11th Annual Digital Transformation in Insurance Conference 2026

Uniquely tailored for general and commercial insurance professionals to discover the latest in enhancing customer engagement and operational agility through innovative digital tools.

19 - 20

May

2026
  • Hilton London Bankside, UK
  • Complimentary

Why attend?

WHAT TO EXPECT FOR 2026?

200+

Attendees to meet each year

15+

Exhibitors to meet each year

20+

Speakers

70%

Attendees at Director+ level

200+

Attendees to meet each year

15+

Exhibitors to meet each year

20+

Speakers

70%

Attendees at Director+ level

2025 Highlights

Agenda

  • 19 May 2026
  • 20 May 2026
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Streams

Stream one

STREAM A - Digital Transformation Stage

Stream two

STREAM B - Insurance Practice Stage

1:30 PM

Precision Decisions: How AI is Transforming Underwriting and Claims.

Underwriting + claims cycle time + agentic decisions.
How AI supports judgement, not replaces it.
Where cycle times dropped, what changed in risk selection.

1:55 PM

Case Study: The CX Multiplier. How Content Automation Lifted Loyalty, Conversion and Broker Engagement

How personalised content improved engagement.
The link between content, automation and conversion.

Real uplift in broker and consumer journeys.

Senior representative, SEISMIC

2:15 PM

The Experience Engine: Digital Journeys that Improved NPS, Retention and Trust

How insurers simplified journeys.

What improved customer trust.

The measurable impact of digital transformation on customer retention.

Senior representative, MOTERRA

2:30 PM

The Autonomous Future: How Self-Driving Cars Will Rewrite Motor Insurance

From driver risk to risk system, what disappears first.

How pricing models will change.

What changes with autonomous vehicles in insurance.

2:50 PM

The Geopolitics Shockwave: How Global Instability is Shaping Insurance

Supply chain fragility.

Political risk.

Operational disruption.

3:10 PM

The Experience Advantage: What Digital Insurers Do Differently

Why CX is now a competitive differentiator in insurance.

The digital tools that actually improved customer outcomes.

What leading insurers changed, how they simplified products, and what customers actually value.

3:30 PM

Afternoon Networking & Refreshments Break

SESSION 1 — THE DIGITAL PERFORMANCE ENGINE – Data, automation, and real time decision making for the next decade.

8 AM

Registration

8:40 AM

Chair’s Opening Remarks

8:50 AM

Welcome and Scene Setting: Why 2026 Demands a New Operating Model

The shift from projects to performance: capability, speed and measurable outcomes.

9 AM

Performance at Speed

  • How to build real‑time risk, cyber, fraud, and resilience capabilities.
  • Why insurers must now operate with unprecedented: speed, precision, trust.
  • The shift from back‑office to performance‑critical infrastructure.

9:30 AM

The 2025–2027 Digital Mandate: What Boards Expect Now Executive Fireside Chat

The three capabilities every insurer must build before 2027.
Why boards now demand measurable ROI and reduced friction.
How digital leaders are redesigning operating models, not running “projects”.

9:50 AM

AI That Delivers: Real World Automation Gains in Claims & Customer Operations

Where conversational AI and automation have actually reduced cost-to-serve.

Case studies showing measurable gains in claims and customer operations.

How to scale AI safely with governance, transparency, and human oversight, what has changed in workflows, data and proof points from real deployments.

 

Senior representative, Boost AI

10:20 AM

Dragons’ Den: 60 Second Innovation Pitches

Ten companies. One minute each.

10:30 AM

Morning Networking & Refreshments Break

SESSION 2 — THE PRECISION ADVANTAGE – Proof based data sessions showing what has actually worked.

11 AM

Unified Data in Practice: Breaking Down Silos to Reduce Cycle Times

How insurers are connecting the dots with data across functions.

The operational impact and gains of simplified data, faster decisions, fewer errors and better customer outcomes.

What changes when teams see the same truth and what a modern data backbone looks like in 2026.


Senior representative, Verto Cloud

11:20 AM

Data Quality as a Competitive Weapon: Lessons from Real Deployments

Why poor data is the biggest blocker to AI, automation and underwriting accuracy.
How insurers are building quality data frameworks.

What “good” looks like in 2026.

 

Senior representative, Precisely

11:40 AM

Case Study: The Three Data Architectures That Actually Worked in 2025

Architecture case studies: insurers who have deployed successfully in the last 12 months share their tips and learnings.

What insurers built (and what they abandoned and why).

The architectures that scaled and the ones that delivered value fastest.

