InsTech - insurance & innovation

John Hele & Greg Framke: Portage AI: The hard 20%: where AI could create the most value in insurance (420)

AI represents the most significant technological shift of the current era, necessitating a move beyond simple proof-of-concepts toward production-ready, value-driven applications. Portage, founded by industry veterans Greg Framke and John Hele, addresses this by applying AI to complex, high-stakes insurance challenges ...

Theo Butt & Andy Roberts: Kinetic Insurance Services and Guillaume Bonnissent: Quotech: Building an AI-native MGA from scratch: inside Kinetic Insurance Services (419)

Jamie Wilson, VP of Strategy: hyperexponential: Why AI needs to raise the bar of underwriting, not just the floor (418)

Underwriting technology is shifting from isolated pricing tools toward end-to-end, AI-driven workbenches that balance human judgment with autonomous execution. Jamie Wilson, VP of Strategy at Hyper Exponential, details how the industry is moving beyond simple efficiency gains to adopt "agentic" workflows, where AI agen...

Dom Sindall & Stephen Sheehan: Marsh Re: From days to minutes: rethinking facultative reinsurance (417)

Andy Moss, GM Underwriting: Duck Creek: Why AI in underwriting needs to run ‘on rails’: Send’s next chapter with Duck Creek (416)

Rebecca Ince & Mark Oldroyd: Carbon: Carbon’s next chapter: Growth equity and the future of delegated underwriting (415)

Carbon Underwriting recently secured a significant growth equity investment from FTV Capital to accelerate its international expansion and technological development. The firm, which has grown from £150 million to £450 million in premium since 2023, plans to leverage this capital to enhance its proprietary "Graphene" pl...

Dani Katz, Co-founder & Director: Optalitix: The human side of AI-powered pricing (414)

Elizabeth Wooliston, Chief of Markets: Artificial: Why the London Market is ready for intelligent automation (413)

Rob Newbold, President, Catastrophe and Risk Solutions: Verisk: Beyond a single view of risk: why catastrophe modelling is becoming more collaborative (412)

Tom Graham & Iryna Chekanava: Chaucer: How insurers decide which innovations succeed (411)

From curiosity to commercial value: what a year of Agentic AI has taught insurance (410)

Harry Vardigans, Head of Insurance: Fathom: Will it make the boat go faster? (409)

Mark Twigg & Rob Agnew: Agentiv-x: Why neurosymbolic AI could transform insurance broking (408)

Lifting the lid on the InsTech Podcast - what’s worked and what hasn’t… (407)

The future and how to get there (406)

Carrie Thomas, Account Director: Datos Insights: Should I stay or should I go now? A personal perspective of flood risk in Florida (405)

Max Richter, EMEA CEO: mea: What's changed? Why AI is moving from experimentation to execution (404)

Mark Cunningham, Managing Director: PriceHubble: Is your data useful or useless? (403)

Rachel Delhaise, Chief Sustainability Officer: Convex: Insurance’s critical role in global resilience (402)

Sasha Haco, CEO & Co-founder: Unitary: From black holes to bordereaux: building AI agents for insurance (401)