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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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Sunday May 10, 2020
Sunday May 10, 2020
With all the attention on COVID-19 just now there is a risk we forget one of the other emerging risks of the last few years - cyber. But of course it's still very much a threat and, in some areas, growing. Most large companies will have their own CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) but for smaller or medium sized companies it's harder to be able to assess their exposure, understand how to reduce the risk and know what insurance options are available.
Kynd was only founded two years ago by Andy Thomas (CEO) and Melanie Hayes (Chief Marketing Officer) but is already establishing its as one of the companies that SMEs can turn to, and brokers use, to assess and mitigate cyberrisk.
In this episode Matthew Grant talks to Andy and Melanie to find out the cyber risk facing companies, how to manage it, what Kynd is offering and how it works.
Areas covered include:
- A quick and free test for companies to assess their areas of potential exposure
- Statistics from the Kynd study of 200 of the UK AIM listed companies that reveals what their own cyber vulnerabilities are
- The Kynd "broker buddy" system to help brokers help their clients
- How and why the company has been able to scale up, and find clients so quickly
To find out about companies building cyber models, head over to Episode 28 with our interview with Pascal Millaire.
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Sunday May 03, 2020
Sunday May 03, 2020
Nigel Walsh has been helping the insurance industry get to grips with the opportunities offered by technology for many years - both in his day job as a partner at consulting firm Deloitte, and as a regular speaker, writer and co-host of the Insurtech Insider podcast.
In another lively discussion, Matthew Grant talks to Nigel, covering a wide range of subjects including:
- Has insurtech lived up to its potential?
- Will the future of insurance give us more choice, but more complexity or less choice but more simplicity?
- Starting up your own business or staying employed?
- Why insurers need to call us by our names, not our numbers
And of course a whole lot more
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Sunday Apr 26, 2020
Sunday Apr 26, 2020
We like to mix it up for our events - a chance to hear from some established companies, insurers and the newcomers. Part of our philosophy at InsTech London is our "pay forward" approach. We lookout for the best upcoming companies, or even just great people with great ideas - and we give them a place to talk about what they are up to. We've been delighted to have so many of our early speakers return as corporate members in the last couple of years supporting what we do, and getting more benefits from our network once they have funding.
These two interviews were recorded live in February at The Steelyard. Sai Lakshmi from Caura and Amit Patel from Hlthie both have great stories to tell about their own emerging businesses including:
- Establishing market fit
- Developing partnerships
- Building a career to gain experience
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Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Sunday Apr 19, 2020
Live events can still exist even if we can't all hang out together in the same place. In this episode, Matthew Grant is talking to Andy Wiggans of the digital video platform BrightTALK about best practices for sharing content and engaging with your customers. Not surprisingly BrightTALK has seen a massive increase in usage for its platform over the last few weeks as its client base of over 1,500 companies relies on it to talk directly to their clients and prospects.
At InsTech London we are now running weekly events on BrighTALK, talking to more of the leaders in technology, innovation and insurance. We have been able to keep up the spirit of our live events, and are quickly building up a growing audience to complement our weekly podcasts. You can see more of what we are doing at the BrightTALK InsTech London channel
See more of what we are up to including all our prior events at www.instech.london
Thanks to Vlocity for sponsoring our BrightTALK channel
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Tuesday Apr 07, 2020
Matthew Grant and Robin Merttens discuss the latest insurance, innovation and insurtech news that has caught their attention.
The conversation took place to launch our new series of live events on Brighttalk, where we'll be bringing you news and interviews until we can relaunch our events at The Steelyard in London.
You can find out more about what we're planning on our new Brighttalk channel, including details of our Insurtech Survival Guide event on Thursday 6 April.
Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives
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Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Sunday Apr 05, 2020
Anthemis is one of the most well known investors in technology start-ups and scale-ups supporting insurance and financial services. Portfolio companies include: Goji, Flock, Hockodo, Insurdata, Quantemplate, Stable, Trov, Tremor and Yulife.
Matthew Grant caught up with Anthemis partner and former lead investor at Allianz, Ruth Foxe Blader, to learn about how and why Anthemis invests. The discussion covers life before and during the pandemic, as well as a look to the future state of fintech and insurtech.
A great discussion with another instech.london member company.
Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives
InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme.
