Greg Williams is an authority on technology trends and the ways they impact business and society. As editor-in-chief of WIRED magazine, Greg meets the innovators, thinkers, scientists, entrepreneurs, and creatives who are changing the world and writes on a variety of subjects, including innovation, technology, business, creativity, and ideas. The annual trends report he edits, WIRED World, is essential is seen as an essential briefing for senior leaders who want to understand the forces shaping the global business.

Rob Schimek is the Group Chief Executive Officer of bolttech. He leads the bolttech team across our operations globally, overseeing our growth and partnership opportunities.

With more than 30 years’ experience in the financial services industry, Rob has previously held senior leadership roles in insurance, including Managing Director & Group Chief Operating Officer for FWD Group, President and CEO of AIG’s commercial insurance businesses worldwide and Chief Executive Officer of the Americas for AIG. Prior to that, Rob served as President and Chief Executive Officer of EMEA for AIG and was the Chief Financial Officer of AIG’s global property and casualty insurance business.
Before joining AIG, Rob was a partner at Deloitte & Touche L.L.P. where, for 18 years, he used his public accounting experience to serve global financial institution clients, including MetLife, The Prudential Insurance Company of America, and Merrill Lynch.

Rob is a C.P.A. He earned his M.B.A. from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. He is a graduate of Rider University in New Jersey and a member of the Rider University Board of Trustees.
Outside of work, Rob can be found in the gym or competing in some of the world’s toughest endurance competitions such as the FWD 78° North Marathon, one of the most northern marathons in the world, and the Ironman World Championships.

 Kalai Natarajan is a pioneer in Life and Health insurance transformation. She started this journey in the payments industry, tracking and removing pain points in premium payments and money flows within the industry.

Kalai moved to the Life Insurance sector, designing the health and wellness proposition, championing preventative healthcare management, early disease detection and intervention as well as chronic disease management, delivering a customer-facing wellness application.

She moved on to establishing the Target Operating Model for a Life company, designing a hybrid distribution model and setting the scope for centralising customer data platforms and creating a replicable model for distribution transformation.

Kalai is currently an independent consultant in the industry.  

Simon Schneider  is General Partner @ neoteq ventures, an earlystage VC fund in the technology Space. He has been a VC investor for over 20 years and has been working in Germany, as well as in international markets,  investing in European founders and their ideas of disrupting entire industries. 

He is also co-host of the InsurtechSymposium, an exclusive networking event for insurtech lovers. 

Hands-on entrepreneur and strategic leader with a track record in different industries and a focus on online marketplace and e-commerce models.

Christopher is the founder of CLARK, the leading digital insurance distributor in Europe. CLARK counts over 500,000 active customers, attracted over EUR 150m in venture capital financing from renowned international investors, and is one of the few insuretech unicorns in Europe. Prior to CLARK Christopher acted as global Chief Operating Officer (COO) for Wimdu, an online platform for private accommodation and was responsible for the companies’ global business operations.

Beforehand, Christopher worked several years as a consultant for The Boston Consulting Group in Germany, the Middle East, and Australia where he advised financial institutions and retail companies. He graduated with a Master of Business Administration from the European Business School in Oestrich-Winkel and holds a Ph.D. from WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management.

Mónica García Cristobal is a Telecommunications Engineer from the Politécnica University of  Madrid (UPM) and also has a Master’s Degree in Insurance Management from ICEA. She joined MAPFRE in 2009, where she has held positions of increasing responsibility, such as director of the Digital area at VERTI Seguros and Corporate Director of Digital Business, among others. She is currently Head of Transformation in MAPFRE Spain. 

Jeff Kreisler is just a typical Princeton educated lawyer turned award-winning comedian, best-selling author and champion for behavioral science. He uses research, real life and humor to understand, explain and change the world.  

Jeff’s second book – Dollars And Sense: How We Misthink Money and How To Spend Smarter – is available in 23 countries and was dubbed Best Business Book of the Year by Business Insider, Investopedia, Huffington Post, Audible, and the Washington Post (“A brilliant and accessible look at behavioral economics”).  

He is Head of Behavioral Science for JP Morgan Chase and Founding Editor of PeopleScience, a thought-leadership platform for applied behavioral science. He won the Bill Hicks Spirit Award for Thought Provoking Comedy, writes for TV, politicians & CEOs, has appeared on CNBC, CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC, the BBC and at events across most of this planet.  

The New York Times calls him “Delectable,” The Economist said his was “A truly special event” and his kids still think he’s “cool.” His first book was the satire Get Rich Cheating.  

Deeply passionate about innovation and its potential to revolutionize the insurance industry, Silvia is a Co-Founder and President of the Swiss InsurTech Hub, and an executive within Group Operations and Technology at Zurich Insurance Company, driving transformation and change management programs. 

Silvia holds a PhD in Solid State Physics from the Swiss Technology Institute in Zurich. She finds it extremely rewarding and energizing when she sees the passion for a common vision through the eyes of other enthusiastic people, both professionally and privately. 

Sam White is Global CEO & Founder at Stella Insurance. She founded Stella Insurance in July 2020, during the Covid Pandemic. Before she launched Stella Insurance, she opened Freedom Brokers. She went to Kingsway school (seven GCEs, BTECH in Motor Vehicle Technology, four A-levels), after graduating, she went to the University of Bolton for two years.

Giacomo Lovati is currently Chief Beyond Insurance Officer at UnipolSai Assicurazioni. He is responsible for a large structure including the Mobility ecosystem, the Welfare ecosystem, and the Property ecosystem. From 2014 to February 2021, he was Chief Executive Officer of Linear, the direct insurance company of the Unipol Group. Giacomo graduated in Aeronautical Engineering at the Polytechnic di Milano with a Master in Business Administration from the L. Bocconi School of Business Administration in Milan.

Michael Donaldson is the Commissioner of Technological Innovation, Electronic Administration and Good Governance of the Barcelona City Council. 

He has a law degree and a master’s degree in public management. He has worked as director of strategic planning and central services in the municipalities of Rubí and Gavà. He is a trainer in open government and transparency issues and has published several articles and chapters of public management. 

