Underwriting Innovation USA 2021 | Newton Media Group | 7 December 2021 | Virtual Event

This event is where innovation meets the global underwriting ecosystem, connecting to create the industry’s most impactful and revolutionary event.

With the ultimate goal to support productivity, this event provides visionary insight, providing solutions to the age-old question - how best to increase profitability through efficiency, innovation, and technology? Our 2020 edition definitely did not disappoint!

Bringing attendees together for three power-packed days of learning, networking business generation, and inspiration, delegates left equipped with actionable knowledge that covered:
• New data integration
• Getting products to market faster
• Sophisticated pricing
• Customer expectation and service delivery
• Innovation culture, workforce support, and empowerment

2021 Speakers

David Perez
Chief Underwriting Officer, Liberty Mutual Global Risk Solutions

Dean Lapierre
SVP, Global Property Officer, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty

Rick McCathron
President, Hippo Insurance

Joseph Peiser
Commercial Risk Leader, AON

Laila Beane
CCO and Head of Consulting, Intellect SEEC

Dan Brown
Chief Underwriter, Baltimore LIfe

Nichole Myers
SVP, Underwriting Propositions Lead for the Americas, Swiss Re

Carrie Brodzinski
Chief Underwriting Officer, Global Specialty, The Hartford

Kiley O'Connell
Chief Underwriting Officer - Specialty Property, The Hanover Insurance Group

Gail Mcgiffin
Chief Information & Operations Officer, Vantage Group Holdings

John Wallace
Chief Insurance Officer, Vouch

Russell Corbould-Warren
Chief Underwriting Officer, Collective Benefits

Guenter Kryszon
Executive Underwriting Officer, Global Property, Markel

Heather Wentworth
Chief Data Officer, Accelerant

Ubaldo Gonzalez Benitez
Chief Data Officer, MAPFRE Insurance

Marty Ellingsworth
Senior Analyst, Celent

Corinne Kenny
Vice President, Underwriting Research & Development Manager, Swiss Re

Kevin Klestinski CPCU, CIC
Vice President - Specialty Lines Underwriting, SECURA Insurance

José Antonio Molleda
Head of Product and Innovation Home Line of Business, Allianz Partners

Chris Donahue
Chief Underwriting Officer, Hippo Insurance

Heather Fitzgerald
Vice President, Head of Data & Business Intelligence, Jackson National Life

Renato Haechler
Senior Vice President - Head of Innovation Strategy & Operations, Swiss Re

Kate Terry
Co-Founder and Chief Operation Officer, Surround Insurance

Brian Thornton
CEO, ProWriters

Harry Croydon
CEO & President, Micro Insurance

Joann Gomez
Vice President, Division Underwriting Manager, West Region, Liberty Mutual

Sean Adams
Senior Vice President, Innovation Design, State Compensation Insurance Fund

Dominick Hoare
Group Chief Underwriting Officer, Munich Re Syndicate

Phil Zeidler
Co-Founder, DeadHappy

Stephanie Rushforth
Senior Vice President, Head of Underwriting Operations, Hiscox

Raul Monroy
Chief Experience Officer, SBS Seguros Colombia

Rebecca Adelman
Founder, Adelman Law Firm

Louis Botticelli
Senior Director, US Cyber Product Leader, Markel

Brian Dusek
Cyber Head of Americas, Mosaic Insurance

Peter Mahler
Vice President - Religious Markets Underwriting, Church Mutual Insurance Company, S.I.

