Global Insurance Accelerator News
Agent Efficiency, Analytics and AI Top Trends at InsurTech Week
Against the backdrop of the Global Insurance Accelerator's 5th Annual InsurTech Week, nearly 200 insurance company executives, InsurTech startup founders, and industry influencers spent the better ...
Global Insurance Accelerator Boosts Seed Funding for Participating InsurTechs
The Global Insurance Accelerator said it is nearly doubling its seed funding for participating InsurTechs, starting with companies accepted into the program in 2020. A desire to stay competitive is ...
Executives On The Move at AIG, Holborn Corp. and the Global Insurance Accelerator
AIG picked a new head of communications for its Investments organization. Holborn Corporation hired a veteran Gen Re executive. The Global Insurance Accelerator brought on a new executive who will ...
Global Insurance Accelerator Begins Search for New Director; Hemesath to Take New Role
The Global Insurance Accelerator (GIA) has begun a search for a new managing director. Brian Hemesath, the current managing director who has taken GIA from concept to a leadership role in InsurTech, ...
This Year’s Global Insurance Symposium Innovators Promote Better Use of Existing Industry Products
For all the talk of technology disrupting insurance, most of the innovations unveiled at the 2018 Global Insurance Symposium were focused on helping consumers, agents, brokers and carriers make ...
Insurers Gear Up for Tech, Big Data Future
This article is part of Carrier Management's series on the Future of Insurance. Brian Hemesath, Managing Director, Global Insurance Accelerator, cites a famous example of retailer Target's use of big ...
Find Ways to Innovate Where You Live
Not looking a gift horse in the mouth is generally accepted as a good idea, but it's not always easy to recognize the gift horse. With that famously accurate hindsight, it's easy to see that Grinnell ...
Tech Making Insurance Obsolete, Exec Says; Risk Transfer No Longer a Large Nos. Game
"Will technology make insurance obsolete?" That was the stark question posed by William Hartnett, a former Microsoft and ACORD executive, in his opening address to the 2017 Global Insurance ...