Ollie Smith, Project Director, Reuters Events
Nick Lamparelli, Managing Director, Insurance Nerds

·       Who answers when your algorithm makes the wrong call and is your organization ready for that question?

·       Build an AI governance framework that works as a competitive advantage not just a compliance checkbox

·       Run structured bias audits across your underwriting models using diagnostic questions regulators are already asking

Kay Firth Butterfield, CEO, Good Tech Advisory, Former Head of AI & ML, World Economic Forum

·       Understand how the forces reshaping underwriting simultaneously connect – AI, market volatility, talent, regulation - and what each one means for your book

·       Create a robust framework for making confident decisions faster when the market signals are contradictory

·       Act decisively as a leader by knowing when to hold discipline, when to adapt, and when to intervene

Jeanmarie Giordano, Global Chief Underwriting Officer, AXA XL

·       Build a crisp internal business case that moves AI from sideways pilots to a board‑level execution priority – with clear owners, outcomes and decision rights

·       Stop measuring AI success by adoption rates and start measuring it by loss ratio – leave knowing exactly which investments drive which outcomes

·       Identify the single biggest barrier stopping your AI capability from scaling, whether trust, data, process, incentives or governance, and leave with a clear, practical path to enterprise-wide adoption

This session will be brought to you by PwC

·       Expose which tech investments genuinely transform underwriting performance, and which ones drain resources without return

·       Arm your underwriters the automation and decision-support tools that cut submission-to-bind time and put better risks on the books faster

·       Discover what your combined ratio looks like when underwriting and technology functions finally start working from the same definition of risk

Jennifer Kyung, SVP, Business Performance, Nationwide

Grab a coffee, head to the Exhibition Hall, and make the most of our ‘Networking Power Hour’ – dedicated time to make peer-to-peer connections. Book meetings or start conversations on the day to forge new partnerships and open doors to excel in the next steps of underwriting transformation.

·       What does a carrier that thrives in a soft market do differently from everyone else?

·       Use the underwriting workbench to make good decisions the default by guiding underwriters on price, terms and risk selection even as market pressure builds

·       Preserve margin through disciplined pricing and appetite management rather than giving it back in the soft cycle and hoping to recover later

Florian Richard, Chief Risk Officer & Head of Risk Underwriting, AXA XL
Annmarie Condon, Chief Underwriting Officer, Small Commercial, The Hanover
Guenter Kryszon, Chief Underwriting Officer, Markel

Step into a live scenario simulation designed to mirror the decisions underwriters face in the real world. Work through complex situations as they unfold, pressure‑test your thinking, and explore the trade‑offs that matter most. These sessions are hands‑on, fast‑moving, and grounded in reality - giving you practical insights you can take straight back to your business.

·       Live the modernized underwriting workflow from first submission touch to bind decision and see exactly where automation changes the speed, accuracy and quality of every call your team makes

·       Make real time decisions at every stage of the process and leave with a visceral understanding of where your current workflow creates bottlenecks that automation solves

·       Clarify exactly what “good” looks like at submission by showing brokers the data, structure and context underwriters need to make faster, higher‑quality decisions

·       Combine gut-feel underwriting decisions with AI-driven risk scoring that puts defensible, objective data behind every call your team makes

·       Build the data intelligence that protects your combined ratio through the soft market cycle rather than repairing it when conditions harden

·       Embed those insights into appetite, authority and pricing guardrails so better decisions are made consistently - not just by your best underwriters in good conditions

This session will be brought to you by Hyperexponential

·       What does your claims data tell your underwriting team that your current structure prevents them from hearing?

·       Build a structured claims-to-underwriting feedback loop that turns loss data into pricing intelligence

·       Leave with a cross-functional playbook that tackles nuclear verdicts and litigation funding

Kyle Nakatsuji, Founder & CEO, Clearcover

·       How should you adjust terms and exclusions in response to rising nuclear verdicts?

·       At what point does social inflation become partly an underwriting problem?

·       Who owns the claims and underwriting feedback loop in your organization and how can you fix it?

Submit your unpopular opinions anonymously throughout the morning and we’ll share the best ones. Let’s restart with the room telling itself the truth.

