Frank Perkins, CEO, Inari: Technical tips to enable insurance innovation (85)

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant

InsTech

Entrepreneurship, Investing, Business

4.8 • 50 Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Whether launching a start-up or running a major company, the decisions you make about the technology you use and the people working closely with you will be critical to the success of your business. In this episode Matthew Grant talks to Frank Perkins, CEO and founder of Inari. Frank comes from a background of building technology whilst working inside major insurance companies and in 2017 launched Inari. Frank and his colleagues participated in the Lloyd's Lab in 2019 and are providing the underwriting infrastructure and analytical tools for companies in the UK and Europe. In this episode we asked Frank to give his advice on areas that include: - How to find your technical co-founder or CTO - How to work with outsourcing companies to build your technology - How to specify development work - Legacy, and how to work around it And a lot more Comment directly on the podcast or contact Matthew Grant on Linkedin here A summary and transcript of this discussion is available on request Find out what we are up to at Instech London at www.instech.london Sign up to our newsletter for a fresh view on the world every Wednesday morning 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	Good morning, good afternoon, maybe even good evening.
0:18.0	Matthew Grant here, one of the partners at INSTEC London. Well, I hope like us,
0:22.6	you are feeling a little bit more upbeat this week as gradually all around the world people are
0:27.2	being allowed out of their homes and onto the streets and even into the shops. We've also been
0:32.9	seeing a marked pickup of interest here for what we're doing at INSECLondon with lots of discussions
0:37.4	this week around membership and supporting our live chat. marked pickup of interest here for what we're doing at Instect London with lots of discussions this
0:37.6	week around membership and supporting our live chat events. Robert and I have also been doing
0:43.5	the rounds of some of the industry conferences virtually of course speaking on panels and such
0:49.0	like a refreshing change to be on the other side of the microphone. Now if you are finding that
0:54.1	your weekly dose of the
0:55.5	Instac London podcast is not enough and you haven't already discovered our weekly live chat events on Bright Talk,
1:02.4	then you might find something there of interest as well. Feel free to join or download and you get a
1:07.8	chance to see us in action and if you do it live test us and our panelists
1:12.3	with your live questions okay not quite the glamour of love island but at least it keeps us on
1:17.3	our toes now this week we're bringing a slightly different focus as technology advances it
1:24.1	can sometimes be quite hard to keep up with everything that's going on. So this week,
1:29.2	I'm talking to Frank Perkins, founder and CEO of Inari. Now, Inari, we're in the Lloyd's Lab cohort
1:36.2	three. Frank himself has a strong pedigree of building technology whilst working for insurance companies,
1:42.7	and Inari is now successfully building
1:44.8	technology for insurance companies. I'm sure you'll be finding something of
1:49.0	relevance in our questions which cover how to find your technology CTO or co-founder,
1:53.5	the emergence of low code and no code and whether legacy is really that bad and how to work around it.
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