Amélie brings more than 25 years of international insurance markets experience in finance, transformation, strategy and development, in a number of senior leadership and executive committee positions as well as board member roles in Hong Kong, mainland China, India, the UK and Ireland, including 16 years at AXA as Head of Group Strategic Planning & Controlling, Regional CFO for Asia and CFO for UK & Ireland. Prior years include roles at KPMG and Allianz.

Steven has over 25 years’ experience as an actuary in financial services which has included leading Close Brothers Wealth Management during the launch of their non-advised offering; creating the world’s first art-focused wealth advice offering for Christie’s; working as part of the team that formed Barclays Wealth and heading the McKinsey UK Savings and Investment Group.

Steven founded Bought By Many, which is disrupting the world of pet insurance through the innovative use of tech, and is building a business to become an irresistible employer that is obsessive about customer service. (www.boughtbymany.com).

In April 2019 Steven was included in the London Business School Review of 30 People Who Are Changing The World.

Cristina has more than 24 years of experience in the finance sector (banking and insurance) leading multidisciplinary high-performance teams to analytically transform the decision process, with special focus on commercial strategy definition and implementation.  

She studied Business Administration in Barcelona and went on to get a PhD in Economics from the University of Chicago. She started in the banking sector where she began applying data Analytics to transform the commercial process and enrich the commercial strategy decision process. Seven years ago she joined Vidacaixa, where she leaded different directions until 2020, when she created the Data Analytics Direction to transform the entire Value Chain of the Insurance process and increase the Data Literacy of the entire firm. Since 2022 she is the Chief Commercial and Data Analytics Officer, with responsibilities over the product development, digital transformation and Data Analytics. She makes sure Data Analytics is present in every single decision taken in the company.  

A McKinsey alumna, Silvi has built an international career in insurance across Life & Pensions (Old Mutual), Property & Casualty (If), Broking (Willis Towers Watson), the Lloyd’s Market (Hiscox) and Reinsurance (Swiss Re) over the past 18 years. ​

​She has held a variety of industry roles across business controlling and development, sales, underwriting, and strategy. Passionate about the value technology brings to insurance, in 2018 Silvi co-founded London-based FinTech ChAI focused on mitigating price risk in raw materials. In her current role at Swiss Re, Silvi leads the global underwriting centre of the company’s primary business – overseeing underwriting strategy, processes, contracts and governance.​

​Silvi holds a Master of Science from the Stockholm School of Economics, majoring in macroeconomics and corporate finance. In addition to her native Swedish and Estonian, she is fluent in English and French with intermediate abilities in German and Spanish.​

​In her spare time, Silvi enjoys being part of the global InsurTech community – getting under the skin of new business ideas and supporting start-ups in accessing the established insurance industry. A passionate networker, she published her first book in 2021 “Networking Demystified – the Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Successful Networker”. 

Vivien Berbigier is CEO of EMEA (Europe, Middle-East, Africa) and a Member of the BNP Paribas Cardiff Executive Committee. In 2009 to 2012 he became chief of staff to Aviva’s CFO in France. He joined BNP Paribas Cardif in 2012, first in India, as Deputy CEO of SBI Life, our joint venture with the State Bank of India. In 2016, he left India for Chile where he was CEO until end of 2019, and developed higher value-added services to our clients while modernizing the company and restoring its profitability. Vivien Berbigier is a graduate from ESSEC business school and an actuary.

Antonio Cano is an economist graduated at Erasmus University Rotterdam and holds a postgraduate degree Registered Controller of the VU Amsterdam.  

He is active in the insurance sector since 1989 and has worked at AMEV in the Netherlands, for seven years at the joint-venture between Fortis and “La Caixa” in Barcelona, and since 2001 in Belgium where he held various positions at the Belgian subsidiary of Ageas, AG Insurance, and where he was CEO from 2009 until 2015. Since 2015 he is member of the Executive Committee of Ageas group and currently Managing Director of the European businesses and group Reinsurance activity. 

Besides Board positions in various Ageas subsidiaries and joint ventures in Europe and Asia, he is Board member of Capricorn Digital Growth Fund, a Belgian based Venture Capital fund investing in early-stage start-ups. 

Simon Kaesler is Senior Partner of McKinsey & Company. He leads McKinsey’s Insurance Practice in the sector in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, helping clients strategize and accelerate digital strategy and transformation projects. He has been working for McKinsey & Company for over the 15 years now. Prior to his job at McKinsey & Company, he worked at the BMW Group for less than a year as an Intern. And he worked as a Managing Director at James Consulting. As a leader of Leap by McKinsey, Simon also helps companies build new digital businesses that combine the agility of start-ups with the operational and technical excellence of established corporations. In addition to his workaround digital distribution and new business building, Simon serves several major global insurance companies on multiyear-strategy programs and digital and analytics transformations.

Pamela Thomson-Hall is an Executive Officer of WTW and leads its International businesses outside of North America and Western Europe. She is responsible for setting strategic vision and driving growth across 70+ countries through the delivery of superior client solutions.  

 With over 26 years’ experience in the insurance industry, Pamela is a clear, decisive and empathetic people leader with strong strategic thinking and analytical skills. As a former General Counsel, she brings complex problem solving and deal making capabilities to the business arena.  Her proven track record of building, engaging and leading high performing, diverse teams across complex emerging markets, often in times of change and uncertainty, has enabled colleagues to thrive, deliver superior client service and growth.  

Pamela passionately believes in the power of diversity to drive better business decisions and is recognised for developing underrepresented talent into leadership roles.  She leverages this experience in her not-for-profit work as Chair of the ISC UK, an organisation that promotes equal opportunities in leadership in the insurance industry. 

Ernst Rauch, a Geophysicist by profession, joined Munich Re in 1988. During his career he always worked on natural hazards and climate change risk management topics. Ernst’s expertise ranges from climate mitigation technologies to loss prevention and adaptation measures. His responsibilities include business development and asset management projects.  

In 2018, Ernst was appointed as Chief Climate and Geo Scientist. He is a member of the senior executive management team. 

