In our latest Leadership in Insurance Podcast episode, I sat down with the Finpro team for a debrief on ITC Vegas. This time I handed the mic over to Dan, who put Sophie and I through our paces on the key insights from the conference.

What we covered:

🚀 Innovation Across Regions Sophie noted the vibrant startup ecosystem in Vegas, with particular interest in companies like Anthea exploring psychedelics in healthcare—a topic underexplored in UK markets.

💰 InsurTech Investment is Back After years of risk-averse, efficiency-focused investment, I spoke about the fact that we’re seeing larger rounds and renewed appetite for innovative products, new distribution methods, and AI technologies. The market is embracing risk again.

🧠 The Talent Attraction Challenge As ever, Talent was a hot topic with a key focus on how AI is affecting recruitment. It’s a challenge, but I think attracting AI talent to our industry requires better storytelling. Instead of "Do you want to work in insurance?" try "Do you want to help solve climate change?" Frame the impact, not just the industry.

🤝 Making Conferences Better Dan's first ITC Vegas was a success—meeting our placements in person was a highlight as was seeing the buzz about the industry in the room.

But we identified room for improvement:

·      More impromptu meetings can be better than packing the diary before you go

·      Better representation of talent/recruitment perspectives on stage (especially from smaller companies who face different challenges),

·      More diversity among speakers representing different demographics to avoid the "same voices" phenomenon

It was fun to unpack ITC Vegas together—three different perspectives, one shared experience, and plenty of debate about what it all means for InsurTech's future.

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