Webinar: Optimizing the P&C Commercial Underwriting Workflow with AI
Over the last decade, the insurance industry has undergone massive efforts to overhaul outdated processes and modernize legacy systems to surpass ever increasing customer expectations and continue to drive revenue growth.
Within this technological renaissance, many insurance businesses are implementing AI and finding great benefits. What applications might AI have in your business?
In this webinar, industry peers and experts share their insights and experiences deploying the latest AI applications to optimize the underwriting workflow and drive higher business value.
What you will learn in this webinar:
Within this technological renaissance, many insurance businesses are implementing AI and finding great benefits. What applications might AI have in your business?
In this webinar, industry peers and experts share their insights and experiences deploying the latest AI applications to optimize the underwriting workflow and drive higher business value.
What you will learn in this webinar:
- Steps to identify high value use cases within an organization
- 3 specific use cases of how AI is being leveraged to enhance the highly manual commercial underwriting process for P&C
- How Groupassur, a Montreal based MGA, is leveraging AI to grow their business and why they chose this technology to do it
Panelists:
Bayard Gennert, Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company
Bayard Gennert is a CPCU, ARe, and PMP. He is a senior expert at McKinsey & Company, where he leads the development and delivery of advanced analytics solutions in the insurance industry. Bayard began his career in reinsurance, focusing on the intersection of risk placement and technology innovation. His passions include product development, integrating new data sources into the insurance journey, and enabling business execution of analytics.
Jean-François Raymond, President, Groupassur
Jean-François is President of Groupassur inc., a Montreal-based MGA doing business across Canada, and Commercial VP of Insurance Company of Prince Edward Island, a Charlottetown-based insurer doing business in Quebec and the Maritimes. Jean-François has experience as an actuary, insurance broker, risk manager and commercial underwriter. He holds a Certified Risk Manager designation from McGill University and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. From 2013 to 2019 he was vice-chair on the board of the Chambre de l’assurance de dommages, the Quebec damage insurance industry self-regulating organization.
Bayard Gennert, Senior Expert, McKinsey & Company
Bayard Gennert is a CPCU, ARe, and PMP. He is a senior expert at McKinsey & Company, where he leads the development and delivery of advanced analytics solutions in the insurance industry. Bayard began his career in reinsurance, focusing on the intersection of risk placement and technology innovation. His passions include product development, integrating new data sources into the insurance journey, and enabling business execution of analytics.
Jean-François Raymond, President, Groupassur
Jean-François is President of Groupassur inc., a Montreal-based MGA doing business across Canada, and Commercial VP of Insurance Company of Prince Edward Island, a Charlottetown-based insurer doing business in Quebec and the Maritimes. Jean-François has experience as an actuary, insurance broker, risk manager and commercial underwriter. He holds a Certified Risk Manager designation from McGill University and the ICD.D designation from the Institute of Corporate Directors. From 2013 to 2019 he was vice-chair on the board of the Chambre de l’assurance de dommages, the Quebec damage insurance industry self-regulating organization.
Charles Dugas, Insurance AI Lead, Element AI
Dr. Charles Dugas is a seasoned insurance veteran with over 25 years of insurance, AI and Analytics knowledge. He founded Element AI’s Insurance practice in early 2017 to help Insurers deploy cutting-edge AI products that augment role productivity and deliver against strategic revenue goals. He holds a B.Sc. in Actuarial Science, an M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering, and a PhD in Machine Learning with Prof. Yoshua Bengio, a leading authority in AI who is known as one of the 'Godfathers of Deep Learning.’
Moderator:
Doug Grant, Partner, Insurance-Canada.ca
Doug Grant has been helping the insurance industry in Canada – individual companies and cross-industry groups in both P&C and Life – make effective use of technology for many years. Doug is a founding partner of Insurance-Canada.ca, a leading Canadian Insurance resource centre for consumers and insurance professionals alike. He helps organize and host Insurance-Canada.ca's annual conference and other industry events.