Lead with Confidence in 2026
Volatility is accelerating – driven by AI disruption, market instability, climate-driven losses and shifting regulations. To thrive, insurers need insight, foresight and strategies built for speed and resilience.
Join industry leaders for a high-impact discussion decoding the forces reshaping insurance – and how to strengthen trust, profitability and performance in the year ahead.
Why Attend
Walk away with:
- Clear insight into the most disruptive forces shaping 2026
- Strategic recommendations for growth and operational resilience
- Guidance to manage risk while innovating responsibly
- A deeper understanding of AI’s next wave – and its impact on fraud, trust and productivity
What you’ll learn
- Agentic AI: Where autonomous AI agents create value – and where governance is critical
- Adversarial AI: Digital forgeries now surpass physical ones; implications for claims integrity, cyber risk and fraud
- Financial Instability: Are we nearing a third major financial crisis? Key economic signals to watch
- Industry Forces Redefining Strategy: Geopolitics, climate, regulation and tech – and how they’ll shape pricing, underwriting and customer expectations.
- Actionable Recommendations: Practical steps to protect growth, innovate responsibly and deliver on your promises.
Prepare your organization for what’s next – reserve your seat today.
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Franklin Manchester
Global Insurance Strategic Advisor, SAS Financial Services
Speaker, Writer, "Nerd?!" As a hopelessly enthusiastic insurance professional, Franklin supports Global Insurance Strategy at the "OG" data and AI company, SAS Institute, Inc. After two decades at Allstate and Nationwide Insurance, he joined SAS in 2022 to inspire the insurance community to dream big, and imagine a future where every company is an AI company. Franklin holds his CPCU designation, as well as degrees in Risk & Insurance, Finance & Banking, and French. Ask him about Karaoke!
Nipun Grover
Head of Business Development, GTM Financial Services (Insurance), AWS
With more than 20 years of experience across China, Europe, the United States, and ASEAN, Nipun brings deep multicultural and multi-market expertise to every role. A seasoned people manager and skilled negotiator, he is committed to delivering business value through strong leadership, scalable processes, and revenue-driving strategies. Nipun has built a distinguished career in distribution, channel development, and account and relationship management. Known for challenging the status quo, he consistently helps organizations achieve their goals through both individual contributions and effective team leadership.
Vaibhav Sahgal
Principal and Editorial Strategy Lead, Policy & Insights Practice, Economist Impact
Vaibhav Sahgal is Principal and Editorial Strategy Lead on Economist Impact’s policy and insights practice. He is a quantitative economist by training and has led various consulting engagements across technology, critical infrastructure and finance. His areas of focus include: impact and diffusion of emerging technologies, building the business case for investing in ethical AI, assessment of the role and contribution of global innovation networks, measurement of the prevalence of online violence against women, development of technology and infrastructure-focused benchmarking tools such as the Safe Cities Index and the Global Infrascope for public-private partnerships in infrastructure, analysis of infrastructure financing costs/ volume and estimation of project construction costs across countries, sustainable financing trend analysis, and the development of a variety of macroeconomic, demographic and consumer outlook studies.