Reimagining Insurance: Where Australia’s Leaders Redefine Value, Trust, and Resilience.


Australia’s insurance leaders come together to explore new models for customer value, digital claims, and risk resilience, tackling the next wave of transformation in 2026 and beyond.

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Navigating an Industry in Transition


The Australian insurance sector enters 2026 at an inflection point. While regulatory reform, climate impact, and cybersecurity remain front of mind, new forces are accelerating change, from ESG accountability to the rise of generative and agentic AI.

The FUTR of Insurance forum brings together over 300 senior leaders across technology, digital, operations, risk, and customer to address these challenges head-on. Through keynote sessions, fireside dialogues, and panel discussions, this event helps industry leaders turn complexity into clarity and ideas into action.

Themes That Will Define the Future of Insurance 2026

  • Customer trust, transparency, and digital engagement 

  • Scalable AI, automation, and smarter claims 

  • Operational and regulatory resilience 

  • Climate, catastrophe, and sustainability disclosures 

  • Affordability, insurability, and product innovation 

  • Agile, inclusive, and embedded insurance 

WHO ATTENDS


  • C-suite and senior executives in technology, risk, digital, operations, data, customer, and transformation from insurers, mutuals, group schemes, and disruptors 

  • Functional leaders in claims, product, CX, distribution, innovation, marketing, underwriting, analytics, compliance, and audit 

  • IT, cyber, architecture, service operations, transformation, HR, and business change managers 

  • Regulatory, ESG, industry association, and ombudsman representatives 

Our Speakers

  • Aruna Pattam

    HEAD OF AI PLATFORMS
    ZURICH INSURANCE

  • Sanjeev Gupta

    CHIEF INFORMATION & TRANSFORMATION OFFICER
    HBF HEALTH

  • Prakhar Rawat

    CHIEF TECHNOLOGY OFFICER
    TOKIO MARINE GROUP

Preliminary Agenda

Subject to refinement as speakers and sessions are finalised.

    • Championing insurance’s role in community resilience and public trust. 

    • Delivering tangible innovation - making insurance more affordable, transparent, and digitally enabled. 

    • Driving measurable boardroom action on reputation, inclusion, and building skilled, adaptive teams ready for tomorrow. 

    • Principles and proportionality: CPS 230 expectations - critical operations, impact tolerances, and right-sized testing. 

    • Joining the dots with CPS 234: supplier security, cloud visibility and joint scenarios that have worked in practice. 

    • Board oversight and readiness: perspectives on CPS 220 and FAR, what information helps boards and supervisors, common pitfalls to avoid, and next steps before 1 July 2026. 

    • How Tokio Marine is leveraging the LTX platform to modernise systems, improve decision-making, and drive customer outcomes 

    • Embedding governance and transparency into AI models to ensure fairness, reliability, and compliance 

    • Demonstrating tangible impact: reducing claims cycle times, improving CX, and enabling data-driven agility across the enterprise 

    Prakhar Rawat - Chief Technology Officer, Tokio Marine Group 

    • Lowering complaint volumes and cycle times by implementing digital-first, vulnerability-aware service strategies. 

    • Responding to evolving Codes of Practice with clear, fair, and transparent communication to uplift outcomes. 

    • Harnessing feedback analytics to drive continuous improvement in customer experience and loyalty. 

    • Achieving tangible reductions in claims cycle times, leakage, and rework through scalable AI-powered operations. 

    • Building trust through transparent AI guardrails - ensuring explainability, fairness, and privacy in every decision. 

    • Demonstrating real adoption: Frontline uptake, platform reliability, and KPIs that move the needle. 

    Panelists:

    • Aruna Pattam, Head of AI Platforms, Zurich Insurance 

    • Lessons from HBF’s transformation: pivoting strategy and modernising platforms for agility and growth 

    • Embedding AI responsibly for claims automation, productivity, and member experience - balancing innovation with trust 

    • Building a culture and operating model that accelerates adoption while delivering measurable business outcomes 

    Sanjeev Gupta - Chief Information & Transformation Officer, HBF Health 

    • Unlocking new growth by integrating insurance into partner ecosystems and daily customer journeys. 

    • Empowering new and underserved customer segments with modular products and effortless onboarding. 

    • Driving partner-driven growth and increasing claims success by building clarity and support into every journey. 

    • Achieving both strong fraud and scam prevention and faster, simpler journeys for real customers - proving protection makes things easier, not harder. 

    • Enabling customers with seamless, secure authentication - maximising trust, minimising unnecessary friction. 

    • Demonstrating success: transparent dashboards, outcome metrics, and raising the bar for protection and accountability.

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    • Delivering on faster, more accurate disaster response and payout by leveraging next-gen analytics and scenario planning. 

    • Scaling resilience through robust partnerships spanning government, industry, and local communities. 

    • Going beyond regulatory compliance: Building climate, disclosure, and mitigation strategies for value and trust. 

Reserve Your Seat

Seats are limited and reserved for senior leaders shaping the future of Australia’s insurance industry.

Please complete the form below to request an invitation. Confirmed participants will receive a calendar hold and event details by email.

📅 Date: Tuesday, March 31 2026
📍 Location: Shangri La, Sydney
Time: 9:00 AM – 4:30 PM