InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

Partners’ Chat - Summer of Love (315)

Aug 11, 2024

The hosts share personal stories, including the joy of becoming a grandfather. They discuss how insurers are finally embracing technology after nearly a decade of Insurtech. Insights on the hurricane season reveal companies to watch and the potential of parametric insurance for managing risks. The conversation touches on wine tasting as a bridge between community and innovation. Looking ahead, they highlight partnerships in the insurance ecosystem and intriguing plans for 2025, sparking enthusiasm for future developments in the industry.

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Intro

00:00 • 2min

Balancing Innovation and Bureaucracy

02:02 • 4min

Exploring the Tech-Insurance Landscape in the US

05:44 • 2min

Navigating Complex Risks in Insurance

07:26 • 17min

Celebrating Community Through Wine and Innovation

24:48 • 2min

Innovative Connections: Tech, Wine, and Community Building

26:27 • 4min

Future Plans and Market Trends in Insurance

30:47 • 2min

This week Matthew and Robin are pointing the microphones at each other and back for our popular "Partners' Chat" as they review the world around us. Find out what is making Robin happy this month - almost 10 years after the term Insurtech was coined are established insurers now finally embracing innovation and technology? What can we learn from the start of the hurricane season and do investors share our enthusiasm for the role that start-ups and scale-ups can play in really changing insurance for the good in 2025.

Key talking points:

Robin on becoming a grandfather
Robin’s article on the positive aspects of the industry
Alignment of interest between technology and insurance in the US
Reflecting back on InsTech’s events in New York
Hurricane season and the companies to look out for
Is parametric insurance a potential solution to volatile risk?
2024 and funding
The rise of partnerships and ecosystems and Smart Follow
Wine tasting and looking into what InsTech has in store for 2025

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Continuing Professional Development

This InsTech Podcast Episode is accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme.

By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives:

Describe how technology and insurance has aligned better together in recent years and why this innovation and development is important
Identify changes in trends to investing in startups in the industry
Summarise why parametric is a solution to volatile and hard to insure risk

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