Simone Bohnenberger-Rich
SVP of Product, Eigen Technologies

Jonathan Rigby
Chief Cyber Officer, Liberty Specialty Markets

Rachel Alt-Simmons
Architecture Lead, AXA XL

Nestor Solari
Co-Founder and CEO, Sigo Seguros Insurance

Adam Lantrip
Senior Vice President, E&O and Cyber Practice Leader, CAC Specialty

Chris Frankland
Founder, InsurTech360

John Elbl
Chief Risk Officer, Cabrillo

Anshul Srivastav
Chief Information Officer & Digital Officer, Union Insurance

Trent Cooksley
COO and Co-Founder, Cowbell Cyber

Charles J. Pruzinsky
Chief Underwriting Officer, North America
Resilience

Jeff Tyler
Head of Product, Data Science and Engineering, Two Sigma IQ

Dan Adams
SVP Data Strategy and Operations, Precisely

Jay Nichols
Strategic Advisor, Two Sigma IQ

Dan Tatro
Director, Insurance Practice, Precisely

Martin Kosk
Head of Sales, Insly

Eileen Potter
Solution Marketing Manager, Insurance ABBYY

Arnaud Grapinet
Chief Data Scientist, Shift Technology

Justin Krone
Vice President, CNA Small Business

Ran Harpaz
Chief Technology Officer, Hippo Insurance

Molly Ireland
Cyber Liability, Markel West Insurance Services, Markel

Laure Zicry
Head of Finex Cyber, Western Europe, Willis Towers Watson

Radha Maharaj
Customer Success Analyst, Chisel AI

Xing Xin
Co-Founder & CEO, Paladin

Piyush Singh
Co-Founder, FRISS

Brett Hurt
CEO and Co-Founder, data.world

Sjoerd van den Heuvel
Keynote Speaker, Associate professor Data-Driven Business & People Analytics, HU University of Applied Science Utrecht

Woody Klemmer
Head of Growth, Formotiv

Meredith Barnes-Cook
Global Head of Insurance, Ushur

Jeff Mason
Founder, CEO, Member of the Board, Groundspeed

Rangarajan Srinivasan
Head of Insurance Solutions, HCL Technologies

Randy Hoffman
VP-PHS, SIF, Idaho Workers Compensation

Jon Walden
CTO, Blue Prism Limited

Bill Conners
CEO & Co-Founder, Formotiv

Meghan O'Malley
Divisional Director, Howden Specialty

Neta Rozy
Co-Founder & CTO, Parametrix Insurance

Tanner Hackett
CEO, Counterpart

Amit Raj
VP, Product Delivery - Underwriting, Intellect SEEC

Michael Drummond
Head of Cyber & Tech E&O, At-Bay

MODERATORS:

Doug Kreitzberg
Founder & CEO, Designed Privacy

Gary Nuttall
Emerging Technology Consultant, Managing Director, Founder, Distlytics Ltd

Gerald Merritt
President and Co-Founder, Professional Liability Extended Underwriting Service, LLC

Andrew Daniels
Founder, Managing Director, Insurtech Ohio

Shay Simkin
Global Head of Cyber, Howden

Rob Galbraith
Author, The End Of Insurance As We Know It

John Lucker
Executive Vice President, Universal Fire & Casualty Insurance Company

Tony Tarquini
Advisor, Mentor, Conference Speaker & Chairman, Co-Author of The InsurTECH, The InsurTECH Book

Stuart Rose
Strategic Analyst, Aite-Novarica

Robin Roberson
Managing Director, GetWilbur

Cathy Ellwood
Founder, Ellwood Enterprises

Chris Frankland
Founder, InsurTech360

James Ryans
Partner, Chief Financial Officer, Social Capital

Michael Fiedel
Managing Director, Insurtech Ohio

James Webb
Head of P&C, Salesforce

Mark Breading
Partner, Carrier Transformation, Strategy Meets Action, a ReSource Pro Company

2021 Sponsors

HEADLINE SPONSOR:
• Salesforce

GOLD SPONSORS:
• Intellect SEEC
• Friss
• Cowbell Cyber
• Two Sigma IQ
• Eigen Technologies
• Groundspeed
• Blueprism
• Abbyy
• Shift
• HCL
• Paladin Cyber
• Data.world
• Ushur
• Parametrix Insurance

SILVER SPONSORS:
• Preciseley
• Resilience
• At bay
• Counterpart

BRONZE SPONSORS:
• Chisel AI
• Insly
• ForMotiv

MEDIA PARTNERS
• Insurtech Ohio
• Financial IT
• InsurTech News
• EmergingMarkets.me
• Digitalscouting.de
• Global Risk Community
• Actuarial Post
• Data Floq Driving Innovation
• The Fintech Times
• Insurtech