products, including no-code solutions.
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September 25, 2020
Jumpstart: Earthquake parametric insurance in practice
Five years ago Kate Stillwell had a vision of how she could help people recover quickly after they had suffered the effects of an earthquake. Today she has set up a company, acquired clients and gained insurance capacity.
Jumpstart is now providing parametric earthquake insurance ...
September 23, 2020
This is the next stage, not the end, of the insurtech promise
There remain huge opportunities for technology-based companies across the insurance ecosystem, but few are able or willing to pursue them in the present environment. Read Robin Merttens’ latest article for Insurance Day below. You can find a link to the original article and a downloadable ...
September 22, 2020
Insights into innovation at Swiss Re
What are the key strategic innovation themes at Swiss Re? Robin Merttens talks to Ruta Mikiskaite, Head of Client Solutions, P&C UKI, about the company’s key areas of focus, why it has joined InsTech London, and what sort of companies ...
September 18, 2020
Cloud, culture, collaboration and innovation
Google’s products are playing an increasingly important role helping insurance companies innovate and grow. There are also lessons for everyone in how the company has developed a culture to keep its own innovation fresh and relevant.
Marcus East, Technical Director, Office of the ...
September 17, 2020
No Code insurance platforms – Your questions answered
Are No Code insurance platforms hype or game-changing? That was the subject of our Live Chat with Unqork, 360Globalnet and Oliver Wyman, which you can watch again in our Events section.
The discussion proved to be so popular that we didn’t have time ...
September 3, 2020
Turning data into insights
Launched in 2013 Quantemplate was one of the early insurtech stories in London and the US, but after a few years things went quiet. Quantemplate had not gone away, but instead had been busily building up its technology to organise, clean and harmonise the variety of ...