Genevieve started her career in the insurance industry with AIG, just before the financial crisis of 2008 and has since had many different roles focused on business development and strategic partnerships, including with Sedgwick, the world’s leading claims management and loss adjusting agency before joining insurtech start-up Avata in October last year.

Avata is an ancillary service provider that offers a global plug-and-play solution that’s designed to enable risk coverage for digital assets such as NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Bridging the gap between Web 2.0 and Web 3.0, we work closely with partners from different industries including Insurance but also Gaming, Arts, Museums, Luxury brands, Fashion and Sports.

As Head of Insurance, Genevieve is responsible for establishing and fostering key partnerships with different stakeholders to help develop a suite of products, tailored to the evolving needs of digital citizens.

Genevieve is a creative caterpillar, and she loves connecting people for purpose. With a strong passion for innovation, she is currently fascinated by the intersection of insurtech, blockchain technology, and Web 3.0.

Currently, building products at the interface of ML + Fintech + Biomedicine, and researching ML and biomedical informatics at The University of Oxford.

Previously, led “Investments AI” (AIG’s full-stack AI-first product unit); more than a decade of executive leadership, and experience in building and leading elite teams in machine learning and product design/management in multinational corporations, startups, and academia.

In charge of Corporate Development and M&A at Vaudoise Assurances since 2019, Stefan also takes care of investments into start-ups (Corporate Venturing). Among else, he serves as a Board member for Neocredit in Berne, a 100% Vaudoise subsidiary offering unsecured loans to Swiss SME’s; at Foxstone in Geneva, a start-up offering private investors a fraction of a property as well as mezzanine debt financed by the crowd. The most recent investment is a participation in Lausanne based NewCo, a digital company creation service provider which allows Vaudoise to access newly created companies with insurance coverage  He is also on the Advisory Board of the Swiss Insurtech Association. 

Before joining Vaudoise, during 20 years Stefan was active as a sell-side financial analyst covering the insurance sector in Switzerland and Europe as well as the real estate sector in Switzerland and MENA. He worked for different banks, Vontobel AG and Credit Agricole Cheuvreux in Zurich, EFG-Hermes in Dubai and Pictet & Cie in Geneva.  

As an insurance analyst he was rated best analyst in Switzerland among all sectors in 2003. Furthermore, he was active for the Finance chapter of the Geneva Association between 2002 and 2010 and in 2006 wrote a paper on “Reputation of the insurance industry from an investor’s perspective”. 

In addition to his Masters in Business Administration at H.E.C. Lausanne, in 2018 Stefan trained at the Board Academy at EPFL and in 2022 successfully completed the Bern-Rochester CAS for Board Members. 

Claire joined the Board of HDI Global SE in January 2022 with global responsibility for the performance of Property, Engineering, Marine Cargo (Underwriting and Claims) and for the global Risk Consulting team. Prior to this role Claire had been the Managing Director of UK and Ireland for HDI where she oversaw the transition of the UK branch to approved regulatory status post Brexit, the addition of new product lines, reshaping of the organisation structure and the re-underwriting of the property portfolios.  

Prior to HDI Claire worked for the Allianz Group, predominantly AGCS, for 32 years in a variety of UK, French, Regional and Global roles, primarily in the corporate and multinational insurance area . Claire spent the first 20 years of her career in underwriting, eventually specialising in onshore oil, gas and petrochemicals, for which she was made the Regional Hub leader for EMEA and AP in 2002, before moving to become CUO Energy in 2006. In 2007 she switched functional areas to Operations working in various countries before taking on more global roles leading to her appointment as head of Allianz Multinational (IP product) and Global Head of Operations (insurance operations, real estate, BCP, procurement) – holding these two roles until resigning in January 2019 to join HDI.  

Philipp Kroetz was appointed Chief Transformation Officer and member of Allianz Partners’ Board of Management in January 2021. He first joined Allianz in 2011 as Chief Sales Officer and Member of the Management Board of Allianz Automotive, before becoming Chief Underwriting Officer for Specialty Lines and Germany at Allianz Partners in 2014. In 2016, Philipp became CEO of German-speaking countries and the SEE region, before being appointed Global Head of “Allianz Customer Model” and Member of the Executive Committee in 2019, responsible for the standardization and harmonization of all products and processes.

Prior to joining Allianz, Philipp was Associate Partner at McKinsey. He holds an MSc, Finance and Accounting, from London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).

I am a passionate Change Leader focusing on digital, technology-lead transformation. Within this sphere, I have built up deep expertise on how business can derive value from Data, Analytics, AI and Technology. I drive digital transformations from strategy to implementation, have a track record on realizing impact while ensuring a sustainable foundation. I set the agenda on innovations in the core, adjacent and transformational areas, including building partnerships and new eco-systems. To achieve this change, I initiate programs to build capabilities across the organization focusing on skills as well as the mindset and culture.

In my current role I am responsible for Aegon’s world-wide data transformation. I lead the change agenda, ensure impact across the organization and drive digital innovations; serving as the bridge between business, IT and analytics and work closely with all business units CEOs. I report to the Global Management Board.

I have worked across the globe for various industries ranging from Insurance, Banking, Telco, Energy, Electronics to Online gaming.

I hold over 15 years of experience across operational, executive, and non-executive roles across insurance and public payors, digital health and health technology, health systems, providers, life sciences, and medical devices. I have strong domain expertise across general management, commercial, clinical, strategy, and operations, in organisations from 1 to >10,000 employees. I currently lead a team of c. 140, and manage spend and performance of over £300m per annum across our UK P&L. I have previously led strategy and supported growth planning for companies going from £1m-£1bn+, and driven turnaround and cash gap closure for £10m-£500m+. I enjoy connecting with and advising early and growth stage companies. I also personally invest at seed stage.

I am driven by a passion for improving performance and value in health and care. I build and develop great leaders, teams, and services. I lead across organisations, systems, and groups to improve patient outcomes and value. My work in multiple areas is underpinned by a strong commercial and market-oriented ability to drive the uptake, value, and impact of health and care solutions.

Ruth is Vice President and Partnerships Lead for Insurance at Mastercard. 

