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THE WORLD'S LARGEST GATHERING OF INSURANCE LEADERS AND INNOVATORS
WHAT IS ITC?
InsureTech Connect is the world's largest insurtech event — offering unparalleled access to the largest and most comprehensive gathering of tech entrepreneurs, investors and insurance industry incumbents from across the globe.
ITC AT A GLANCE
FROM MAJOR BRANDS TO THE LATEST INNOVATORS
THE MOST GLOBAL GATHERING OF INSURANCE LEADERS
THREE DAYS OF PANELS, KEYNOTES, NEWS AND DEMOS
FROM ACROSS THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
INDUSTRY EXECS
Connect with entrepreneurs and explore commercial relationships.
See the leading edge across all categories, including Property & Casualty, Health, Life, Small Business and specialty.
Engage with your fellow insurance industry leaders — 60%+ of whom are founders.
Network with investors, fellow innovators, and develop partnerships with leading participants in the industry.
Learn what investors across the globe are eager to fund.
Understand the mindset of the industry and gain a better grasp of where the market is heading.
Gain visibility into companies across the full range of stages and strategies.
Understand the competitive landscape and the mindset of likely acquirers across North America and Europe.
Meet thought leaders and leave with deep insight into the forces shaping the industry.
Listed below are just a few of the companies who attended ITC 2019.
SEE FULL LIST OF 2019 ATTENDEES
WHO SPEAKS AT ITC?
More than 250 innovators from across the insurance ecosystem took the stage over two days at ITC 2019.
Kara	Swisher
Co-Founder & Editor-at-Large Recode
Stuart Miller
Executive Chairman Lennar Corporation
Glenn Shapiro
President of Allstate Personal Lines Allstate Insurance Company
Devaki Raj
CEO & Co-Founder CrowdAI
Co-CEO Markel Corporation
Eran	Agrios
Head of Global Go To Market, Financial Services Cloud Salesforce
Mel Parks
Group Chief Transformation Officer QBE Insurance
Loren Nickel
Director, Business Risk & Insurance Google
Karen Richardson
Board of Directors Exponent
Ryan Kim
CEO Phyn
Laurent Rousseau
SCOR Global P&C Deputy CEO SCOR
Tanja Kufner
Partner MHP - a Porsche Company
Max	Simkoff
CEO & Founder States Title
Jay Gelb
Managing Director Barclays
Beth	Wood
VP, CMO Principal Financial Group
Partner Bessemer Venture Partners
Jacqueline Lesage Krause
Mananging Director Munich Re Ventures
Marcelo Blay
CEO & Founder Minuto Seguros
Clara Shih
CEO & Founder Hearsay Systems
Claudius Leibfritz
Member of the Board of Management & CEO Allianz Automotive Allianz Partners
Varun Dua
CEO & Founder Acko General Insurance
Amy Friedrich
President-U.S. Insurance Solutions Principal
Eugenio Pace
CEO Auth0
Allison Martin
CEO UDoTest
Co-Founder & Editor-at-Large
Kara Swisher is the co-founder and editor-at-large of Recode, producer and host of the Recode Decode and Pivot podcasts, and co-executive producer of the Code Conference series. She also has a special series on MSNBC called Revolution on the impact of technology on work, society, and more, and is a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times.
Swisher co-founded Recode and, before that, co-produced and co-hosted the Wall Street Journal's "D: All Things Digital" conference series (now called the Code conference) with Walt Mossberg starting in 2003. It was, and still is, the country's premier conference on tech and media, with interviewees such as Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, the Google leadership, Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey, and many other leading players. She and Mossberg were also the co-executive editors of a tech and media website, AllThingsD.com, founded in 2007.
Swisher worked in the Wall Street Journal's San Francisco bureau. For many years, she wrote the column "BoomTown," which appeared on the front page of the Marketplace section and online at WSJ.com. Previously, Swisher covered breaking news about the web's major players and Internet policy issues and also wrote feature articles on technology for the paper.
