Digital Insurance Connect 2024

August 26 - 28, 2024

Rancho Bernardo Inn, San Diego CA

Day Two TUESDAY AUGUST 27,2024

CREATING THE MODERN INSURANCE EXPERIENCE WITH DATA

7:45 am - 8:45 am BREAKFAST FOR ALL ATTENDEES

7:45 am - 8:45 am PRIVATE BREAKFAST: Women in Digital Insurance Breakfast

This private breakfast will bring talented women in insurance together to foster your passion for digital transformation and an opportunity to make new connections as you share your knowledge and network.

This session is only open to female digital insurance executives.

8:45 am - 8:50 am DAY TWO OPENING REMARKS

Randi Greenberg, Digital Insurance Connect, Program Director

8:50 am - 9:00 am CHAIRPERSON’S REMARKS

9:00 am - 9:20 am FIRESIDE CHAT: Developing a Data-Powered Strategy for Your Marketing Roadmap

Jared Vestal - VP, Growth & Journey Marketing, GEICO

Leveraging both customer and enterprise data will take your organization’s digital transformation to the next level. But how do you get there? These industry leaders discuss how to create groundbreaking capabilities that enhance customer engagement and boost marketing effectiveness. Whether you're looking to overhaul your current strategies or refine your approach with cutting-edge insights, this is your opportunity to learn from the best and make your marketing efforts more dynamic and results-driven. Prepare to leave with actionable takeaways that you can immediately implement to make a measurable impact in your organization.

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Jared Vestal

VP, Growth & Journey Marketing
GEICO

9:20 am - 9:40 am KEYNOTE: Making Data Work for You: Leveraging Data and Analytics To Gain the Competitive Edge

To succeed in today’s global and ever-changing market, insurance companies must know more than their competitors. You have to have the ability to collect, share and leverage information internally and externally with simplicity and ease, and use those insights at every step of the decision-making lifecycle. Insurance companies that want to thrive in today’s aggressive global business landscape need to leverage data and analytics better than ever before.

  • Understanding how to benefit from the effective use of data
  • Choosing the best data platforms to support your business
  • Building insights into every point of your customers’ decision-making lifecycle

9:40 am - 10:10 am KEYNOTE PANEL REMIX: Embedded, Convenient and Collaborative: The Future of Digital-First Insurance

Brian Ignatowicz - Vice President, Digital Experience and Product Management for P&C Business Units, The Hartford John Poucher - VP of Agency Distribution, Coterie

Insurers are developing partnerships to embed themselves into their customer’s (and potential customers’) daily lives. These innovative ways to increase awareness of insurance offerings and engagement with consumers provide more visibility in an ever-increasing crowded market. It also provides the ability to address specific customer needs and relief from their pain points. And it’s working! The embedded insurance market is expected to reach $482 billion by 2032.

Join this panel as they discuss their pathway to successful embedded insurance products.

  • Sourcing data that helps guide the type of partnerships and collaborations that will appeal to a broad audience
  • Selecting and approaching potential partners
  • Getting creative to gain buy-in from key stakeholders
  • Providing personalized coverage and driving engagement with customers (using telematics, rebates from merchants, offers from adjacent organizations, etc.)
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Brian Ignatowicz

Vice President, Digital Experience and Product Management for P&C Business Units
The Hartford

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John Poucher

VP of Agency Distribution
Coterie

10:10 am - 10:40 am NETWORKING BREAK: SWEET NOTHINGS AM BREAK

Hit the refresh button with our energizing morning break. Grab a gourmet coffee, snack on light bites, and share a lively chat. Power up for the rest of your day!

10:40 am - 11:10 am BUSINESS MEETINGS

11:15 am - 11:45 am BUSINESS MEETINGS

10:40 am - 11:10 am THIS IS HOW WE DO IT: Combating Digital Fraud – False Claims, Fake Users and Ghost Brokers

This session explores the ever-increasing issue of digital fraud and innovative ways to uncover issues, mitigate risks and protect your assets in an increasingly interconnected world.

  • Understanding trends in digital fraud
  • Leveraging your data to identify anomalies
  • Raising awareness with your customers and workforce
  • Learning about the technologies that help battle fraud

11:15 am - 11:45 am PRESENTATION: Taking a More Holistic Approach to Customer Experience
Scott Campbell - SVP, Chief Client Experience and Corporate Communications, American National

Gone are the days of disjointed interactions and fragmented service. American National has stopped looking at their call center, chat and digital platforms separately and taken a much more customer-centric approach. American National’s Chief Client Experience explains how this more strategic and agile approach towards their customer has provided a more unified, personalized and unparalleled client experience

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Scott Campbell

SVP, Chief Client Experience and Corporate Communications
American National

11:45 am - 12:45 pm NETWORKING LUNCH FOR ALL ATTENDEES

12:45 pm - 1:30 pm THE DIGI-DOWNLOAD ROUNDTABLES

The roundtable discussions offer a deeper dive into the specific areas you want to discuss. Literally pull up a seat to learn from other industry experts, while sharing your challenges.

Sign up on site early to make sure you get a seat at your preferred roundtable.

