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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

Beyond the headlines: revealing the stories behind the insurance news (277)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.850 Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We’re piloting a new style of podcast this week and borrowing the InsTech podcast channel to test this out.  If you are wondering what is going on behind the news items you read about in insurance or technology then this new podcast is for you. We’re bringing together experts, founders, insurers and some well know figures to tell us the news items that are capturing their attention - and why.  Matthew Grant CEO of InsTech is joined face to face in London by fellow podcasting enthusiast Nigel Walsh, Managing Director, Insurance, Google Cloud US, James Birch, Development Director at Ki Insurance and Bijal Patel, Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer, Aurora Insurance.   And we’ve got more. This week we have an interview with the CEO of Ki Insurance Mark Allan, a listener question and a chance to hear our hosts and guests predictions for 2024. The news we’re discussing this week is: Ki insurance new capacity partners Travelers and Aspen Why the range of loss estimates from Hurricane Otis is so high Howden Group £500m insurtech ventures fund Look out for more in this new podcast series coming in 2024. Please let us know what questions you’d like our hosts and guests to answer and any new ideas to keep you listening.  If you like what you're hearing, please leave us a review on whichever platform you use or contact Matthew Grant on LinkedIn. Sign up to the InsTech newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning. To find out more about InsTech, our membership and offerings visit www.instech.co or contact us [email protected] 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: Identify the capacity for innovation in insurance Explain why MGAs are the future Summarise reasons for collaboration and data sharing If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 277 page of the InsTech website or email [email protected] to let us know you have listened to this podcast. To help us measure the impact of the learning, we would be grateful if you would take a minute to complete a quick feedback survey.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello, Matthew Grant here, and it's great to have you back if you're one of our regular

0:12.8

listeners and if you just found us, well, that's fantastic too. But either way, I think you're in

0:17.0

for something of a treat today. We are piloting what is going to be the first in what we intend to be a new podcast series. And we are going to be exploring what is going

0:24.9

on behind the stories that make the news in the world of insurance and riskless now all around

0:30.4

the world. You're going to be hearing from leaders in technology, insurance companies and

0:34.8

those advising them. These people are going to have their own perspectives

0:38.1

and in some cases direct knowledge of what's going on to help you figure out what is real

0:42.4

and what is hype. Now we're going to be testing out some new ideas and some new formats for this

0:47.4

podcast. It's a bit of a real-time experiment to see what works, what you like, sure we're going to

0:51.4

have some stuff that won't work and maybe from stuff you don't like. We want to know though. Now, we're even keeping the boundaries loose between

0:57.9

the hosts and the guests. See if you can guess who was doing what for this one. Well,

1:02.2

we've got three new stories coming up. We've got one interview from our roving reporter and a

1:06.4

question from one of our regular listeners for the InstCH podcast. There's a bit of other stuff in there as well.

1:11.5

We thought worth keeping. Well, I'm Matthew Grant from Instech. We've got Nigel Walsh from Google Cloud,

1:16.1

who's up next, and we're joined by James Birch from Key Insurance and Bija Patel from Aurora.

1:22.3

Look, please do let us know what you think, the good, the bad bad anything in between if you've got stories to share or you've got questions

1:28.2

to ask then track us down to the usual channels or matthew grant and nijal walsh on link to him

1:33.4

will find us love to hear what you've got to say and if you want to record something

1:37.4

then we might even be able to get that into a future episode we're going to be launched this

1:40.8

podcast on its own channel soon. More details to follow.

1:45.6

Nigel, over to you.

1:59.4

Hey folks, I'm super excited to be back behind the microphone talking about all things cool, exciting and newsworthy in the world of insurance.

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