Nick Lamparelli, Managing Director, Insurance Nerds

·       Understand exactly where the regulatory line sits on AI-driven underwriting decisions before your next technology investment puts you on the wrong side of it

·       Build the internal compliance capability that keeps your underwriting decisions defensible as state-level AI regulation moves faster than your technology roadmap

·       Leave with direct insight from the regulator setting the rules

Amanda Crawford, Commissioner, Texas Department of Insurance

·       Map the specific data gaps blocking your AI strategy and leave with a sequenced plan for closing them before your next tech investment

·       Examine the exact business decisions that got the leading carriers to AI results before their competitors

·       Walk away with a prioritized data investment roadmap that tells you what to fix, in what order, and what it unlocks at each stage

Debra Fox, Deputy CUO, P&C, The Hartford
Rajiv Iyer, SVP Underwriting Practices & Risk Engineering, Arch Insurance
Jeff Duncan, EVP & Head of Commercial Lines, AmTrust

Richard Hartley, CEO & Co-Founder, Cytora

·       Get inside the mind of an attacker and leave with a fundamentally different understanding of the cyber exposures your current policy wordings and risk assessments are missing

·       Challenge yourself against real world attack vectors that ethical hackers use to breach organizations you insure

·       Walk away from the only roundtable in insurance where the most dangerous person in the room is on your side  

·       Build a broker relationship that delivers cleaner data, faster decisions and better outcomes for both sides of the submission process

·       Meet brokers where they are by enriching and translating submissions - layering in third‑party data, using standards like ACORD to structure the unstructured, and creating clear incentives for structured submissions through faster, more consistent quotes

·       Understand exactly where the broker submission data breaks down in your workflow and the precise intervention that fixes it at source

Anna Kodryanu, SVP, Distribution, Westfield Specialty Insurance

·       Identify the sanctions exposure sitting inside your marine, trade credit and political risk lines right now

·       Get ahead of future tariff designations, conflict escalations and trade disruptions that are already moving markets your pricing didn’t account for

·       Build a geopolitical risk monitoring framework that connects global flashpoints to your book, so emerging threats reprice your portfolio before they show up on loss ratios

Layla Atya, Chief Risk & Underwriting Officer, Sitata

Daniel Carreras, Global Chief Underwriting Officer, Scor

·       Gain immediate and accurate insights from your submissions with true Cognitive Document Processing and leave document training behind.
·       Use AI-powered agents can reveal hidden risks and opportunities faster than ever.
·       Future-proof your insurance operations through the use of model-agnostic solutions that ensure adaptability and fuel innovation.

Rob D’Oria, Chief Technology Officer, MagpAI Analytics
Candice Davies, SVP & Division Manager, Technology Strategy, GenStar/Genesis

·       Run a side-by-side underwriting exercise (traditional vs AI-supported) to see how AI that goes beyond data digitization and summarization changes what your underwriting team can do
·       Pinpoint what the best AI-enabled underwriters do that others don't, and what closing that gap could mean for your book
·       Leave with a concrete plan to upskill your team, embed AI into real decisions, and make your investment work harder than your competitors'

James Posnett, VP, Sales, Sixfold

Join us for networking drinks in the Exhibition Hall

Start the day in a relaxed, off duty setting with peers who are shaping the next era of underwriting leadership. This isn’t about panels or pitches – it’s about engaging in real conversation with a fresh perspective and candid insight.

No formal agenda. No titles. Just a space for senior leaders to connect, swap stories and have the honest conversation about talent and succession that the main stage never quite gets to.

·       Build a data driven portfolio matrix that tells you exactly where to hold your line, where to grow and where walking away protects your combined ratio

·       Move your pricing decisions from instinct to intelligence with a framework that puts defensible data behind every number in your book

·       Leave with a practical pricing tool you can put in front of your team on Monday morning

This session will be brought to you by Outsystems

A fast-paced session where tech innovators pitch cutting edge solutions to a panel of industry leaders (Sharks). Designed to spotlight new ideas and innovative solutions, this session gives you a front-row seat to emerging technologies, new partnerships and practical tools that could transform your business. Watch senior leaders publicly challenge, pressure-test and occasionally reject the technology being pitched at them in real time

