Digital Insurer Network Meeting in Dublin, 2017

EVENT

The next Digital Insurer Network meeting is at The Dock, Accenture’s Global Center for Innovation in Ireland, where we’ll be discussing “Unlocking value through innovation: Practical paths to new business opportunities and models."

Meeting details
Date: 12h00 Thursday 8 June, to 13h00 Friday 9 June (Irish Standard Time)
Venue: The Dock, 7 Hanover Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin

Agenda

We have a dynamic, interactive agenda planned (attached). You can expect hands-on demos and prototypes, a variety of activities in different locations, moderated interplay to stress-test conventional thinking and input from experts on innovation in insurance.

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(Please click on the speaker’s name in the table below to view their detailed biography.)

Day 1 – Thursday, 8 June

Time	Description
12:00	Lunch The Dock, 7 Hanover Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin
13:00	Welcome and introduction Daniele Presutti, EALA Insurance Lead – Accenture
13:15	Innovation at Scale: Profit from disruption by pivoting to the new Omar Abbosh, Group Chief Executive – Communications, Media & Technology, followed by facilitated group discussion
14:30	Leading in the New: Prioritizing your investments in digital technologies to unlock trapped value, innovate at scale, and build a practical path to lead in the new Michael Lyman, Global Insurance Strategy Lead – Accenture
15:15	Site visit to local ecosystem partners including LinkedIn, Slack, Google and Docusign
16: 30	Tea break
16:45	Artificial Intelligence for Insurance: Cutting-edge demos and prototypes bring to life the wide-ranging implications of artificial intelligence across the insurance value chain Dadong Wan, Accenture Tech Labs Lead, The Dock – Accenture Blockchain Imagined: Demo showing the potential of blockchain to transform insurance David Treat, Global Trading Services Lead – Accenture
17:45	Wrap-up Daniele Presutti, EALA Insurance Lead – Accenture
19:30	Dinner and interactive fireside discussion The Marker Hotel, Grand Canal Square, Docklands, Dublin

Day 2 – Friday, 9 June

Time	Description
7:00	Breakfast and check-out The Marker Hotel or other
8:30	Introduction and day one reflection
9:00	The Platform Economy: Strategies for the next generation of services. Leaders in the home, transport and health sectors share their platform frameworks as we consider the impact of these successful new business models in insurance Simon Kelly, Executive – Babylon Health
9:45	The Insurtech Opportunity: Tried and tested techniques for insurers to cultivate successful partnerships with start-ups that deliver sustainable value Nick Suhr, CEO – Kasko & John Warburton, CEO – Konsileo
10:30	Buy, Build, Borrow or Bot: Developing the insurance workforce of the future – one that is agile, adaptive, and skilled to collaborate optimally with artificial intelligence Moshè Tamir, Global Head of Digital Transformation – Generali and others (tbc)
11:15	Tea break
11:30	From Inspiration to Innovation: Subject-matter experts offer competing views on how to exploit opportunities and operationalize new ideas
12:30	Next steps for the Digital Insurer Network and wrap-up Daniele Presutti, EALA Insurance Lead – Accenture
13:00	Lunch The Dock, 7 Hanover Quay, Grand Canal Dock, Dublin

MEET OUR SPEAKERS

Omar Abbosh
Group Chief Executive – Communications, Media & Technology

Omar Abbosh is Accenture's chief strategy officer and the global sponsor of The Dock. Before joining Accenture, he started at one of the world's most innovative organizations—The General Electric Company—working in electronics research. He then joined Accenture in software engineering, before taking time to complete an MBA at Insead. He returned to Accenture's Strategy practice where for several years he worked on restructuring and M&A. For a year, he took a full time secondment working as head of M&A at Lattice Plc reporting to the CEO—this work resulted in the merger with National Grid in 2002. Since then he has worked as client partner, Global Utilities Industry managing director, Resources Growth and Strategy managing director and UKI CSG lead. Now as Accenture's chief strategy officer he is accountable for the firm's overall direction, our investments including Ventures & Acquisitions, our innovation initiatives, our industry programs, Accenture Research and our Corporate Citizenship agenda.
Simon Kelly
Babylon Health
Executive

Simon Kelly is a business leader from Accenture, Vodafone, Microsoft, LinkedIn and Babylon Health with a passion for disruptive technology and start-ups. Currently, Simon is on the exec team of Babylon health that is the leading digital healthcare company. Babylon's purpose is to democratize healthcare by putting an accessible and affordable health service into the hands of every person on earth. Simon is focused on monetization at Babylon. Before Babylon, Simon was part of the executive team for LinkedIn Europe (employee no 7). He was responsible for monetizing LinkedIn's largest enterprise clients and saw the site grown from 20 million to over 500 members and revenues from zero to $400m+. Before LinkedIn, Simon headed up the Enterprise teams for Microsoft. Before that, he built teams for Vodafone in the United Kingdom and in Silicon Valley. He started his career in consultancy with Accenture and DRI McGaw Hill. Simon has a keen interest in entrepreneurship and has written for the Financial Times Saturday column on start-ups. He is an economics graduate from Trinity College Dublin. Simon is passionate about technology and how it has improved our lives and creates a level playing field for the fastest and brightest.
Michael Lyman
Global Managing Director, Insurance, Strategy
Accenture

