About this event
For seven straight years, the SMA Summit has been focused on sharing and showcasing insurer success stories, lessons learned, and insurer use cases that reflect their transformation in action.
SMA research clearly shows that there is momentum:
- More than 90% of insurers are investing in customer experience projects, digital transformation strategies, and advancing data with analytics
- 72% of insurers cite changing customer experience and expectations are the number one triggers for innovation across all lines
- 43% of insurers identify themselves as being in “transformation mode,” and that figure is expected to rise above 50% next year
HUGH TERRY, Founder The Digital Insurer & DEB SMALLWOOD, Founder Strategy Meets Action
KARIN L. BOGENSCHNEIDER, Dir. of Casualty Claims West Bend Mutual Insurance Company & MIKE GREENE, CEO and Co-Founder Hi Marley
MARISSA BUCKLEY, Vice President of Marketing Security First Insurance, TULIO MURILLO, UX & Design Lead Chubb Digital in N.A. Chubb & JUDY DELAROSA, Consulting Partner Strategy Meets Action
TED STUCKEY, Managing Director, QBE Ventures & JAMES SIMONIAN, Director of Product Deployments HyperScience
S. MARIK BROCKMAN, VP of Strategy & Partnerships CSAA Insurance Group
JOHN SWIGART, Co-Founder and CEO Pie Insurance
TIAMO WRIGHT, Chief of Staff Cake Insure
BRIAN HEMESATH, Managing Director Global Insurance Accelerator & MARK BREADING, Partner Strategy Meets Action
MATT FITCH, Acting Platform Lead for Digital Product and Broker Experience Beazley Group
RYAN KOTTENSTETTE, CEO Cape Analytics
BARRY POWERS, Director – Insurance Industry Solutions and Business Development IBM Global Markets IBM
RACHEL ALT-SIMMONS, Head of Business Architecture & Design, Strategic Analytics AXA XL, JAYASHREE ISHWAR, Chief Underwriting Officer Amerisure Mutual Insurance Company, SANDI PERILLO-SIMMONS, 2VP, Data Management Travelers & KAREN PAULI, Principal Strategy Meets Action
MICHAEL ANDERSON, Business Owner, Predictive Analytics Guidewire, LAKSHAN DE SILVA, CTO Intellect SEEC, ALEX MARTONIK, Industry Strategy Specialist for Banking and Insurance Esri, ATANU SARKAR, Vice President, Data Leverage ValueMomentum, BRIAN WOOD, VP – Data Products Group IVANS, a division of Applied & MARK BREADING, Partner Strategy Meets Action
FIL FIRMANI, Head of Product, Digital, and SaaS OnDemand Duck Creek & KAREN FURTADO, Partner Strategy Meets Action
SHARON ASHTON, SVP Commercial Insurance Service Leader, North American Operations Chubb, HUGH BURGESS, Managing Director Vindati, JOHN SWIGART, Co-Founder and CEO Pie Insurance, JONATHAN VICTOR, Chief Information Officer Insurity & KAREN FURTADO, Partner Strategy Meets Action
KAREN FURTADO, Partner Strategy Meets Action & MARK BREADING, Partner Strategy Meets Action
DEB SMALLWOOD, CEO and Founder Strategy Meets Action
Speakers
Event Highlights
Sessions
The SMA Summit is filled with real accounts from compelling speakers and innovative insurers that are transforming their businesses – sharing their strategies and plans around digital, customer experience, emerging tech, InsurTech, and more. Also, gain insights from SMA’s latest research, hear real-world innovation best practices, and understand how all this aligns to your strategies and investment plans.
Networking
Meet and have conversations with industry leaders who are leading the transformation within their organizations. Enjoy networking with the speakers and attendees from all sizes of insurance companies – from both business and IT. Gain insights from peers along all stages of the journey to help you determine what is best for your company.
Awards
Our Innovation in Action Awards are a cornerstone at the Summit. Be sure to join us on Sunday night for our Welcome Reception and the 2018 SMA Innovation in Action Awards presentations. Network with the winners, and on Monday during the Summit, you’ll have the opportunity to hear the award winners share their stories.
