Creating Room for Innovation

Even as insurers focus on innovation and the technology that will enable it, they still must maintain and operate the legacy systems that run the business. What if it’s possible to spend less time and money on those systems, freeing resources to focus on developing systems that will really move the needle for the business?

In this webinar, ITL Editor-in-Chief Paul Carroll interviews Anne Plese, Senior Director of Product Marketing at Rimini Street, and James Maudslay, global director of insurance at Equinix on how operational efficiency can create the room for innovation.

They cover:

How outsourcing service can return massive amounts of dollars of working capital to insurers.

How to address the skills gap as those who coded the core systems decades ago retire and are being replaced by people who aren’t even trained in the computer languages that were used.

How to cost-effectively maintain the tens of millions of lines of custom code that aren’t covered under mainstream maintenance contracts with Oracle, SAP and the other big technology vendors.

How operational efficiency for IT systems will become even more crucial as companies increasingly coordinate activities as part of ecosystems and as insurance moves more toward preventing losses – requiring the processing of massive amounts of information from numerous sources in real time.

Date: November 15, 2021

Time: 12:00 pm EST

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About the Speakers

Paul Carroll

Paul Carroll is the editor-in-chief of Insurance Thought Leadership.

He is also co-author of A Brief History of a Perfect Future: Inventing the Future We Can Proudly Leave Our Kids by 2050 and Billion Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn From the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years and the author of a best-seller on IBM, published in 1993.

Carroll spent 17 years at the Wall Street Journal as an editor and reporter; he was nominated twice for the Pulitzer Prize. He later was a finalist for a National Magazine Award.

Anne Plese

Marketing leader and technology evangelist with 20 years of experience in product marketing and management. Powerful blend of business, leadership, technical, and communication skills. Experienced in Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, IoT, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, Networking, Open Source, and Big Data. Deep background in defining customer requirements and influencing buying criteria of enterprise, mid-market, and service provider segments.

James Maudslay

Joining Equinix in September 2012, James took on the subject matter expert role of the insurance vertical as part of the UK Financial Services team, enlarging that role to a globally in 2014. James is responsible for developing Equinix's Interconnection and Colocation solutions in the Insurance Industry in all the primary worldwide insurance centers.

James has worked in the London Insurance Market since 1989 at Centerwrite, The Euclidian Group, and Colt Communications. James holds a Master's Degree from City University, London, and has been a Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute (FCII) since 2000.