Life Accelerated host Anthony O’Donnell talks with several of the podcast’s guests about which digital initiatives they find indispensable.

Life Accelerated host Anthony O’Donnell talks with several of the podcast’s guests about which digital initiatives they find indispensable.
The partnership grants insurers access to hundreds of data and InsurTech providers, reducing insurance cycle times, increasing efficiency, and enabling transparent collaboration.
Introduced at InsureTech Connect 2021 as a beta program, Socotra App MarketPlace now has twelve insurance technology providers to accelerate time-to-market and modernize every aspect of the insurance value chain, from user experience to underwriting to claims.
Russell will lead Hagerty’s IT strategy including analytics and data science, cyber and information security, corporate systems, and network and infrastructure management.
Modernization and innovation of data science is what keeps Penn Mutual’s life insurance sector moving, even after 175 years. Listen in as Greg Driscoll, COO of Penn Mutual, describes the way that cloud technology, new interfaces, and an Accelerated Client Experience are innovating the way they do business. Greg Driscoll shares his team’s top innovation priorities with host Anthony O’Donnell–from uniting disparate data and technology ecosystems to going all-in on AWS and the cloud.
New and emerging technologies, while not required to achieve innovation, can certainly be key enablers that help deliver desired digitized outcomes and automate core processes.
To get the full value that cloud infrastructure has to offer, insurers need to ‘unlock’ data that is effectively trapped in their legacy data applications.
The N.J.-based insurer will leverage Guidewire Cloud to increase business agility and deliver more value to agents, employees, and policyholders.
The switch to the cloud will enable Hollard to work with its other technology ecosystem partners using low-code tools and established integrations to rapidly bring to market innovative products.
New York Life’s Head of Strategic Capabilities, Alex Cook, discusses how the company has bucked the trend and led the industry in digital transformation, including agile development and artificial intelligence. Cook explains how investing in and partnering with technology startups have helped the insurer meet modern customers’ demands, and how data science has played a pivotal role in helping New York Life customers prosper.