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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

Andre Symes: CGO, Genasys Technologies: Agile products and speed to market (106)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2020

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Staying relevant and able to embrace new technology is a big challenge for any established company. Despite being 20 years old, Genasys Technologies continues to innovate and work on new solutions for emerging and establishing companies, deploying policy administration systems for insurance products, including no-code solutions. CGO Andre Symes joined Matthew on Podcast 106 to discuss the company's approach to innovation, how Genasys is partnering with others and what has driven its growth over the past two decades. Talking points and lessons include: Combining the best of legacy with new technology Implementing no-code solutions Designing products at speed Building a business with no external funding Expanding to the UK and US Keep track of everything we are up to at InsTech London and sign up to our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use, or contact Matthew Grant on Linkedin. Continuing Professional Development - Learning Objectives InsTech London is accredited by The Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening to an InsTech London podcast, or reading the accompanying transcript, you can claim up to 0.5 CPD hours towards the CII member CPD scheme. Complete the InsTech London Podcast Feedback Survey to claim your CPD time.

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0:00.0

People paint themselves into a corner when they keep building out more and more legacy.

0:05.0

And sooner or later, you've got a beautiful room, but you can't get out of it.

0:08.0

Well, we are big supporters of startups at Instech London.

0:23.6

We are also spending time with the more established companies, many of whom continue to innovate

0:29.6

and push the boundaries in the use of data and technology in and around insurance.

0:34.6

And Genesis is one of these.

0:35.6

Although only a recently arrived in the UK,

0:38.6

they've been helping insurers and others rapidly deploy

0:41.5

policy administration systems across many different areas of business.

0:46.2

Andre Seinfluenced the UK business a couple of years ago

0:48.9

and as you're about to hear, has barely paused for breath since then.

0:52.9

Well, Matthew Grant here, back with episode 105.

0:56.4

And once again, bringing you discussions with the leaders and movers from companies of all

1:00.5

sizes all around the world these days. We believe we are the perfect accompaniment for running,

1:05.5

cycling, gardening, driving, mowing the lawn, doing the ironing, or indeed whatever else

1:10.5

takes your fancy. We're not proud.

1:12.5

And by the way, before we hear from Andre, if you are collecting continual professional development,

1:16.8

CPD credits, did you know that we are approved by the UK's Chartered Insurance Institute,

1:21.9

that's the CIA, towards your annual CPD requirements?

1:25.9

And finally, thank you all for the feedback on the podcast and our

1:29.8

recently launched report on paramet insurance. Please do keep telling us and up with you today.

1:47.7

It's been quite hard to get this podcast organized.

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