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.
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Tom Melvin
Head of Pricing INSHUR
"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.”
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Tadeusz Prochwicz
Head of Technical Excellence & Market Intelligence UNIQA
"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."
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Justine Vachon
FCAS, FICA, Director, Pricing – Intelligence and Strategies, iA Auto and Home Insurance iA Assurance
"When working under a tight deadline, pricing agility provides the speed, control, and predictability to meet it."
Earnix Excelerate London 2026:
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, Analytics
Intelligence at Scale: Data and Modeling in the AI Era
Explore how data and modeling are evolving as AI expands what insurance teams can analyze, automate, and put into production. This session looks at how insurers can extend established analytics capabilities with AI while keeping insurance context, transparency, and business outcomes at the center.
Uri Gal, Director of Product, Platform & Analytics & Emmanuelle Boujo, Director of Product Management, Earnix
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
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
Governance and Compliance, Pricing
From Regulatory Deadline to Market Advantage: A Conversation with iA Assurance's Pricing and Legal Leaders
When regulation required a core insurance product to be redesigned in under seven months, iA Assurance used the deadline to rethink how pricing and legal teams work together. Hear how embedded governance and greater pricing agility helped compress months of work into days while supporting confident, compliant execution.
Justine Vachon, Director of Pricing Strategy and Market Intelligence & Jessica Roy-Beaudoin, Senior Director, Damage Insurance and Fraud Strategy, Legal Services, iA Assurance
AI, Transformation
Managing and Mitigating Emerging Risk: Preparing for What Comes Next
Climate, cyber, and AI are reshaping risk faster than historical experience can keep pace. Leaders from AWS, and Capgemini explore how insurers can become more forward-looking, strengthen resilience, and respond to increasingly interconnected risks with greater foresight, flexibility, and accountability.
Rob Lyle, Principal Solution Architect, AWS & Kathy Miller, VP, Head of Worldwide Insurance Alliances, Capgemini & Kathy Klingler, Chief Marketing Officer, Earnix