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INSURTECH ON THE PRAIRIE EVENT RECAP with excerpts and photo from Silicon Prairie News ' event recap by Lev Gringauz
This Fall, InsurTech on the Prairie brought together industry leaders to discuss innovation. Patrick McCoy from the KAIA team represented our Association and took part in this important event as tech, AI, and more continue to be major topics for our industry.
RECAP FROM SILICON PRAIRIE NEWS
That confidence in the AI insurance future defined the Insurtech conference, held on November 4 at the Holland Performing Arts Center in Omaha. Roughly 540 insurance executives, regulators and startup members attended from around the U. S. and the world.
Panels and speakers talked up the transformative value of AI while also highlighting challenges to its adoption. Insurance companies are built on complex and old tech systems, and are risk-averse to disruptive changes.
But as companies update their tech infrastructure, that’ s an opportunity for startups, including those with AI solutions, to find clients and open markets. And the insurance world is hungry for those solutions.
“ Imagine being able to double or quadruple your team’ s productivity without having to hire more people,” said Mindy Chen, vice president of AI and analytics at Mutual of Omaha.“ That’ s the power of( AI) agents.”
Chen used the example of an AI chatbot that can explain insurance products to customers, generate illustrations and track claims requests to tell people what requirements they might still need to fulfill.
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