·       Scrutinize new underwriting technologies in real time - hear short pitches, uncover new solutions, and vote on the most promising innovator

·       Watch as a panel of exec-level ‘sharks’ test each idea for ethical guardrails, measurable ROI and customer trust impacts

·       Develop new partnership leads, a greater understanding of what is scalable and immediate ideas to pilot within your organization

Elizabeth McCluskey, Managing Director, Discovery Fund, TruStage Ventures

·       Build a proven model for attracting the next generation of underwriters into a function that AI is visibly reshaping

·       Build a talent pipeline strategy that makes underwriting a destination career for the candidates your competitors are also chasing

·       Take away a reskilling model that prepares your existing underwriters for an AI integrated role without the efficiency dip

Jessica Diffin, SVP Talent Officer, Liberty Mutual

·       The carrier–MGA realities rarely discussed publicly: mismatched expectations, shared risks, and what true partnership looks like in today’s market

·       Challenge the delegated authority model that most carrier-MGA relationships default to and leave with a clearer picture pf what a genuinely collaborative partnership looks like in practice

·       Walk away with frameworks, approaches and mindset shifts that turn the carrier-MGA relationship from a source of friction into the competitive advantage neither side can build alone

·       Reclaim the underwriting capacity lost to manual submission processing and redirect your best people toward the complex decisions that move your book

·       Build the automated triage capability that gets the right submissions in front of the right underwriters faster than your current workflow allows

·       Realize the direct impact that submission automation has on conversion rates, turnaround times and underwriter satisfaction across the carriers already doing it

·       Build a leadership approach that gives your underwriting team a reason to champion AI adoption, not just accept it

·       What it means to be an underwriter when technology shapes decisions, not just workflows

·       Build cross functional teams that combine underwriting judgement with data science capability to make better decisions faster

Marco Andolfatto, Chief Underwriting Officer, Apollo
Michelle Carter, Chief Underwriting Officer, KINETIC
Rajeev Khanna, Chief Information Officer, Trucordia

David Vanalek, Chief Legal & Compliance Officer, Richmond National

·       Take the MGA automation playbook and apply the parts that work inside legacy carrier infrastructure, without ripping out and replacing

·       Challenge the assumption that legacy systems make transformation impossible and leave with a clear view of where carriers can match MGA agility without starting from scratch

·       Be a carrier that finds a way rather than finds an excuse by designing underwriting workflows that flex around imperfect data, edge cases and broker realities

Bill Wilson, President, Commercial Lines, MSI Insurance

Denise Olson, Chief Underwriting Officer, K2 Insurance

·       Face the hard reality of what coverage gaps mean for the customers, communities and economies that depend on insurance being there when the worst happens

·       Understand how conflict, sanctions and geopolitical instability are creating insurability crises that the industry cannot afford to ignore

·       When insurance pulls back from the world’s most volatile places, who fills that gap?

Lavanya Lingala, SVP, Commercial Product Management, CSAA Insurance Group
Rachel Switchenko, VP, Service & Underwriting, Plymouth Rock Home Assurance

·       Identify the gap between what the insurance industry promises the world and what it delivers when the stakes are highest

·       Challenge the assumption that profitability and social responsibility are in tension, insurance has the power to shape a more resilient world – leave knowing what your part looks like

·       What does it mean to be the last line of financial defense for a world that is becoming harder to protect?

Dawn Lee, Chief Product & Underwriting Officer, PEMCO

·       Build a clear picture of the skills tools and mindset that will define a high performing underwriter in a function that looks nothing like it does today

·       Get ahead of the talent, technology and structural changes that will separate those with future ready underwriting functions and those playing catchup

·       Leave with a concrete view of what your organization needs to invest in now to have the underwriting capability the next decade demands

Michelle Pray, SVP, Chief Underwriting Officer, Berkeley Southwest
Julie Wagner, EVP & Chief Underwriting Officer, SOMPO
Erik Tifft, Global Head of Underwriting, BOXX Insurance

·       Leave the event with the infiltered views of globally recognized voices on the questions two days of conversation didn’t fully resolve

·       Challenge the consensus, test your assumptions and walk away with a sharper point of view on where underwriting goes from here

·       What does this room collectively believe needs to change in underwriting?