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HYPE: Chat GPT and AI Take on the Insurance Industry! Insurtechs Vs. Incumbents

Chat GPT and AI in Insurance # Welcome to the latest episode of FS Brew Hype ## **Chat GPT and AI in Insurance** Insurance is a complex and data-driven industry, and Chat GPT and AI are two emerging technologies that have the...

How to break into VC and how to approach VCs: Ahmed Elgabri from Shorooq Partners

FS Brew has been speaking to #venturecapital firms interested in #insurance and #insurtech space to know more about what it takes to pique their interest and get the fund in! In our first chat with a #venturecapital firm, we ...

In conversation with Gautam Datta- Building a Takaful Insurance Giant using M&A

Here's our latest podcast episode with Gautam Datta from Watania Takaful ! When we interviewed him a few weeks back, the freshly merged Dar Al Takaful PJSC and #Watania entity were on the verge of revealing their new name, wh...

Special Women's Day episode - Empowering, Energizing and Leading from the front

To commemorate this year's international women's day, we spoke with three leaders from the UAE insurance industry. We asked them about their approach to advancing gender diversity and inclusion within the industry, navigating complex situations, and their leadership style.

30: FS Brew speaks to Mohamed Seghir - CEO of Hayah, UAE's Digital Insurer. Driving Cultural Transformation in Insurance

In our latest episode, we spoke with Mohamed Seghir , CEO of HAYAH Insurance , UAE's recently branded insurance company that specializes in life, medical, and savings. It was a delightful chat as we dug deeper into how Mohame...

Insurtech Hackathon Corporate Venture Capital

29: Interview with Lars Gehrman of QIC DV- Announcing the latest Hackathon!

FS Brew spoke with Lars Gehrmann from QIC Digital Venture Partners and got exclusive details about the #MENA-wide #startup challenge they recently launched! We also spoke to him about the gaps in the insurance ecosystem in...

28: Rohit Nambiar- Group CEO of Tune Protect on Partnerships, Transformation and Culture.

In our first episode of #FSBrewInternational for 2023, we speak with the passionate and exuberant, Rohit Nambiar, Group CEO of Tune Protect, based in KL Malaysia! This interview was a playbook on how to run an insurance comp...

27: UAE Insurance Market: 2022 Roundup and 2023 Predictions

UAE Insurance Market: 2022 Roundup and 2023 Predictions. Today we have a very special episode on how 2022 has been for the insurance companies in the UAE so far and potentially what that means in terms of how we will be endin...

26: FS Brew Hype: Open Insurance and its implications in the Middle East region

In FS Brew's latest HYPE episode, we deep dive into Open Insurance to understand: - What is open insurance? - Who are the suitable partners who can benefit from open insurance - International examples & use cases - Business...

25: Hala Insurtech- Innovate offshore and regulate onshore

Here's our interview with Walid Daniel Dib , Co-founder, and CEO of Hala Insurance , the OG millennial insurtech founder from the #UAE ! We spoke with Walid on many nuances and factors involved in running an agile insurance s...

24: News with Analysis: Oct 2022

Here's our #newswithanalysis episode after long! 💃🏻 In this episode, we've picked trending #news pieces from the #uae market exclusively, because there's just SO MUCH going on! 🎂Shory - (we had to start with this!), our re...

Micro Insurance Insurtech

23: The TAM for micro-insurance is huge- Interview with Andy Ann

Here's our #FSBrewInternational interview with Andy Ann, CEO of YAS MicroInsurance based in #HongKong. Fascinating conversation and a must-watch for all #insurers aspiring to target or innovate to attract #genz and #millennia...

22: Digital Transformation in the Asia Pacific Region- Conversation with a New Leader

We spoke to Roopa Malhotra- Head of Customer & Digital, APAC, Zurich Insurance Group LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roopamalhotra APAC is a hugely diverse, exciting and complex landscape to manage with each country hav...

21: Unit economics matter- Interview with Nicolo Robba, Co-founder of the Indonesian Insurtech LifePal

In our first episode of #FSBrewInternational , we spoke with Nicolo Robba from Lifepal . Lifepal is the no. 1 B2C #insurance #aggregator in #indonesia . Nicolo Robba is an e-commerce leader in the South East Asia region, and ...

20: Claims Transparency can increase Life Insurance adoption in the MENA: Wilson Varghese of Zurich Middle East

We caught up with Wilson Varghese, General Manager and Head of Operations, Zurich Middle East, part of Zurich Insurance Group. Wilson spoke in length about the Customer Benefits report recently released by Zurich Middle Eas...

19: Creating a Health and Wellness Insurtech from the ground-up: In conversation with the founders of Wellx.ai

Check out our interview with wellx.ai founders, Vaibhav Kashyap and Javed Akberali ! wellx.ai is the newest #healthinsurance brand in the UAE, rewarding its customers for leading a #healthylifestyle . We spoke in length about...

18: Building an Innovation Ecosystem for Insurance: Lars Gehrmann of QIC Digital Venture Partners

Lars Gehrmann is the Group Chief Digital Officer of Qatar Insurance Group and Head of QIC Digital Venture Partners, a new digital organization with an aim to build and invest in digital ventures, the InsurTech ecosystem, and ...

Transformation Health Insurer Digital Health

17: Digital Transformation of a Health Insurance giant - conversation with Frederik Bisbjerg of DAMAN

🧩 Importance of breaking down the giant digital transformation plan into smaller, 3-month goals  📚Advice to Chief Digital Officers- keep educating your board; use metrics like customer effort score (CES) to articulate the impact  👩🏻‍⚕️Is there a solid business case for reward-based health insurance here in the UAE? Instead of annual rewards, will monthly or even weekly rewards work better?  🔐 Building cloud capability and two-speed IT  🚀Creating a modular architect to create #embeddedinsurance products that can work even in the #metaverse  🧪How to get the chemistry right between incumbent insurers and #insurtech

Data Micro Insurance Machine Learning Telco

16: Power of Data in Micro-insurance and beyond- Tanja Magas, Democrance

16: Power of Data in Micro-insurance and beyond- Tanja Magas, Democrance

15: A Foreign insurer with a long history in the UAE- New India Assurance

Here's the much-awaited interview with LAVANYA MUNDAYUR, COO of The New India Assurance Co. Ltd., Dubai. We spoke in length about various nuances within the #UAE and #India's insurance landscape and much more: 🔭 The New In...

14: FS Brew Hype- NFTs in the world of Insurance?

In this episode of HYPE, hosts, Renjit Philip and Vidya Veerapandian discuss #NFTs - what are they; their growing popularity within the region, specifically #dubai becoming a hub (no surprises there!) and the progress made so...

13: A "Pet" subject for Insurtechs- a lesson in launching a new insurance product

Here's our conversation with the young, ambitious, and promising duo- Matthieu Etourneau and Talal M. A. from Royal Technologies Limited ! They firmly believe to have cracked a profitable distribution strategy for #petinsuran...

12: Go back to the fundamentals of Insurance: Interview with Hatim Maskawala

Here's the much-awaited podcast with our guest, Hatim Maskawala, Managing Director, Badri Management Consultancy. Hatim spoke with us candidly on many pressing topics that need #insurance industry's attention: 🚖 Motor po...

11: Much more than an aggregator: Interview with PolicyBazaar's Neeraj Gupta

Excited to share FS Brew's special interview with Neeraj Gupta, CEO of Policybazaar UAE.ae! Neeraj gave us many insights about PolicyBazaar and its DNA, which continues to shape the way they work. We spoke in-depth about...