After listening to Episode 76 you will know:
- What Anthemis Group means by "embedded finance"
- How it evaluates companies for the fund
- What characteristics it looks for when meeting companies
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Friday Apr 03, 2020
Friday Apr 03, 2020
Wondering about how to create a podcast and best practices for recording sound? In Episode 75 of the InsTech London podcasts, we're kicking off a series of "Instech Investigates" - a look beyond the usual topics and a chance to learn more about the skills you or your team may need in today's world.
Matthew talks to former BBC Sound Engineer Peter Roach, who now runs VisualMonkeys and who is normally on the other side of the microphone editing our weekly podcast. Matthew and Peter discuss podcasting and recording techniques, subject types, what equipment to use and how to edit.
You can listen to all the previous episodes of our podcast on the InsTech London website.
Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives
InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme.
After listening to Episode 75 you will know:
- the equipment you need to record a podcast
- how to edit your audio
- where to distribute your podcast online
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Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Sunday Mar 29, 2020
Remember when we all got together and ran in person events? Recorded live at The Steelyard, Episode 74 features the highlights from our event with Google Cloud, including what their plans are for insurance and they type of companies they want to work with.
InsTech London’s Robin Merttens and Matthew Grant talked to Damion Thompson, Head of Insurance UK, Google Cloud along with some of the partners they are already working with. Take a trip with us down memory lane to hear more from Cytora, Quantiphi, Quantexa, Aviva and Apigee.
A written summary of Episode 74, plus a gallery of photos for you to view, download and share, is available on the InsTech London website.
Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives
InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme.
After listening to Episode 74 you will learn:
- Why Google Cloud is interested in working with the insurance industry
- How its technology can help insurers
- What sort of partners they are looking to work with
Complete the InsTech London Podcast Feedback Survey to claim your CPD time.
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
Sunday Mar 22, 2020
This week's episode, recorded in February 2020 - is a great lesson in the "art of the possible" when it comes to having, and delivering on a bold vision.
CEO & founder Gary Hoberman and his team have raised more than $150m for Unqork since the company was founded in 2017, to provide "no code" solutions to insurers. Today the company is working with a number of insurers, and at scale. Wondering if legacy is still a problem? Keep listening.
Matthew Grant finds out how and why Gary founded the company on Episode 73 and why their no-code solution is capturing so much attention.
Topics include:
- what no-code actually means
- how companies are managing the move from legacy systems
- making an impact with key decision-makers and investors
- building a business and team at speed
A written summary of the key insights is on the InsTech London website podcast page
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Continuing Professional Development
InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme.
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Sunday Mar 15, 2020
Sunday Mar 15, 2020
This week we have a "pandemic podcast" special edition. A series of interviews recorded on Thursday 12 March, the day after the WHO had declared Covid-19 Coronavirus a pandemic.
In this 40 minute edition Matthew Grant sets the scene for exploring the potential for new and established innovation, analytics and data to help manage the spread of the virus in the short term, and improve insurance offerings and understanding and mitigation of the risk in the future.
Matthew reviews the context of the pandemic to understand how what we are hearing in the news compares to medical opinion, talking to Dr Chris Martin. Whilst there has been modelling of pandemics and research in the medical community, it's been somewhat limited for insurance purposes. Robert Muir-Wood, Chief Research Officer for RMS, the catastrophe modelling company provides an overview of the issues, the impact from an insurance perspective and how Covid-19 can be modelled and losses estimated.
The impact on the insurance industry will be significant. Sam Casey from Insurance Insider, has been talking to insurers and provides an assessment of the breadth of covers affected, and some of the largest unknowns such as the potential for cancellation of the Tokyo Olympics. Nick Wildgoose, formerly responsible for supply chain at Zurich Insurance, explains some of the challenges and potential pinch points.
SparkBeyond is providing AI tools to help the Italian government understand and manage the spread of the virus and Alex Easaw explains what they have been finding.
Matthew released a companion article to this podcast on Saturday, available here on Linkedin. We are planning to continue to review the lessons to be learnt from Covid-19, impact on the insurance industry, data sources available and opportunities for innovation.
Thanks to all our guests for taking the time to speak to us at a busy time, and Peter Roach of Visual Monkeys for the fast turnaround of this episode.