Zywave AI Exchange
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About the Event
Zywave AI Exchange is a half-day extension of Zywave Horizon: Digital Distribution, built to go deeper on one subject: what value AI is driving in insurance right now, and where the real opportunity is, not the hype. It's the newest addition to Zywave's Horizon thought leadership series, the new name uniting Digital Distribution, Cyber Risk, Casualty, and the Cyber Risk Awards. The sessions are built around specific, grounded use cases: what's already working, what carriers, brokers, and wholesalers are testing today, and how AI is reshaping where growth comes from, not just how fast the same work gets done.
Registration
Attendees joining the Zywave Horizon: Digital Distribution event on September 9 will receive complimentary access to the Zywave AI Exchange session. For those only attending the AI Exchange session on September 10, registration cost is $99 per person. Space is limited.
Who Should Join
Carriers, brokers, and wholesalers with a direct stake in how AI reshapes distribution, underwriting, and growth strategy over the next 12–24 months. The organizations already testing these tools are the ones setting the pace; this is the room to get an edge on the competition.
What attendees gain:
• A grounded view, not a hype cycle. Concrete practical use cases on where AI is deployed today in distribution and underwriting, delivered by practitioners and technologists doing the real work.
• Direct access to the builders and doers. Guest keynotes put attendees in the room with the people building the underlying technology and deploying it, not just the companies reselling it.
• Real peer-to-peer knowledge transfer. Customer-led discussions give attendees a candid look at how their peers are using AI: what's working, what isn't, and what they'd do differently.
Agenda
8:00 AM Breakfast & Networking
8:30 AM Welcome & Opening Jeff Cohen, Senior Vice President, Zywave
8:35 AM The Big Picture: AI Transformation in Insurance
Eric Rentsch, Chief Product Officer, Zywave
Where AI is genuinely changing distribution and underwriting today, with discussion of how AI is helping address specific challenges including submission flow and appetite matching.
9:00 AM Fireside Chat with Anthropic
Mike Ram, GTM - Insurance, Anthropic
Eoghan Scully, Applied AI Architect, Anthropic
A builder’s-eye view of where AI capability is actually headed in the next 12–24 months — grounded in what’s technically real versus what's still speculative.
9:45 AM CIO Sit Down: Balancing the AI Imperative Speaker TBD
There are numerous digital transformation priorities vying for attention and investment across every insurance organization – how do technology leaders balance the competitive urgency of AI implementation with other data and IT needs?
10:30 AM Networking Break
10:45 AM Panel: Where AI Meets Growth
Dereick Wood, Senior Vice President - Head of Executive Risk Solutions Claims, NewFront
Cate Rooney, Vice President - Underwriting, Vault Insurance
How should insurance providers be thinking about leveraging AI to surface opportunity and drive growth — from the underserved niche, the account nobody flagged, the market shift AI caught before a human did.
11:30 AM Guest Keynote: Keeping the Human in the Loop
Jeffery Arnold, Founder, RIGHTSURE
Exploring the balance between leveraging AI and maintaining the human element in insurance to enhance customer service and build relationships.
12:00 PM Closing & Thank You Jeff Cohen, Senior Vice President, Zywave
Speakers
Mike Ram
GTM - Insurance, Anthropic
Eoghan Scully
Applied AI Architect, Anthropic
Dereick Wood
SVP - Head of Executive Risk Solutions Claims, NewFront
Cate Rooney
Vice President - Underwriting, Vault
Jeffery Arnold
Founder, RIGHTSURE
Eric Rentsch
Chief Product Officer & Head of Emerging Markets, Zywave
Jeff Cohen
SVP Industry Relationships, Zywave