Ruth has specific responsibility for identifying new opportunities in the global insurance market by leveraging Mastercard’s existing capabilities and assets to innovate through collaboration with the industry. 

As an insurance marketing and strategy expert, Ruth holds over 20 years’ experience and has worked with traditional and InsurTech businesses to design vertical propositions and growth strategies, with particular expertise in the SME sector. Ruth previously held leadership and management roles at Chubb, CLS and Fusion. 

As well as her professional accomplishments, Ruth is a regular speaker, author, mentor and advisor within the insurance sector, she was co-author of ‘The InsurTech book’, was named by ‘WeAreTheCity’ a Top 50 Woman in Tech  and is also an Ambassador for the CII Insuring Women’s Futures programme. 

Josep Celaya, holds a degree in Economics from the University of Barcelona and an International MBA from ESADE in Barcelona and HEC in Paris, has developed the majority of his career as a key player in digital transformation projects. In this sense, Josep has a strong innovative profile with experience in the world of Insurtech, mastery of methodologies such as Design Thinking, Agile, Lean Startup, and an extensive knowledge of the world of digital marketing. 

Celaya has held management positions in well-known Spanish insurance companies, such as Verti and Mapfre, leading, in the latter, the transformation and management program of the Mapfre Group’s innovation model at a global level. In addition, as general manager of Digital Business and member of the management team of DKV-ERGO, he has managed key areas, such as the Digital Channel, the Digital Health Products and Services business unit. 

He is currently Deputy General Manager and Head of Customer at Nationale-Nederlanden where he has the strategic mission to make a difference in customer experience within the Spanish protection market, understanding their needs, establishing lasting relationships and offering both different services and care tailored to each moment of their life. 

Tjeerd Bosklopper (1975) has a MSc. degree in Business Information Technology from the University of Twente. He started his career in 1999 at ING and has worked in various positions in The Netherlands, Korea, Indonesia and Poland. He was Chief Marketing Officer at ING Life in Korea and Chief Information and Transformation Officer at Nationale-Nederlanden. From 2012 till 2015 he was CEO of NN in Poland. Until September 2018, he was head of Individual Life at NN. Per 1 September 2018, he joined the Management Board of NN Group as CTO, Chief Transformation Officer. Tjeerd Bosklopper was appointed CEO Netherlands Non-life, Banking & Technology on 1 June 2020. In this role, Tjeerd is responsible for the Dutch Non-life, Banking business segments and Customer & Commerce. He also remains responsible for innovation, digital transformation and IT. 

Andreas is Venture Capital Investor and Founding Partner of UNIQA Ventures GmbH, one the leading Venture Capital funds in CEE and one of the most active #Fintech investors in Europe according to @atomico and @Dealroom.co.
 
Andreas has over 25 years of professional experience with Financial Services and Insurance after launching startups before 2000. In 1997 he was on the team that founded Netway Internet Services 1999 he was one of the founders of caibon.com, the online brokerage subsidiary of CA IB Investment Bank AG, before launching brokerjet.com, an online brokerage firm in 2000, which was later integrated into Erste Bank Group.

Today he is the CEO of UNIQA Ventures GmbH, the venture capital fund of UNIQA Insurance Group AG investing in outstanding business models driven by strong teams with a clear vision to shape the future of key industries such as Health, Mobility, Smart Home and Financial Services from Banking to Insurance.
 
He holds a master degree in Business Administration from Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and received a PhD from University of St. Gallen, Switzerland for his empirical research in the field of Strategic Management on Business Model Innovation in Incumbent Firms.

Stephanie Lloyd is the CEO of LiveWell by Zurich where she is responsible for leading a new digital health and wellbeing solution globally. With a focus on customer obsession and innovation, Stephanie is passionate about positively impacting health outcomes worldwide. ​

Prior to this role Stephanie Lloyd was the Founder and President of the insurtech Toggle®, which has grown to $500m in premium since launching in late 2018. She has a proven track record as an intrapreneur launching new business models and products, navigating through complex regulatory and corporate environments , and building high-performing teams. Before founding Toggle, Stephanie was Chief Underwriting Officer for Personal Lines at Farmers Insurance. An insurance industry professional with 15+ years of experience, Stephanie is a member of the Zurich Group Leadership team.​

Digital Insurance honored Stephanie with the 2019 Woman in Insurance Leadership award which recognizes excellence across technology and business. She was also a finalist for the 2019 Future is Female award by AdWeek. In 2021 she was selected for the Leadership in the Age of Personalization consortium.

Piero is Senior Partner in the Mediterranean Office, Piero Gancia also holds the role of head of insurance consultancy activities. Since joining McKinsey in 2005, Piero has acquired growing experience in the financial services sector, working for some of the main groups operating in Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, Austria, Poland, Greece and Israel, on issues of strategy, growth, innovation, M&A, restructuring and digital transformation.

Piero Gancia leads the activities of the Insurance sector of the Mediterranean Office and assists leading Italian and international insurance companies on issues of strategy, growth, innovation, M&A, restructuring and digital transformations.

Meryem Seyyar is taking on leadership of HDI Global’s underwriting team. She has already held responsibility for this line of business in the past as Underwriting Manager Shared Economy & HUB Underwriting, International Casualty, at AXA XL in Switzerland and has a track record of expertise in online platforms and mobility ecosystems.

Stefano hold a degree in International Economy, with a Master specialized in Finance from EADA Business School in Barcelona Spain. He started to work in Accenture Business Consulting assigned to Zurich Italy in 2003 when decided to be part of Zurich group in 2007 as Business Manager for Zurich Connect Business. After working 5 years in different roles he became Head of Business development in Spain BU. Since 2014 he has been nominated as Digital & Direct Director of Spain BU for accelerating the digital business and its new business models. Additionally from 2017 Stefano is responsible of Global iniciatives like Klinc, Coverwallet & recently Mobility Ecosystem in collaboration with Group Strategy, Innovation & Business Development and EMEA

François is a senior global insurance executive with a broad experience in strategic development, digitalisation, and execution of international programs. He started his career in 1997 as first employee of Nemian Life Pensions, an international Luxembourg life insurance start up, which he participated to build from scratch, and which became part of the Allianz Group in 2001. Following this experience, François held various positions including product management and business development where he implemented distribution partnerships in several countries. Since October 1st, 2021, François holds the position of Managing Director and is leading Foyer Global Health on strategic and development activities. 

