Show up early and connect with other underwriters before the conference floor opens. You'll figure out what's worth your time, meet people working the same challenges and have a conversation before the event gets busy.

• 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
Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights

• Know what to change : Understand how AI, market cycles, and data are reshaping underwriting, and which changes truly matter.
• Know what to protect : Learn how to strengthen underwriting discipline, governance, and human judgment while embracing AI.
• Know where to invest : Leave with a practical framework for building the next generation underwriting organization through the right mix of technology, data, talent, and operating model.

Katie Klutts Wysor, Partner, PwC
Sajid Kadri, Partner, 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
Monica MacFarlane, Global Head of Underwriting Technical Training, AIG
Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights

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.

• 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

• What does a carrier that thrives in a soft market do differently from everyone else?
• Update your 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
William Steenbergen, Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer, Federato
Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights

• Identify where AI is improving individual decisions but creating friction across the wider business.
• Evaluate whether current operating models are helping or hindering underwriting performance.
• Develop a framework for aligning pricing, underwriting and portfolio objectives in an AI-driven market.

Kuda Chibanda, Head of Actuarial, Pricing & Portfolio Strategy, Hyperexponential

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.

Ollie Smith, Project Director, Reuters Events

• Unlock faster, more consistent underwriting outcomes by intelligently allocating work between underwriters and AI agents.
• Increase productivity while strengthening governance through transparent, explainable and accountable decision-making.
• Create a sustainable competitive advantage by enabling underwriters to focus on complex risks, portfolio performance and expert judgment.

Tyler Jones, Chief Marketing Officer, Duck Creek

• 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
Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights

• 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
• Build 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
Justin Gress, Chief Operating Officer, HDI Global
Jeff Duncan, EVP & Head of Commercial Lines, AmTrust
Richard Hartley, CEO & Co-Founder, Cytora
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360

• Learn how leading carriers and MGAs are using AI to improve underwriting quality and consistency without slowing decision making.
• Take away practical strategies for embedding compliance, governance, and auditability into AI-enabled underwriting workflows.
• Understand how to deploy AI in a way that increases underwriter confidence, preserves expert judgment, and drives measurable business outcomes.

Aman Gour, Co-Founder & CEO, FurtherAI
Justin Gress, Chief Operating Officer, HDI Global

• 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, Former Chief Risk & Underwriting Officer, Sitata
Kevin Miller, CEO, Sertis Insurance
Ollie Smith, Project Director, Reuters Events

• 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
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360

• 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.

Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights

• Consider tooling to reconcile FOUR portfolio components into a streamlined experience for your underwriters: application accuracy, appetite, profit targets, likelihood to bind, and
• Define optimized triage among teams, not just underwriters
• Report to users while rolling up key metrics to management, enabling visibility to top-line growth and bottom-line results

Brandy Mayfield, Chief Underwriting Officer, Davies
Mike Gibbons, Partner Programs & Strategy, 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
Harpreet Kaur, Global Applied AI Lead, Google Cloud
Jennifer Kyung, SVP, Business Performance, Nationwide

What happens when decades of underwriting judgement retire and the next generation never learns the same way?

With 400,000 industry veterans leaving the workforce and automation replacing traditional training grounds, the industry faces a pivotal question: is expertise being lost, or is underwriting becoming something entirely different?

This session will take place under Chatham House Rules

Marco Andolfatto, Chief Underwriting Officer, Apollo
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360
Ollie Smith, Project Director, Reuters Events
Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights

• 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
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360

• 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
Denise Olson, Chief Underwriting Officer, K2 Insurance
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360

• 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
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360

• 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?

Rob Galbraith, Founder & CEO, Forestview Insights
Christopher Frankland, Founder, Insurtech360
Ollie Smith, Project Director, Reuters Events