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Flow of business into the E&S market has remained strong despite softening pressures. Hear from our keynote speaker and: 

• Learn about a multi-speed market across P&C, commercial/personal lines 
• Discover the drivers of competition and capital that are shaping sector dynamics 
• Understand what’s moving business in and out of the E&S sector and how underwriters and brokers are navigating a fluid marketplace 
• Hear why the E&S sector continues to offer opportunity and how winners and losers will emerge 

Neil Kessler, CEO, Specialty, CRC Group

AI has become a dominant theme in the industry, but what are the external forces that will drive change? Hear from our keynote speaker and: 

 
• Cut through the noise – what AI really means for the long-term future of economies, societies, industries and businesses 
• Learn how AI will reshape the risk landscape, driving demand for specialty insurance products 
• Hear about what’s coming next and how to keep up to apply the technology to your business 

Aman Gour, CEO & Co-Founder, FurtherAI

• Underwriters are eyeing growth in segments of a nuanced casualty market as property opportunities dwindle. Will discipline hold?  
• Emerging casualty risks – including AI – understanding and underwriting the exposure  
• The role of new technologies and data sources in understanding a real time view of loss trends and pricing risk 

Britt Sellers, Executive Vice President, Head of Brokerage Casualty, Dellwood

Ania Caruso, National Casualty President, RPS

Mike Mulray, Chief Underwriting Officer, Hamilton Select

Nate Schepers, Vice President – Assistant National Casualty Practice Leader, Amwins

Moderator: Stephen Buonpane, President, Everest Evolution

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• How much E&S property margin is left in a soft market and when to walk away? 
• Expanding world of critical cat – once secondary perils are dominating the industry’s cat loss bill – are underwriters/models keeping up? 
• Competition – new MGAs entering the fray? 
• Reinsurance strategies 

Joe Morello, EVP E&S Property, Arch  
Isaac Espinoza, CEO, Kettle 

Bill Lally, Principal, Senior Vice President, Brown & Riding

Pranav Pasricha, CEO, BluePond.AI

Moderator: Bryan Falchuk, CEO, Property & Liability Resource Bureau

• Macroeconomic outlook and shaping insurance demand 
• Geopolitics and market volatility – what to look out for on both sides of the balance sheet 

Brendan Mulshine, Co-President and Chief Revenue Officer, Ryan Specialty

Moderator: Kamaron Leach, Content Editor and Host, Insurer TV, North America, The Insurer  

This panel is moderated by a Reuters journalist under the Reuters Trust Principles

• The growth question for a disciplined specialty carrier in a market of oversupplied property, casualty pricing trailing lost costs, and a wave of new entrants chasing the same accounts
• What it takes to run a publicly traded specialty carrier when private capital sets the growth pace and shareholders want visible earnings
• The durability test for the wave of new E&S carriers and MGAs that came to market in the last five years
• The next exposure class taking shape, from autonomy and AI insurability to the frontier risks Skyward is actively writing

Andrew Robinson, CEO, Skyward Group
Moderator: James Thaler, Head of News Content – Americas, The Insurer

• Can AI and other tech truly revolutionize distribution? 
• Will incumbents win out or will real disruption take place from AI-native wholesalers? 
• How insurers are leveraging AI technologies in their underwriting 
• How being at the forefront of change can cement the E&S sector’s future 
• What works and what doesn’t work – real life examples 

Max Kane, CEO, Novella
Martina Seferovic, CEO, OIP Insurtech

Alex Bargman, CEO & Co-Founder, Pathpoint

Navarone Dozier, Vice President and East Region Middle Market Leader - Cyber Solutions, Aon

Moderator: Michael Byrne, Partner, Mcdermott Will & Schulte

This panel is moderated by a Reuters journalist under the Reuters Trust Principles

• The wholesale broker read on the current market, NOAA-driven property rate dynamics, casualty discipline against lost cost trends, and where pricing power actually sits
• The MGA market today, what now separates durable platforms from the rest, and what real specialization requires
• The consolidation question for fronting carriers, the channel dynamics between full-stack carriers and program markets, and the broker-underwriter discipline test
• AI as the next cottage industry, ISO's draft standalone exclusion and sublimit language for GL, and what carriers and brokers should be doing now

Paul Smith, Group Senior Vice President, Carrier Relations, H.W. Kaufman Group, Burns & Wilcox
Moderator: James Thaler, Head of News Content – Americas, The Insurer

The E&S market has stepped in to offer solutions the admitted market can’t… but is its role sustainable? 

• Mainstream acceptance – how regulators view E&S offerings and capacity 
• Regulatory creep – is the E&S market tolerant of greater oversight and restrictions on coverage? 
• How can the P&C industry bring affordable solutions for climate change risks such as flood and convective storm and what role will the E&S market play? 
• HNW – finding the intersection between affordability and profitability 

Janet Pane, CEO, ELANY

Michael Blackshear, Chief Compliance & Privacy Officer and Head of Culture & Inclusion & ELANY Chairman of the Board, Ryan Specialty
John Finston, Former Executive Deputy Superintendent for Insurance at NYDFS
Kate Jensen, Partner, Steptoe LLP

• How the consolidating retail space and US/London dynamics are challenging wholesalers 
• Evolving carrier distribution strategies as the landscape shifts 
• Intersection of distribution partners – how carriers are dealing with facilitization and broker-owned MGA platforms 

Ben Johnson, President, Ironshore

Jonathan Monks, EVP, Head of Business Development, Sompo

Marya Propis, President - Retail Distribution, RT Specialty

Moderator: Bryan Falchuk, CEO, Property & Liability Resource Bureau