Building Tomorrow's Insurer

Hosted by Kanopi’s Founder and CEO Nigel Fellowes-Freeman, 'Building Tomorrow's Insurer' slices through the complex insurtech landscape. Simple, clear, and forward-thinking – this podcast is your guide to understanding how technology is rewriting the rules of insurance. Each episode brings together industry leaders, innovators, and disruptors for in-depth conversations on how emerging technologies are reshaping the landscape of insurance.Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kanopicover/Follow our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7bBpTJEoJ-oaVm5xaMCigg

Building Tomorrow's Insurer is a news podcast hosted by Nigel Fellowes-Freeman, with 80 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Nigel Fellowes-Freeman hosts Building Tomorrow's Insurer, a news show with 80 episodes published.

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  Ep. 48 | Building Tomorrow's Insurer | Agentic AI, Governance & the New Risk Frontier in Financial Services with Davy Ek

  May 28, 202637 minS0

  <p>Everyone in financial services is being told to move faster on AI.<br>Boards want innovation. Teams want automation. Regulators want stronger governance.</p><p>The problem is that most organisations are trying to balance all three at the same time.</p><p>In this episode of Building Tomorrow’s Insurer, Nigel Fellowes-Freeman sits down with Davy Ek, a senior leader with more than 20 years’ experience across operational transformation, governance and regulatory reform in financial services.</p><p>Together, they unpack one of the biggest tensions emerging in the Agentic AI era:</p><p>How do organisations embrace increasingly auto...

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  Ep 47 | Building Tomorrow's Insurer | Stuck in Pilot Purgatory: James Benham on AI That Actually Ships

  Apr 15, 202642 minS0

  <p>Why do insurance executives keep funding AI pilots that never reach production — and what does it actually take to break the cycle?In this episode of Building Tomorrow's Insurer, host and Kanopi CEO Nigel Fellowes-Freeman sits down with James Benham, Founder and CEO of JBK and Terra, to diagnose the structural reasons AI transformation stalls in insurance organisations and what it takes to move from proof of concept to full-scale deployment.James brings 25 years of insurance technology experience to the conversation, having built bespoke systems for carriers, TPAs, MGAs, brokers, and ancillary providers since 2004. As CEO of both JBK — a fu...

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  Ep 46 | Building Tomorrow's Insurer | How Fintech Platforms Embed Financial Services into Workflows with Michael Nuciforo (Thriday, Tyro)

  Mar 25, 202651 minS0

  <p>What does it actually take to embed financial services into a platform?</p><p>In this episode of Building Tomorrow’s Insurer, Nigel sits down with Michael Nuciforo, founder of Thriday (now part of Tyro), to explore how fintech platforms are reshaping distribution by owning the customer workflow.</p><p>This is not a conversation about theory. It’s about execution.</p><p>Michael shares how platforms like Thriday integrate banking, accounting, and financial services into a single experience for small businesses — and what that means for insurers looking to participate in embedded ecosystems.</p><p>In this episode, we cov...

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  Ep. 45 | Building Tomorrow's Insurer | Cyber Resilience Decoded: What Boards Get Wrong About Insurance & Risk

  Mar 3, 202640 minS0

  <p>When a single virus can wipe out computers worldwide in 24 hours, who picks up the pieces? </p><p><br></p><p>Meena Wahi, Australia's first cyber insurance broker and founder of Cyber & Data Risk Managers, reveals how the cyber insurance landscape has evolved since 2013—and where it's headed next. From the CrowdStrike outage that shocked boards worldwide to the fragmented nature of supply chain risk, Meena breaks down why cyber resilience isn't just a buzzword and how specialist insurers are winning the market share battle. She shares eye-opening insights from ASX 200 boardrooms, explains why Australian regulators might be too "be...

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  Ep. 44 | Building Tomorrow's Insurer | The 27-Hour Coding Sprint: How Agentic AI is Transforming Insurance Operations with Alex Taylor (QBE)

  Feb 9, 202646 minS0

  <p>Are you still trying to figure out if agentic AI is hype or reality? </p><p>Alex Taylor, Global Head of Emerging Technology at QBE Ventures, cuts through the noise in this no-nonsense conversation about what's actually working in insurance AI - and what's failing spectacularly.</p><p>Discover why agentic AI isn't just "fancy RPA," how insurers are running shadow mode tests to prove AI can outperform human underwriters, and why the real barrier isn't technology, it's data strategy. Alex shares jaw-dropping examples from software development (27-hour autonomous coding sprints!) and explains how insurers are moving from chatbot...

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