Earlier in her career, Swisher worked as a reporter at the Washington Post and as an editor at the City Paper of Washington, DC. She received her undergraduate degree from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and her graduate degree at Columbia University's School of Journalism.
Swisher is also the author of aol.com: How Steve Case Beat Bill Gates, Nailed the Netheads and Made Millions in the War for the Web, published by Times Business Books in July 1998. The sequel, There Must Be a Pony in Here Somewhere: The AOL Time Warner Debacle and the Quest for a Digital Future, was published in the fall of 2003 by Crown Business Books.
Lennar Corporation
Stuart Miller serves as Executive Chairman and member of the Board of Directors of Lennar Corporation. He was CEO from 1997 until 2018. He serves on numerous boards and committees including FivePoint Holdings and States Title Board of Directors. He is a Past Chairman of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies Policy Advisory Board. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the University of Miami and the UHealth Board of Directors. He is the Co-Chairman of the Miami Dolphins Foundation. Stuart also joined the Board of Directors of Builder Homesite, Inc. He joined Lennar after graduating from the University of Miami Law School in 1982.
President of Allstate Personal Lines
Glenn Shapiro is President of Allstate Personal Lines, overseeing product, claims, operations, risk, finance and distribution. He is focused on expanding Allstate's trusted advisor strategy, accelerating the use of telematics and building an Integrated Digital Enterprise. From 2016 to 2017, Shapiro served as Chief Claims Officer for the Allstate Insurance Company. Prior to joining Allstate in 2016, Shapiro was Executive Vice President and Chief Claims Officer at Liberty Mutual Commercial Insurance. Shapiro has 30 years of experience in the insurance industry. He has held a number of senior leadership positions in strategy and operations and has been at the forefront of leveraging predictive modeling and digital capabilities in insurance. Shapiro serves on the board of SitStayRead, a Chicago nonprofit dedicated to promoting a culture of reading in low-income communities. He received his bachelor's degree in business administration from Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., and holds CPCU, CLU and ChFC designations.
CrowdAI
Devaki is the CEO and Co-Founder of CrowdAI.Prior to this, she completed her undergraduate and Masters in Statistics at the University of Oxford, and subsequently used her expertise at Google (Maps, Energyand [X] teams) to optimize renewable energy allocation in sub-Saharan Africa. Shenoticed that even with the power of Google Maps, there was a significant deficit in high-resolution on-the-ground information, such as locations of homes, villages, and farms inrural areas.This gap in knowledge prompted her to start CrowdAI in 2016, which waspicked up by YCombinator and selected by TechCrunch as one of their top 8 companies to watch, Forbes' Top 25 Machine Learning Companies, Nvidia Deep Learning Inception Awards Finalist, and Inc Magazine's 30 under 30.
Markel Corporation
Richard "Richie" Whitt is Co-CEO of Markel Corporation (NYSE: MKL), a diverse financial holding company including insurance, reinsurance, and investment operations around the world and headquartered in Richmond, Virginia. Richie is responsible for worldwide insurance and reinsurance operations, insurance-linked securities fund managers, and the company's shared service teams. Markel has been very active over the past 20 years from a mergers and acquisitions standpoint, and Richie has been a central figure within the organization on all of its major transactions. Richie is a graduate of Virginia Tech, where he earned a degree in accounting and information systems.
Head of Global Go To Market, Financial Services Cloud
Eran Agrios leads the Go To Market strategy for Financial Services Cloud at Salesforce. Eran has over 15 years of experience in customer relationship management technology. She has spent the last 10 years at Salesforce working with Financial Services companies on innovation and digital transformation. Most recently, her focus has been on the success of Salesforce's first industry product, Financial Services Cloud.
