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Insurance Leaders’ Forum: AI strategy and transformation  

April 1, 2026 , 08:30 - 12:30

Version 1 Dublin office – Fourth Floor, Four Park Place, Adelaide Road, D02 VOR2

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A select group of senior insurance executives came together for a half-day forum focused on the strategic opportunities and challenges presented by AI across claims, underwriting, distribution and operations. This invitation-only event brought together industry leaders, market specialists and transformation experts for a morning of insight, discussion and executive-level collaboration.

You’ll hear directly from:

John Turner, Chief Operating Officer – Foundation Risk Partners 

Sharing recent agentic automation shifts and the operational impact achieved.

Jamie Bulmer, AI Business Solutions Director – Financial Services, Microsoft

A specialist in AI transformation and enterprise change. Jamie will explore how leaders can structure an AI programme to maximise business value, including examples of how Microsoft is supporting insurance customers in frontier scale AI adoption.

AI co-creation workshop – Insurance Executive edition 

A core part of the morning will be an insurance-specific AI Co-Creation workshop between the industry leaders and Version 1’s specialist AI practitioners.  This will be a structured, executive level exploration of where AI can unlock measurable value in innovation across claims, underwriting, distribution, document intelligence and operations. You and your peers will work through practical frameworks and real examples to identify industry-wide high impact opportunities and gain an understanding as to how AI can accelerate your innovation cycle.

Why attend?

As AI adoption accelerates across the insurance sector, leaders are under increasing pressure to identify the most valuable use cases, validate ROI and drive change at scale. This forum is designed specifically for senior decision makers looking to cut through the noise and understand what is delivering real business value today.

Through a combination of keynote perspectives, peer discussion and a structured AI opportunity exploration session, attendees will gain:

  • Strategic insight into emerging AI trends shaping insurance
  • Practical frameworks to evaluate where AI can drive impact
  • Real examples from insurers progressing agentic and automation led transformation
  • The opportunity to benchmark thinking with senior peers in a closed, invitation only environment

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