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Deloitte at InsureTech Connect (ITC) Vegas 2024
Tuesday, 15 October 2024 12:00 a.m. ET

Past Event

15 - 17 Oct. 2024

12:00 a.m. ET

Deloitte at InsureTech Connect (ITC) Vegas 2024

Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas

Deloitte is proud to be a title sponsor at InsureTech Connect 2024—the world’s largest gathering around insurance innovation. Come to ITC Vegas 2024 for a comprehensive, global gathering of tech entrepreneurs, investors, and insurance industry leaders.

Discover the latest in insurance innovation with us at ITC Vegas 2024

With new business models, emerging technologies, and a changing economy, insurers are facing constant change. Find your path to success by harnessing the power of the latest insurance innovations. Join us at ITC Vegas for insights on top industry trends and to explore what’s possible. The future of insurance starts today.

Speaking Session

The Future of Insurance Distribution

The future of insurance distribution is being shaped by several factors, including the cost-of-living crisis, regulation, consolidation, emerging technologies, and changing customer demands. To adapt, insurers need to redefine the role of strategic distribution partners, develop next-generation adviser capabilities, build a fit-for-purpose sales operating model, and employ digital and AI solutions. We will host a panel of industry leaders who will share their views on how carriers and brokers can navigate these signature issues to achieve their profitable growth goals.

Date: October 16, 2024
Time: 11:10 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. PT
Location: Mandalay Bay, Ballroom D
Presenter: John Matley, Principal, Deloitte Consulting LLP

Meet us at booth 1822

We’ll be hosting various demos throughout ITC Vegas to showcase the latest in insurance innovation. For more information, find us at booth 1822, and we’ll be happy to help you.

Demos at Deloitte booth #1822

Wednesday, October 16th

Turbocharging the Specialty Insurance Market
Ankur Jain
The specialty insurance market, which caters to uncommon risks not typically covered by standard policies, is set to reach $279 billion by 2031. Specialty carriers are investing in capabilities such as modular product architecture, SaaS based cloud platforms and enhanced workflows. Attend our session to uncover three common transformation scenarios shaping the industry.

LifeTech: AI and discrimination in Life insurance Underwriting
Abhishek Sharma
Life Insurance policies are underwritten using third party data and customer disclosed data. How this data is used to make underwriting decisions has been a priority topic for insurers and regulators. Join us to learn more about AI risks and regulations related to discrimination in life insurance underwriting. This will be a good opportunity to discuss the pros, cons and future of AI/ML/GenAI in Life Insurance.

Adobe: The Digital Future of Insurance Agents & Brokers
Suhas Krishna, Maxwell Roberts
Life Insurance policies are underwritten using third party data and customer disclosed data. How this data is used to make underwriting decisions has been a priority topic for insurers and regulators. Join us to learn more about AI risks and regulations related to discrimination in life insurance underwriting. This will be a good opportunity to discuss the pros, cons and future of AI/ML/GenAI in Life Insurance.

AI & Data As a Service
Sathish Marimuthu, Prithvi Mazumder, Anand Narayanaswamy
This presentation will explore the transformative potential of GenAI-powered AI&DaaS solutions within the insurance industry. By harnessing the power of AI and leveraging advanced data management capabilities, insurers can revolutionize their underwriting processes and gain a competitive edge. Discover how GenAI can enhance risk assessment, automate manual tasks, and improve decision-making for both underwriters and actuaries. Learn about the benefits of using AI&DaaS to streamline operations, reduce costs, and deliver superior customer experiences.

Thursday, October 17th

AgentSync: Transforming Distribution Channel Management
Adam Frank
Join us for an engaging demo of AgentSync, the innovative solution designed to optimize distribution channel management for insurance carriers, agencies, and MGAs. Discover how AgentSync empowers you to navigate the complex landscape of insurance regulations and overcome the challenges of scaling your distribution networks.

Adobe: The Digital Future of Insurance Agents & Brokers
Suhas Krishna, Maxwell Roberts
Insurance Carriers - Are you ready to accelerate omni-channel distribution growth for your business? Learn how Adobe and Gen AI capabilities are transforming the broker, agent-customer experiences through next-gen content personalization and decision intelligence capabilities.

eTech: AI and discrimination in Life insurance Underwriting
Abhishek Sharma
Insurance Carriers - Are you ready to accelerate omni-channel distribution growth for your business? Learn how Adobe and Gen AI capabilities are transforming the broker, agent-customer experiences through next-gen content personalization and decision intelligence capabilities.

