OM DENNE EPISODE
In this special first episode of 2025, Zoja takes the hosting seat to ease us back into work and life post-New Year with a reflective and forward-looking conversation. Here’s what you can expect:
- 2024 Highlights: A look back at InsTech's key themes, including the growing buzz around catastrophe modeling and exposure management. Zoja shares insights from the year’s most popular webinars, including:
- Know Your Models: An Underwriter’s Guide to Flood Modelling (in collaboration with Fathom).
- JBA Risk Management’s session on lessons learned from five years of flood modeling.
Flood modeling emerged as a standout topic, highlighting its importance as the second-largest driver of insured losses globally.
- Top Podcasts of 2024:
- James Orchard (QBE Ventures): Exploring investment strategies for the year ahead.
- Marcus Ryu (Guidewire): A personal journey into entrepreneurship and building a globally recognized company.
- Nicola Turner (Scrub AI): From underwriter to founder—a compelling narrative of innovation.
- Munich Re’s parametric experts: Insights into cutting-edge work in parametric risk management.
- What’s Ahead in 2025:
- Exponential Risk London: InsTech’s inaugural two-day conference on March 4-5, a culmination of a year’s work on catastrophe risk and exposure management.
- New Members Spotlight: Meet ClaimSorted, Bellwether, Grappler, OIP Robotics, Coherent, Recordr, Guy Carpenter and Federato —all new additions to the InsTech community.
Join Zoja as she celebrates the successes of 2024, previews what’s coming in 2025 and shares her personal podcast recommendations to kick off the new year.
Thank you for your continued support, and see you next Sunday!
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Continuing Professional Development
This InsTech Podcast Episode is accredited by the Chartered Insurance Institute (CII). By listening, you can claim up to 0.5 hours towards your CPD scheme.
By the end of this podcast, you should be able to meet the following Learning Objectives:
- Identify the new InsTech members and their potential contributions to the insurance and technology ecosystem in 2025.
- List the key themes and standout topics from InsTech’s 2024 events, including popular webinars and podcasts.
- Specify the primary goals and expected outcomes of the Exponential Risk London conference in March 2025.
If your organisation is a member of InsTech and you would like to receive a quarterly summary of the CPD hours you have earned, visit the Episode 336 page of the InsTech website or email cpd@instech.co to let us know you have listened to this podcast.
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