NewFinance October Open Mic Night - InsurTech
Details
N.B. This event starts at 7pm instead of our usual 6pm as we have a slight overlap with the previous event
RSVP's through Meetup are now closed but there will be cash tickets on the door at $10
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Hi Everyone,
Welcome to our FinTech Open Mic Night series in New York. Please join us for our monthly mixture of presentations, skype-ins, fireside chats and shout-outs plus plenty of networking.
This monthly session is designed to provide an opportunity to catch up with your peers, to see what's going on in the New York and International FinTech scenes and to tell us all about yourself and your own work.
This month's topic is InsurTech. Although Insurance originally followed Banking in the FinTech revolution, it has certainly caught up now, and as investments into Banking FinTech abate, investments into InsurTech continue to grow. Insurance is a somewhat more closed than Banking, there is less collaboration between incumbents and far less common infrastructure (such as payment pipes), this makes the innovation proposition quite different from Banking, however the opportunitites are huge, something we'd like to explore in this session.
Agenda
Please be aware that the agenda is updated on a regular basis
7:00pm - Doors open
Refreshments and networking opportunities
7:30pm - Session starts
-> Welcome address
Ashish Singal (https://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/61157672/), NewFinance New York Chapter Organiser
-> Sponsor messages
Melyssa Brown (https://www.linkedin.com/in/melyssabrown), Marketing + Community Events Manager at Rise New York (https://thinkrise.com/newyork.html)
-> An Introduction to InsurTech
Ashish Singal (https://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/61157672/), NewFinance New York Chapter Organiser
-> Presentations
David McKay (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dmckay1) is the Chief Technology Officer of PolicyGenius (https://www.policygenius.com/), an insure-tech startup offering consumers the easiest path to insurance, through tailored advice and no-pressure purchasing
Will Dove (https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-dove-684b024), CEO of Extraordinary Re (http://www.extraordinaryre.com/), building the first trading platform for $22T of insurance liabilities
Eugene Sayan (https://www.linkedin.com/in/eugenesayan), Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Softheon (https://www.softheon.com/Site/home), engineering the next generation of health plan solutions with innovative and easy-to-use products that revolutionize the way everyday people access health insurance
-> Panel Session
Jeff Billingham (https://www.meetup.com/NewFinanceNewYork/members/186999599) will host an open discussion with both speakers and delegates exploring the presentations so far and the future of InsurTech: B2B
8:30pm - Closing
Shout-outs, communications, feedback and thanks
Further networking opportunities
9:00pm - Session ends
For those of you who would like to continue networking we'll retire to a local bar.
Cheers
Eddie
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