Speakers of the inscom 2023
Dr. Andrea van Aubel
Member of the Executive Board msg
Achim Baumstark
Group Chief Technology Officer & Member of the Helvetia Group Executive Management
Marc Bennett
Global Vice President, ACORD
Tom Berx
Group Chief Information Officer, Credendo
Matthias Biniok
Brand Leader Data & AI, IBM
Leonid Faktorovich
System Analyst, Ayalon Insurance
Werner Göttler
Head of Business Solutions Finance, Munich RE
Dirk Gronert
Member of the Executive Board, Concordia Versicherungen
Dr. Dirk Guntermann
General Manager Information Technology, Hannover RE
Klaus-Jürgen Heitmann
Group-CEO HUK-COBURG
Gregor Hohpe
The Architect Elevator, Sr. Principal Evangelist, Serverless AWS
Christian Junek
Team Manager Valuation & Technical Subledger, Hannover RE
Martin Jüni
Chief Operating Officer, MS Reinsurance
Denis Ley
Technology Engineer / Cloud Solution Architect, IBM
Dr. Erik Leyers
Member of the Management Board (Data & IT) UNIQA Insurance Group AG & UNIQA Österreich Versicherungen AG
Dr. Peter Liebwein
Chief Underwriting Officer Structured Solutions, Swiss RE
Anina Lutz
CEO & Co-Founder, Calingo Insurance AG
Silvia Mann-Kundt
Head of IT Competence Center Insurance at W&W Group
Dr. Dominik Orbach
Chapter Lead Sales Customer Management, SIGNAL IDUNA
Tom Pfaff
Global Head, Group CFO Change and Aspire Programme Director, Standard Chartered Bank
Dr. Ranja Reda Kouba
Head of Customer Engineering, Financial Services Industries, Google Cloud Germany
Christian Richter
Senior Advisor Insurance Industry EMEA, AWS
Alexander Schmidt
Head of SHUK Project and Processes, NÜRNBERGER Versicherung
Julien Simon
Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face
Fabian Stolz
Head of Robotics Competence Center, ERGO Digital Ventures AG
Markus Svanda
Chief Transformation Officer Wiener Städtische und Donau Versicherung, Managing Director twinformatics
Frank Thiede
Director Global Delivery SAP Group Systems, ITERGO
Petra Umbrich
Head of Group Finance, UNIQA Group
Clemens Vatter
Member of the Executive Board, SIGNAL IDUNA
Luc van Velzen
Enterprise Architect, Achmea
Jens Warkentin
CEO HDI Deutschland
Marcus Weinert
IT Area Lead Protection & Savings und Life Run, AXA Konzern AG
André Wiersig
The Man of the Ocean, Speaker & Offshore swimmer UN Ocean Ambassador and founder of THE BLUE HEART
Joachim Wuest
Head of Financial Services Industry, Google Cloud Germany
Program 2023
09:30 - 10:00 am
Opening
Dr. Jürgen Zehetmaier, Chairman of the Executive Board msg
10:00 - 10:30 am
Keynote msg
Trends moving the insurance industry – turn vision into value
Dr. Andrea van Aubel, Executive Board msg
10:30 - 11:00 am
Keynote
Insurers in the tension triangle of technology leap, regulation and daily business
Jens Warkentin, CEO HDI Deutschland
11:45 - 12:15 pm
- Sustainability Reporting Program with SAP PaPM
Frank Thiede, Director Global Delivery SAP, ITERGO &
Karl Borowski, Senior Risk Manager, Project Lead ERGO Liabilities (Sustainability Reporting)
- 12 Steps to a new value chain
Tom Berx, Group Chief Information Officer, Credendo
- Transforming to a Scalable Platform and New Operating Model
Martin Jüni, Chief Operating Officer, MS Reinsurance
12:30 - 01:00 am
- The Signal Iduna and Google Partnership: A match made in Cloud heaven
Clemens Vatter, Member of the Executive Board, SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe &
Joachim Wuest, Head of Financial Services Industry, Google Cloud Germany
- Transforming Finance into a Fit-for-future Function: Standard Chartered’s Journey
Tom Pfaff, Global Head, Group CFO Change and Aspire Programme Director, Standard Chartered Bank
- PaPM @ Hannover Re
Dr. Dirk Guntermann, General Manager Information Technology, Hannover RE
Christian Junek, Team Manager Valuation & Technical Subledger, Hannover RE
01:00 - 02:00 pm
The Global Reinsurance & Large Commercial Digital Data Exchange
Mark Bennett, Global Vice President, ACORD
02:00 - 02:30 pm
- Core Systems in a SaaS Model?
