Smart Enterprise Exchange Presents, “Continuing to Innovate in a Difficult Economy”
This Smart Enterprise Exchange – held exclusively for the benefit of CIOs and Senior IT Executives from enterprise-level financial and insurance organizations – will examine current economic trends, their likely impact on IT strategy and how IT can remain on an innovative footing.
Brought to you by CA, UBM and Insurance & Technology
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Insurance & Technology's 10th Annual Executive Summit
Insurance Revolution
Insurance & Technology's 2008 Executive Summit is an exclusive, invitation-only event for senior-level insurance company/carrier executives who have technology decision-making and buying responsibilities.
For more information, email insuranceandtech@techweb.com
*Summit attendance is limited to insurance company/carrier executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Insurance Product Manufacturing – Reality or Myth?
Rapid product development is moving from being a competitive advantage to a competitive necessity. As the availability of more agile technology enables more carriers to adopt revised processes, evidence is mounting that product freshness drives greater portfolio profitability. Join us at this Insurance & Technology Executive Breakfast for an open dialogue on some of the latest issues, trends and newest technologies in insurance product manufacturing.
Sponsored by: Camilion Solutions & Cognizant
*Event sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Insurance Operations of the Future: Beyond Automation
In the current business environment of heightened concerns about risk, credit and economic performance, insurers are under more pressure than ever to maximize resources (including knowledge worker headcount) and increase operational efficiency - while at the same time improving service and driving growth. At this roundtable we will explore the strategic, organizational and technological challenges related to achieving true end-to-end processing, and will examine the opportunities and benefits that can come from adopting new business models and implementing advanced principles and systems for business process automation.
Sponsored by IBM
*Event sponsor reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable IT Strategies Midwest
Meeting the Enterprise Compliance Challenge
In a highly regulated industry that has had to respond to increasingly stringent regulatory demands in recent years it may seem that compliance could not get any harder for insurance companies. At this meeting, delegates of leading insurers will discuss how their organizations are working to implement and manage the technology necessary to reduce their businesses' exposure to the risks of regulatory non-compliance.
For more information, please contact Executive Editor, Anthony O'Donnell, at aodonnell@techweb.com

Sponsored by IBM
*This event is open to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable IT Strategies Northeast
Enterprise Content Management Strategies for Success
As document management, imaging and workflow systems have become more sophisticated and interoperable, the ability for insurance companies to implement a true enterprise content management (ECM) strategy has become much more feasible. What are the technical, financial and cultural challenges related to adopting ECM, and what are some of the approaches carriers are taking to address these issues and gain the benefits of a more automated, enterprise approach to gathering and delivering content of all types?
For more information, please contact Senior Editor, Anthony O'Donnell, at aodonnell@techweb.com
Sponsored by Document Sciences
*This event is open to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable IT Strategies Northeast
Building a Foundation for Analytics
Analytics can improve every major operational endeavor within the insurance enterprise, be it marketing, sales, customer relations, underwriting, claims, actuarial or finance. At this meeting of Insurance & Technology's Northeast IT Strategies Executive Roundtable, we will discuss the elements of providing a solid foundation for analytics, whereby insurance IT organizations can not only derive added value from legacy systems, but "make IT matter" strategically.

For more information, please contact Senior Editor, Anthony O'Donnell, at aodonnell@cmp.com.
Sponsored by SAS
*Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Insurance & Technology's 9th Annual Executive Summit 2007
The premier event for insurance executives!
Three days of education, interaction and networking with the insurance industry's top decision-makers.
Sponsorships still available! Space is Limited!
This exclusive, invitation-only networking event will provide focused networking and educational opportunities to insurance executives in an unmatched resort environment. The Executive Summit agenda combines conference/seminar presentations, scheduled recreation (golf, tours, etc.), and social events (receptions, 2007 Elite8 awards ceremony).
*Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable IT Strategies Midwest
Speed to Market
Rapid product development is moving from being a competitive advantage to a competitive necessity. Even as more and more carriers adopt revised processes and more agile technology, evidence is mounting that product freshness drives greater portfolio profitability. The possibility of regulatory reform is simultaneously driving changes that will eventually narrow the window of time regulators take to approve products, thereby depriving carriers of an excuse for slow development.
For more information, please send an email referencing this event to insuranceandtech@cmp.com.
Sponsored by Camilion Solutions and Diamond Management & Technology Consultants
*Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