Didem is currently Sharing Economy & Mobility Leader in Marsh Europe, managing highly complicated clients SE+M sector and she has thought leadership, regional strategy, placement and client engagement within her responsibilities. She has industry experience of 18 years including 10 years with Marsh in various client servicing, placement and business management roles and has quite successful track record.

Before her appointment as Sharing Economy and Mobility Leader in 2022, Didem was the VP of the same practice in Europe. She also managed the RMP clients for Marsh Middle East in Dubai and lead the complex facultative reinsurance business for Marsh Turkey in Istanbul during the early times in her career.

Didem is a highly experienced leader for creating successful customer journey in servicing and risk management, implementing proactive solutions and building strong long-term market connections. Her multinational background on managing complex clients and their strategic needs support her current role where she leads strategies for various business models in many different territories within Europe.

Didem holds a BA in Financial Studies/Insurance and a MBA on Management and Organization from Marmara University.

I am the responsible Executive Board member for the Casualty and Cyber Lines of HDI Global. In this role I have the P&L accountability and Underwriting performance responsibility for the Casualty & Cyber business globally.

Together with my fellow Board colleagues we are shaping the future of HDI Global with the goal to become a true Global Player in the commercial and industrial insurance industry, who is recognized as a true Underwriting Champion. I am contributing to this by building a global Casualty Underwriting organization with a clear strategy and the dedication to deliver solution to clients across the world.

As Talanx group our purpose is “Together we take care of the unexpected and foster entrepreneurship” – following this our Casualty team is focused on delivering solutions for all clients across the global. No matter which industry, no matter where, no matter how big.

Moritz is an experienced insurance manager and academic. He has a track-record of +25 yrs in insurance-biz, serving +13 yrs as a board-member for different national and international insurance groups. He is specialized in sales, all P&C-lines and the digital ecosystem. He currently serves as an Academic Director Insurance at Frankfurt‘s prestigious Goethe Business School and as Advisor for different international insurtechs. 

Raymon uit de Bulten is an experienced and results-driven leader in new transformational propositions and business creation at Philips. Raymon focuses on digital health solutions for insurers, government organisations, and payers to improve well-being and health outcomes and lowering the cost of care. As a passionate advocate for innovation in Women’s Health, Raymon is responsible for health insurance solutions in the Mother and Child Care space, utilizing digital services and products to support new families to have healthy pregnancies and outcomes. 

Dr. Nazim Cetin has been CEO of Allianz X since 2017. Under his leadership, the Allianz X portfolio has grown to more than 25 companies with an AuM of almost EUR 2 billion.

Nazim has more than a decade of leadership experience in investment, business development, and entrepreneurship. He joined Allianz X from media conglomerate Bertelsmann, where he was Vice President of Corporate Development & New Businesses. Nazim had previously founded Agora 42, the first German periodical for economics and philosophy. Prior to that, he served as Vice President Commercial Finance for Maple Bank and internationalized Maple Bank’s Commercial Finance division. He began his career in investment banking at LBBW.

Nazim is a member of the supervisory board of CLARK, Pie Insurance, and WeLab Holdings—among others. He received his first degree in Quantitative Economics from Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen, followed by an M.Sc. in Economics and Management from Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, and a Ph.D. in Economics from Witten-Herdecke University.

Alexander Braun is Director at the Institute of Insurance Economics of the University of St. Gallen (HSG) in Switzerland, where he also holds the Associate Professorship for Insurance and Capital Markets. He started his professional career in the Capital Markets Division of Lehman Brothers in London. Mr. Braun was a visiting scholar at Fox School of Business (Temple University) and an affiliated scholar at the Wharton Risk Center (University of Pennsylvania). Overall, he looks back on 15 years of combined scholarly and practical experience in risk management, insurance, and the financial markets.

The current focus areas of Mr. Braun comprise digital insurance, sustainable insurance, and natural catastrophe risk. He has published in leading scientific journals such as the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the Journal of Banking and Finance, the European Journal of Operational Research, and Insurance: Mathematics and Economics. In addition, he regularly presents at worldwide academic conferences in his field, acts as invited moderator, panelist, and keynote speaker at industry events, and made various media appearances.

His research and teaching activities have been awarded, among others, by the American Risk and Insurance Association (ARIA), the Asia-Pacific Risk and Insurance Association (APRIA), the Geneva Association, the International Insurance Society (IIS), and the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS). For further information please refer to www.ivw.unisg.ch/ab and https://www.alexandria.unisg.ch/persons/2621.

Rodolfo is a Director in the Financial Institutions Group EMEA at Barclays Investment Bank 

As part of its wider coverage, he is responsible for the insurtech coverage in EMEA where Barclays has a dedicated global practice and has advised on numerous transactions 

Prior to joining Barclays in 2013, Rodolfo worked in Deutsche Bank’s European Financial Institutions Group in London, where he started his professional career 

Rodolfo graduated from Bocconi University with a Master of Science in Finance and a Bachelor of Science in Economics and Finance – currently he’s an Academic Fellow in the Department of Finance 

Tom has worked in Consultancy, Financial Services and Telecoms in a range of technology roles before taking responsibility for delivering improvements and value to Legal and General’s (L&G) Workplace Pension Clients. Leading cross functional teams Tom has moved the transformation and change team from traditional Waterfall methodology to Agile, establishing Value Streams and DevOps within the business.

The teams are recognised as ones that monitor, evaluate, and prioritise significant backlogs, have flexibility to pivot and have been responsible for some of the significant modernisation of the IT estate, introducing cloud based on demand technology, mainframe replication and machine learning.

Starting in the pension business, John moved into Technology a decade ago, shaping Legal & General’s original Auto Enrolment proposition and system. John has delivered a number of key projects for high profile Workplace Pension Clients since then, utilising his extensive knowledge of the products, propositions, operations, systems and the wider Legal & General IT estate.