Topics may include:

  • Predictive Data: Best Ways To Collect And Utilize
  • Establishing A Secure Data Pipeline From Collection To Storage
  • Automating Sales & Renewals To Improve Marketing ROI
  • Making The Customer Journey More Intuitive
  • The Process To More Effective Lead Generation
  • Your Social Media Metrics And How To Improve Them
  • What You Need To Know About Protecting Customer Data
  • Automating Sales & Renewals To Improve Marketing ROI

1:30 pm - 2:40 pm AFTERNOON CHAIRPERSON’S REMARKS

1:40 pm - 2:00 pm AFTERNOON KEYNOTE: Leveraging Behavioral Analytics and AI for Informed Decision Making

One area of AI that will continue to gain momentum is the use of digital twins. This new opportunity can  inform key decisions, drive significant business value and reduce risk from unintended consequences. One key component of the digital twin model is the population of customers/users for an organization’s products and services. This cannot be built without modeling and understanding human behaviors. In this keynote, Bipin Chaha will describe:

  • Critical importance of these digital twins to improve decision effectiveness
  • How such system level digital twins are built
  • Role of behavioral models within the digital twins

2:05 pm - 2:35 pm BUSINESS MEETINGS

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm BUSINESS MEETINGS

2:05 pm - 2:35 pm CASE STUDY: The Win-Win Situation: Using Tech To Enable Stronger Digital Broker Partnerships
Tevin Smith - SVP, Head of Operations & Technology, NFP

When the goal is to improve business, look no further than strengthening the relationship between brokers, agents and carriers. And there’s no doubt that technology will empower carrier and broker/agent relationships in the future.

At NFP, one of the US’ top brokerages, Tevin Smith’s focus is how to utilize technology to find better opportunities to efficiently service external partners, add value and build stronger customer relationships. Join this conversation to uncover how technology can: 

  • Surpassing business goals through better communication
  • Finding novel ways to look at data for new opportunities
  • Tracking and improving performance
  • Strengthening relationships throughout the distribution channels
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Tevin Smith

SVP, Head of Operations & Technology
NFP

2:40 pm - 3:10 pm PRESENTATION: Scaling With Next-Gen Data: How Better Personalization Leads to a Better Customer Experience

Companies across all industries are putting personalization at the center of their enterprise strategies. Better targeting and personalization capabilities deliver the right messages to the right people at the right time. Although building one can be time-consuming, expensive, and technologically complex, the result allows insurers to deliver more personalized and much better service.

  • Adopting a customer journey framework
  • Modernizing your data usage to create the foundation for personalized customer experiences
  • Personalizing payment options for premiums and disbursements
  • Moving from personalization to hyper-personalization with the use of AI

3:10 pm - 3:40 pm NETWORKING BREAK: SALTY BY THE SEA PM BREAK

Rejuvenate and recharge for the rest of the afternoon’s sessions – there’s more great content ahead!

3:40 pm - 4:00 pm PANEL DISCUSSION: Charting the Course Forward: Building Next-Level Digital Ecosystems

Jared Vestal - VP, Growth & Journey Marketing, GEICO Basilios Manousogiannakis - Vice President, Alternative Distribution, AMERISAFE

In the dynamic landscape of insurance, the future belongs to the organizations that will embrace a well-thought-out digital transformation. Because the insurance value chain is a complex configuration of processes, people and assets, a successful roadmap will consider the technologies, data and analytic that will reshape risk assessment, claims processing, fraud detection, your workforce and more. Our panel of industry leaders share actionable insights and best practices for building resilient, customer-centric digital ecosystems that will help organizations collaborate and integrate across platforms, partners, and technologies.

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Jared Vestal

VP, Growth & Journey Marketing
GEICO

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Basilios Manousogiannakis

Vice President, Alternative Distribution
AMERISAFE

4:00 pm - 4:30 pm KEYNOTE PRESENTATION: Reimagining Insurance In the Cloud: Reducing Cycle Times And Improving Data Flow

Regardless of the speed of your digital transformation, insurance lags behind other industries in its use of advanced digital technologies to deliver the newest products. Discover what cloud-based products are on the horizon and how the continued move to the cloud will help modernize your organization, during this dynamic keynote presentation

 

·      Understanding the role of the cloud in modernizing your organization and the cloud-based products specific to the insurance sector

·      Using the cloud for processes to reduce cycle times and improving the flow of data between internal parties

·      Offering more transparency and easier to understand products, to your customers

·      Leveraging cloud technologies to deliver innovative insurance products at a quicker rate

·      Overcoming challenges with data, privacy and security

4:35 pm - 5:05 pm BUSINESS MEETINGS

5:10 pm - 5:40 pm BUSINESS MEETINGS

4:35 pm - 5:05 pm FIRESIDE CHAT: Revealing The Future of Claims Processing

Today’s insurance customers expect a smooth and seamless Amazon-like experience – and insurance claims are no different. With customer expectations an all-time high and technological advancements keeping up pace, insurance leaders need the right technology to leverage in order to make the claims experience a more automated process. This fireside chat discusses what’s new now and what we need to know for the future.

  • Overcoming legacy systems and outdated platforms
  • Exploring innovative solutions
  • Creating personalized and seamless experiences for the customer

5:10 pm - 5:40 pm PRESENTATION: Is Automation Always The Answer? Let’s Not Forget the Human Touch….

Your customers’ experience with your insurance brand, when they’re at their most vulnerable, will either make them loyal (or send them elsewhere). The balancing act of knowing when they want the ease of a digital experience or the more personal touch, is key. This innovator reveals how their organizations is coupling design thinking principals with their customer’s desire for consistency across all touchpoints—whether they opt for human or digital interactions.

  • Pairing human resources with technology to optimize the experience
  • Using transactional data to show the consumer you’re ‘paying attention’
  • Providing brand-consistent assistance with face-to-face engagement or AI
  • Making customers feel more empowered and more engaged

5:40 pm - 6:40 pm FIESTA LATINA EN SAN DIEGO RECEPTION

After a productive day, kick back and enjoy some cool drinks and hot treats. Unwind from your full day at Digital Insurance Connect and recharge for more engaging content tomorrow!