The Future of Enterprise-Level Mobility In Financial Services: Balancing Increased Mobile Usage With Enterprise Data Security
Sponsored by Sprint and Windows Mobile
Join us for an executive event, moderated by the editors from Wall Street & Technology, Bank Systems & Technology and Insurance & Technology, hear how other Financial Firms are meeting the challenge of securing enterprise-level applications and data for their mobile users.

Bank Systems & Technology Executive Summit
Banking 2.0: The New Generation of Competition
At the second annual Bank Systems & Technology Executive Summit - an exclusive, invitation-only networking event - senior executives/technology decision-makers from visionary financial institutions will come together with some of the industry's most innovative technology solutions providers. They will share ideas, explore growth opportunities, and gain understanding of the essential technologies and strategies that can help banks achieve the organizational transformation required for profitable growth in the 21st century, in an unmatched resort environment.
For more information, please send an email referencing this event to banksystemstandtech@cmp.com
*Please note that attendance at this Bank Systems & Technology event is limited to executives from banks/financial institutions. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

ITS Executive Roundtable Part IV
Sponsored by Pegasystems
Achieving BPM Maturity: Building the Foundation Via SOA & Integration Capabilities
As carriers strive to automate key processes in order to improve service, gain efficiencies and reduce risk, the concept of Business Process Management (BPM) is coming to the forefront within the insurance industry. BPM is viewed as key to more effective deployment of IT resources and activities (the technology lifecycle), not to mention comprehensive reengineering of core business practices. As such IT executives charged with incorporating BPM into processes such as underwriting and claims are focused on the architectures, frameworks and standards that can support and enable process automation. At the same time, there's a more qualitative aspect to BPM that has to do with true IT/business partnerships and shared understanding of the critical business problems being addressed.
For more information, please email us referencing this event.
*Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable Claims Series - Part 1
Addressing Claims Fraud: From Detection to Prevention
Thanks to an array of enabling technologies insurers have become increasingly proficient and automated in their approaches to claims administration. But even as the claims management environment becomes increasingly electronic, claims-related fraud continues to present huge challenges – and costs – to carriers.
To register, click here. For more information, please send an email referencing this event to insuranceandtech@cmp.com.
Sponsored by SAS
*Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable Outsourcing Series - Part 1: Optimized Sourcing: Onshore, Offshore & BPO
Having accepted outsourcing and off-shoring as more than cost-cutting strategies, insurance companies are not only gaining efficiencies and access to better technology, but also improving their operating models and potentially gaining access to IT talent they cannot find in their local markets. Along with innovative technology architecture approaches, creative sourcing thus becomes another means of gaining agility in response to changing market conditions.

But with these benefits come potential legal, management and financial challenges - and ultimately an imperative to dramatically innovate a new kind of insurance IT organization. Participants in this Executive Roundtable series will examine the new economics of outsourcing and explore a range of sourcing strategies and their corresponding challenges. For more information, please contact Senior Editor, Anthony O'Donnell, at aodonnell@cmp.com.
Sponsored by CSC
*Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

The Future of Claims Forum: Finding Strategic Value
The claim is the ultimate "moment of truth" in the insurer/policyholder relationship. Everything from service to customer retention to regulatory compliance to carrier profitability is encompassed by the claims transaction. And, as the political fallout post-Hurricane Katrina demonstrates, an insurer's reputation, not to mention its ability to conduct business, can be dramatically affected by how it administers claims.

That's why savvy companies are starting to take a more strategic, forward-looking approach to claims, implementing an array of leading edge technologies and processes that can reduce leakage, improve fraud detection, enhance underwriting and regulatory reporting, and upgrade service and performance. To register, click here. For more information please email: insuranceandtech@cmp.com
Sponsored by Microsoft
*Please Note: This event is open to executives from insurance institutions only. Each applicant will be reviewed and qualified registrants will be forwarded a confirmation notice. Event Producer & Sponsor reserve the right to qualify and deny any registrant.

