A weekly interview hosted by Matthew Grant peeking behind the curtain of what‘s going on with some of the most well know companies - and some the newest - from in and around insurance, technology, data and investment.
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Gesamtlänge aller Episoden: 6 days 8 hours 14 minutes
episode 305: Louw Hopley, Co-founder: Root: The future is embedded (303)
Root provides platforms and API for insurers, MGAs, brokers to build, launch and manage digital insurance products and embedded experiences in South Africa and the UK. Matthew Grant caught up with Louw Hopley on the opportunities and challenges in th...
episode 304: Russell Higginbotham, CEO: Swiss Re Reinsurance Solutions: Making society more resilient - using new data to close the protection gap (302)
Swiss Re Reinsurance Solutions was launched two years ago to make Swiss Re’s unique knowledge and tools available across the insurance value chain. Swiss Re’s strongest point of knowledge is property - around which we centre this podcast. Robin Mertt...
episode 303: Rosina Smith, CPO: McKenzie Intelligence Services: Innovation and the insurtech journey - are we there yet? (301)
McKenzie Intelligence Services (MIS) helps accelerate disaster relief and economic recovery for insurers. Matthew Grant spoke to Rosina, Chief Product Officer for MIS, who shares insights from her MBA dissertation's findings on the adoption of techno...
episode 302: Dag Lohmann & Brandon Katz: KatRisk: High speed, high resolution catastrophe modelling (300)
KatRisk is a catastrophe modelling company providing global inland flood, storm surge and windstorm loss assessments for some of the largest insurers, reinsurers and brokers in the world. Taking a macrocosm approach, the company’s models offer an op...
episode 301: Richard Hartley, CEO: Cytora: Decision ready risk - the future of commercial insurance (299)
From episodes 68, 227 and now episode 299, InsTech has consistently caught up with Cytora and followed the company’s growth and expansion. Alongside Google, Cytora supported InsTech’s March event in New York, after which Matthew Grant caught up with...
episode 300: Dani Katz, Co-founder & Director: Optalitix: Fix the roof while the sun is still shining (298)
Optalitix was borne out of the need for ‘optimization’ and ‘analytics’, as Co-founder and Director Dani Katz realized the biggest blocker for insurance companies was converting spreadsheets. Having now expanded beyond spreadsheets, Optalitix offers t...
episode 299: Ben Ruddle, Senior Principle: Publicis Sapient: Beyond Beige - The untapped potential of underserved niches
Robin Merttens is joined by Ben Ruddle, Senior Principle in Strategy at Publicis Sapient, to discuss how technology can help insurers cater to customers outside the typical insurance model. The discussion covers the concept of 'Beyond Beige,' focusin...
episode 298: Verena Brenner, Founder: HDI TH!NX: Insurer-led innovation (296)
HDI TH!NX was founded in 2019 by Verena Brenner, initially operating within the German insurer HDI Global, as an incubator for IIoT solutions. Now providing software to support risk management applications for insurers and insurance clients, tune in...
episode 297: Dr Avi Baruch, Previsico & Allison Whittington, Zurich Municipal & Mark Murphy, Donaldson Timber: Managing your flood risk - stories from the frontline (295)
How would your clients describe you? This week on the podcast we have taken a slightly different approach and brought Previsico’s clients, Zurich Munciple and Donaldson Timber, to discuss how Previsico has helped them with flood risk management. Pre...
episode 296: Mark Fermor, Non-Executive Director: GeoSmart: Groundwater - the hidden predictor of future flood loss (294)
Groundwater flooding poses a great risk to properties in the UK but remains much less widely modelled than other types of flooding. This week, Matthew Grant caught up with Mark Fermor at GeoSmart, a company specializing in flood data analytics in th...