The 2023 version of InsureTech Join Vegas was a wild one. Huge cubicles, two pet playpens, a beer backyard (that we undoubtedly didn’t discover), and among the greatest gamers and innovators within the insurance coverage area all gathered in Mandalay Bay for an unbelievable week.
Our presence at this 12 months’s ITC was a giant step up from final 12 months. Our Chief Insurance coverage Officer, David Derigiotis, spoke on-stage for a panel on Catastrophic Dangers, the place he spoke to the arrival of AI inside the insurance coverage area and past, and touched on different precise and perceived international threats to companies. We’ll give a deeper recap on that later.
We additionally had nice conversations with media, trade insiders, leaders, and different technology-driven insurtechs. We’ll additionally recap a few of these conversations, and provide you with an concept of the widespread themes and tendencies we’re seeing within the area.
David was joined on the Catastrophic Dangers panel by numerous trade specialists. Host Emilio Figueroa, CEO and Founding father of Indemnity Lab, LLC, Ruth Foxe Blader, Associate at Anthemis Group Enterprise Capital, Stuart Blake, Managing Director of The Bridge Worldwide, and Trevor Shanklin, Head of Insurance coverage at Flexport.
A giant panel and large discussions. Subjects ranged from the consequences of local weather change on property insurance coverage and worldwide transport delays to the evolving nature of cyber danger.
David’s experience within the digital danger and cyber insurance coverage was evident on this panel dialogue. He touched on AI’s rising presence, particularly:
“There’s nothing that synthetic intelligence can’t contact…It represents the best alternative relating to enterprise efficiencies, enhancements, course of implementation, and utilizing huge information to provide you with solutions and knowledge instantaneously…However, it additionally creates large threats from a cybersecurity perspective and for authenticating legit content material.”
Our current Cyber Danger Index Report discovered that cyber danger was the primary concern enterprise house owners have in 2023, forward of local weather change and disruptive applied sciences reminiscent of AI. Nonetheless, regarding cyber dangers, malicious AI is tied with provider disruption as their prime concern going into 2024.
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David fielded some viewers questions on information privateness and the way synthetic intelligence might have an effect on the insurance coverage trade:
“Lots of legacy insurers, they’re doing it the old fashioned method…The organizations at ITC want to marry Safety Plus administration with insurance coverage and trying to do it in a extra frictionless method… I believe our trade is admittedly main the way in which in doing that. However I don’t suppose we are able to proceed to function in silos with out having extra superior information analytics and danger administration instruments.”
Forward of ITC Vegas 2023, we launched an replace on our progress on the Embroker ONE platform, in addition to a recap of the work carried out to date, and Embroker CEO Ben Jennings’ imaginative and prescient for the way forward for insurtech and Embroker’s contributions to it.
Right here’s what he needed to say:
“Embroker will proceed to drive know-how disruption within the industrial insurance coverage area, embracing cutting-edge applied sciences, AI, ML, and Huge Information to enhance the shopper’s general shopping for expertise dramatically. Embroker ONE does precisely that. ONE offers an simply understood, low-friction buying course of that educates enterprise house owners whereas stripping away the pointless complexity of conventional insurance coverage. The client is offered with a coverage or insurance policies tailor-made particularly to their distinctive enterprise wants.”
We had the chance to talk with many organizations and media members about Embroker’s path ahead. The sentiment is {that a} technology-driven, customer-centric method to insurance coverage is sorely wanted within the trade. However, we knew that already. What is actually progressive is Ben’s ultimate line above: insurance policies tailor-made particularly to distinctive enterprise wants and danger profiles.
Embroker ONE is about assembly companies the place they’re, not making insurance coverage as straightforward for us as attainable. That’s the distinction we’re bringing to the insurance coverage trade. This message, to everybody we spoke to, resonated.
InsureTech Join Vegas was stuffed with positivity and optimism. As illustrated by the $250M funding in NEXT Insurance coverage by Allstate and Allianz, introduced simply earlier than the occasion started, capital is flowing. Whereas there may be an unbelievable quantity of labor to be carried out, wonderful individuals and organizations on this area are working to revolutionize it. As catastrophic dangers look to vary how our world, not to mention insurance coverage, appears, now could be the time for everybody in our trade to take a tough have a look at how issues are going and alter them.
Insurance coverage is an outdated and cussed area. However, by specializing in serving to the shopper via digital-first options, we are going to deliver insurance coverage into the twenty first century and shift the narrative of danger switch for individuals and companies alike.
This occasion, in contrast to some other, will get to the center of the issues and alternatives of our trade. With all of the assets at our disposal, we’re extremely excited in regards to the future.
For Embroker, we’re persevering with our journey. We’re serving the underserved and delivering a product that may proceed to assist companies develop, not sluggish them down.
