18th Annual Insurance-Canada.ca Technology Awards 2020 | Insurance-Canada.ca | 25 February 2020 | Beanfield Centre, 105 Princes' Blvd, Toronto, ON M6K 3C3, Canada

Technology has become an integral part of our lives and our businesses even as it evolves at an ever-faster rate. Insurance industry practitioners – insurers, brokers, claims services providers, providers of other insurance services – have made innovative and beneficial uses of these technologies to gain a competitive edge, or to at least remain competitive.

As early adopters, insurers have been deploying computer technologies for more than half a century. The gradual evolution to digital processing took on new urgency in recent years when some began to take a more radical and aggressive approach by completely redesigning processes to take utmost advantage of digital capabilities. This digital transformation continues under such umbrella terms as innovation, disruption, and InsurTech. All terms relate to organizations seeking to gain or maintain a competitive advantage in this industry, invariably using technology as a key strategic component.

The Insurance Canada Technology Awards – the “ICTAs” – highlight and celebrate the use of technologies that impact insurance. They have been awarded annually since 2010 at the Insurance-Canada.ca Technology Conference.

To celebrate organizations in the Canadian Property and Casualty Insurance industry whose implementation and use of technology shows a significant impact on a process or group of processes used in the marketing, sale, processing and servicing of insurance in Canada. All areas of the business are eligible: product development, distribution, policy administration, claims management, etc.

Historically, most business applications of technology were within a company. Today “multi-party business application implementations” are increasingly common. Both types are important; nominations of both are welcome.

2020 Speakers

David Arbuthnot
Director, Innovation Outpost, Wawanesa Insurance

Dimitrios Argitis
VP & GM - Canada, Keal Technology (A Vertafore Company)

Julia Bloom
Founder, Bloom Innovation Consulting

Dorothy Comber
AVP - Data Science & Analytics, Aviva Canada

Chris D. Cornell
Head of Insurance, KPMG in Canada

Baiju Devani
SVP Data Science & Chief Data Officer, Aviva Canada

Marty Ellingsworth
Senior Analyst, Celent

David Gambrill
Editor-in-Chief, Canadian Underwriter

Ron Glozman
Founder & CEO, Chisel AI

Doug Grant
Partner, Insurance-Canada.ca

Justin Hamade
Chief Technology Officer, Apollo Insurance Solutions

Alec Harmer
President & CEO, HTM Insurance Company

Daniel Lajeunesse
CEO, DEL Telematics

Eugene Lee
VP - Insurance & Wealth Management Solutions, Hearsay

Gerald Legrove
Managing Partner, Insurance-Canada.ca

Pieter Louter
CEO, Onlia

Tracy MacDonald
President & CEO, Trillium Mutual Insurance Company

Jeff McCann
Co-Founder & CEO, Apollo Insurance

Daryl McGrattan
AVP - Product Analytics and Delivery, Auto Claims, Aviva Canada

Jiten Puri
CEO & Founder, PolicyAdvisor.com

Jay Sarzen
Senior Analyst - P&C Insurance, Aite Group

Sheldon Snodgrass
Speaker, Author, Trainer, Coach

Jonathan Spinner
AVP - Claims Transformation, National Claims, Aviva Canada

Justin Thouin
Co-Founder & CEO, LowestRates.ca

Deb Van Eyk
President & CEO, Lambton Mutual Insurance Company

Eric Weisburg
Vice President - Research & Consulting, Novarica

Danish Yusuf
CEO & Co-Founder, Zensurance

MODERATOR:

Randy Straeten
President & CEO, Cognition+