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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

Bringing together the best technology and innovation for insurance and risk management together from around the world. Podcast hosted by Matthew Grant.

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The Describe Data team on Lloyd's Lab & their D & O...

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2019/08/11

Finding a new area of risk to model is a great way to get attention as an insurtech start-up, particularly when the founders have a deep history in insurance, analytics and technology. In this episode Matthew talks to the founders of Describe Data - Michael Crawford, Gerard de Vere and Mick Cooney about their experience of being on the Lloyd's Lab cohort 2. After day two Michael already realised that "it was going to be amazing". When we spoke they were coming up to the end of their time in the lab

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34:15

Google Cloud, Genasys, Xtract and Hitachi. Insurtech...

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2019/08/04

So what is Insurtech as a service? In these highlights from the second half of our 8th July event recorded in front of a packed room Matthew talks to Stewart Reeder of Hitachi (13:45) and three more of their partners, Damion Thompson Insurance Lead at Google Cloud, Michael Flanagan, CEO and founder of Xtract (17:15), Craig Olivier, VP of tech stuff at Genasys (22.10). We continue our discussion (from podcast 38) about how Hitachi identify which companies to work with and put in front of their

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46:35

Hitachi, Munich Re Digital Partners, Kasko, Shepherd...

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2019/07/28

Another fast moving series of chats with more leaders from insurance, technology and data. In this episode, the first half of our 8th July evening at The SteelYard, Robin investigates how Hitachi (2:00), the 7th largest technology group in the world, is making it easier for established insurers to work with the emerging providers of data for trains, buildings and a whole lot more. Serif Otterburn, Business Development Manager, and Insurance Subject Matter Expert “Everything Hitachi builds, from

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37:08

Graham Elliott CEO & Founder Azur Underwriting (37)

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2019/07/21

Graham Elliott describes Azur as a "Managing Digital Agency" (MDA). He founded the business in 2015, providing High Net Worth insurance for clients of UK brokers, in partnership with AIG. Matthew Grant and Graham talk about the challenges of becoming a full digital insurer and other topics such as offering quotes based on only 5 questions, sources of data and the role of brokers. You can learn more about Azur at https://www.azuruw.com/ And find out what we are up to at InsTech London

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29:46

Robin reflects on DIA. Dan White of Ninety Consulting...

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2019/07/15

A double bill this week. Matthew talks to Robin about his experience of visiting the DIA Amsterdam conference this year with the highlights, lowlights and his meeting with the rising stars from insurtech in Japan. Dan White, Managing Partner at Ninety Consulting talks to us about some of the themes emerging from their white paper "Examining the direct relationship between insurance innovation and company value" We discuss topics such as why do insurers appear to compare so badly with other

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28:26

Sean Ringsted, Chief Digital Officer, Chubb (35)

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2019/07/08

In this episode Matthew Grant chats to Sean Ringsted about how Chubb is introducing innovation across the company and he gives some tips to help anyone starting up a new business aimed at selling to insurers. Sean is Executive Vice President for Chubb Group reporting directly into CEO Evan Greenberg. Sean leads Chubb’s digital efforts aimed at transforming the company into a digitally integrated organization. Sean has 25 years of experience in the insurance industry. He was appointed Chief

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14:19

Keeping your algorithm safe, legal and morally...

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2019/07/02

With all the talk of the use of AI and algorithms in insurance innovation we thought we'd better check out some of the potential pitfalls and challenges that need to be considered with using algorithms in financial services. Robin discusses what to do, and what to avoid with Nicholas Berry and Peter McBurney from Norton Fulbright Rose and Wan Heath from Barnett Waddingham. Who'd have thought regulation could be quite so much fun... Learn more about InsTech London at https://www.instech.london/

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33. More algorithms that really work from ChAI,...

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2019/06/24

More fun from our Algorithm and AI event at the Steelyard on 3rd June in this, our selected highlights from the second half of the evening. We covered the first half in episode 31. Now its Robin Merttens turn up on stage talking to three of the leaders from new and growing companies servicing the insurance market telling us how they are making it real in the world of algorithms. Silvi Wompa, Chief Underwriting Officer, ChAI (1:30) e2Value offers products to assist with property asset valuation. Its

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32. Inter-operability and catastrophe modelling....

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2019/06/18

Dickie is CEO and co-founder of the open source catastrophe modelling platform Oasis. After a career in reinsurance broking, Dickie has spent the last 8 years creating a way to help insurers get access to emerging, niche and academic data & models. Today Oasis LMF is used by many of the London market re/insurers to price and manage global catastrophe risk. Matthew and Dickie discuss the history of the company, catastrophes and other themes relevant to all data and technology companies such as

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31. How humble is your algorithm? Talking to AIG,...

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2019/06/11

This week’s podcast features edited highlights of Matthew chatting on stage with leading figures from AIG, Cytora, WhenFresh and Polar Capital at our live event in The Steelyard. Everyone’s talking about AI, but what’s really going on? Questions we asked included how far has AI really got in insurance, what are the regulatory issues, how to convince an insurer that the results are validated, how to tell the quality of a company’s AI credentials, where do insurers stand relative to the rest of the

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30. Report from New York. Bernard Goyder from...

