Insurance Innovators 2024 - USA | MarketforceLive | 22 April 2024 | Music City Center, 201 Rep. John Lewis Way S, Nashville, TN 37203, USA

Step into the arena where game-changing partnerships are born, and industry leaders are made. As America’s leading carrier-led event, Insurance Innovators USA offers you the golden opportunity to keep your finger firmly on the pulse of change. Your journey to success starts now.​

Discuss the most critical issues facing the industry today
Take a look at the hot topics at this year’s insurance event:

• Next-gen AI
Separate fact from fiction as thought leaders unpack the true transformative potential of GenAI, the power of real-time analytics and the future of regulation.

• The future of auto insurance
Navigate the mobility revolution with Volvo, Porsche and Boundless Rider as they unveil cutting-edge insights on the futures of telematics, EV innovation and micro-mobility

• Insurance in a connected age
Join leaders from Travelers, AXA XL and Yulife to harness the power of IoT, value-added services and gamification to lock in loyalty and influence customer behavior.

• Underwriting in uncertain times
Stay ahead of emerging threats, build climate resilience and unlock the power of algorithmic underwriting with USAA, WTW and Zurich.

• The CIO Forum
Step into the CIO Forum as Tokio Marine, State Farm and CNA address cyber security, spaghetti architecture and the road to digital maturity.

• Web3 and the metaverse continuum
Move beyond the hype and discover the power of spatial computing, the future of virtual reality and the implications of Web3 technologies for insurance.

2024 Speakers

Rich Suter
Group President, Great American Insurance Group

Celyeste Power
CEO and President, Insurance Bureau of Canada

Kevin Abramson
President, Cover Whale

Fred Karlinsky
Shareholder and Global Co-Chair, Insurance Regulatory and Transactions Practice, Greenberg Traurig

Marcus Rohlfs
Director of Scouting and Trends, State Farm

Jim Gillard
EVP and Chief Operating Officer, AM Best

Jennifer Kyung
Chief Underwriting Officer, USAA

Hanna Wu
Chief Executive Officer, Amplify Life Insurance

John Chu
Chief Executive Officer, Bamboo Insurance

Fred Blumer
Chief Executive Officer, Porsche Auto Insurance

Tim Attia
Chief Executive Officer, Slice Labs

Eyhab Aejaz
Chief Executive Officer, Breach Insurance

Al Bagiro
Chief Executive Officer, Cogo Insurance

Jack Genet
Founder & Chief Executive Officer, inRev

Sarah Grace
Director of Medical Intervention and Strategy, Travelers

Russell Page
Chief Information Officer, Hagerty

Nabil Rahman
Chief Strategy Officer, Spot Insurance

Stephen Mitchley
Chief Strategy Officer, Vitality

Justin Gress
Chief Operating Officer - Insurance, Vantage Group Holdings

Derek Lynch
Chief Underwriting Officer, reThought Flood

Yaron Ben-Zvi
Chief Operating Officer, Oka – The Carbon Insurance Company

Amir Peivandi
Chief Technology Officer, Saskatchewan Blue Cross

Paige Stiefel
Chief Underwriting Officer, MIC Global

David Verbeeten
Chief Commercial Officer, Nayms

Andrea Collins
Chief Marketing Officer, Cowbell

Todd Lehmann
VP & Chief Actuary, Quincy Mutual

Pierre Braganza
Chief Enterprise Architect, CNA Insurance

Greg Hamlin
SVP Chief Claims Officer, Berkley Industrial Comp

Andrew Johnston
Global Head of InsurTech, Gallagher Re

Bryan Falchuk
Best Selling Author and Podcast Host, The Future of Insurance, Insurance Innovators USA

Lisa Wardlaw
President & Founder, 360 Digital Immersion

Matteo Carbone
Founder & Director, IoT Insurance Observatory

Theresa Blissing
Best Selling Author and Podcast Host, InsurTech in Asia

Trenholm Palmer
Director of Digital Insurance, Volvo Financial Services

Rajeev Gupta
Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Cowbell

Dr Christy Lane
Founder, Flora

Marta Magnuszewska
Senior Director (VP) of Claims Analytics, Markel

Taffy Jo Mayers
Global Head of Commercial, Property and Casualty and Specialty propositions, WTW

John Broadrick
Director Product Development P&C, Nationwide

Michael Sydor
Former Assistant Director Product Analysis, Liberty Mutual

Kathryn Rudolph
Director Product Development, Southern Guaranty Insurance

Kemi Nelson
VP Data Products and Strategy, Liberty Mutual

Dr Elisabeth Barth Thacker
VP Head of Data and Analytics, American Modern

Daniel Campany
VP Innovation, The Hartford

Megan Duty
SVP, Puritan Life

Nathan DauSchmidt
AVP Strategy and Innovation, Great American Insurance Group

Parin Kothari
AVP, Digital Transformation, Manulife

Jay Patel
AVP, Corporate Development and Strategic Finance, Fortitude Re

Wendi Bukowitz
VP, Director of Strategic Innovation, The Cincinnati Insurance Companies

Prateek Sangal
Head of Digital Strategy, North America P&C, AmTrust Financial Services