Group Chief Transformation Officer
Mel has significant experience gained across a breadth of industries including retail, film, banking and insurance. She has worked in Europe, the USA and Asia and spent time in PNG on a peace monitoring mission. Mel's expertise is delivering large scale, complex transformation with a focus on customer centricity. Mel is currently the Chief Transformation Officer at QBE Insurance and is responsible for an extensive portfolio including enterprise transformation, data and global shared services. She sponsors the global automation community and new ways of working initiatives. Mel is passionate about sustainable change, collaboration and the future of work.
Director, Business Risk & Insurance
Loren Nickel is a director at Google and heads the business risk and insurance team which is responsible for all Alphabet companies. Loren's team provides risk advisory, captive management, insurance placement, and analytical support to Alphabet. He joined Google/Alphabet in April 2015. Loren has twenty-three years of experience in the risk and insurance industry, including fifteen years as an actuary and four years as an underwriting manager with Aon and Allianz. He has been called on to explain in-depth actuarial, risk management, and underwriting concepts to a variety of audiences around the globe including CEO's, CFO's, Executive/Managing Directors and Risk Managers. He is a six year past-President of the Casualty Actuaries of the Bay Area and is on the advisory board for the UC Santa Barbara actuarial program, George Mason University Chief Risk Officer Advisory Council and the Insurance Thought Leadership corporation. He is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, Member of the American Academy of Actuaries, and Charterholder of the CFA Institute. Loren is a 2011 Business Insurance – Innovation of the Year Award Recipient and in 2017 he was named the Risk Manager of the Year by RIMS.
Over her 30-year career in the technology industry, Karen Richardson has helped start-ups blossom into public companies, and public companies navigate strategic challenges on a global scale. As a female executive whose experience reaches to the earliest days of the dot-com era, Karen's insights not only lead companies to operational excellence, but also provide valuable perspective on achieving diversity and building a culture to support it.
Ryan Kim is CEO of Phyn, the company bringing intelligent water solutions to market that help people protect their homes, conserve water and save money. Prior to Phyn, Ryan served as the vice president of engineering at Belkin, responsible for hardware, firmware, software, quality, and program management. During his tenure at Belkin, Ryan led the vision, architecture and development of the Wemo platform, one of the most recognized and widely adopted brands in the Smart Home category. He is also the author of dozens of patents in and around the IoT space.
SCOR Global P&C Deputy CEO
A French citizen, is a graduate of HEC (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales). He started his career in 2001 as an equity analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston in London, covering European insurers and reinsurers. In 2005, he joined J.P. Morgan in the insurance Investment Banking team, executing M&A, capital raising and restructuring transactions for European insurers and reinsurers. He joined SCOR in 2010 as Advisor to the CEO, and became Head of SCOR Global P&C's Strategy and Business Development in 2012. In July 2015, Laurent became Chief Underwriting Officer of SCOR Global P&C's treaty business in Europe, Middle East & Africa. In April 2018, he was appointed Deputy Chief Executive Officer of SCOR Global P&C, member of the Group's Executive Committee and since September 2018, CEO for Specialty Insurance (SCOR Business Solutions, the Channel Managing Agency and MGAs).
MHP - a Porsche Company
Tanja Kufner is a Partner at dynamics, the innovation hub and startup matchmaker powered by the Porsche subsidiary MHP. With more than 20 years of experience in the startup and venture capital space, and having invested in over 100 companies to date, she was named one of the 50 most influential women in the startup and venture capital sector by EU-Startups in 2016, 2017, and 2018. Before founding dynamics, she was Managing Director of Startupbootcamp Berlin with a focus on Smart Transportation & Energy, where she guided companies such as Mercedes-Benz, Airbus, Cisco, here, Vinci, Kühne + Nagel, SBB, EnBW and DB on their innovation journey. Tanja Kufner holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of San Francisco.
States Title
Max started States Title in 2016 after personally experiencing the friction and labor caused by title insurance in the homebuying process. Since then he has worked to provide an innovative solution to homeowners, brokers, and mortgage bankers. Max is an entrepreneur with experience founding and operating technology companies. Prior to States Title, Max was Founder and CEO of Evolv, Inc., an enterprise predictive analytics software company, which he led through their acquisition by Cornerstone (NASDAQ: CSOD) in 2014 where he served for two years on the senior executive team post-acquisition as the Vice President of Strategic Initiatives.