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2019/06/03

The team from Insurance Insider are regular attendees at our InsTech London events. Bernard Goyder, senior reporter for Insurance Insider was previously covering the London insurance technology and insurtech space but since April he has been based in New York. In this episode Matthew talks to Bernard about what he's learning about the difference between writing insurance in the US and the UK, and why this constrains innovation in personal lines. Despite the regulatory challenges Hartford has

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29. The Partners' chat. The latest Lloyd's strategy...

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2019/05/27

In this episode Matthew, Robin and Paolo catch up on what they heard whilst attending the recent Insider Tech event hosted by Insurance Insider. Robin talks about his keynote (read it here) and other themes that were emerging on the back of the release of the latest Lloyd's strategy paper. Matthew reviews the presentations by James Slaughter (Liberty) and Laurent Rousseau (SCOR) and Paolo talks about Robert Lumley's (Insurtech Gateway) description on the types of investors in insurtech today. For

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28. Talking to Pascal Millaire, CEO of CyberCube...

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2019/05/21

In this episode, Matthew Grant discusses the challenges in building a cyber model for insurance pricing and portfolio management with Pascal Millaire, CEO of CyberCube over from the US visiting his UK office. CyberCube was launched in 2018 as a spin-out from Symantec. Since being launched, CyberCube has signed up major insurers and brokers as clients, including CNA, Chubb, Munich Re, Guy Carpenter and JLT Re. The issue, according to Pascal, isn't a lack of data. It's just that that data is hard to

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27. "Insurance is a community, not an industry"....

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2019/05/13

We're back in this week's episode with highlights from our event on 30th April. Matthew Grant is talking to an insurer, an insurtech and three marketing experts about how to innovate with marketing in insurance and techniques for gaining more exposure in B2C and B2B. First up is Olivia Hendrick, Director of Marketing at Hiscox UK and Ireland (2:20), describing their record breaking "cyber hack" marketing video, with over 20 million downloads. What it is, how it works and why. See the video here

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26. Marketing Innovation in Insurance Part One....

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2019/05/07

“Insurers aren’t bad at marketing, it's just that they haven’t had to be good at it”. Listen to Robin and Matthew host another set of lively discussions from our 'Marketing Innovation in Insurance' event on April 30th. Creative, and still a bit edgy, we moved up to Shoreditch for our April event and we weren’t disappointed; with over 100 people attending their first InsTech London event, plus a similar number of regulars. Highlights on the 'Part 1' podcast include AM Best (17:37) talking about

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25. Chatting about AI, Algorithms and Psychographics...

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2019/04/29

We’re hearing a lot about AI, but what about the critical building blocks, the algorithms, that insurers are starting to rely on to make decisions in underwriting and claims assessment without human intervention? Is the industry ready to delegate underwriting to machines? Matthew Grant and Robin Merttens, your hosts for the Instech London podcasts and our monthly evening events, chat about the issues facing insurers and the companies that build the algorithms for them as a preview to our next event

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25:02

24. The insurtech MGAs (Part Three). Evari, Laka,...

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2019/04/22

In this third and final podcast from the InsTech London evening event “MGA, the new frontier for Insurtech” recorded live at The Steelyard London on 2nd April, join Matthew Grant on the sofa as he talks to the founders and partners of three more new insurtech MGA solutions. First up, Matthew talks to Robert Jeffery founder and COO of Evari about the benefits that come from having both an MGA and providing a service to build technology platforms. (0:48) https://evari.insure/ Next is Tobias

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23. The insurtech MGAs (Part Two). Equipsme, Genasys,...

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2019/04/16

Three more “sofa sessions” in the second extract from of our “MGA, the new frontier for Insurtech” evening event recorded live at The Steelyard London on 2nd April. Robin Merttens talks to Matthew Reed founder of health insurance for business provider Equipsme and Andre Symes from their tech partners Genasys. (0.42) Sebastien Piguet, co-founder of Descartes Underwriting, talks about the bespoke natural hazard cover they offer with their MGA (8.10) Matthew Grant discovers from Richard Coleman how

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22 The insurtech MGAs (Part One): Coverly, Tarian,...

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2019/04/09

In this episode we bring you the first three discussions we had on stage at our evening event "MGA: The new frontier for Insurtech". First up is Bryan Phillip from small business insurance provider Coverly describing why they decided to offer a new type of insurance and who they are working with. Jason Coombe from Tarian and David King, Founder of Artificial explain how they worked together to launch Tarian's cyber MGA. (5:40) David Janczewski co-founder of Digital Assets Services talks about his

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21. Tony Russell, Chief Commercial Officer of Charles...

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2019/04/02

Matthew Grant talks to Tony Russell, Chief Commercial Officer of Charles Taylor InsureTech - an Instech London corporate member. Charles Taylor has a long history in the insurance arena with over 3,000 employees in over 100 locations across 30 countries. Charles Taylor InsureTech was founded three years ago with, as Tony says, "the aim to work with the global insurance market on their digital journey, by blending measurable business outcomes and technology whilst appreciating how their clients

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