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An initiative by NewsReach, this playlist shares stories from brands, companies, and individuals who are making a difference. Whether it's a business journey, a social impact story, or a fresh idea taking shape — if it’s worth sharing, you’ll find it here.
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Kubernetes Bytes is a podcast bringing you the latest from the world of cloud native data management. Hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah come to you from Boston, Massachusetts with experienced backgrounds in cloud-native tech. They'll be sharing their thoughts on recent cloud native news and talking to industry experts about their experiences and challenges managing the wealth of data in today's cloud-native ecosystem.
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Building the Future of Insurtech in India | Guidewire’s New Bengaluru Hub | Crafting Bharat Podcast
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28:14Can innovation in India shape the future of global insurance? In this Crafting Bharat special, Nelson John visits Guidewire’s brand-new Bengaluru office and sits down with Mohammed Anzy S, Vice President and Managing Director - India, Guidewire Software. From driving cutting-edge insurtech solutions to scaling a high-performing team, discover how G…
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Crafting Bharat: How ZEISS is Powering the Future of Eyewear | ft. Boris Dejonckheere
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29:10"Can a pair of glasses change how you live, work, and see the world?"In this Crafting Bharat Special Feature, catch Boris Dejonckheere, Head of Global Sales Operations, ZEISS Vision Care, as he shares how eyewear is evolving from a basic necessity to a personalised tech companion. This isn’t just vision care, it’s future care.Crafting Bharat is an …
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2025 Digital Claims Disbursement Trends In our Season 6 finale, the co-founder and CEO of SnapRefund joins host Laura Drabik to discuss strategies for driving new efficiencies in claims workflows and enabling exciting new coverage models.By Guidewire
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AI-Enhanced Decisioning in Commercial Lines Underwriting
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20:08AI-Enhanced Decisioning in Commercial Lines Underwriting The CEO of Indico Data shares strategies for leveraging agentic AI and other technologies to streamline underwriting workflows, reduce decision risk, and drive premium growth in 2025 and beyond.By Guidewire
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Modernizing Vehicle Claims Through Telematics
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19:27Modernizing Vehicle Claims Through Telematics The CEO of 2024 InsurPitch Dublin-winning insurtech Xtract shares insights on leveraging telematics to accelerate and optimize claims processing while boosting customer satisfaction and loyalty.By Guidewire
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Automation for Large-Scale Contents Claims Events
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20:58Automation for Large-Scale Contents Claims Events The CEO of Sweden-based insurtech Upptec discusses modern contents claims automation capable of handling large catastrophes while reducing costs, detecting fraud & optimizing outcomes for claimants and carriers alike.By Guidewire
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2025 Claims Management Trends At a time when 87% of policyholders consider the claims experience as the key to whether they stay with a carrier, the co-founder of insurtech Codafication shares strategies for unlocking better expense ratios through optimized claims fulfillment.By Guidewire
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The Future of Insuring Autonomous Mobility
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22:53The Future of Insuring Autonomous Mobility The National Insurance Sector Technology and Operations Leader at Deloitte shares insights into strategies for adapting and seizing new opportunities as autonomous mobility picks up speed.By Guidewire
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Database as a service with Percona Everest
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1:02:44In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Edith (Edi) Puclla, Technology Evangelist at Percona to talk about Percona Everest. The conversation focuses on Percona's investment in the Open-source ecosystem, and how they keep innovating with Percona Monitoring and Management and Percona Everest. The discussion also…
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Building the Climate-Proof Carrier The CEO of Guidewire InsurPitch 2024 competition-winning insurtech Faura shares strategies for leveraging property and risk data to build resilience and boost profitability amid rising climate risks.By Guidewire
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AI-Enabled Innovation in Commercial Lines
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22:30AI-Enabled Innovation in Commercial Lines The Chief Information Officer of Ascot Group Insurance discusses opportunities to seize, and pitfalls to avoid, when leveraging AI to drive commercial lines innovation in 2025 and beyond.By Guidewire
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The Power of Ecosystems in Commercial Lines Transformation
