Hello and welcome to 2023. Well, if you're listening to this on the 1st of January, then you really are a hardcore instec podcast enthusiast. Well, thank you very much.

Please do let us know who you are.

Well, no guess this week, but as you've taken the trouble to plug in and listen, I thought we

should at least do the service of providing something to make it worth you while. So just a

quicker here as we reflect back on some of the themes from the year.

Well, I love this job of hosting the podcast. I get to speak to over 100 people a year

across our interviews, events, and other random chances we get to hit the record button. Many

of those people have founded and grown companies. Others are in key roles making decisions about

the use of data and analytics and insurers. We've had industry commentators,

advisors and thought leaders from around the world and of course some great stories.

For example, we all know climate change is happening, but Olly Wing from Fatham, explaining

the difficulty of forecasting the changes in climate in terms of taking his puppy Jasper for

a walk in episode 220. Now it's recorded live

at the Reask event is one of the highlights of the autumn. A few themes stand out from the year

and in an increasingly challenging economic environment we're seeing a real flight quality.

Buyers of technology and increasingly investors are looking for tangible measures of success.

That's real metrics such as sales revenue, profitability and a strong sales pipeline. Whilst here, instead, we've been building our own technology and testing out Iris, which is our new analytical engine.

And this means we can now measure and show concrete evidence of who is reacting to the content that we are creating

and releasing on behalf of our members. By reacting, we mean actually looking at it and reading or

listening. All GDPR compliant, of course. The results are very encouraging and no surprise of the

people that work with us to promote the articles we're doing together reports and podcasts

are seeing amongst the best responses from their prospective clients.

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