Very few people working in the Insurance industry seem to have made it a conscious career choice. Even many successful leaders will say that they “fell” into Insurance but once involved, they realised that it can be an intriguing, challenging and highly rewarding business.

Accordingly, we often hear about the challenges of engaging young people and getting them excited about careers in the wonderful world of Insurance. With this event, InsurTech Ireland had an excellent opportunity to do just that.

We organised a special private event for a visiting group of students and faculty from the Risk Management and Insurance Program at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. They were joined by a number of Irish university students and interns currently working for leading insurers in Ireland.

The group were treated to some excellent talks on a very broad range of insurance and insurance-related topics. Charismatic speakers discussed the Irish insurance ecosystem, the underserved pension market, risk modeling, behavioural science, reinsurance, sustainability, and blockchain & digital twins.

We also discussed diversity, equity and inclusion in some detail.

Understandably, DEI and sustainability were of particular importance to this group of young people who will hopefully become the future of Insurance.

A very special thank you the sponsors who funded this event, SCOR, Hannover Re and South East Technological University.

Agenda

13:00 Introductions (Gerry & Stan, InsurTech Ireland)

13:05 About UNC Charlotte, opening comments (Bill Sofsky, UNC Charlotte)

13:10 How Insurance Works In Ireland (Fintan Kennedy, Agile Risk)

13:25 Pensions, Retirement Planning for underserved markets (Lesley Tully, Penny Financial)

13:40 Data and Bayesian modeling in Insurance (Mick Cooney, Describe Data)

13:55 Panel Q&A (Fintan, Lesley & Mick)

14:05 Behavioural Science (Jenny McDonnell, SCOR)

14:35 Hannover Re: overview, primary markets and focus (Donna Ryan, Hannover Re)

14:40 Renaissance Re: overview, primary markets and focus (Dolores Murphy, Renaissance Re)

14:45 Panel Q&A (Jenny & Donna & Dolores)

15:00 Sustainability: an opportinuty for Ireland (Dave Power, Dogpatch Labs)

15:30 Distributed Ledger and Digital Twins in Insurance (Stan Nazarenko, Piprate)

15:50 Panel Q&A (Dave & Stan)

16:00 Finished