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20:45The Power of Ecosystems in Commercial Lines Transformation The former SVP and Head of Innovation at AXA XL shares success strategies for commercial lines looking to turn risk management into a growth engine through robust data and technology ecosystems.By Guidewire
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Top Insurtech Trends for 2025 The CEO of Insurtech Australia discusses fostering innovation in one of the fastest-growing insurtech sectors in the world—and navigating the top trends shaping insurtech in the year ahead.By Guidewire
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Combining AI & Empathy to Optimize Claims Outcomes
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21:15Combining AI & Empathy to Optimize Claims Outcomes The CEO of CLARA Analytics shares key learnings about leveraging the power of AI and human empathy to reduce operating costs and achieve optimal claims outcomes for carriers, customers—and claimants.By Guidewire
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2025 Technology Trends in Workers Compensation
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20:052025 Technology Trends in Workers Compensation With Workers Compensation carriers facing medical inflation, an aging workforce, new competition, and more, we look at key technology trends for overcoming these challenges and achieving profitable growth.By Guidewire
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Season 6 Premiere: 2025 Technology Trends in P&C Insurance
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30:56Season 6 Premiere: 2025 Technology Trends in P&C Insurance The Internet of Things. AI. Quantum computing. ACORD CEO Bill Pieroni shares research on key technology trends reshaping the global P&C insurance industry in the year—and the decade—ahead.By Guidewire
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Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcements and news from KubeCon North America 2024. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20241119538933/en/Spectro-Cloud-Closes-75m-Series-C-Led-by-Growth-Equity-at-Goldman-Sachs-Alternatives https://northflank.com/blog/northflank-raises-22m…
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Special Episode: 2024’s Top Soundbites on P&C Innovation
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40:01Special Episode: 2024’s Top Soundbites on P&C Innovation From embedded insurance to the future of mobility to AI and beyond, we’ve collected the best insights on driving innovation in P&C insurance from industry leaders and luminaries who appeared as guests of InsurTalk in 2024. It’s an excellent way to hit replay on the forces that challenged the …
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Tobi Knaup, VP and General Manager of Cloud Native at Nutanix about all things Kubernetes and AI. The discussion focuses on how Kubernetes has evolved since the early days, and why it's architecture is a perfect fit for accelerating adoption of AI workloads inside organization…
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Monolith to Microservices using Kubernetes at Guidewire
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1:06:28In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Diego Devalle and Anoop Gopalakrishnan from Guidewire to talk about how they went through an application modernization journey and adopted Kubernetes and cloud over the last 5 years. Diego and Anoop share their experiences around how they drove this modernization inside …
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Inference in Action: Scaling Al Smarter with Inferless
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55:17In this episode, we sit down with Nilesh Agarwal, co-founder of Inferless, a platform designed to streamline serverless GPU inference. We’ll cover the evolving landscape of model deployment, explore open-source tools like KServe and Knative, and discuss how Inferless solves common bottlenecks, such as cold starts and scaling issues. We also take a …
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Ofir Cohen, CTO of Container Security at Wiz. The discussion focuses on the challenges with the cloud native security ecosystem, how organizations can improve their security posture, how developers can do less with more, and how Wiz helps organizations avoid security incidents…
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Dagger.io Deep Dive with Co-Founder Sam Alba
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1:06:24In this episode, we dive into the challenges of modern CI systems and why they often hinder productivity. We explore Dagger, a programmable CI/CD pipeline engine, with insights from Sam, a former Docker engineer. Learn how Dagger addresses CI complexity, speeds up workflows, and enhances portability between local environments and CI. Show Links Dag…
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Kai-Hsun Chen, Software Engineer at Anyscale and maintainer of the KubeRay project. The discussion focuses on how the open source Ray project can help organizations use a single tool for data prep, model training, fine tuning and model serving workflows, both for their predictiv…
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Building scalable data platforms using Data on EKS
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1:02:20In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Alex Lines and Vara Bonthu from AWS to talk about the Data on EKS project. The discussion dives into why AWS decided to build the Data on EKS project and provide patterns for EKS customers to use to deploy data platforms, machine learning and GenAI tools on EKS clusters. They ta…