FSConnect for Brokers
Matt Foxman, Kyle Walker
FSConnect for Brokers is a foundation to accelerate Salesforce implementations to empower insurance agents and brokers with the right data and tools to help manage and grow their business better, smarter, and faster. Powered by Salesforce Financial Services Cloud, upcoming Brokerforce capabilities, and Deloitte industry expertise, Deloitte’s FSConnect for Brokers offers insurance agency and brokerage teams an ecosystem to reimagine the broker and client engagement experiences of the future and to improve sales and service productivity and collaboration among teams.

LifeTech: AI and discrimination in Life insurance Underwriting
Grace Chandler
FS Connect for Commercial Insurance, built on Salesforce, is an accelerator specifically designed for Middle-Market Commercial Insurers. Join us to see a demo of this one-stop-shop engagement layer orchestrates experiences, data and insights across tools to deliver a seamless single pane of glass for the user, driving Underwriting efficiency and effectiveness.

For general inquiries, please reach out to Erin Burke at eriburke@deloitte.com.

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Karl Hersch

Karl Hersch

Deloitte - United States
Karl is Deloitte’s US Insurance Leader responsible for leading the firm’s overall insurance sector strategy, bringing the firm’s practice areas together to serve Deloitte’s portfolio of insurance clients. Throughout his 30-year career, Karl has served the financial services and insurance industries extensively, providing him with a well-rounded understanding of the most complex and critical issues clients face. Karl has experience working across Deloitte’s Audit, Advisory and Consulting businesses, enabling him to bring Deloitte’s best to our clients. He served as the Insurance Finance Transformation practice leader and the FSI Enterprise Performance practice leader. Karl’s vision as the US Insurance Leader is to inspire our clients and professionals to recognize the remarkable purpose-driven impact the insurance sector has on society through personal and commercial risk management, security and safety services and products, and on long-term wealth creation and preservation.
Gaurav Kumar

Gaurav Kumar

Deloitte - United States
Gaurav serves as the US Risk & Financial Advisory Insurance leader with Deloitte & Touche LLP. In this capacity, he oversees the delivery of risk management services to insurance clients including cyber security, internal audit, controls, finance transformation, treasury, regulatory/compliance, data governance, and modernization. Since joining Deloitte in 2002, Gaurav has served a mix of attest and relationship clients in the insurance industry. With more than 20 years of experience in insurance operations, risk and controls transformation, and cyber, he has a distinguished record in advising clients across Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX)/ Model Audit Rule (MAR) compliance, actuarial, finance, cyber, data, and third-party risk management programs leveraging the full breadth of our Risk & Financial Advisory capabilities. Gaurav has significant experience in standing up and scaling operate platforms at our clients in cyber, data, and controls. He has been instrumental in leading Deloitte’s development, implementation, and subsequent commercialization of our marketplace efforts corresponding to the following risk frameworks: COSO 2013 internal controls, COSO ERM, and the AICPA’s SOC for Cyber.
John Matley

John Matley

Deloitte - United States
John is a principal in Deloitte Consulting’s Insurance practice advising clients in the financial services industry on performance and operations transformation. With more than 10 years at the firm, he currently leads the firm's Customer and Marketing (C&M) capabilities within the insurance sector, driving top of the funnel transformations in advertising, marketing, sales, and servicing effectiveness. John also leads the Go-To-Market for Deloitte's Insurance Salesforce capabilities globally, and drives our broker sub-sector capabilities.

Arun Prasad

Deloitte - United States
Arun serves as Deloitte’s Global Leader of Insurance Technologies, Deloitte Consulting LLP with a focus on building, enhancing, and delivering Deloitte’s technology capabilities to the insurance marketplace. In addition to his global responsibilities, Arun is a leader within our US Deloitte Digital practice and utilizes his 25 years of experience to lead and to deliver technology and strategy consulting services with our clients. His hands-on experience across banking, securities, and insurance, as well as other industries, enable him to provide clients with insights from IT organizations across the maturity spectrum. His recent client work includes the end-to-end digital transformation of a Property & Casualty insurer, post-merger integration of two global Property & Casualty insurers, development of a strategic enterprise architecture roadmap for a global Life & Annuities carrier, and development of an IT strategy for a global Property & Casualty insurer. Arun often speaks at industry and professional organizations and is passionate about mentoring the next generation of talent. Prior to joining Deloitte, Arun co-founded and ran a successful Internet consulting services firm focused on developing leading-edge digital solutions for public and private sector clients. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical and computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.