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A conversation with Dr. Jay Spence co-founder & CEO of Uprise – Insights on mental health and the role of technology

A conversation with Dr. Jay Spence co-founder & CEO of Uprise – Insights on mental health and the role of technology

Uprise.co is breaking new ground in removing the stigma attached to mental health. Paul Muir interviewed Uprise CEO & co-founder Jay Spence.

"An insurance policy that excludes on the basis of mental health is neglecting to recognize that this is a person who has been categorized as having something that is temporary rather than permanent."…

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 entities into their organizations to champion and facilitate progress. Today there are innovation teams, innovation labs, venture arms, accelerator programs, and the less familiar function -- the Entrepreneur in Residence (EiR).

To understand better the avant-garde insurance that is done by the large insurance companies and their innovation programs I reached out to the leading insurance innovation teams.

Here is a short interview with Dominic DiMarco, EiR in QBE insurance, the man that claims to have the best job in the insurance industry.

"All the big businesses are trying to figure out how to do things "faster, quicker, easier and leaner" and they don't have those skills in their four walls to do it themselves most of the times."

"There is a difference between the IT infrastructure and core systems to the innovative work that is happening on the fringes. You can't replace a core system at once."

"Insurance companies, at their core, are massive financial institutes."

 

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 administration. 
To better understand the opportunity in the Cyber insurance products I would like to share with you an interview with Nir Perry, the CEO and founder of CyberWrite, a company dedicated for the development of cyber insurance technologies.