October 1 - 3, 2000, The Westin Providence, Providence,
RI
Handicapping the Insurance
Dot-Coms
Adam Klauber, analyst,
Cochran, Caronia Securities LLC
Who’s on the edge and who
fell over? What new dot-coms are headed our way? Who shows promise and who is
likely to be D.O.A.?
How
Allstate Became an E-Commerce Company
Steven L. Groot, president, Allstate
International
Behind the making of the biggest e-rollout in
insurance history.
Pursuing the Multiplatform E-Commerce
Strategy
Johan Troskie, chief
executive officer, Netcover.com
How Netcover.com became the
leading online insurance provider in South Africa. Why it’s important to develop
for Web, intranet and wireless.
Aggregators Among Us: The Continuing Case for the Insurance
Mall
Hussein A. Enan, InsWeb
Inc.
State Farm left but lots are still playing. What kind of
insurer plays best with the aggregator.
Seeding Tomorrow’s Virtual Cedent
Jim Low, director of start-up ventures, Swiss Re Division,
Americas
How Swiss Re is fusing reinsurance capacity,
insurance expertise and technology to spawn new customers.
E-Business and Value Reporting
Robert G. Eccles, president, Advisory Capital Partners
Inc.
Tambra (Tami) Bailie, partner,
PricewaterhouseCoopers
E-business succeeds only if it’s an integral
part of the value chain.
E-Refining the Life Reinsurance
Marketplace
Paul Buckley, principal,
Technical Services, AgoraRe.com, CNA Life Re
Carol Sullivan, principal, Business Services,
AgoraRe.com, CNA Life Re
AgoraRe.com streamlines distribution of
facultative life reinsurance.
The
View From London
Nigel Barton,
underwriting director, DP Mann
How the London market is moving toward an
integrated back office.
Straight Talk About the Future of Financial
Services
David Annis, group senior vice
president and chief information officer, Information Technology, The Hartford
Financial Services
How Hartford is using a technology umbrella to
unify its approach across a broad variety of businesses.
Tying the World Together Online
Scott Martin Alexander, chief e-business officer,
AIG
How AIG is pursuing a global e-strategy.
Underwriting E-Risk
Kae Lovaas, vice president, technology underwriting, St.
Paul Cos.
As e-commerce explodes, so do the possible areas of
risk—and coverage. E-commerce experts from St. Paul and Marsh talk about the
evolution of risk management with the use of online technologies.
Axa Financial’s E-Rollout
Bill Saubert, senior vice president, Axa Client
Solutions
All the bells and whistles don’t have to be focused on
consumers. Internal customers can be an even tougher crowd to woo.
Creating Zurich’s Global Hub
Nancy Ballance, vice president, Zurich Global
e-Business Exchange, Farmers Insurance Group
How Zurich is unifying
its worldwide operations through technology.
The Next Generation of Insurance
Technology
Charles Johnston,
vice president and director, Insurance Information Strategies, Meta
Group
Judy Johnson, vice president,
Insurance Information Strategies, Meta Group
Real-time processing
and e-commerce are just the beginning. Ahead are new technologies, gadgets and
breakthroughs that will rewrite insurance technology.
Leveraging the Independent-Agent Market
Bernard DiFiore, chief executive officer,
Benefitmall.com
Benefitmall.com is part of a wave of start-ups
signing up brokers in a grass war over the small-business benefits
market.
What
the New Digital Signature Regulations Mean to Insurers
Thomas O. Wells, chief
executive officer, b4bpartner
The move
toward binding online authorizations is starting to pick up speed—and taking a
few surprising directions.
Cracking the Small-Business Commercial
Market
Donald Urbanciz, chief executive officer, InsuranceNoodle
What do you do for
high-volume, lower-revenue accounts? Take them online.
Fidelity’s World: Portal or Insurance
Outpost?
Lou Geremia, president,
Insurance.com
How Fidelity’s Insurance.com is aiming to become an
independent force in the insurance market.
The Search for E-Standards in Reinsurance
Robert Sawicki, senior vice president and chief
information officer, Scor Re
XML may look like the future, but it
will be a platform built by the electronic data interchange movement.
Building an Online Community
Brian Lawlor, insurance industry manager, VerticalNet
David Willis, director of editorial services,
PropertyAndCasualty.com
Christine Mancini,
chief executive officer, Captive.com
A domain name and a niche go
only so far in the pursuit of "stickiness."
Cybersupport for the Ground Forces (Managing
Multichannels)
Mark Coleman,
associate partner, Andersen Consulting
John Flaschner, vice president, Field Systems,
Northwestern Mutual Life
Where insurers go wrong in introducing new
channels, and how they can make it work differently.
A.M.
Best’s View
Michael Cohen, assistant
vice president, Life/Health Division, A.M. Best Co.
How the evolution
of technology is driving and changing the industry.
The I-Road Ahead
Paul Tinnirello, senior vice president, Information
Services Division, A.M. Best Co.
What a difference an Internet
year makes.