John has since become the Product Owner responsible for Client Servicing and Data Streaming where he has created Agile teams that have been the first to introduce cutting edge cloud native technology anywhere in Legal & General. These ready-to-use technology service sits at the heart of L&G Retail’s core technology strategy and continue to be expanded for business-critical initiatives.

Daljitt Barn is the leader of the Tokio Marine Innovation Lab in London. The role reports directly to the Chief Digital Officer and focuses on digital transformation on the non-life business. Daljitt also holds several different Board advisor roles within the start-up community. He is also the Global Head of Cyber Risk and an industry leader in cyber risk and cyber insurance, combining insurance value chain expertise with a cyber security technology background. He is responsible for the continued development of Tokio Marine Group’s cyber insurance strategy, performance management and accumulation.  

Parul is the Chief Digital Strategy officer of Liberty Mutual, Global Risk Solution- International, she is responsible for driving the development and execution of digital transformation strategy for underwriting and distribution to ensure the company is at the forefront of the digital evolution across its global markets.  

She is a well-regarded thought leader in financial technology, advising governments and institutions. She frequently features in most influential women in European Insurtech and is a speaker, blogger, and co-author of the AI book. An economist and CFA Charter-holder has held strategy leadership roles, globally at AXA, Aviva, Family office VC and Citigroup. 

Silvia is the President of the Swiss Insurtech Hub and a senior executive at Aon Climate (Aon plc): a global business to develop new solutions through innovation at scale to enhance resilience and accelerate investments in climate transition. Previously Silvia hold executive global roles in insurance and banking, in client portfolio growth and management, corporate development and new venture creation, based in London, New York, Hong Kong, Zürich. She graduated from Columbia Business School and from London Business School with an MBA. She is passionate about innovation, climate, behavioural psychology and neuroscience.

Florian is co-founder and Partner atastorya.vc, aEuropean seed / InsurTech fund launchedin October 2017. He has been investing in tech startups for ~15 years, and his former positions includeinvestor at Newfund, a tech VC based in Paris, and investor at AXA Ventures, a VC fundinvesting in European insurance startups.Florian is an engineering graduate from Telecom ParisTech and business school graduatefrom HEC. He regularly writes and tweets about InsurTech, AI and Startups.

As an expert on multichannel distribution, innovative new electronic business models (B2C & B2B) – Michel de Jong -, is helping financial institutions and insurers to execute their digital transformation strategy.

With over 29 years of experience and expertise within the Finance sector itself plus (Cyber) Security, Michel translates IT, Risks and Compliance challenges into Business Value for each company.

Walter Capellmann is founder and owner of Capellmann Consulting. A company that specialises in strategy, brand positioning, communications management, digital transformation and set up of greenfield operations, founded in 2005. Walter has many years of C-Level experience in supporting and guiding financial services providers (banks and insurance companies), especially on their path to entering markets. Besides this he has been a Senior Advisor to Deekling Arndt/AMO since 2016 and is German Partner of the Digital Insurance Agenda (DIA).

During his career he has worked in international companies and has held consulting mandates, resulting in over 30 years of experience in corporate leadership, marketing an communications. He has co-authored a number of books and was also involved in writing „Future of Finance“ and „Reinventing Financial Services“.

Some of his engagements:

Since 2017 CEO of DELA Lebensversicherungen a subsidary of the Dutch life and funeral insurance specialist DELA coöperatie, Eindhoven. He is responsible for the whole organisation and market entry in Germany.

Prior to this he established from 2007 to 2017 the activities of Monuta Verzekeringen in the German market.

From 2005 to 2009 he took the function as the General Manager of ABN AMRO Hypotheken Groep B.V. The mortgage provider is the German entity of ABN AMRO Hypotheken Groep B.V., Amersfort.

Before he founded his own business he served for 10 years (1995-2005) as CEO of AEGON Lebensversicherungs-AG in Düsseldorf, Germany. The life insurance provider of AEGON N.V., the Netherlands. He also was member oft he executive board of the AEGON International SICAV Luxembourg.

He started in the financial industry as a member of the executive board of Schweiz Direkt Versicherungen AG in Augsburg/München a daugther oft he SwissRe Group

Gil is the Founder and Managing Partner of FinTLV Venture Capital – a leading global late stage Insurtech VC (Hippo, Next Insurance, Unqork, Corvus, wefox and many more).  

FinTLV works very closely with dozens of the leading global insurers and re-insurers – to provide real value to its’ portfolio companies. Therefore, Gil is a board member/observer in Hippo, Next Insurance, Pattern, Sproutt, Assured Allies, Lovys, and more.  

Gil has 20 Years’ experience as a senior executive and board member at the largest insurance companies in Israel and is a seasonal entrepreneur in the insurtech startup ecosystem. 

Dr. h.c. Marguerite Soeteman-Reijnen LLM ACII was till 1stof April 2023Chairman of the Executive Board of Aon HoldingsB.V. and Aon Group International B.V.(part of Aon Plc; NYSE AON) and other Holdings entities in the NetherlandsandGlobal ChiefMarketing Officerand Member of the Executive Committeeof Aon Inpoint.Marguerite has over 33 years international experience in the financial services and insurance industry.

Margueritewas named Woman to Watch by US Magazine Business Insurance in 2010. In 2021 Margueritewas awardedtheAmbassador J. William Middendorf II award. Thisaward is presented to individuals who have markedly servedto strengthen relations between the United States and the Netherlandsand was prior to Marguerite awarded to a.o. former Dutch Prime Ministers Lubbers and Balkenende and former CEO’s of KLM, ABN AMRO, ING etc. In 2021 and 2022 she was chosen as one of the Top50 Women in Sustainable Finance in the Netherlands.In 2022 a honorary doctorate in philosophywas conferred to her by RAI University, India.The British Chamber of Commerce in the Netherlands (NBCC) awarded her with a Special Oeuvre Lifetime Achievement award in March 2023.She was included in the MTSprout Inclusive 30 Leadersin April 2023.