Jay Gelb, CFA, is currently Managing Director and senior equity analyst at Barclays covering the property-casualty and life insurance industries as well as Berkshire Hathaway. Prior to joining Barclays in 2008, Jay was the senior equity analyst at Lehman Brothers covering the P&C insurance industry. Before joining Lehman, Jay spent five years in equity research at Prudential Equity Group, LLC. He began his professional career as an underwriter for Chubb specializing in the financial institutions industry. Jay earned a B.A. in Finance from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a M.B.A., also in Finance, from Bentley University.
VP, CMO
Principal Financial Group
Beth is Senior Vice President and Chief Marketing Officer for Principal Financial Group. She leads the Global Center for Brand and Insights. Prior to joining Principal, Beth led Marketing Strategy and Operations for Guardian's Individual Lines business. At Guardian, her team focused on Marketing digital transformation, client acquisition and engagement engendering consumer preference for Guardian to and through its network of general agencies and their agents. With 25 years of Brand Management and Marketing experience, Beth has worked at industry leading organizations such as PepsiCo's Frito-Lay and healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson. She made her first foray into financial services where she championed major marketing initiatives at MassMutual.
Charles Birnbaum is a partner in Bessemer's New York office where he leads the firm's investing in early stage financial services companies. Charles' fintech portfolio includes many high-growth companies, such as Betterment, Shift Technology, Fabric, Bread, Eave, United Capital, and Zopa. Before venture, Charles spent three years at Foursquare helping to bring forth the company's first merchant-facing tools. Prior to Foursquare, he spent six years in investment banking and equity capital markets focusing on the technology, media, and telecom sectors. He earned his MBA from the Wharton School, Master of Arts in International Studies from the Lauder Institute at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Arts from Northwestern University.
Mananging Director
Munich Re Ventures
Jacqueline is the Managing Director of Munich Re Ventures, investing and partnering with innovative companies to develop growth opportunities for Munich Re, including its subsidiaries HSB and ERGO. Jacqueline serves on the board of directors of Trov and Augury, and is a board observer of Slice, Helium, and Forge Global. Jacqueline has 20+ years of experience creating the future in companies large and small, as a start-up founder, venture capital investor, corporate innovation leader, and management consultant. Previously, she was VP of Innovation & Corporate Venture Capital at The Hartford, where her team received Global Corporate Venturing's award for Best Practices in Financial Services for their unique approach to combining investing and incubation. She is an inventor on a number of patents related to new technologies and business models in insurance. Jacqueline holds an MBA from the University of Chicago and a BS in Economics from the Wharton School.
Minuto Seguros
Marcelo Blay is the founder and CEO of Minuto Seguros, the leading online insurance broker in Brazil since 2010. For 10 years he was the head of auto and health insurance products at Porto Seguro and COO of retail insurance at Itaú Seguros for 6 years. Marcelo graduated in mechanical engineering at Maua Engineering School and has an MBA from FGV in Brazil with finance and HR specialization at Columbia University in New York. Marcelo is the broker's union (SINCOR-SP) head of technology and a member of the board at Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein.
Hearsay Systems
Clara Shih is CEO and founder of Hearsay Systems, a leading enterprise SaaS insurtech based in San Francisco. Hearsay's agent and advisor actions platform enables every rep to behave like the top producer. Over 170,000 advisors and agents across insurance, banks, and wealth management firms in 22 countries rely on Hearsay to modernize the human client experience. A pioneer in the industry, Clara has been named one of Fortune's "Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs," Fast Company's "Most Influential People in Technology," and a "Young Global Leader" by the World Economic Forum. Clara is a member of the Starbucks board of directors and previously held various roles at Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce.com. She graduated top of her class in computer science at Stanford University, where she also received an M.S. in computer science. She also holds an M.S. in internet studies from Oxford University, where she studied as a U.S. Marshall Scholar.