Michael Lyman is senior managing director for Insurance within Accenture Strategy. His role focuses on business strategy development and implementation. He also serves as executive sponsor for the Accenture Chief Operating Officer Network, as a member of the Accenture Insurance Advisory Board, and as a member of the Accenture Strategy Leadership Team. Michael has more than 30 years of experience working with C-suite executives on major disruptive trends and transformational issues. During that time, he has led several industry research projects and has acted as a commentator on trends transforming the industry. Prior to joining Accenture, Michael served as executive vice president at BearingPoint. He held several leadership positions including: global lead Management Consulting, global lead Financial Services; Global Lead Healthcare, chief strategy officer, chair of Executive Institute for Research and Innovation, and member of the firm's Executive Committee.
Lorna Ross
Group Design Director and Studio Lead – The Dock
Fjord

Lorna Ross lives and breathes design, and has established herself as an international expert in the field. She has over 20 years' experience working on strategic design research activity in innovation lab environments, across a range of industry sectors including technology and more recently healthcare at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. Lorna is recognized as a futurist and for her ability in anticipating the shifting social, cultural and economic context for design. She was one of the pioneering researchers to focus on wearable technologies and built a reputation for rigorous and compelling research activity in this arena with her work both at Interval Research Corporation and then the US government agency DARPA. She later identified the theme of health as an emerging arena for design to thrive. She founded and led the Human Wellbeing Group at the MIT Media Lab. Her vision was to employ human centered design principles to address the biggest challenges facing the healthcare industry in delivering population health outcomes.
Nikolaus Sühr
Chief Executive Officer
Kasko

Nikolaus Sühr is the CEO of Kasko. He started his career working in product and business development for one of the leading German commercial insurance brokers. He then worked in his family business, an insurance company specializing in classic and premium motor insurance. Nikolaus is passionate about shaping the digitalization of insurance. In 2012 he joined Zeb, the leading financial services consultancy in Germany, focusing on strategy, organization and digitalization. Three years later, in 2015, he partnered with his current Kasko co-founder to work on some side-projects at night and during weekends. Later that year, Kasko was born and the team has never looked back. Nikolaus studied at Nottingham University and Cass business school.
Moshè Tamir
Head of Group Digital Transformation
Generali

Moshè Tamir is the global head of digital transformation in Generali, one of the world's largest financial and insurance institutions. Prior to this role Moshe was head of group innovation and sales, where he was responsible for the group's global distribution and innovation capabilities, with a strong focus on developing its multi-channel strategy and client-centric approach. Prior to his current position, Moshè worked for Migdal Insurance (a Generali subsidiary in Israel and its largest insurance company) for 10 years in a diversity of roles, including that of deputy CEO leading the marketing and business development division for the last six years of his time with the company. Before this, he was the employees' benefit manager for Intel Corporation Israel. Moshè is well-known in the financial services industry as an innovation leader with significant knowledge and experience of the implementation of innovation initiatives with a strong focus on the development and management of large distribution channels. He is an accomplished lecturer and is currently one of the steering committee members of the MBA program at Tel-Aviv University in the areas of innovation. Moshè has a bachelor's degree in Economics and Master of Business Administration degrees from Ben Gurion University.
David Treat
Managing Director – Capital Markets, Blockchain Lead
Accenture

David Treat's experience in Financial Services has been split between consulting and industry roles. He first joined Accenture in 1997 and spent nearly 8 years in Banking, focused on Customer Relationship Management and Process Excellence. Subsequently, David joined UBS Investment Bank and for the next 8 years served as the COO for IB Global Outsourcing & Offshoring, the Global IB Head of Strategic Cost Management, and US lead for the IB CEO/COO Strategy Team, among other roles. David then returned to consulting with Deloitte for over 2 years and focused on IB Strategy and Innovation in their Banking & Securities practice. He recently rejoined Accenture as the Global Trading Services lead.
Dr. Dadong Wan
Tech Labs Lead, The Dock
Accenture

Dr. Wan is an Accenture Labs Fellow, and currently leading the Tech Lab at the Dock in Dublin, Ireland, which is devoted solely to artificial intelligence (AI). In this role, he is responsible for ramping up the new research team, as well as defining the R&D agenda in AI. Prior to this role, he was leading the Industrial Internet R&D effort in Tech Labs in San Jose, CA, and driving strategic relationship with key ecosystem partners in the industrial internet, including Intel and GE. In addition, he is also responsible for Open Innovation for Health & Public Services. Dr. Wan has over 19 years of experience as a technology innovator. His work has been widely reported in the research and business community and media, including Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Associated Press, BBC and ABC News. Dr. Wan is the co-author the book "Pervasive Computing in Healthcare" (CRC Press, 2008), and has over a dozen patents to his credit. Prior to joining Accenture, Dr. Wan was a Fellow at University of California at Berkeley, where he helped launch the eCommerce research program at Fisher Center for Information Technology and Marketplace Transformation. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), IEEE Computer Society and American Medical Information Association (AMIA).
John Warburton
Founder
Konsilio

John Warburton has over 20 years of insurance and consulting experience in the United Kingdom and has held global roles at Aviva, Accenture and Allianz. He is a passionate driver of innovation in the insurance industry. After 15 years working closely with insurance brokers, he noticed that a core aspect of their work—personal relationships—was often not addressed in internal structures and software innovations. He founded Konsilio to address this issue. Konsilio is a virtual insurance broking organization where brokers have the benefits of working for a large firm and all that comes with it, but have the freedom to manage their own time and work collaboratively with other members of the organization in a non-hierarchical way.

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