Marguerite received a Masterdegreein Lawfrom Erasmus University Rotterdamand is an alumna of INSEADand HarvardBusiness School.She lives in the Hague, The Netherlandsand is married to Christiaan Soeteman. They have two children: Alexander and Isabelle.

Ashok Krishnan is the Chief Innovation, Data & Analytics Officer at AXA XL and is based in London. In this role, Ashok leads various functions including Innovation, Data Science & AI, Digital Transformation, BI & Reporting, Data Management and Governance globally for AXA XL. Ashok joined AXA in Hong Kong in 2013 and led various teams in Strategy, Marketing, Customer Experience and Data Analytics areas before moving to AXA XL in 2021. 

Prior to joining AXA, Ashok worked with Prudential Plc’s Group Head Office in London and in their United Kingdom and Europe business across finance and risk functions before moving to Prudential Corporation Asia, taking up a role in Distribution based in Vietnam. 

Ashok has over 20 years of experience and started his career with Bharti Airtel in India before moving to consulting and subsequently into the insurance industry. Ashok is a qualified Chartered Global Management Accountant (CGMA) and Associate Chartered Management Accountant (ACMA). Ashok earned his MBA from Cranfield University, United Kingdom and completed his Electronics Engineering degree at Amrita School of Engineering, India. 

Seb is Chief Product and Technology Director at Domestic & General Limited where he leads an exciting tech transformation strategy, with growth fueled through product-led development and plug and play global technology solutions.

Seb is passionate about new ideas in technology, innovation, driving change to make an impact.

He has worked across many industries and at various scales and complexity which have included roles at Virgin Media O2, Future Plc & Centrica Hive Limited.

Studied economics & politics in Munich​

Lived in Argentina, Brazil and USA​

Worked for several years in foreign direct investment attraction (focus on startups)​

Joined the InsurTech Hub Munich in 2019 and  since 06/2020 as Managing Director

Broad national and international network in the startup and innovation ecosystem ​

Work experience in various industries and in the governmental sector​

Fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish

As the Digital Asset Practice leader, Glenn is responsible for delivering risk advisory and brokerage services to businesses in the rapidly growing crypto sector. In addition to being involved with negotiations governing pricing and coverage terms, he oversees the Financial Services Group’s (FSG) digital asset strategy for North America. In this role he is responsible for coordinating Aon’s efforts with adjacent divisions and partners both domestically and globally, to deliver comprehensive risk solutions to clients that face a challenging insurance environment. He also works with Aon’s Growth Ventures (AGV) on strategic initiatives to address unsolved risk issues for the industry. He helped the innovation center formally establish Aon’s Web3 Growth Accelerator and now sits as an advisor to its board.​

Prior to joining Aon in 2021, Glenn started and lead the digital assets practice for Alliant Insurance’s Financial Institutions Group. In addition to working with crypto native companies, he also worked with a full array of traditional financial institutions to provide executive risk solutions. Before joining Alliant in 2018, he worked in Marsh’s private equity and mergers & acquisitions division providing executive and transactional risk solutions to private equity firms and their portfolio companies. ​

He first began working in the industry in 2013 and has been working with web3 related companies since 2017. His core brokerage experience is tailored to the purchase, placement and maintenance of D&O, E&O, Cyber, Tech E&O, Employment Practices, Fiduciary, Fidelity/Crime (including hot & cold crypto storage), and Specie insurance, as well as advising clients on Captive Solutions, Property, Staking, and Smart Contracts. In addition to a background in traditional finance, Glenn has experience providing solutions to a wide variety of crypto native firms, including exchanges, custodians, asset managers, SaaS (& CaaS) platforms, DeFi, NFT projects, staking operators and miners.​

Glenn graduated from The University of Georgia 2013. He also holds CPCU and ARM designations from The Institutes, and received a certificate from MIT Sloan School of Management for studies in business innovation and application of bl ockchain technologies.

Max Chee joined Aquiline in 2017 and is a partner and head of the Aquiline Technology Growth (ATG) team, Aquiline’s venture capital group dedicated to making early and growth stage investments across Insuretech, Fintech and related Enterprise. He comes to the firm with 18 years of private equity and venture capital investing experience. Prior to Aquiline, Max was a Managing Partner at Millennium Technology Value Partners, where he led more than 20 investments at all stages across consumer, enterprise and financial technology, from early growth to pre-IPO companies.Previously, he led technology growth investments for Mellon’s Private Equity Group and worked at Salomon Brothers in the Financial Institutions Group. Max earned his Bachelor of Commerce degree from Queen’s and Nyenrode Universities, as well as an M.B.A. from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. 

“Stefano Bison is the Group Head of Business Development, Partnerships & Innovation at Assicurazioni Generali where he is in charge of the Unit responsible for identifying and launching, at Group / global level, new business initiatives and new (strategic) partnerships with startups or other leading companies, triggering business development / transformation in the Generali Group. 

He also acts as Board Member / Non-Executive Director of Generali HITS (House of InsurTech Switzerland) and Advisory Board member of the B3i blockchain initiative. 

 As an ex strategy consultant (Senior Manager @ The Boston Consulting Group) and, previously, investment banker (@ Lehman Brothers – FIG M&A, then Nomura after LB bail-out), Stefano is passionate about innovation and digital startups. In fact, on top of his “ordinary” job, he is also an equity partner of Moffu (a seed / early stage venture fund) and a serial angel investor in startups, passionately engaged in supporting some of them in developing their businesses and raising funds, sometimes even providing coaching to their entrepreneurs. 

  Stefano holds a MSc magna cum laude from Bocconi University-Milan, with international study experiences also at CBS-Copenhagen, IESE-Barcellona and IMD-Lausanne.” 

Ana Pedersen, CEO Government & Insurance Solutions at HRS currently leads one of Australasia’s largest claim-related accommodation programs serving most of Australia’s Tier 1 P&C insurance carriers. Her customer first approach shows the potential of technology in enabling insurance carriers to accommodate their customers quickly and safely following damage to their homes. She is a global accommodation strategist for some of the world’s largest multinationals for more than two decades across Australia and the United States.

