This program combines live demonstrations with strategic implementation guidance. You'll see agentic AI deployed across core insurance workflows, examine governance requirements, and develop practical approaches for adoption within real-world constraints. 

Core Content Focus

  • The Human–AI Strategic Alliance
    How roles, workflows, decision ownership, and escalation paths evolve as AI systems move from assistive tools to autonomous actors. 

     
  • Agentic AI in Action 
    What changes when systems can reason, decide, and act—demonstrated through real underwriting, claims, and operational workflows. 

     
  • Knowledge, Content & Context as Agentic Infrastructure 
    Why unstructured data, institutional knowledge, and context are foundational to enabling reliable agentic systems. 

     
  • Safe, Governed & Explainable Autonomy 
    Defining boundaries, oversight, accountability, and regulatory confidence as autonomy increases. 

     
  • Pragmatic Adoption Under Real-World Constraints
    How insurers explore and apply agentic capabilities without waiting for full core modernization—separating durable signals from hype. 

Preliminary Conference Agenda

Thursday, May 21, 2026
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
 
 
 
1:00 PM - 1:15 PM
 
 
 
1:15 PM - 1:35 PM
 
Meredith Barnes-Cook - Datos Insights
Michael Streit - Applied Systems
 
1:35 PM - 1:45 PM
 
 
 
1:45 PM - 2:10 PM
Claims
Thomas Holmes - Akur8
Subhasis Mukherjee - Datos Insights
Meredith Barnes-Cook - Datos Insights
 
Underwriting
Adam Garey - COUNTRY Financial
Nick Greazel - CNA
Jack Krantz - Datos Insights
Wayne Rodrigues - ValueMomentum
 
2:10 PM - 2:20 PM
 
 
 
2:20 PM - 2:50 PM
 
Jack Krantz - Datos Insights
Deepak Srinivasan - JK Tech
 
 
Rob Jiang - PwC
Mitch Wein - Datos Insights
 
2:50 PM - 3:00 PM
 
 
 
3:00 PM - 3:30 PM
 
Mitch Wein - Datos Insights
Chuck Gomez - InsureMO
 
 
Sam Gobrail - Upstage
Subhasis Mukherjee - Datos Insights
 
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
 
 
 
4:00 PM - 4:25 PM
Claims
Meredith Barnes-Cook - Datos Insights
John Church - Rural Mutual Insurance
David Birnbaum - UFG Insurance
 
Underwriting
Shashi Ayachitam - Quincy Mutual Group
Jack Krantz - Datos Insights
Mitch Wein - Datos Insights
 
4:25 PM - 4:35 PM
 
 
 
4:35 PM - 5:05 PM
 
Jack Krantz - Datos Insights
 
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
 
 
 

*Subject to change