Earnix Excelerate London 2026 brought together insurance leaders from across Europe to examine how the industry is moving AI from experimentation into governed, production-scale use. Through executive perspectives, customer examples, product innovation, and expert-led sessions, attendees explored how insurers are bringing intelligence into the decisions that drive business performance — responding faster to changing risk, strengthening pricing and underwriting, improving customer engagement, and doing so with the governance, control, and trust insurance requires.
Key moments that shaped what's next: From thought-provoking keynotes and customer stories to meaningful conversations and product innovation, revisit the highlights that captured the ideas, connections, and momentum shaping the future of insurance.
Insights for Industry Leaders
Excelerate London 2026 gave us bold ideas and expert perspectives, offering a clear view into how the industry is evolving.
Tom Melvin
Head of PricingINSHUR
"For us, pricing on-demand drivers accurately starts with data that actually moves with them: trip frequency, platform activity, actual hours worked. Our platform partnerships deliver those inputs in real time, and Earnix is the engine we use to translate up-to-the-minute data into pricing at the individual driver level.”
Tom Melvin
Tadeusz Prochwicz
Head of Technical Excellence & Market IntelligenceUNIQA
"Insurers need to move into AI fast, but without breaking things - especially our customers' trust. That requires AI designed for the realities of insurance, with transparency, accountability, and regulatory compliance built in from the start."
Tadeusz Prochwicz
Justine Vachon
FCAS, FICA, Director, Pricing – Intelligence and Strategies, iA Auto and Home InsuranceiA Assurance
"When working under a tight deadline, pricing agility provides the speed, control, and predictability to meet it."
Justine Vachon
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Explore the Sessions
At Earnix Excelerate London 2026, insurance leaders from across Europe came together to explore what’s next for the industry. Watch the on-demand sessions to hear directly from executives, customers, and experts on how they are approaching AI, intelligent decisioning, and the changes reshaping insurance.
AI, Underwriting
The Future of Commercial Underwriting: AI, Expertise and What's Next
As AI changes specialty insurance, the opportunity extends beyond automation to how underwriters make and act on risk decisions. Senior leaders explore how AI can augment underwriting expertise, support more consistent decision-making, and reshape workflows and the role of the underwriter across the London Market.
Durgesh Vyas, Head of Planning & Strategic Initiatives, Aviva, Ken Kwok, Head of Group Pricing and Analytics at QBE & Roger A. Oldham, CEO, London Market Forums
AI, Governance and Compliance
From AI Potential to Insurance Trust: Putting AI to Work with Confidence
As insurers move AI into everyday decision-making, trust becomes as important as capability. Leaders from UNIQA, Vitality Health, and INSHUR discuss the role of domain context, trusted data, explainability, governance, and human oversight in scaling AI responsibly and translating adoption into meaningful business value.
Dan Leacy, Pricing Systems Manager, Vitality, Tadeusz Prochwicz, Head of Technical Excellence & Market Intelligence, Uniqa, Tom Melvin, Head of Pricing, INSHUR & Matt Twist, VP of Sales, EMEA, Earnix
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Transformation, AI
AI Goes Vertical: The AI Way Forward for Regulated Industries
Explore how AI is reshaping insurance and why regulated industries require a more controlled approach to adopting AI at scale. Learn how governed, vertical AI agents can help insurers harness dynamic data and advanced intelligence while maintaining the security, regulatory alignment, and human oversight needed for high-stakes insurance decisions.
Erel N. Margalit, PhD
Founder & Executive Chairman, JVP and Margalit Startup City, and Chairman of the Board of Earnix
Analytics, Decisioning
From Data Foundation to Decision Advantage, Hiscox
Trusted data is the foundation for better decisions, but business value comes from putting that intelligence to work. Hiscox shares lessons from its data journey and explores how stronger data can support faster, more informed pricing, underwriting, and portfolio decisions, improving responsiveness, efficiency, profitability, and sustainable growth.
Dan Bishop
Head of Data
Hiscox UK
AI, Governance and Compliance
Responsible AI by Design: Building for a Changing Regulatory Landscape
As AI moves from insight toward action, governance needs to be built into how it operates. This session examines responsible AI in the context of the evolving EU regulatory landscape, including human oversight, explainability, traceability, continuous monitoring, and agent controls that can help insurers innovate with greater confidence.
Kamila Mróz, Attorney-at-Law, Partner Associate, Financial Services & FinTech Regulatory Advisory, Deloitte & Barak Rozenwax, Product Manager, Earnix