ACORD, in conjunction with Alchemy Crew and its co-founder & CEO Sabine VanderLinden, annually names the Top Insurtech Leaders who have been integral to the growth and progress of the insurance technology community. Their remarkable vision, execution, and superior outcomes set them apart as pioneers of transformation in the global industry.

Despite some obvious benefits, practical applications of the technology in insurance remain few and far between.

When it comes to customer experience, insurance carriers are under immense pressure to keep up with the competition. Customer experience (CX) is now the number one differentiator for insurers, meaning carriers must optimize every single touchpoint in the customer journey.

Interest in insurtech investments has spiked in the last year, with much focus on the rise and fall of Insurtech IPOs in the US that, since going public, have performed below expectations and lost a newsworthy amount of shareholder value.

Eva Boeijen, global product director for insurance at Mendix, and Seth Rachlin, insurance industry leader at Capgemini, discuss how their partnership and the new templates they’ve launched together are accelerating digital transformation in the insurance industry.

At this year’s Insurtech Connect conference Insider Engage spoke to Adrian Jones, managing director at Hudson Structured Capital Management about how technology can improve efficiency in distribution to show the value of insurance as a product and create value for consumers.

At this year’s Insurtech Connect conference, Insider Engage spoke to Pranav Pasricha, Swiss Re's global head property and casualty solutions, Reinsurance, to discuss why the protection gap is the biggest challenge the reinsurance industry faces today and how Swiss Re is using technology to support clients to respond to new and emerging threats.

Being keen to gain insights into the untapped potential of the insurtech world, I was delighted to be granted an interview with Richard Chattock, CEO of Insurtech Gateway.

In other industries outside of insurance, competitions have been a mainstay for creating a environment where companies can gain notoriety, venture investors can discover companies and companies can compete to win. But in the insurance industry, it's only recently that competitions have become a way to highlight startups, said David Gritz co-founder of InsurTech NY.

Insurance can play an important role in people's wellbeing, said Jane Wang, the founder and CEO of Optimity, a wellness and "mission driven" InsureTech.

Data and technology have opened the door to game-changing improvements in the way business can and should be written in London. Now the market must walk through it.

Insurers are finding automation a helpful tool to reduce errors in highly repetitive, complex processes, said Adam Goran, client partner, Emergn.