Keith Gillespie
AVP Financial Systems and Data Integrity, American Modern

Trevor Smith
SVP of Sharing Economy and Mobility, Marsh

Paul Avilez
VP Data Architecture, CNA Insurance

Parimal Kumar
VP, Head of Technology, QBE

Kimberly Vaughn
VP Claims Experience and Culture, Amerisure Insurance

Arthur Borden
Head of Digital Business Systems & Architecture, Everest Insurance

Horacio Herrera-Fajer
Head of Life Insurance Partnerships, Grail

Justin Jacobs
SVP, IMA Financial Group

Pete Frey
AVP, Telematics, Great American Insurance Group

Drew Doleski
Connected Home Product Strategy Director, Homesite Insurance

Lori Pon
Insurance Thought Leader, Insurance Innovators USA

Gwen Olson
AVP Enterprise Claims Strategy, American Family

Maria Kokiasmenos
VP, Associate General Counsel, The Hartford

Julie Brown
EVP Commercial Product, Mobilitas Insurance

Daniel Hermansson
AVP Corporate Strategy, Pacific Life Re

Lauren Sorkin
Executive Director, Resilient Cities Network

Chris Cargill
Head of Digital Distribution, Westfield

Josh Stirling
Founder, The Insurance Collaboration to Save Lives

Adam Fischer
EVP Product and Technology, Clearcover

Luna Liu
Vice President of State Product Management, CSAA

Bipin Chadha
VP of Data Science, CSAA

Nan Li
VP AI/ML Statistical Practices, Nationwide

Scott Aiello
VP Commercial Strategy, Simply Business

Dylan Whitehead
Director of Claims, Pumpkin Insurance

Cristiane Chiacchio
Head of Distribution Partnerships, Prudential

Santhosh Ladalla
Director of Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning, CNA Insurance

Mark McGhiey
CSP, CFPS, AFIS, Sr. Associate Vice President, Nationwide

Lizzie Kolkowski
AVP Innovation, Canal Insurance

Akhil Aniff
Director Of Business Development, Pattern Insurance

Jayanthi Balu
Associate Director, Digital Customer Communications, HTC Global Services

Kate Birtch
GM of Insurance, Forbes Advisor

Doug Roerden
Head of Experience Design, FM Global

Amir Abdullah
Head of Product, Yulife

Patterson Webber
Director – Fraud Operations, Asurion

Betsy Stella
SVP VP Carrier Management & Operations, Insurify

Kelly Spurgeon
SVP, Business Management, Cowbell

Alexander M. Choniski
Head of Embedded Insurance, Gallagher Re

Rose Hall
SVP, Head of Innovation, Americas, AXA XL

Dominique Roudaut
Partner, Innovation, MS&AD Ventures

Chad Sands
IT Leader and Architect, State Farm

Joseph Guastella
Partner, Viewpoint Ventures

Anthony Delaney
SVP of Product and Underwriting, Acceptance Insurance

Robert Cooney
Senior Managing Director, Aon

Felicia McElhaney
Head of Underwriting, Dayforward

Levi Stacey
Product Principal - Telematics, Nationwide

Amir Kabir
General Partner, AV8 Ventures

Ash Naik
Head of Auto Insurance Products, AAIS

Alex Carvalho
Investor, Distributed Ventures

Dave Mullen
VC, SVB Capital

Iris Devriese
AI Liability Lead, Munich Re

Craig Schedler
Managing Director, Northwestern Mutual Future Ventures

Aidan Madigan-Curtis
Partner, Eclipse Ventures

Kyra Peyton
Innovation, CSAA

Milena Russo
Innovation Manager, AXA XL

Daniel Savage
Strategic Consultant Claims, Mass Mutual

Ronnie Gammage
Senior Manager Claims Experience, Lemonade

Henry Kowal
Director of Product Management, Arity

Brian Knowles
US Insurance Lead, Attensi

Patrice Grant
Account Director, Attensi

Ryan Briggs
Senior Director of Insurance Telematics, Azuga

Heather Wilson
Chief Executive Officer, Clara Analytics

Allison Albrecht
Director Sales, Clearspeed

Aaron Wright
Director, Strategy, Earnix

Robert Anderson
Principal Architect, Endava

Mark Belak
Account Director, Genesys

Roger Duffield
CPCU, ARM, SVP and General Manager of Risk Management, iLearning Engines

James Berrocal Sizemore
Chief Insurance Strategist, Informatica

Chuck Gomez
General Manager, North America, InsureMO

Larry Baeder
Data Scientist, Milliman

Chris Sawyer
President & CEO, Next Level Solutions

Jyoti Bontemps
Director - Core Insurance Transformation, PwC

Tim Lenahan
Executive Strategist, Sapiens

John Norrie
Data Scientist Lead, Shift Technology

Eileen Potter
VP of Insurance Marketing, Smart Communications

Dan Woods
Founder and CEO, Socotra

Juliette Foster
Owner, Magnus Communications

Misha Bleymaier-Farrish
Founder, GSD Factor

Varada Bhat
Senior Correspondent, P&C Specialist, Financial Times

Jason Gross
Vice President, ManchesterStory

Keith Raymond
Principal Analyst, Celent

Warren Hersch
Associate Editor, Life Annuity Specialist

James Benham
Co-host, The InsurTech Geek Podcast

2024 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSOR:
• Kyndryl

PLATINUM SPONSORS:
• Arity
• EIS
• Genesys
• Informatica

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Attensi
• Clara Analytics
• Clearspeed
• Duck Creek
• Endava
• Entegral
• iLearning Engines
• Milliman
• Next Level Solutions
• PwC
• Sapiens
• SAS
• Socotra
• Shift Technology
• Smart Communications
• Uniphore

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Azuga
• Earnix
• EXL
• InsureMO

Bronze Sponsors:
Blue Prism
Charlee.ai
EasySend
Expert.ai
FRISS
FPT Software
Invoice Cloud
Joshu
One10
Paymentus
Roots Automation
Routable
SMA Technologies
Tiger Analytics