Achim Baumstark, Group Chief Technology Officer &
Member of the Helvetia Group Executive Management
- How do we turn Customer Due Diligence into a generic service?
Luc van Velzen, Enterprise Architect, Achmea
- Smart Application Management
Werner Göttler, Head of IT-Business Solutions Finance, Munich Re
02:45 - 03:15 pm
- Sales Customer Management at SIGNAL IDUNA: Agility and short time-to-market
Dr. Dominik Orbach, Chapter Lead Sales Customer Management
SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe
- UNIQA’s SAP S/4 Journey
Petra Umbrich, Head of Group Finance, UNIQA Group
- OpenShift as accelerator for the msg.Insurance Suite in the Cloud
Denis Ley, Technology Engineer / Cloud Solution Architect, IBM
03:30 - 04:00 pm
msg AI Showcases
Axel Helmert, Managing Director, msg life
Axel Kotulla, Chief Customer Officer Insurance, msg
Frank Porzberg, Vice President Claims Management, msg
Michael Rubinger, Principal Business Consultant, msg
From 05:00 pm
Munich Oktoberfest // Networking Dinner at restaurant Seehaus (English Garden)
09:00 - 09:15 am
Opening
09:15 - 09:45 am
Keynote msg
In the end, being just an insurer won’t be enough.
Klaus-Jürgen Heitmann, Group-CEO HUK-COBURG
09:45 - 10:15 am
Keynote msg
Economies of Speed
Gregor Hohpe, The Architect Elevator, Sr. Principal Evangelist, Serverless
AWS
10:15 - 11:00 am
From customer contact to customer loyalty: The SIGNAL IDUNA strategies in practice &
From tradition to transformation: Broker management rethought with msg
Dr. Dominik Orbach, Chapter Lead Sales Customer Management, SIGNAL IDUNA Gruppe &
Andreas Stollenwerk, Vice President Business Unit Insurance, msg
11:00 - 11:30 am
- msg.Life Factory in der AWS Cloud
Marcus Weinert, IT Area Lead Protection & Savings und Life Run, AXA Konzern AG
- How hand (RPA) and brain (AI) come together
Fabian Stolz, Head of Robotics Competence Center, ERGO Digital Ventures
- From Vision to Value: The Future of Text and Output Management
Silvia Mann-Kundt, Head of IT Competence Center Insurance at W&W Group
11:45 - 12:15 pm
- We MOVE(D) IT!
Markus Svanda, Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) Wiener Städtische und Donau Versicherung, Managing Director twinformatics
- Implementation of a new P&C portfolio management system - new ways of dealing with challenges at Nürnberger Versicherung
Alexander Schmidt, Head of SHUK Project and Processes, Nürnberger Versicherung &
Dr. Peter Liebwein, Chief Underwriting Officer Structured Solutions, Swiss Re
- Generative AI & Machine Learning for Insurance
Christian Richter, Senior Advisor Insurance Industry EMEA, AWS &
Julien Simon, Chief Evangelist, Hugging Face
12:30 - 01:30 pm
The Global Reinsurance & Large Commercial Digital Data Exchange
Mark Bennett, Global Vice President, ACORD
01:45 - 02:15 pm
- Modernizing the application landscape is not an IT project
Dirk Gronert, Member of the Executive Board Concordia Versicherungs-Gesellschaft
- How Calingo is setting new standards as an embedded insurer in Switzerland
Anina Lutz, CEO & Co-Founder, Calingo Insurance AG
- In the PaLMtree garden - GenAI for insurance with Google Cloud
Dr. Ranja Reda-Kouba, Head of Customer Engineering, Financial Services Industries,
Google Cloud Germany
02:30 - 03:00 pm
- The “UNIQA Insurance Platform” ('UIP’) – Implementation of the msg.Insurance Suite
Dr. Erik Leyers, Member of the Executive Board, UNIQA Group
- Powerful Cost Allocation Model implemented in SAP PaPM as foundation for IFRS Subledger - a blueprint for a successful project
Leonid Faktorovich, System Analyst, Ayalon Insurance
- AI in the insurance context with watsonx
Matthias Biniok, Brand Leader Data & AI, IBM
03:15 - 03:45 pm
Guest speaker
Successful under extreme conditions - Sustainability in the context of nature and economy
André Wiersig, The Man of the Ocean I Speaker I Offshore swimmer
UN Ocean Ambassador and founder of THE BLUE HEART
03:45 - 04:00 pm
Closing
Dr. Andrea van Aubel, Executive Board msg
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