An agenda built through deep collaboration with our community to ensure every session delivers substance over soundbites. You’ll hear from true subject matter leaders via candid case studies, collaborative roundtables, and varied panel discussions —providing clarity on what’s driving success across the marketing landscape.
• Explore how MGAs in continental Europe are evolving into a more integrated and strategic market segment.
• Understand the drivers of growth, including cross-border expansion, risk capacity, capital, and data advancements.
• Highlight opportunities such as innovation, evolving roles in the value chain and AI.
• Address key challenges around regulation, competition, and underwriting sustainability.
Armand Hoftijzer, Managing Director, MarshBerry
• Overcoming uncertainty: understand how MGAs are attracting, structuring and retaining diversified capacity amidst Lloyd’s market uncertainty and tighter partner scrutiny
• What potential role could the fronting carrier model play within the European market context?
• Explore which markets capacity providers see as underserved versus those that are oversubscribed
• Learn what capacity providers and investors now expect from MGA business plans, governance and performance reporting
• Explore the benefits and trade-offs of independent and platform models for the European MGA sector
• Examine how partnerships can support MGAs with governance, capacity and capital access and speed to market for products and solutions
• Is market consolidation on the horizon for the European MGA sector?
Europe’s MGA market remains deeply fragmented across jurisdictions. But with the MGA model continuing to mature, how far away is the idea of a Pan-European market?
• Navigating fragmented market realities do deliver pan-continental products and services
• Equipping the right tools and strategies to effectively scale cross-border business models
• Understand how increasing national market maturity is making a pan-European market a tangible possibilityÂ
• Understand why pan-European MGA models remain hard to execute in practice
• Combining local underwriting excellence with central oversight and operational strengths
• Anticipate the regulatory and geopolitical developments most likely to disrupt cross-border MGA strategies
Michael Keating, CEO, MGAA
• Moving beyond hype: how are MGAs staying at the vanguard of AI adoption and utilisation within the European insurance context?
• Explore the longer-term implications for talent and innovation as AI becomes increasingly adopted within the industry
• Effective strategies for scaling AI operations and utility without compromising underwriting judgment
Paul Templar, CEO, VIPR Solutions
Arndt Gossman, Managing Partner, SOVAGÂ
In the United States, MGAs have long become a home for top underwriting and distribution talent, and are key players in almost all lines of business – how far away is Europe from the same?
• Learn how European MGAs are attracting and retaining underwriting, operational and technical talent
• Understand how MGAs are striking a balance between nimbleness and strong governance
• Explore the benefits of a higher market profile for European MGAs
• Identifying key growth opportunities within Europe’s rapidly evolving specialty lines landscape
• From cyber to marine: what specialty lines are seeing increased demand for MGA expertise?
• Determine the emerging risks driving increased demand for specialised coverages and the opportunities this offers to MGAs across Europe