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Deploy and fine-tune LLM models on Kubernetes using KAITO
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44:17In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Sachi Desai, Product Manager and Paul Yu, Sr. Cloud Advocate at Microsoft to talk about the open source KAITO project. KAITO is the Kubernetes AI Toolchain Operator that enables AKS users to deploy open source LLM models on their Kubernetes clusters. They discuss how KAITO helps…
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The business case for cloud-native and Kubernetes
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54:24In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Danielle Cook - VP of Marketing, appCD and Co-chair, CNCF Cartografos Working Group, CNCF. The discussion dives into how technical individual contributors can and should think about a business case for cloud native adoption. They talk about the cloud native maturity model and al…
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Special Episode: Top P&C Soundbites on Generative AI
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29:26Special Episode: Top P&C Soundbites on Generative AI We took top insights on generative AI from insurance industry leaders who appeared as guests during the first half of the year—and packaged them into a single "best-of" episode. From the most compelling GenAI use cases to strategies for mitigating AI hallucinations to the dangers of GenAI-enabled…
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Building the AI Hyperscaler with Kubernetes
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54:56In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Brandon Jacobs, an Infrastructure architect at Coreweave. They discuss how Coreweave has adopted Kubernetes to build the AI hyperscaler. The discussion dives into details around how Coreweave handles Day 0 and Day 2 operations for AI labs that need access to GPUs. They also talk…
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Shifting Minds: Exploring OpenShift's AI Landscape
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1:05:07Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah talk to Andy Grimes about the OpenShift AI Landscape. Check out our website at https://kubernetesbytes.com/ Episode Sponsor: Nethopper - Learn more about KAOPS: @nethopper.io - For a supported-demo: [email protected] - Try the free version of KAOPS now! https://mynethopper.com/auth Links - https://youtube.com/watch?v=nA…
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Training Machine Learning (ML) models on Kubernetes
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55:29In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Bernie Wu, VP Strategic Partnerships and AI/CXL/Kubernetes Initiatives at Memverge. They discuss about how Kubernetes is the most popular platform to run AI model training and model inferencing jobs. The discussion dives into model training, talking about different phases of a D…
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Driving the Transformation Agenda in P&C Insurance
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28:21Driving the Transformation Agenda in P&C Insurance The Executive Vice President and Chief Technology & Operations Officer at Travelers Insurance shares three strategic pillars of successful transformation initiatives and insights on leveraging technology to drive optimal business outcomes.By Guidewire
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The evolution of service mesh technologies
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1:08:00In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Christian Posta - VP and Global Field CTO at Solo.io about all things Service Mesh. They discuss how things have evolved from the early Linkerd days to sidecar less istio service mesh implementations. They also talk about how service mesh can help you connect to application co…
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Torsten Steinbach - VP, Chief Architect for Analytics & AI at EDB about all things Vector Databases, Postgres, and why Data is important for building AI platforms. The discussion dives into how vector databases are different than relational databases and why using Postgres ext…
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Winning the War for Talent in P&C Insurance
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29:59Winning the War for Talent in P&C Insurance The global insurance practice leader at Diversified Search Group discusses the biggest recruitment challenges P&C insurers face—and the keys to overcoming them—as competition for top talent hits overdrive.By Guidewire
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Join Bhavin Shah and Ryan Wallner for a recap of announcments and news from KubeCon Paris 2024. Kubernetes Community Days (KCD) in New York City on May 22nd, use the promo code “KUBERNETESBYTES” to get a 10% discount on your registration fees! Nethopper Learn more about KAOPS: @nethopper.io For a supported-demo: [email protected] Try the free versi…
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Revolutionizing Claims Outcomes With Predictive AI
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31:03Revolutionizing Claims Outcomes With Predictive AI With claims severity and litigation costs skyrocketing, the founder and CEO of Charlee.ai provides insights on optimizing claims outcomes through the power of AI-based predictive analytics.By Guidewire
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Achieving Embedded Insurance Success Ernst & Young Americas Insurance Technology Leader Chris Raimondo shares strategic considerations for this increasingly important distribution channel.By Guidewire