ITS Executive Roundtable - Part 3: Next Steps in Legacy Modernization
Recent activity in the insurance technology market suggests that the industry may finally be making real progress toward the goal of integrated core insurance processing across the enterprise. Systems based on newer technology are delivering results and encouraging greater confidence in transformational technology investment. However, the factors in determining the right next steps toward core systems modernization varies from company to company, and carriers face numerous challenges -- not just technology and available systems, but also budget and resource issues, difficulties in making a business case, and mergers and other organizational restructuring -- on the road to successful legacy modernization. Carriers may recognize the necessity of "taking the plunge," but what are the critical factors to mitigate the risk and ensure success of such a significant undertaking?
For more information, please contact Senior Editor, Anthony O'Donnell, at aodonnell@cmp.com .
Please note that attendance at Insurance & Technology events is limited to insurance company/carrier executives only and therefore not open to vendors. Event producer reserves the right to qualify and deny any interested party.

Executive Peer Roundtable Series, Part II: Mastering Speed-to-Market
Supporting carrier efforts to get new products to market continues to be one of the most difficult challenges faced by insurance technology organizations. The innate complexity of insurance products, the traditional inflexibility of insurance carrier policy administration systems and the involved, collaborative process of creating products consume an inordinate amount of resources and conspire to slow product creation, making it difficult to take timely advantage of market opportunities. This meeting will touch on the limits of legacy policy administration systems and the improved product development capabilities of newer systems, and will also aim at identifying the different stages of product creation, applicable to different lines of business, with the purpose of identifying best practices. For more information please contact Anthony O'Donnell, Senior Editor
Sponsored by BearingPoint

Part I: Service-Oriented Architecture – Beyond the Rhetoric to Real Benefits
I&T and BearingPoint invite you to attend the 1st meeting of this series. As the partnership between IT and the business becomes increasingly ingrained and effective at insurance companies, carriers’ IT executives are more focused than ever on effective resource management, transparent & efficient processes and quantifiable deliverables. But it all starts with infrastructure – What are the success factors in realizing the benefits of SOA, and what lessons have insurers learned along the way? To request your invitation, please send an email to insuranceandtech@cmp.com
New York

Global Services nCounter Event Series: Claims Processing: Sourcing and Best Practices
hosted by Cambridge, Vee Technologies, and emr
Executive Breakfast Roundtable and Panel Discussion sponsored by Insurance & Technology
New York, NY
www.globalservicesmedia.com/insurance

Insurance & Technology's 8th Annual Executive Summit
Arizona Biltmore Resort & Spa "Differentiation Through Innovation"
The premier event for insurance executives!
Three days of education, interaction and networking with the insurance industry's top decision-makers.
Sponsorships still available! Space is Limited!
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Optimizing Strategic Distribution Management
Please join us for this Complimentary Executive Roundtable, co-produced by Insurance & Technology and SAP. This high-level roundtable dicussion will explore an enterprise approach to the management of agency information, including relationships between agency parties at both home and satellite offices, producers/agents and customers, as well as transaction-related information, such as commissions, billing, and more.
Discussion topics will include:

• Integration of distribution information at a strategic level
• Improvement of sales planning within local markets
• Elimination of redundant data entry related to prospecting and appointment processes
• Enhancement of book-of-business transfer capabilities
• Real-time view of critical agency information by all constituents

For more information or to register, please send an email to insuranceandtech@cmp.com
Hartford, CT

Seizing Opportunities for Financial Services in Consumer-Directed Healthcare
Please join us for a Complimentary Executive Forum, co-sponsored by Bank Systems & Technology, Insurance & Technology and BearingPoint, where your industry peers will candidly discuss the ever-evolving issue and industry-specific implications of consumer-directed healthcare. Learn how your organization can ride the second wave of CDH and take advantage of lessons-learned to offer more differentiated, efficient, scalable and flexible offerings.