Episodes

Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Part two of the Insurers Reverse pitch - Allianz and Renaissance Re (51)
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
Sunday Oct 20, 2019
One of our most lively and most popular events so far - in this, the second half of our "Reverse Pitch" event from The Steelyard that we held on 24th September, Matthew Grant is on stage talking to Hayley Maynard, Chief of Staff to the CUO of Allianz ACGS and Karl Stanley VP Technology Ventures, Renaissance Re. Two great guests from two of the world's biggest insurers.
You can find out highlights from every speaker on the night - and what help they are looking for - on the event section of www.instech.london
Enjoyed this? If you haven't found the first half yet - it's Episode 49.
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Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
We were delighted to be able to find some time with Rob Galbraith whilst he was over in London recently. Rob is well known for his commentary on insurance, insurtech and all things related. Join us to find out why Rob, author of the recent insurance bestseller "The end of insurance as we know it", has been called "the most interesting man in insurance" and "the WD40 of insurance". Matthew and Rob compare notes about the latest issues in insurance and technology, mutual friends, finding information and other hot topics from around the world. (Note - since we recorded this, Amazon lowered their UK price of Rob's book in line with the US price)
This is a special mid-week release. Too much to talk about and not enough time!
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Sunday Oct 13, 2019
Sunday Oct 13, 2019
The summer is over and we're back in the Steelyard for our autumn season of evening events. There are many opportunities to find out what technology companies offering product and services to insurance have to offer, but how often do we know what the insurers really want? In this episode, from the first half of our Reverse Pitch event on 24 September, Robin Merttens is on stage with our guests, finding out what they are up to and where they need help. Part Two coming soon. Who needs Vegas?
Jamie Garratt, Head of Underwriting Strategy - Talbot (2:00)
Madeleine Durand, Senior Strategy Manager - Bupa (8.25)
Jason Smith, Deputy Lead, Data Exchange - Experian (12.35)
And our very own Paolo Cuomo in his new role as head of Strategy at Brit (18:00)
No need to take notes - get the summary of what we heard at the event, and all 20 requests for help from our speakers in the article on the event specific section on our website www.instech.london. You will also find photos from the event and the full agenda.
Thanks to PKF Littlejohn for sponsorship of this event, and to Insurance Insider for their support for these podcasts.
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Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Trevor Davis, Managing Director, Life & Health at Instanda (48)
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
Sunday Oct 06, 2019
The curse of "legacy" is often blamed for lack of innovation in established insurance companies - but is that really the problem? Instanda was founded 7 years ago and has proved it can successfully build new systems for insurers and work alongside, and with, legacy and still deploy its solutions quickly and relatively cheaply. With 40 companies drawn mostly from P & C, Instanda is now branching out in Life & Health. Trevor Davis joined Instanda last year from Swiss Re. In this episode he talks to Matthew Grant about how the company builds its products, why it has been successful, the new opportunities arising in the Life & Health space and what the future for System Integrators may look like.
This autumn our podcasts are being supported by Insurance Insider and they are offering a free issue to all of our listeners. Download it from http://campaigns.insuranceinsider.com/instechlondon/
To find out what we are up to at InsTech London - our future events, past events and our weekly news, go to www.instech.london

Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Sunday Sep 29, 2019
Liberty Mutual is the world's fifth-largest property & casualty insurer. James Slaughter is responsible for setting the overall underwriting strategy - which includes pricing, risk appetite, distribution and innovation - for the global commercial & specialty lines business of Liberty Mutual.
Matthew talks to James about what drew him to insurance and the challenges of bringing change and new technology to the underwriting of large and complex risks. Topics include lessons to be learnt from personal lines, creating an internal culture of innovation and how the market will evolve in the next few years.
More information on James and the head of innovation partnerships, Premal Gohil
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Sunday Sep 22, 2019
Sunday Sep 22, 2019
A short episode this week as Matthew and Robin talk about what they have been up to recently, the latest trends catching their eye and what the autumn has in store for InsTech London and our community of 4,000 people supported by 80 corporate members.
Find out about our events, members and views at www.Instech.London. To get more pithy insights and early notification of our forthcoming events try our weekly newsletter
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Sunday Sep 15, 2019
Sunday Sep 15, 2019
The finance teams in insurance companies often struggle as much as others when it comes to bringing together multiple sources of data, and identifying key business metrics. Improving efficiency is one of the foundations of the "Future of Lloyd's" strategy and the 3rd cohort in the Lloyd's Lab brings together scale-ups rather than start-ups.
Phinsys, founded in 2010, was chosen because of its record in providing systems to speed up and improve reporting capabilities to leading insurers.
In this week's episode Matthew is back in the Lab talking to CRO Stuart Conibear and Marketing Director Ian Jones about what the company does, why they joined the Lab, and their experience so far. We also hear why Phinsys became a corporate member of InsTech London and what gets Stuart and his team to give up his evenings to join us at our events.
We're delighted to bring you this podcast with the support of Insurance Insider. We know from experience that Insurance Insider readers are the first to hear about the latest global wholesale specialty and reinsurance breaking news. InsTech London listeners are eligible to download the latest issue of Insurance Insider free from http://campaigns.insuranceinsider.com/instechlondon/
To learn more about InsTech London, our members, and past and future events find us at https://www.instech.london/

