The 14th annual user conference welcomed
leaders and innovators in the Property & Casualty insurance industry to
explore new enhancements to Guidewire InsurancePlatform™ across all
product families
FOSTER CITY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 26, 2018--
Guidewire Software, Inc. (NYSE: GWRE), provider of the industry platform
Property and Casualty (P&C) insurers rely upon, recently hosted its 14th
annual user conference, Connections 2018, in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Connections 2018 provided a forum for the Guidewire community –
customers, partners, and Guidewire employees – to come together to
learn, collaborate, and network.
Chief Executive Officer Marcus Ryu opened Connections 2018 by sharing
his perspective of the influence of technology on the transformation of
the P&C insurance industry, as evidenced by the release
of Guidewire InsurancePlatform™ 2018.2, customer success stories, the growth
of Guidewire Marketplace, and the new Analytics and Data Services
business unit. Marcus also discussed how Guidewire is continuing to
execute on its mission of providing the industry platform insurers need
to adapt and succeed in a rapidly-changing insurance marketplace,
through the delivery of mission-critical applications, the services
insurers need to implement these applications on-premises and in the
cloud, and providing a partner ecosystem that can readily integrate into
the platform to lower cost, effort, and complexity.
Following Marcus’ keynote, Guidewire’s Chief Product Officer Ali
Kheirolomoom, Lead Engineering Manager for InsuranceSuite Denise
Videtta, Head of Platform Ecosystem Anirban Bardalaye, and Chief
Technology Officer Ray Kreisel continued the theme of fulfilling
Guidewire’s mission to provide an industry platform for P&C insurance,
recapping the company’s progress over the last year, and sharing its
plans for the future. On the last day of the conference, Eugene Lee,
Vice President Commercial in Guidewire’s Analytics and Data Services
business unit, moderated a panel of customer executives who discussed
the unique data and analytics strategies taking place within their
respective insurance companies.
The event also featured keynote sessions from Guidewire customers, who
discussed industry issues and themes. These presentations included:
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A panel consisting of Debbie Smith, Vice President of Business
Solutions Delivery, Aviva Canada; Tammy Craig, SVP, CIO,
Commercial Lines & Agency, Nationwide Insurance; and Marc
Beaujean, Member of the Management Committee, P&V Group shared
their experiences on challenges women face in insurance and technology
industries
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John Nagle, CEO & Managing Director, icare, led a discussion on
customer-centric aspirations and the role of technology in achieving
success
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Kathleen Tierney, President, Berkley One, shared how start-up
organizations can use technology to create best-in-class products and
services enabled by Guidewire InsuranceNow
In addition, more than 120 hands-on workshops, expert panels, and
educational breakout sessions were held during Connections, many
involving or led by Guidewire customers. These sessions provided the
opportunity for customers such as AF Group, American Modern, Amica
Mutual Insurance Company, Atlas Financial, AXA Belgium, AXA Services,
Co-operators, Insurance Australia Group, Nationwide, Pekin Insurance,
PMA Companies, PZU, Rockford Mutual Insurance Company, Suramericana, TDC
Specialty Underwriters, The Commonwell Mutual Insurance Group, Tokio
Marine North America, Wawanesa Insurance, Zurich Gruppe Deutschland, and
Zurich North America to share their experiences, lessons learned, and
best practices.
Guidewire also honored winners
of its customer Innovation Awards program for the 12th
consecutive year at the conference. Individuals from customer project
teams who went above-and-beyond the call of duty during their product
implementation projects were also recognized with the third annual
‘Hero’ award.
“We congratulate this year’s Innovation Award winners, and individual
project heroes for their extraordinary work above and beyond the call of
duty,” said Brian Desmond, Chief Marketing Officer, Guidewire Software.
“Every year we are awed and inspired by the stories our customers share
about how they are using Guidewire InsurancePlatform™ to increase speed
to market, improve engagement with policyholders and agents and lower
operating costs in a rapidly changing marketplace. We thank our
customers and partners for helping to make Connections such an enjoyable
and useful experience.”
Connections 2018 was sponsored by the following Guidewire
PartnerConnect™ Consulting and Solution partners: AWS*, Athenium
Analytics; Betterview; Blackcomb Consultants; Capgemini*; CastleBay
Companies; Centric Consulting; CGI; Cognizant*; Cynosure; Deloitte*;
Enterprise Rent-A-Car; EY*; FRISS; Hubio; Hyland*, IBM; ISO; Insurance
Technology Services (ITS); InsurPay; Larsen & Toubro Infotech (LTI);
Loss Control 360; Mitchell; Octo Telematics, ; Polonious; Prelude
Software; PwC*; Quadient; Salesforce; SBI Technology; Smart
Communications; Sollers Consulting; Symbility; Tata Consultancy
Services; V-NEO by GFT; Verisk Analytics; Vertafore; and WeGoLook. All
sponsors were on-site and discussed their services/solutions with
attendees. Platinum sponsors (indicated by *) participated with
customers in presentations, and other sponsors moderated roundtable
discussions.
Connections will take place again November 3, 2019 – November 6, 2019 at
Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in Washington, D.C.
About Guidewire Software
Guidewire delivers the industry platform that Property and Casualty
(P&C) insurers rely upon to adapt and succeed in a time of accelerating
change. We provide the software, services, and partner ecosystem to
enable our customers to run, differentiate, and grow their business. We
are privileged to serve more than 350 companies in 32 countries. For
more information, please visit www.guidewire.com
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