Resilience – Adaptation - Opportunity
Navigate uncertainty and elevate your underwriting decisions in a dynamic market.
September 9, 2025 | The Westin, Times Square, New York City
Differentiate beyond pricing - Maximize customer value - Boost profitability
Find out how to thrive through economic uncertainty by boosting underwriting profitability.
This is the premier event for commercial (P&C) underwriters in the US – where industry leaders gather to shape the future of underwriting!
Experience the energy of New York City as we gather for Underwriting Innovation USA 2025. From its iconic skyline to its dynamic business landscape, NYC offers the perfect backdrop for forward-thinking discussions and game-changing insights. Immerse yourself in a city that thrives on innovation, providing endless opportunities for networking, collaboration, and inspiration.
Join us in the heart of it all and shape the future of underwriting. Underwriting is the backbone of insurance, but in an era of economic uncertainty, geopolitical instability, and evolving risks, profitability is under pressure. The ability to navigate volatility, enhance risk selection, and balance top-line growth with disciplined underwriting has never been more critical. At the heart of this transformation are chief underwriting officers, the industry’s leaders who navigate these complexities. As they strive to balance the drive for top-line growth with operational efficiency, they shape the future of underwriting in an era of uncertainty.
At Underwriting Innovation USA 2025 (September 9, New York), join the exclusive gathering of underwriting leaders to explore how to refine pricing strategies, build resilience, deliver new products, forge valuable partnerships and drive profitability in an increasingly complex market.
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Core themes addressing the top challenges for underwriters in 2025
Enhance Underwriting Performance & Profitability
Maintain underwriting discipline in a volatile world by balancing top-line growth with profitability. Strengthen differentiation, improve risk selection, and drive resilience amid squeezed margins and evolving risk landscapes.
Adapt to Emerging Risks & Developing New Products
Stay ahead of AI, cyber, and the energy transition by identifying exposures, tackling accumulation risk, and innovating with new insurance solutions. Ensure underwriting strategies evolve alongside an increasingly interconnected and complex risk environment.
Leverage AI & Automation for Smarter Underwriting
Deploy automated underwriting, generative AI, and advanced data analytics to enhance risk assessment, improve pricing accuracy, and streamline workflows—driving efficiency, reducing costs, and optimizing customer experiences.
Strengthen Risk Appetite & Broker-Underwriter Collaboration
Effectively communicate risk appetite, capacity, and underwriting priorities to brokers and stakeholders. Address regulatory pressures, enhance operational resilience, and improve underwriting transparency to deliver better consumer outcomes.
Evolve Distribution Strategies & Capital Sourcing
Explore new distribution models, from MGAs to alternative capital solutions, to expand market reach and attract new customers. Assess the benefits and risks of emerging distribution tactics to unlock profitable growth in a changing underwriting landscape.
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“An opportunity to get a macro view of the insurance industry underwriting innovation ecosystem.”
Michael Callis, SVP Underwriting, Old Republic Professional
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Why you cannot afford to miss the USA's premier underwriting event
Purely focused on underwriting
Cut through irrelevant presentations and drill down into the core of an insurer’s profitability: the underwriting function. By attending, you’ll explore how the role of underwriters is adapting to new technology and the evolving risk landscape—and ultimately boost your own underwriting prowess.
Stay ahead of the innovation curve
With sessions on robotic process automation (RPA), machine learning (ML), natural language processing (NLP), artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things (loT), blockchain, plus more, you’ll get up to speed with all the game-changing innovations on the market. Discover how technology is being implemented by insurers today and create a roadmap for your own business.
It’s not just about technology
Drill down into the changing role of the underwriter, especially in relation to actuaries and data scientists. Inform your own career path and identify how to upskill, take on higher value tasks, and forge a new career path as an innovation champion for underwriting.
Network with the USA's most forward-thinking underwriters
You’ll meet with chief underwriting officers and SVPs/VPs of underwriting, property and innovation from the world’s leading insurers, reinsurers, brokers, managing general agents and insurtechs. You'll benchmark your strategy against industry heavyweights and build the partnerships that will accelerate your company’s growth—and your own.
We are here to help
For sponsorship opportunities:
Mahdi Malik
Partnerships Director - Intelligent Insurer
Newton Media
Direct: +44 208 323 2568
Email: mmalik@intelligentinsurer.com
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Senior Conference Producer - Intelligent Insurer
Newton Media
Direct: +44 (0) 203 301 8252
Email: datwell@newtonmedia.co.uk
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Senior Delegate Sales Manager - Intelligent Insurer
Newton Media
Direct: +44 203 3018 246
Email: rlawton@newtonmedia.co.uk
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