Insurtech Gateway's Climate Evening
Insurtech is helping the insurance market adapt to a changing climate
The insurance market is operating in an increasingly complex world, shaped by extreme weather and the transition to a low-carbon economy. This event explores how the next generation of insurtechs are helping the industry understand and adapt to changing risks and unlock new commercial opportunities.
Held in the historic home of insurance, The Old Library at Lloyd’s of London, the evening brings our ecosystem together to explore the technologies changing how emerging and evolving risks are understood, managed and insured.
This event is for:
(Re)insurers and brokers
Climate-focused insurtechs
Active angel investors
Active VC investors
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Agenda
16:15 Welcome drinks
17:15 Welcome from Insurtech Gateway.
The specialist insurtech investor supports early-stage founders reimagining how risk is measured, mitigated, and managed. Their incubators have been purpose-built, drawing on nine years of experience incubating 45+ ventures, to combine deep industry knowledge with access to the tools, authorisations, investment capital, and networks founders need to bring new solutions to market.
17:20 NeuWave is transforming offshore risk with high-resolution wave intelligence that improves exposure assessment and operational planning. Learn how advanced environmental analytics enable more precise underwriting and claims for renewable energy projects, supporting the continued growth of the offshore wind sector.
Jana Stella, CEO of NeuWave, pushed the boundaries of oceanography research through her PhD at the University of Manchester, where she developed numerical and AI wave models. Now, she is on a mission to help offshore teams plan smarter, move faster, and reduce risk at sea.
17:35 Maximum Information is challenging how risk professionals understand and manage catastrophe risk data, opening the door to new sectors, use cases, and applications. Hear how the team is developing innovative technologies and practical decision-support tools while bringing together industry, academia, and government to tackle some of the sector's biggest challenges.
Tom Philp is CEO of Maximum Information, helping organisations make resilient decisions in the face of complex catastrophe and climate risks. He specialises in catastrophe risk modelling, holds a PhD in Meteorology, and maintains academic ties with LSE, UCL and NOAA.
17:50 Tova is building AI-native water intelligence. Discover how Tova's physics-informed deep learning foundation model and expert water resources agents help utilities, insurers and water-intensive industries forecast and act on water risk - on demand, for any facility, anywhere - 10× cheaper and 90% faster than conventional approaches.
Dr Alexa Bruce is co-founder and CEO of Tova. She led water resilience programmes at Arup, served as Environment and Climate Change Lead at the UK's National Infrastructure Commission, and holds a PhD in machine learning for water demand forecasting
18:05 Q&A
18:20 Networking
19:15 Close