Digital Insurance Connect 2025

August 18 - 20, 2025

Austin Marriott Downtown, Austin, TX

Kelly Hernandez

AVP, PL Telematics and Auto Product Development Nationwide Insurance

Kelly Hernandez is a highly experienced insurance professional with over two decades of expertise in Loss Reserving, Pricing, Telematics, and Product Development. At Nationwide, she has been a pivotal leader in auto product development, driving innovative programs such as SmartRide and SmartMiles. Kelly's notable achievements include:

  • Implementing proprietary scoring models and new rating capabilities.
  • Launching the SmartRide mobile app and the SmartMiles program.
  • Introducing several connected car programs.

Most recently, she has been instrumental in implementing new rating features like the Telematics Property Discount and pioneering solutions such as Focused Driving Rewards.

Kelly is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and proudly holds a degree from The Ohio State University.

Enhancing the Customer Journey To Drive Engagement And Increase Trust

4:10 PM WORKSHOP: Customer Journey and Telematics: Using Telematics To Better Understand And Build Trust With Your Customers

As telematics make their way into consumer cars to encourage better driving habits, they mark a chance for you to engage and reward your members appropriately. The wealth of data that comes from telematics not only results in better rates for your customers, but it also allows you to create more relevant rates and products moving forward. 

 

  • Understanding customer behaviors to move away from potentially biased socioeconomic risk calculations 
  • Rewarding good behavior while also identifying bad behavior, or problem geographies for your customers 
  • Discovering novel product models that are directly tied to member’s behaviors such as pay per mile insurance  


Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Kelly.

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