2025 SPEAKERS

Opening Ceremony

Let's Talk Innovation

Latest trends shaping insurance innovation with Bruno Sardinha, Chief Innovation Officer @ Travelers, moderated by Bobbie Shrivastav

Bruno Sardinha
SVP, Chief Innovation Officer Travelers
Bobbie Shrivastav
Co-Founder, CEO Solvrays

Startup Hustle, Corporate Muscle: Leadership Strategies That Win

Corporate and Entrepreneur Perspectives with Bruno Sardinha, Bob Frady, and Michelle Raue, moderated by Bobbie Shrivastav

Bruno Sardinha
SVP, Chief Innovation Officer Travelers
Bob Frady
CEO &
Co-Founder
PropertyLens
Michelle Raue
EVP, Chief Claim & Transformation Officer 
Preferred Mutual 
Bobbie Shrivastav
Co-Founder, CEO Solvrays

Mitch Ocampo

Chief Digital Officer

USAA Life

John Riggs

Chief Technology Officer

HSB

Arron Lamp

Chief Information Officer

Tokio Marine HCC

Kamalesh Jha

Chief Underwriting Officer

American Modern

Christian Toff-Nielsen

SVP, Predictive Modeling & AI Stategy

Ascot Group

Alex Zawidniak

Senior Director, Enterprise Innovation

Travelers

Atsam Raja

Head of Customer Experience, Business Architecture & CI

MassMutual

Jamie Warner

Managing Director, Data Science and Pricing

Plymouth Rock

Basil Morris

SVP & Chief Strategy Officer

The Hanover Insurance Group

Wendy Crosley

Global Director of UW Transformation and Automation

WTW

Daniel Campany

Head of Risk Control Services

The Hartford

Daniel Hermansson

VP, Strategy

Pacific Life

Richard James

Head of InsurTech & Embedded Solutions 

HSB

Richard Lord

Esq, VP of Claims

NLC Insurance Companies

Kasey Ketcham

VP Strategic Growth Solutions

HSB

Manoj Doshi

VP, Modern Workplace Services & Engineering

New York Life Insurance Company

Peter Mielert

Head of Y-Risk Labs

The Hartford

Bhamini Patel

IoT Project Manager

The Hartford

Scott Grandmont

VP of Strategic Underwriting Initiatives

RGA

Pat Kneeland

Principal

AmFam Ventures

Susan Winkler

VP & Executive Director

CT IFS

Meredith Barnes-Cook

Partner

Resource Pro Consulting

Miguel Edwards

Founder

FiveM Consulting

Keith Raymond

Principal Analyst

Celent

Jeff Goldberg

Founder

Goldberg Strategies

Katie Curry

MD, Head of Ops, Multifamily Lease Track

Millennial Speciality Insurance

Rob McIsaac

Founder

RPM Ventures

Bruno Sardinha

SVP, Chief Innovation Officer

Travelers

Caolan Kovach-Orr

AVP, Head of AI & Automation

Arch Capital Group

Ewelina Mroczek

VP, Product & Market Research

Lincoln Financial Group

Eric Reneau

VP, Large Loss Claims

Pure Insurance

Jennifer Krawec

Head of Global Risk Solutions Incubation

Liberty Mutual

Jacqueline Bamman

Chief People Officer

Nassau

Tom Buckingham

Chief Growth Officer

Nassau

Jennifer Wilson

Cyber Practice Leader

Newfront

Tim Zeilman

VP, Global Product Owner - Cyber

HSB

Ojala Naeem

Head of XD Operations, Enterprise Experience Mgmt

The Travelers

Leland Holcomb

Strategy & Innovation Lead

CSAA Insurance Group

Tim Dillahunt

VP, Personal Lines UW

The Hanover Insurance Group

Ira Ziff

President

The Insurance Recruiter

Robyn Barsky

Executive Recruiter

The Insurance Recruiter

Doug Alexander

VP Digital Delivery

Upland Capital Group

Jill Kenniston

VP Product Systems

AmTrust Financial Services

Kamran Amin

CIO

Arch Re

Jessie Berger

Underwriting Operations Lead

Upland Capital Group

Adam Chadroff

Investor

Equal.VC

Brenda Holbrook

Head of AXA XL Risk Consulting

AXA XL

Laura Wiggs

Underwriter - Strategic Cyber Initiatives

Beazley

Bill Devine

Advisor

Independent

Vijayakumar Gurusamy Raju

Lead Big Data and Cloud Engineer

MassMutual

Laurel Jordan

Insurance TPA Officer & Solutions

Sutherland

Dennis Li

Director of Partnerships

Amplify Life Insurance

Jim Wucherpfennig

Head of Property & Specialty Claims

Travelers

David Reale

Head of Disruptive Technology

Travelers

Rush Doshi

VP, Enterprise Innovation

Travelers

Bryan Falchuk

CEO

PLRB

Jim MacMillan

CIO

Vantage Risk

Kelly Bellitti

Chief Pricing and Portfolio Actuary

Vantage Risk

Neel Datar

Chief Information Officer

Nassau Financial Group

Justin Gress

COO

Vantage Risk

Michelle Raue

EVP, Chief Claim and Transformation Officer

Preferred Mutual

Terry Buechner

Principal Insurance Specialist, Global Core Systems Lead

AWS

Lucy Graham

Director of Marketing

CalcFocus

Laura Dinan Haber

Innovation Brand Director

Nassau

Roderick Samuda

Business Solutions Analyst

Symetra

Rob Galbraith

Founder and CEO

Forestview Insights

Tinsley English

Senior Vice President

Marsh McLennan Agency

Ron C Hamilton

SVP - Head Risk & Compliance

BMS

Jeff Duncan

EVP, Head of Commercial Lines

AmTrust

Samuel Broomer

President, Embedded Parametric Solutions

NormanMax

Alex Baldenko

Head of Data Science

MassMutual

Taffy Jo Mayers

Global Head of Commercial Property & Casualty and Specialty Insurance Propositions

WTW

David Squibb

CEO

Covenir

Andrew Morse

Director of Innovation

The Andover Companies

Kristen Bessette

Chief Data Officer

Zurich, Northa America

Robert Silva

Director, Customer Success

Zesty.ai

Josh Hershman

Advisor | Counsel

Hershman Legal Group, P.C.

Kimberly Harris-Ferrante

Vice President & Distinguished Analyst

Gartner

Dawn Walker

Associate Director Industry Relations (DUAE)

AM Best

Tom Benton

Founder and President

InsureTech Associates

Luke Fraser

Founder & CEO

Stepwise Innovation

Deborah Zawisza

Senior Principal, Insurance Practice

Datos Insights

Rohit Makhijani

Principal Analyst

Forrester

Sridhar Manyem

Senior Director

AM Best

Jermaine Everett

Head of Solution Engineering

Roots Automation