WSIA Insurtech Conference 2023 | Wholesale & Specialty Insurance Association | 2 April 2023 | Renaissance Nashville Hotel, 611 Commerce St, Nashville, TN 37203, US

The WSIA Insurtech Conference offers a comprehensive slate of sessions providing insights on industry disruption and transformation opportunities. Conference sessions highlight the imperative of developing a digital strategy, including artificial intelligence, data analytics and other solutions designed to expand markets, collaborate, streamline the distribution chain and enhance the customer experience.

If you have responsibility for, the power to influence or are impacted by technology changes in the surplus lines industry, then the WSIA Insurtech Conference is for you. The conference is an evolving forum that encourages exploration, education, sharing and networking for anyone impacted by automation; including not only technologists, but underwriters, brokers, managers and executives interested in ensuring their organization is able to manage the disruptions to their advantage.

Wendy Aarons-Corman
CEO and President, OWIT Global

Alex Bargman
Chairman and Co-Founder, Pathpoint

Todd Buchanan
Chief Executive Officer, Coherent

Trish Buckhardt
Executive VP and Chief Operating Officer, Nautilus

Kathleen Burns
CEO - The Connector & Chief Digital Officer, Ryan Specialty Group

Chirag Choksi
Director of Strategic Partnerships (SP) and Sales, i-Engineering

Dale Coddington
Senior Incident Response Consultant, Lodestone

Michael DeGusta
CEO, ClarionDoor

Anthony DiBuono
Director of Operations, Amelia Underwriters

Maryellen Dolan
Chief Operating Officer, Specialty Program Group

Dawn D'Onofrio
President and CEO, WKFC Underwriting Managers

Mark Engels
CEO, ePayPolicy

Andrew Foster
Senior Vice President – Professional, Liability National Market Segment Executive, Vela Insurance Services

Dana French
Senior Vice President, National Programs, FIRST Insurance Funding

Jason Gabrielsen
Claims Manager, Beazley

Dave Gilfillan
Chief Claims Officer, CRC Group

Myshell Gresham
Vice President, Ascot Group

Davie Holt
National Practice Sales Leader, Imperial PFS

Barbara Ingraham
Managing Director, Excess & Surplus, Verisk

Arvind Kaushal
CEO & Co-Founder, Cogitate Technology Solutions

Taylor Kilburn
IT Manager, New England Excess Exchange

Garrett Koehn
President, CRC Group

Nick Lamparelli
Co-Founder and CUO, ReThought Insurance

Scot Lippenholz
Senior Director, Incident Response, Crowdstrike

Sam Little
Vice President, Amwins

Bharat Mepani
Chief Innovation Officer, Bell & Clements

Tammie Miller
Director of Business Applications, Brown and Brown

Joshua Motta
Co-founder and CEO, Coalition

Greg Murphy
Executive Vice President, Instanda

Andy O'Neill
Director of Cyber & Tech, Relay Platform

Andrew Podgorny
Cyber and Technology Risk
Underwriting Lead, Hartford Steam Boiler

Mike Rastigue
Cyber Solutions Leader, Crum & Forster

Tim Reilly
Sr. Director of Digital Distribution, Tokio Marine Highland

Heath Renfrow
Chief Information Security Officer, Conversant Group

Mike Roy
CEO, Dark Matter InsurTech

Layna Rush
Shareholder | Data Incident Response, Team Leader, Baker Donelson

Jackie Cermola
Director of Carrier Sales, Trustlayer

Jacqueline Schaendorf
Insurance House

Sunil Sekhri
Head of Security Services, At-Bay

Nirav Shah
Chief Analytics Officer, WNC Insurance Services

Nolan Steenberg
Solutions Engineer, FIRST Insurance Funding

Marc Stevens
Sr. Vice President IT & Operations, XPT Partners

Tate Tooley
IT Manager, Bloss & Dillard

Rick Wiseley
Head of Business Development, Stere.io

Todd Wood
President, New England Excess Exchange

Yue Xu
AVP of Data & Analytics, Tokio Marine Highland

Amy Yung
Legal Counsel, At-Bay