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. Panel 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.
Companies in the Room
Acrisure
Alera
Anthropic
Ascot Group
AXIS Capital
Axis Insurance Services
Beazley
BlackRock
Blitz Insurance
Brown & Brown
ConfigRisk
Cover Desk
Cover Whale
CoverForce
Crum & Forster
First Acceptance Corp
Groundway AI
H.W. Kaufman Group
iBynd
IMA Financial Group
Inceplabs
Insurance Solutions Group
Inszone Insurance Services
Kinetic Insurance
Liberate
magentIQ
MarshBerry
Mayflower Specialty
Millennial Shift Technologies
Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance
NFP
NYSIF
Omnilex
RIGHTSURE
Starr
StaySure Consultancy LLC
Tittmann Weix LLP
Tooher-Ferraris Insurance Group
Trivora
Truvo
Vantage Risk
Vault Insurance
XPT
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
Harsh Paleja, VP Product Management, 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
Eoghan Scully, Applied AI Architect, Anthropic
Jake Sloan, Insurance - GTM, Anthropic
Doug Marquis, Chief Technology Officer, Zywave
Moderated by Jeff Cohen, Senior Vice President, Zywave
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.
10:00 AM Balancing the AI Imperative
Josh Gibbons, EVP, Sales Enablement & Operations, MarshBerry
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, Risk, and Premium Opportunity
Chris Keegan, Senior Managing Director - Cyber & Technology National Practice Leader, Brown & Brown
Cate Rooney, Head of Commercial Underwriting, Vault Insurance
Moderated by Jeff Cohen, Senior Vice President, Zywave
What’s possible & what’s insurable? As AI transforms all aspects of commercial activity, where are the inherent growth opportunities for insurance providers? Where are the inherent risks to insureds and policyholders associated with both AI implementation and lack of an AI governing stance? Which questions are essential for insurance providers to ask clients about AI usage and AI implications?
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
Eoghan Scully
Applied AI Architect, Anthropic
Jake Sloan
Insurance GTM, Anthropic
Chris Keegan
Sr Managing Director - Cyber & Tech, Brown & Brown
Cate Rooney
Head of Commercial Underwriting, Vault Insurance
Jeffery Arnold
Founder, RIGHTSURE
Doug Marquis
Chief Technology Officer, Zywave
Harsh Paleja
VP Product Management, Zywave
Jeff Cohen
SVP Industry Relations, Zywave