Episodes
252
June 26, 2025
AI in the Underwriting Chair with Jeff Sutton, Markel
AI and its impact is looked at with curiosity, desire, concern, and a bit of fear, but with insurance its presence is often seen with affecting distribution and customer experience. However, is enough focus happening on use within the underwriting chair? Jeff Sutton, Senior VP Sales and Marketing for Markel shares what he sees and how Markel is finding advantages with underwriting and for their partners. In this episode: How AI is helping with sales and experience by starting with risk submiss...
250
June 17, 2025
Innovating Insurance Marketing with Steve Pieroway
Marketing for insurance is a challenge when it's easy but when the space becomes more competitive and crowded, what can be done to stand out? Steve Pieroway, founder of Benevolent Marketing talks, content, creative, messaging and more. In this episode: How understanding lived experience matters for marketing Why content needs to be aligned with strategy What kind of journey is going to resonate with clients Steve's confession during Declared Interests The importance of understanding martec...
249
May 31, 2025
Reinsurance is growing and providing opportunities: [Re]Connect 2025
Never before has reinsurance been talking about so much by so many across insurance. At ReConnect 2025 we talked with the people who are finding new ways to raise, manage, measure, regulate, and distribute capital into the insurance industry. In this episode: How regulatory authorities are working to help make reinsurance secure and accessible How actuaries are measuring and allocating capacity to the market Why companies are promoting reinsurers and accelerating their growth When legal a...
248
May 23, 2025
Sounding off before signing off...for now.
Graham Haigh has seen a thing or two during his insurance career, now looking at a deserved retirement he sounds off about some of the problems he sees in the P&C sector. In this episode: What he sees as the biggest challenge in the industry Scaling up with mergers and acquisitions Should insurers continue to be a part aggregating distribution Where new success is being found and who is having it Why product innovation is hard to do (really?) Why Graham agrees Charles Brindamour owes the...
247
May 12, 2025
Are you paying a Tech Tariff with your insurance technology?
Legacy insurance technology is costly and debatably efficient but there is more and more talk about the hidden fees that come with accessing your data. Sherif Gemayel, founder of Trufla Technology shares some thoughts on what he calls "Tech Tariffs". In this episode: What the true cost of operation is for many brokers and agents Why you are paying a fee for a non-revenue generating action How technology and SaaS services are priced and the extra charges Why core systems need to deliver cor...
246
May 2, 2025
Data preparedness for insurance entities- Mike Allee
Insurance organizations of all kinds are trying to maximize the value of their data, Mike Allee, President of UCT, shares how to prepare your data and business for successful modernization.
245
March 28, 2025
QuickFacts- the startup insurance needs
Insuretechs don't always have to be dazzling but with Quickfacts you can get dazzling results in your service and value proposition all while managing time better as founders Christy and Jeff Barsalou share their story and journey.
244
March 7, 2025
Angela Sethi wants you to sell a insurance with a modern experience
Selling insurance easily is a challenge that is slowly being solved but not easily. Angela Sethi, CEO and co-founder of Mangopolicy, believes the solution is not that far off: In this episode:How existing technology can power insurance sales without headachesWhy brokers and agents need to look at insurance sales differently for future successThe importance of brokers working to develop products and no rely solely on insurersHow new thinking from outside insurance can learn and adapt for successWhy building a tech stack should include sales techHow Ibiza Spain can be a motivator for meditation and planning- year really.Angela is the kind of personality the insurance industry needs and she has a vision and the experience to pull off a juicy plan with Mangopolicy. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
243
Feb. 28, 2025
How Insurance is preparing for the next CAT event at CAT IQ Connect
With CAT events and costs rising hear what the insurance industry is doing to address the many concerns and problems that CAT losses bring.
242
Feb. 14, 2025
AI Agents are the future broker assistants with Flow Specialty
AI Agents are here and Flow Specialty CEO and Co-founder Sivan Iram explains how they work, what they can do for agents and brokers and the success those using them are having.
241
Feb. 5, 2025
Aligning data, technology and the future: Perspectives from NICC
Thought leaders from NICC 2024 share their vision of how data, global concerns, technology, and purpose will drive change across insurance.
240
Jan. 28, 2025
Connecting CAT: Perspectives from leaders at NICC
CAT losses are complex and are costing the insurance industry too much, but industry leaders share how the challenges to find meaningful change require a multi-lateral approach.
239
Jan. 10, 2025
CAT IQ Connect: Helping Insurance Adapt
CAT losses grow in frequency, severity and unpredictability and CAT IQ Connect is the event to talk about how insurance will have to change to manage change forced upon it.
238
Jan. 7, 2025
Guidewire Connections- the strategy creating insurance for the future
Guidewire is preparing insurers for the future by putting agility first, and Connections 2024 was the reveal for how the industry will change at the top and shape the rest.
237
Dec. 30, 2024
2024- An insurance year in review
Framing the year of insurance in 2024 through specific quotes from our guests and discussing our favorite trends, people, and more while looking at 2025.
236
Dec. 21, 2024
Cayman Captive Forum 2024- How captive insurance is solving industry problems
Captive insurance is more accessible than ever, the Cayman Captive Forum helps promote new solutions for insureds who have never had access.
235
Dec. 1, 2024
ITC Episode 3: Transverse Ventures, Hover, Insured.io, & Agent Sync
In the final episode we look back at who we met in 2019 and see what five years has done and how two new companies are serving the entity that everyone said was going to be extinct in 2019.
234
Dec. 1, 2024
ITC EPisode 2: Neuralmetrics, Optalitix, Carpe Data, & Novidea
Connecting more dots around how leaders and innovators are looking at the future of insurance from product creation to distribution and everything in between.
233
Nov. 30, 2024
ITC Episode 1: Clara Analytics, Core Logic, Verisk, & McKenzie Intelligence Services
Sitting down with Clara Analytics, CoreLogic, Verisk, and McKenzie Intelligence Services and discussing how they are using data to drive better efficiencies and outcomes for insureds and insurance carriers.
232
Nov. 1, 2024
Insuretech Connect Recap with Nick Lamparelli
Recapping the incredible Insuretech Connect event from Las Vegas, live on the floor with our friend Nick Lamparelli.
231
Oct. 15, 2024
Underwriting for the future- Will Harnett
Underwriting is what drives insurance and Wil Harnett, Head of Business Strategy for Send Technology shares his thoughts on how to get past traditional barriers preventing efficiency for everyone in the insurance industry.
230
Oct. 7, 2024
A new frontier for insurance sales and growth with Mylo CEO David Embry
Generating 10,000 leads a month is no small feat and Mylo CEO David Embry shares his story, the importance of embedded insurance options, joys of parenting, and why skydiving helped him with risk
229
Sept. 30, 2024
Insurance humor in the face of adversity
There's enough challenges across insurance on any day so why not find humor in it, so we sat down with @insuranceagentmemes from Instagram to get their take on the challenges across the industry.
228
Sept. 16, 2024
Insurance Law & Compliance- Dentons shares the inside issues to consider
Insurance law is not always glamorous but in a world of increased regulation, innovative technology, and compliance experts Laurie LaPalme & Marisa Coggin share what should be top of mind for industry professionals.