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. Two customer panels 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, Zywave
8:45 AM The Big Picture: AI in Insurance & Zywave ApexTM Eric Rentsch, Zywave
Where AI is genuinely changing distribution and underwriting today, with discussion of how Zywave Apex™ – the company’s AI growth stack built specifically for distribution – is helping address specific challenges including submission flow and appetite matching.
9:00 AM Fireside Chat with AI Innovator
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 Customer Panel I: AI in Practice
Carriers and brokers already using AI in production share what’s actually working: submission triage, appetite communication, underwriting support. What surprised them, what they’d change, where the ROI showed up and where it didn’t.
10:30 AM Networking Break
10:45 AM Customer Panel II: Where AI Meets Growth
A forward-looking companion to Panel I: how AI is starting to surface opportunity — the underserved niche, the account nobody flagged, the market shift AI caught before a human did.
11:30 AM Guest Keynote: AI, Advantage, and What's Next
A closing look at where AI is taking competitive advantage in insurance — and who stands to gain most as the technology matures.
12:15 AM Closing & Thank You Jeff Cohen, Zywave