Member of the Board of Management & CEO Allianz Automotive
Claudius Leibfritz is the CEO of Allianz Automotive and thereby responsible for the global automotive business of Allianz. In addition, he is a member of the Management Board of Allianz Partners. Prior to this, Claudius was managing several regional groups of Allianz. Before joining Allianz, he spent more than ten years at Boston Consulting Group conducting and heading various international projects. Claudius holds a PhD in Finance from the University of Berne in Switzerland and a Master's degree from Tuebingen University in Germany.
Varun Dua is the Founder and CEO of Acko, an insurance carrier in India that operates in the P&C space. Prior to Acko, he co-founded Coverfox (a digital broking platform), and an insurance software services firm. He started his career with AIG as part of the early team that set-up AIG's business in India. Acko is India's first digital only insurer to receive the regulator's nod and is backed by investors such as Accel, Intact, Swiss Re and Amazon. Acko creates high frequency use case products around ride sharing, online travel booking etc. Acko operates on sharp pricing and digital distribution model for traditional products like auto insurance.
President-U.S. Insurance Solutions
Amy Friedrich leads Principal's U.S. insurance businesses, serving 100,000 employers and 3.5 million people. Through a broad range of protection solutions, Principal helps employers attract and retain key talent, protect against loss of income and assets, and secure their financial future. Friedrich leads 3,500 employees responsible for group employee benefits, life insurance, disability insurance, and nonqualified deferred compensation, along with the distribution arm, which included Principal's advisor network. Previously, she was senior vice president of the specialty benefits division, which saw above-industry growth under her leadership. Before joining Principal in 2000, she worked in change management for Accenture. She holds an undergraduate degree from Buena Vista University and a master's degree from Purdue University.
Pace co-founded Auth0 in early 2013 with CTO and "brother-in-arms" Matias Woloski while living 7,000 miles apart from each other. Since then, Pace has played an instrumental role in growing Auth0 into a leading identity management company that is loved by developers and trusted by global enterprises. With more than 5,500 customers spanning 70 countries, and securing 2.5 billion logins per month, Auth0 is a trusted global brand that is relied upon for making identity simple and protecting the data of its customers and their users. Pace has spent his entire professional career easing the developer journey by creating industry-standard tools, content, and services for cloud-based computing, mobility, and identity. Prior to Auth0, he spent more than a decade at Microsoft, leading product management and engineering teams that provided architecture guidance and services that increased developer joy.
UDoTest
UDoTest is a software delivery platform designed to definitively identify risk while activating a personalized consumer screening experience at-home. UDoTest serves global insurers, laboratories and employers. In 2018 Allison served as one of two fellows at the America's Health Insurance Plans (AHIP) Innovation Lab in Washington DC where she was involved in transformational healthcare projects with payers. Several awards and recognition from companies like Genentech, Frost and Sullivan, Quest Diagnostics and Discovery Health / Vitality brought UDoTest to the U.S in 2017. In 2013, UDoTest introduced the first at-home test for women avoiding their Pap smears in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prior to UDoTest, Allison was the CEO of a successful technology company. In her career, Allison has also lead global telecommunications companies in Shanghai and Silicon Valley. Allison has been interviewed by news channels, by clinical cable TV networks, popular morning shows, radio personalities and has appeared in or been quoted in articles relating to disease prevention, HPV, access and UDoTest's dynamic platform.
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ITC 2020 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
AGENCY CONNECT
Brought to you by the team behind InsureTech Connect, Agency Connect is a one day pre-conference event that is singularly focused on helping agencies and brokers thrive in the new digital first, tech-enabled reality.
Join us 2 – 4 June 2020 in Singapore for the most senior and diverse gathering of insurance industry executives, investors, and startups from across the Asia Pacific Region in a way that only ITC can.
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