InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens

Partners’ Chat - Summer of Love (315)


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This week Matthew and Robin are pointing the microphones at each other and back for our popular "Partners' Chat" as they review the world around us. Find out what is making Robin happy this month - almost 10 years after the term Insurtech was coined are established insurers now finally embracing innovation and technology? What can we learn from the start of the hurricane season and do investors share our enthusiasm for the role that start-ups and scale-ups can play in really changing insurance for the good in 2025.

Key talking points:

  • Robin on becoming a grandfather
  • Robin’s article on the positive aspects of the industry
  • Alignment of interest between technology and insurance in the US
  • Reflecting back on InsTech’s events in New York
  • Hurricane season and the companies to look out for
  • Is parametric insurance a potential solution to volatile risk?
  • 2024 and funding
  • The rise of partnerships and ecosystems and Smart Follow
  • Wine tasting and looking into what InsTech has in store for 2025  
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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:

    • Describe how technology and insurance has aligned better together in recent years and why this innovation and development is important
  • Identify changes in trends to investing in startups in the industry
  • Summarise why parametric is a solution to volatile and hard to insure risk
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