12 PM

The New Digital Distribution Playbook: Personalisation at Scale

The shift from generic messaging to data driven journeys.

How personalisation lifted conversion and retention.

What distribution leaders are doing differently.

What leading insurers changed in workflow, data and product design to scale personalisation.

12:20 PM

Lunch & Networking Break

1:30 PM

Digital Claims Acceleration: Removing 40% of Manual Touchpoints

  • How insurers removed 40% of manual touchpoints in claims.
  • Where automation removed friction, how cycle times dropped.
  • What changed in workflow design.

1:45 PM

Process Intelligence in Action: Where Insurers Found Hidden Waste

How process mining exposes bottlenecks.

What insurers discovered in real workflows.

The ROI of fixing invisible inefficiencies.

Senior representative, AI4 PROCESS

2 PM

Case Study: The Fastest Automation Wins – 90 Day Payback Projects

Three automation projects that paid back in under 3 months.

What made them work: scope, governance, change management and more.

How to replicate these wins and scale automation.

Senior representative, UNIPRO

2:15 PM

Agentic Security: Autonomous Defence for a Real-Time Threat Landscape

How autonomous agents detect, respond and contain threats.

What changes in SOC operations.

The new model for cyber defence.

2:35 PM

Cyber Insurance v Cyber Resilience: The Two Different Disciplines

Clear definitions, real cases, and what insurers must stop confusing.

How resilience reduces exposure.

What cyber insurance can and can’t cover.

3 PM

Automation Reality Check: What Actually Works in Insurance Ops

What automation delivered and where expectation failed.

The difference between hype and operational truth.

How to scale automation safely and sustainably.

What operators want next.

3:30 PM

Afternoon Networking & Refreshments Break

4 PM

Modernising Legacy Without Breaking the Business: A Practical Roadmap

How insurers modernised safely.

What to replace and what to wrap and retire.

The hybrid architecture that works in practice.

Lessons from real transformation/migration programmes that avoided operational disruption.

Senior representative, CGI

4:20 PM

The Digital Insurance Factory: Standardising Workflows Across Regions

How insurers standardised workflows across regions and teams.

How insurers build reputable digital capability.

What standardisation unlocks for speed, cost and consistency.

The operational impact of moving from bespoke to industrialised workflows.

4:40 PM

The Governance Gap: How to Approve, Procure and Deploy AI at Speed

The new governance model for AI driven organisations.

How to accelerate approvals without increasing risk.

What leaders must re-design to scale safely and quickly.

Streams

Stream one

Stream A - The Resilient Insurer

Stream two

Stream B - The Human and Customer Future

1:30 PM

AI Driven Customer Experience: Real Time Insight, Real World Impact

Real‑time personalisation.

Predictive service.

What customers actually value.

1:50 PM

Agentic Customer Interaction: The Next Frontier of Personalised Insurance

Autonomous customer journeys.
Real‑time decisioning.
What changes in service models.

2:10 PM

Brand, Trust & Clarity: Why UX Is Now a Performance Metric

Why clarity drives trust.
UX as a retention lever.
What insurers must simplify.

2:30 PM

What is Insurance: the Simplicity Mandate and Making Insurance Understandable in an AI World

Removing complexity, designing for clarity, what customers respond to.

Communicating complex models with clarity: from parametric, to usage based, to AI-driven pricing.

Inclusive design; ensuring products work for vulnerable and ageing customers.

Why simplicity is now a performance metric for retention and regulatory scrutiny.

2:50 PM

The Disruptor vs The Giant: How the Next Generation of Insurers Will Win

  • How digital insurers redesigned claims, service and trust from scratch. What people can learn from disrupters beyond the hype.
  • The rise of preventative care linked insurance models.
  • What incumbents can adopt form health-adjacent innovation.
  • This is not simply what digital insurers do differently, it’s how they win and what others can take away from it.

SESSION 1 — THE HUMAN AND MACHINE ADVANTAGE

8:50 AM

Welcome and scene setting

How day 1’s digital backbone enables day 2’s human and machine capability.  Why 2026-2030 will redefine roles, skills and decision making and the shift from digital transformation to digital performance leading to precision and proof.

9 AM

The Human and Machine Advantage: What High Performing Insurers Do Differently

Three human capabilities amplified by AI.

Why hybrid teams outperform automated/manual models.

What leaders must redesign in culture and workflow.

9:20 AM

Agentic AI in Insurance: From Assistants to Autonomous Decision Makers

What agentic AI really is.

Where autonomous agents are already deployed.

Governance and safety frameworks.

How to build a culture of learning, autonomy and accountability.