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin talk to Charlie Egan, Sr. Developer Advocate at Styra about all things Open Policy Agent or OPA. This episode is meant to be a 101 level episode, where we will learn what OPA is and how it can help improve the security posture for your applications running on Kubernetes. The discussio…
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Turning Data Challenges Into Opportunities in P&C Insurance
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36:02Turning Data Challenges Into Opportunities in P&C Insurance Data is the lifeblood of the modern insurer. In an all-new episode, the Senior Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Property and Casualty Technology for Nationwide Insurance shares strategies for harnessing today’s top data trends to boost performance and drive game-changing innova…
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Ops Ops Hooray! Navigating IDPs from an Ops perspective
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58:17Join hosts Ryan Wallner and Bhavin Shah of Kubernetes Bytes as they explore the complexities of Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) with Chris Munford, CEO, and Dan Donahue, Solution Architect of Nethopper. In this episode, the team discusses the challenges of constructing IDPs, achieving the optimal balance of flexibility and prescriptive golden p…
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Claims Innovation in the High Net Worth Market
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35:22Claims Innovation in the High Net Worth Market It's a choice customer base and a $113 billion revenue opportunity worldwide. But inflation, growing CAT risks, and increasingly aggressive competition take on whole new meaning for specialty carriers serving the high net worth market—especially when it comes to claims. The senior vice president and ch…
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Ryan and Bhavin sit down with Janakiram MSV - an advisor, analyst and architect to talk about how users can run Generative AI models on Kubernetes. The discussion revolves around Jani's home lab and his experimentation with different LLM models and how to get them running on NVIDIA GPUs. Jani has spe…
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4 Technologies Transforming Commercial Lines Underwriting
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26:004 Technologies Transforming Commercial Lines Underwriting From macroeconomic headwinds and growing risks to rising customer demands and increasingly aggressive rivals, commercial lines operating models are under pressure. The Director of Underwriting Innovation at Zurich North America shares strategies for driving commercial lines innovation to pro…
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IDPs Unveiled: Accelerating Deployment on Kubernetes
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59:52In this episode of Kubernetes Bytes. Hosts Bhavin and Ryan dive into what makes up a Internal Development Platform (IDP). Bhavin and Ryan help to define what an IDP is, how it relates to the overarching topic of platform engineering as well as the pros and cons of implementing an IDP. 00:03:01 - News 00:12:11 - Discussion Topic on IDPs Discount for…
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P&C Claims in the Age of Nuclear Verdicts
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29:29P&C Claims in the Age of Nuclear Verdicts With $10 million+ "nuclear" jury awards doubling over the past three years, CaseGlide CEO Wesley Todd talks claims litigation strategies for the age of runaway costs.By Guidewire
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Fast Lane to the Future of Auto Insurance
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33:29Fast Lane to the Future of Auto Insurance By 2035, connected car technology is expected to shrink existing personal lines auto premiums by as much as 44%. To fill the gap, carriers will need to go where the opportunities are: a whole new world of commercial lines. The executive vice president of Capgemini's Global Insurance Business Unit talks mast…
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Driving Digital Security in P&C Insurance
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28:37Driving Digital Security in P&C Insurance Not every technology trend is a positive one. With cybercriminal networks weaponizing malicious forms of AI and deepfake technologies to defraud carriers around the world, the billions P&C insurers lose to fraud each year could soon seem like child’s play. The Managing Director and General Insurance Sector …
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In this episode of the Kubernetes Bytes podcast, Bhavin sits down with Jason Dobies - Director of Edge Engineering at SUSE to talk about all things K3s. They discuss why Kubernetes is best suited for Edge deployments, and why K3s was built and how it helps users architect their edge solutions. The discussion goes into topics like Security, Storage,…
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Disruption Ahead: The Future of Insuring Mobility
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33:48Disruption Ahead: The Future of Insuring Mobility The founder and CEO of Emerging Transport Advisors and a global thought leader on emerging technologies and their impacts on society shares insights on the decline in personal lines auto and the future of insuring mobility.By Guidewire
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