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Since 2016, InsurTechLA has brought the Los Angeles insurance community together — fireside chats, meetups, and happy hours with the people building this industry. The community now lives here, under one roof with the report and the podcast. Below: the full archive of essays, event recaps, and interviews.
Tomer Kashi - CEO of Voom Insurance
Tomer Kashi is CEO and Co-Founder of VOOM a tech "geek" that "fell in love" in InsurTech.
Scream
The 1996 movie ‘Scream’ taught us one thing: Don’t answer the phone! And much like the characters of that movie, so to insurers should heed this advice when engaging with Millennials.
DigIn 2020
Dig|In 2020: The Digital Future of Insurance
Bold Penguin, InsNerds at InsurTech LA
The idea was to bring Ryan Hanley, CMO of Bold Penguin (at that time), to talk about Bold Penguin, Marketing and Commercial insurance. Ryan is a source of endless energy (check out his site…
Predictions for 2019
Yes! I am a little bit late. This article has been sitting in my drafts-box for couple of months now. I considered a friend’s advise to skip this article and jump directly to “Q1 2019 recap.” Yes,…
Interview with Bob Frady - HazardHub
Bob Frady, co-founder and CEO of HazardHub.
Startup Life
A startup has a life but the people who breathe life into it…, well, they usually don't.
Dig|In 2019
Digital insurance is changing quickly, with every insurer in the market investing in digital strategies and deploying solutions – portals, mobile apps, home or personal devices and more—as they make…
Interview with Andrew Egenes - Layr
Andrew Egenes is Co-Founder and Head of Product for Layr.
Innovation as a step function
Shefi, Avi and the rest of the Coverager family are on the frontlines of the insurance and insurTech news. Their effort to discover and report (with a delightful sense of humor) changes and…
Ali Safavi talks about Innovation at a Global scale
Interview with Scott Soderstrom founder of FilingMate
FilingMate, a SaaS-based platform, comes to help insurance carriers, agents, and producers with their regulatory compliance requirements. Insurance companies are required to file forms and…
Insight on Innovation: from legacy company and startup
Innovation in insurance is not limited to a new shiny technology. The "innovation" doesn't need to carry the word "blockchain," nor does it need to have "AI" to provide value to the company. New…
Interview with Nuno Horta Innovation at Ageas Portugal
The insurance industry is evolving. Herbert Spencer coined the phrase "evolution is the survival of the fittest" after reading Darwin's book "Origin of the Species, 1864". Darwin pointed out that the…
Recap - Talk with Jay Cohen, Deloitte.
Many people consider regulation as a stifling force that prevents innovation and progress. Where, in reality, the job of the regulators is to protect the customer and promise a fair practice that…
So, what do video games have to do with insurance?
Blank stares. That’s usually the first reaction people at an insurance conference give when I tell them that we make video games. But video games can help lower insurance costs across the industry,…
Interview with Nikolaus Suehr CEO and Co-Founder of KASKO
I have the pleasure of sharing an interview with Nikolaus (Nick) Sühr the CEO and co-founder of KASKO.
Conversation With James Lai, MEETIG8, about Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit short-term gigs
James is the Founder & CEO of MEETIG8, Australia's first online marketplace for Risk, Compliance and Internal Audit short-term gigs. MEETIG8 enables companies of all sizes to connect directly with…
Talk with Jay Cohen, Deloitte, on Compliance and Innovation
InsurTechLA is proud to host Jay Cohen, Managing Director in the Insurance Risk Advisory practice at Deloitte. Jay, a leading expert in the field, will talk about a topic that every insurance and…
InsurTech LA - fireside chat with Jen Friel, CMO of DropIn
\[Gilad\] (facing the audience) Jen has a very diverse and impressive background of doing, and I don’t know where to start. I went over Jen's bio, and when we chatted in the prep call, I realized…
A conversation with Dr. Jay Spence co-founder & CEO of Uprise – Insights on mental health and the role of technology
\[PM\] Thank you for your time today Jay. Is there a golden thread that sets the context for our conversation on mental health and Uprise?
Interview with Dominic DiMarco - Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR) QBE
Insurance companies take active steps towards modernization to keep up with customer's expectations and recent entrants to the insurance space who use the latest technology. Carriers introduced new…
Re-imaging mental illness & insurance through Insurtech & social purpose
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Interview with Nir Perry, CEO of CyberWrite, about Cyber Insurance
Cyber Insurance is among my InsurTech trends predictions for 2018. The attention Cyber insurance receives has increased in the past year in the wake of media coverage of cyber attacks and Trump…
Disclosure – the thorn in our side
Recent media releases by Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) relating to Add-On\ insurance and life insurance highlight that customers do not understand the cover they have…
2018 Predictions
2017 has been an interesting year for InsurTech. I would define it as the year that InsurTech took another step from adolescence towards adulthood. I define "adolescence" as the time that the youth…
Recap - Talk with Aaron Schiff
This evening our guest speaker is Aaron Schiff co-founder and CEO of Matic Insurance. We are going to cover many topics starting from his founder journey and Matic insurance innovative product -…
2017
In 2017 InsurTech Los Angeles community grow from 1 to 151 members in Meetup (https://www.meetup.com/InsurTech-Los-Angeles-Meetup/) and over 100 subscribers to insurTech.me.
Talk with Aaron Schiff CEO of Matic Insurance - January 9th 2018
We are going to start 2018 strong! I am happy to announce that January 2018 speaker is Aaron Schiff, co-founder and CEO of Matic Insurance, the industry leader in online delivery of homeowners…
Geospatial Insights - LA InsurTech Talk
Thomas (Tommy) Ashman, co-founder of Slingshot Aerospace, joined me for a fireside chat on Geospatial Insights and the insurance.
The future of the agency - LA InsurTech Talk
The agents and the brokers are a cornerstone of the insurance industry. They are true entrepreneurs that, in most cases, start a business, hire people and serve their customers. With the rise of the…
Blockchain - LA InsurTech Talk
I had the opportunity to invite Andreas Freund PhD, a leading expert on Blockchain, to be our July event's speaker and to talk about one of the hottest and buzzed topics today - Blockchain.
Scalable Innovation
I have been toying with a new concept of how to write a post and deliver my ideas in a clearer and faster way. In this post, I share my opinion on innovation at scale in an insurance company.…
Investors Talk with Colleen Poynton - LA InsurTech May Meetup
The InsurTech LA May event covered investments and raising capital in the InsurTech space. We had the pleasure of having two speakers who shared their knowledge and experience with the Los Angeles…
Founder Talk With Max Drucker - LA InsurTech March Meetup
The March 13th Los Angeles InsurTech meetup “Founders Talk” started with a left foot when a dense fog fell over LAX and canceled the flight from SFO of our speaker, Christine Carrillo's, CEO of…
Last weekend I got punched in the face -- twice
Last weekend I got punched in the face. Twice. Karate practice has been a great source for insights and life lessons. In one of my recent posts I wrote about changing the kata and the mindset as a…
Frictionless Customer Experience
Frictionless customer experience is the future of insurance customer engagement. Today, the interaction with insurance comes at the cost of mental effort, and sometimes pain. Insurance companies that…
Should Amazon sell insurance
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InsurTech - Innovation and Trends
On Tuesday, January 10th 2017, Daniel Schrier from Fjord, an Accenture company, joined the InsurTech Los Angeles Meetup group for a conversation about design thinking, innovation trends and…