9:50 AM

Case Study: The Talent Dividend — How Digital Tools Improved Retention & Performance

How digital tools improved talent retention and reduced burnout.

The link between automation and employee experience.

How digital tools changed frontline work, what improved in productivity, accuracy and employee satisfaction.

The cultural and leadership shifts that made it possible.

10:30 AM

Morning Networking & Refreshments Break

SESSION 2 — THE 2026 OPERATING MODEL

11 AM

The 2026 Talent Model: What Roles Disappear, Emerge & Transform

The roles that disappear, evolve, or emerge. How to hire for mindset, not modules.

The new skills insurers must build deliberately.

How leaders prepare teams for hybrid human AI workflows.

The impact of ageing workforces on capability planning.

Mental health as a core workforce resilience factor.

How insurers redesign roles to support wellbeing and retention. 

11:20 AM

Underwriting 2.0: How AI, Data & Human Judgement Will Co Pilot Risk Decisions

How underwriting is being redesigned.
What AI does well vs humans.
The new rhythm of risk selection.

11:40 AM

The New Risk Frontier: Climate Volatility, Emerging Perils & Systemic Exposure

Climate volatility is reshaping accumulation and pricing.

The growing protection gap and insurer retreat from high-risk regions.

How governments may intervene as markets become uninsurable.

Transition risk; evaluating liability-side exposure as economies decarbonise.

What insurers must redesign in modelling, capital and resilience.

12:10 PM

Leveraging Data in an AI World: The New Rules of Value Creation

How data creates value in 2026.
What changes in architecture.
Why data quality drives AI performance.

12:30 PM

Lunch & Networking Break

1:30 PM

The Invisible Backbone: Application Security & Observability for 2026

Why observability is now board‑level.

How insurers detect issues earlier.

What changes in engineering and DevSecOps.

1:50 PM

Designing for trust : How AI changes customer behaviour and expectations

  • How customer expectations shift when journeys become predictive, and personalised.
  • What behavioural data reveals about trust, value drivers and drop off points.
  • The new rules for designing AI ready customer journeys, how insurers reduce friction and increase confidence in automated decisions.

2:05 PM

The Self Defending Enterprise: Autonomous Detection, Response & Recovery

How insurers are using automation to reduce operational exposure.  

The shift from reactive cyber response to prevention first operating models.

How real time defence reduces cyber claim frequency and severity.

What changes in engineering, SOC workflows and resilience architecture.

2:25 PM

Resilience by Design: How to Build Systems That Don’t Break

  • Designing for failure.
  • What resilient architecture looks like.
  • Lessons from other industries.

2:45 PM

– Insurance Black Mirror – Stress testing the failure models, so innovation doesn’t backfire. The risks we don’t want to talk about (but have to)

What happens when automation, IoT and AI create new systemic risks insurers aren’t ready for? The dark side of hyper connected infrastructure. 

When prevention tech becomes a single point of failure.  The unintended consequences of autonomous decision making in underwriting, claims and risk selection. This out of industry presentation will look at the governance, engineering and resilience rails needed to prevent a black mirror scenario.

3:15 PM

Failure Flash: What We Tried That Didn’t Work — And What We Learned

Three failures, three lessons

3:30 PM

Afternoon Networking & Refreshments Break

SESSION 4 — FUTURE CAPABILITY: HUMAN, CULTURAL AND OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES TO LOOK FORWARD TO

4 PM

Closing Plenary Keynote: From Policies to Platforms – Quantum, IoT and the End of Claims by 2030

The impact of Quantum, IoT and parametric – forcing insurers to a model of prevention and automatic payouts that will shrink traditional claims cycles.

The evolution of cyber insurance, pricing, capacity, systemic exposure and government backstops.

How and why platform-based models could eliminate entire categories of claims by 2030.

4:40 PM

The 5 year Bet Session – Short, Sharp Predictions from Industry Leaders

2030 predictions: hear from industry leaders why they predict insurance becomes invisible and embedded, coverage will be bundled into purchases with real-time, personalised pricing, and other scenarios impacting leading insurers in the next 5 years.

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2-8 Great Suffolk St, London SE1 0UG

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Guy Worth

Commercial Director

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Emily Martyr

Head of Event Content

+44 20 3743 8470

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Kellee Halliburton

Marketing Manager

SPONSOR ENQUIRIES

To enquire about sponsorship opportunities for the conference, please contact:

Guy Worth

Commercial Director


 

SPEAKER ENQUIRIES

To enquire about speaking opportunities for the conference, please contact:

Emily Martyr

Head of Event Content


+44 20 3743 8470