Agenda

Marine & Energy Insurtech Forum

etc. Venues’ Monument, London

Wednesday 26th February 2025

 

(All Times are in GMT)

 

08.15-08.55

Registration and Coffee in the Pre-Function Area sponsored by Noria

08.55-09.00

Welcome Address: Daniel Creasey, Director, Cannon Events

09.00-09.30

Keynote Address: Becoming and Staying a Digital Leader

This keynote will explain Gard’s digital journey, how to modernise the technical foundation and how digitalisation is revolutionizing the marine insurance industry by improving customer experience, taking better decisions and improving efficiency.

 

Attendees will gain insights into

 

•How to build a technical foundation that enables digital growth.

•New ways of working with cross functional collaboration.

•How to utilize new technology to ensure further growth.

•How people are a critical success factor.

 

•By the end of this session, attendees will understand how a robust technical platform can serve as a foundation for innovation and resilience, and how people can ensure long-term success in a competitive market.

 

 

Presenter: Catherine Hopstock, Vice President, Head of Technology, Gard

09.30-10.15

Panel Discussion: Future Trends in Marine and Energy Insurtech

This session will discuss how insurtech might transform the way risks are assessed, priced, and managed in the Marine and Energy sectors.

 

• Cross-sector collaboration

• Parametric insurance models

• The delivery of augmented underwriting

• Broker to insurer systems

 

Moderator:

Panellists: Ronny Reppe, Chief Executive Officer, Noria Digital Jonathan Humm, Deputy Head of Marine & Energy, AEGIS Adam Starling, Senior Vice President, Data Programme Leader Data & Analytics, Marine, Cargo & Logistics, Marsh 

 

10.15-11.00

Panel Discussion: The Elephant in the Room: legacy Inefficiencies and how to address them

On average underwriters spend 40% of their time on tasks that don’t add value to their business, this provides a huge opportunity that can directly influence an Insurers bottom line, but how best to go about tackling these inefficiencies, especially when processes and procedures maybe engrained in an insurers cultural and physical operations:

 

• Creating a culture of innovation to drive growth

• Defining and quantifying the efficiency opportunity

• The efficiency arms race, has it started?

 

 

Moderator:

Panellists: Andy Yeoman, Chief Executive Officer, Concirrus Alexander Brill, Chief Technology Officer, DNK

11.00-11.30

Coffee and Networking in the Pre-Function Area

11.30-11.50

Fireside Discussion: The Future of Recruiting

This session will discuss how technology will affect recruitment withing energy and marine insurance.

 

• Attracting different talent outside of underwriting and claims

• Changing tech landscape

• What will the new generation of marine & energy insurer look like?

 

Participants:

11.50-12.30

Panel Discussion: The Rise of the Tech Based Insurer

By leveraging technology, insurers can enhance risk assessment, provide more personalized policies, lower costs, and improve customer satisfaction. However, challenges related to data security, regulatory compliance, and the need for human expertise in complex situations must be carefully managed.

 

• Risk of over-reliance on technology

• Data privacy and security risks

• Improved efficiency and speed thus passing on cost benefits to client

 

Moderator:

Panellists: Ragesh Naik, Head of IT Strategic Projects & Governance, SiriusPoint

12.30-12.50

Fireside Discussion: Shipshape Technology Needed to Keep Your License

 

Compliance and audit put new stress on core systems and surrounding capabilities. In this session we discuss what it takes to be shipshape for meeting regulations like Solvency II, DORA, IFRS, PRA, FCA, GDPR, DORA, and IFRS 17.

 

  • How are processes and data capture affected?
  • Do we store data needed for business and to prove our compliance?
  • Is there a cost/benefit or risk/reward assessment at all?

 

Participants: Lars Ola Rambøl, Product Director, Noria

12.50-13.15

Fireside Chat: Modelled Emissions Data in Sustainability Reporting.

Insurers across Europe are trying to grapple with CSRD reporting and how to calculate the emissions from their insured portfolios. Conversations are taking place within our industry on how insurers can report such data, this session will discuss how PPMI’s work with modelled emissions data helps reporting under this broad and very extensive exercise.

Participants: Sigvald Fossum, Vice President, Head of Analytics, Gard

Ralf Garn, Managing Director, OceanScore

13.15-14.15

Lunch in the Pre-Function Area

14.15-15.30

Workshop: Claims Management Innovations

 

Workshop: Technological Innovations in Risk Assessment

 

This workshop will discuss how Marine and energy insurers can streamline claims operations, reduce fraud and ultimately improve profitability.

 

 

• Fraud

• Making the claims team life easier through automation

• Tracking of longtail claims

• Speed of information transfer from third parties

 

 

Marine & energy insurance risk aggregation software provides insurers with the tools they need to better understand, quantify, and manage complex risks associated with the marine & energy insurance industry.

 

• Exposure management

• Real-time risk monitoring

• Sanctions alerting & monitoring

• Portfolio risk management

• Underwriting and pricing optimization

 

Participants:

Participants:

Matthew Twist, Commercial Director, Concirrus

15.30-15.35

Closing Remarks: Daniel Creasey, Director, Cannon Events

15.35-17.00

Drinks Reception

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