Sunday Sep 08, 2019
Bevis Tetlow CEO Imaginera. Reinsurance underwriter and technologist (44)
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
Sunday Sep 08, 2019
Bevis Tetlow returned earlier this year to his roots in technology, joining Imaginera as CEO after having spent 13 years as a reinsurance underwriter for Hiscox. Prior to leaving Hiscox, Bevis was chair of North American underwriting for Bermuda and London operations of Hiscox Re, as well as Head of Underwriting Systems.
The debate continues about whether insurers can evolve and innovate on their own, will become increasingly reliant on third parties for new ideas, or perhaps even disappear. Matthew talks to a former colleague from the early days of catastrophe modelling about what reinsurers really need, how to give it to them and what blind spots still remain for property reinsurers. Bevis reveals that despite 30 years since catastrophe models first emerged there are still lots of opportunities for companies that have data to solve problems for re/insurers that the models still can't solve (fraud being one).
Bevis signed up bespoke software developer Imaginera to build the reinsurance underwriting system for Hiscox. He has now hung up his underwriting pen to join founder Toby Crawford in expanding Imaginera's business in Bermuda and the UK.
More information on Imaginera here - http://www.imaginera.co.uk/
We're delighted to bring you this podcast with the support of Insurance Insider. We know from experience that Insurance Insider readers are the first to hear about the latest global wholesale specialty and reinsurance breaking news. InsTech London listeners are eligible to download the latest issue of Insurance Insider free from http://campaigns.insuranceinsider.com/instechlondon/
To learn more about InsTech London, our members, and past and future events you can find us at https://www.instech.london/

Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Mark Geoghegan, Editorial Director, Insurance Insider (43)
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Sunday Sep 01, 2019
Mark Geoghegan started his career as a broker in 1992 and has run Insurance Insider since 2008. In that period he has got to know all of the leaders in the London market and further afield. Over the years he has seen the industry try, but frequently fail, to adopt technology to try to mprove efficiency, decision making and the flow of information around the market.
Mark and his team are frequent visitors to our InsTech London evening events. In addition to reporting on the core insurance activities, and ups and downs of the market Insurance Insider also follow what is happening amongst the new entrants and the established re/insurers. In this episode Mark talks to Matthew about the changes he has been seeing in recent years that are making him more optimistic that finally even Lloyd's, and the traditional specialty insurance market, is going to be able to fully embrace new opportunities in data, tech and analytics.
We also find out why the reinsurance market heads off to Monte Carlo in mid-september each year and a hint of the themes that will be being discussed in the next few weeks.
At InsTech London we have been keen readers of the Insurance Insider for many years, and so we are delighted that this episode also marks the first of the forthcoming series that is being sponsored by the Insurance Insider.
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Mark Geoghegan, and the Insurance Insiders' New York correspondent, Bernard Goyder, also feature on InsTech London podcasts numbers 17 and 30 respectively.
To learn more about InsTech London, our members, and past and future events you can find us at https://www.instech.london/

Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Adrian Jones, Head of Ventures & Strategic Partnerships, SCOR (42)
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
Sunday Aug 25, 2019
In this episode Matthew Grant talks to Adrian Jones who heads up Ventures & Strategic Partnerships at SCOR Global P&C, the #5 global reinsurer.
Adrian's P&C Ventures team at SCOR invests in carriers, MGAs, and technology companies. P&C Ventures, one of the more active VCs in re/insurance, is fully embedded within SCOR and invests in support of the core business. Adrian is also a well-known speaker and writer on innovation and technology in insurance via LinkedIn.
To learn more about the growing InsTech London community of people from insurance, technology, start-ups, scale-ups and investors - take a look at www.instech.london