Her expertise extends to unravelling the complexities of CAT response, working effortlessly with government, NGOs and other third parties during a catastrophe and pandemic ensuring displaced survivors and vulnerable citizens find safe shelter quickly. Most recently her team has led the pandemic housing response for one of the largest states in the United States, managed the housing response in the 2022 ‘1-in-1000-year’ flood event in Australia and provided safe shelter of displaced Ukrainian citizens during the unprecedented invasion by Russia.

A 20+ years’ international experience in the insurance industry, gained both within insurance companies and advising leadership team members on insurance innovation. In 2020 I founded the Open and Embedded Insurance Observatory, the global leading organization focused on feeding its members with data and insights, providing expert opinions and advisory, and connecting the open and embedded insurance ecosystem. 

After finishing her studies, Ana started working at Seguros LAGUN ARO VIDA S.A., belonging to the LABORAL KUTXA group, which in turn is part of the MONDRAGÓN corporation.

In said entity she has gradually held different positions, starting with a more technical profile up to the current one of Personal Insurance Manager, in charge of risk underwriting and the design, development and maintenance of products, processes and computer applications, of the life and irrigation branches, (individual-periodic premium and single premium- and collective), accidents, payment protection and daily sick leave, for bancassurance channels and agency network.

Alexander is an internationally acting Managing Partner at the Strategic Management Consulting firm apcore.

His wide cross-industry experience (Insurance, Banks, Healthcare) permits him advising organizations, business leaders and individuals on how to manage change and structure transformation issues.

In addition, Alexander serves as a board member to several VC-investments and acts as an Academic Director to the University UNIR for an Executive Master Degree of Digital Transformation.

He was born and raised in Germany of a German father and an Italian mother – studied in Spain, Italy & Scotland. He delivers keynote speeches in 4 different languages related to topics on business model transformation.

With over 15 years experience in digital and commerce Thomas van Noort is currently leading Business Development within TVM, a mutual insurer specialized in Transportation and Logistics.  By matching the capabilities of tech with current and future needs in the market, Thomas established several solutions and services with direct impact on commercial results and customer satisfaction.

The latest is Bumper (www.bumper.nl), a rapid growing platform for accident registration and damage prevention with a 4,2 / 5 star customer rating. Before joining TVM Thomas has worked as a senior manager with other companies in in Insurance, and as a consultant in Utilities and Telco.  

Volker is a passionate insurance leader with a focus on B2C and B2B2C distribution and has over 10 years of experience at the intersections of digital insurance, InsurTech/FinTech, and banking.

As Head of Digital Sales and Partnerships at AXA Germany, Volker is in charge of direct/digital distribution (web, aggregators, phone/remote), also including partnerships and bancassurance. Beforehand, he drove the build-up of digital bancassurance in Germany and within ING/AXA’s global partnership team in France.

Before joining AXA, Volker led Generali’s global innovation activities, including the sourcing and scale-up of key digital capabilities along the insurance value chain in collaboration with Venture Capital and tech/startup companies, after he headed corporate strategy and development for Generali’s digital insurer CosmosDirekt in Germany. Previously, Volker worked for Allianz Global Automotive and advised a range of leading financial institutions at McKinsey & Company.

Volker graduated from the European Business School (EBS) in Oestrich-Winkel and holds a PhD from the Otto Beisheim School of Management (WHU) in Vallendar.

Sam is an experienced Insurance professional with a demonstrated history of working in the insurance industry. Sam came on board at Fadata in 2022 with the sole purpose of building the UK business for Fadata, which his skills in business development, account growth and negotiation lend perfectly to.

Sam is a passionate voice in the insurance industry with valued opinions on digital transformation embedded insurance and ecosystem integration. He is perfectly positioned to educate on how Fadata helps insurers stay competitive in a rapidly changing digital economy by connecting faster and more effectively with their customers and distribution partners.

Prior to working with Fadata, Sam held positions in various industry roles, including head of distribution for By Bits, Business Development Manager for Insure Apps and, Senior Broker Sales Manager at Zego.

Sander Kernkamp (1970) has a Msc. degree in Marketing and Logistic Management from the University of Amsterdam. He has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Started at ING in 1998 and worked in The Netherlands and Belgium in various positions.

He was CEO Netherlands Non-Life at NN Group and CEO of ABN AMRO Insurance.

Sander joined Zego, the UK based Insurtech, in 2021 as General Manager Netherlands. As of the beginning of 2023 he is combining this with Managing Director Zego Europe. 

Until 2008 Patrick Eugster studied economics at the University of Zurich and finished with his PhD «summa cum laude» on long-term health insurance contracts. He published several papers in academic journals and worked on renewable contract theory. Beside his academic career he led several projects with large national health insurance companiesin Switzerland.

From 2008 until 2016 Patrick worked for Allianz Insurance, starting in Marketmanagement (Product & Strate-gic Marketing2008-2013, Head of Marketmanagement 2014) he then moved to product management and pricing and headed the entire non-life private customer business and their prices. Total business volume of the about 900’000 private customers at that time was 1.3 billion.

In his sparetime Patrick loves travelling. He spent several years abroad (USA, Italy, England) and speaks 4 languages fluently. Since January 2017 Patrick works as CEO for Simpego Insurance Ltd. He and his colleagues have secured financing and received their official licences to sell car insurance at the end of 2017.

Matt is a serial entrepreneur who has built a number of tech startups. Recognising the insurance industry is slow to evolve, Matt founded Sønr.  

Sønr works with insurance companies around the world to scout and connect with best in class investment, acquisition and partnership opportunities. 

It does this by providing unique insight on the global insurtech (and broader) market – the latest market trends, the startups and scaleups reshaping the industry, and incumbent competitor intelligence. Its platform also provides the toolset to help run and manage end-to-end scouting, dealflow and PoC activity. 

Sønr’s is used by leading insurance companies around the world including Allianz, Generali, Liberty Mutual, Munich Re, RGAX, Tokio Marine and Travellers.  

Matt is a regular public speaker and enjoys meeting people who share his passion for new and ground-breaking ideas. He also loves to run and snowboard.