For the first time at ACORD LOMA one of the sessions was a discussion, a workshop on a topic that required the audience to participate.  The session, “Social Media in Business: Friend, Foe, or Who Cares” was moderated by Mike Fitzgerald of Celent and in the end was well attended and well received. When I [...]

Seven years.  Isn’t that when some people get an itch?  Not Celent’s 7th annual Model Insurer awards program.  We are excited that this year our Model Insurer program saw a large number of highly competitive submissions.  Our Innovation & Insight Day, where the winners were announced, was combined with our Model Bank awards and had [...]

Can you name a song in 6 notes or less?  Click on the link and see if you can do it . . .  Name That Tune  (Hit your back button to return to this blog.  The Answer will be at the bottom!) Can you write a whole story in 6 words or less?  Ernest [...]

In the Nevada Desert, the US Federal government has spent the last 22 years hollowing out the inside of a mountain. Yucca Mountain was – and technically still is – the US’s official repository for spent nuclear fuel rods. A series of tunnels 1,000 feet below the mountain surface has been carefully bored. The project, [...]

Jamie MacGregor, Nicolas Michellod and I presented a webinar, Emerging Insurance Technologies: Life, Annuities, and Pensions Industry Edition, on May 31st.  The webinar had an active Q&A session at the end and, as a result, Nicolas, Jamie and I did not have time to answer all the questions.   The blog will provide our answers to [...]

Jamie MacGregor, Nicolas Michellod and I presented a webinar, Emerging Insurance Technologies: Life, Annuities, and Pensions Industry Edition, on May 31st. The webinar had an active Q&A session at the end and, as a result, Nicolas, Jamie and I did not have time to answer all the questions. The blog will provide our answers to [...]

In a webinar on March 13th, Craig Weber and I presented our predictions for the North American Policy Administration system market.  We also identified some the trends we’ve seen in the market as it relates to deals.  A quick recap shows that we believe the NA PAS market will have a slight dip in 2012 [...]

In a webinar on March 13th, Craig Weber and I presented our predictions for the North American Policy Administration system market. We also identified some the trends we’ve seen in the market as it relates to deals. A quick recap shows that we believe the NA PAS market will have a slight dip in 2012 [...]

Celent announced the winners of its sixth annual Celent Model Insurer awards on Thursday, January 26, 2012 in Boston, MA. http://www.celent.com/reports/event-presentations-celent-2012-insurance-innovation-insight-day-featuring-celents-model. On hand were nearly 150 insurers and technology vendors. Celent Model Insurer Award nominations are open to insurers across the globe and recognize insurers who have successfully demonstrated key best practices in the use [...]

I recently spent two days at the Richmond Convention Center at a Latin Convention. Yes, a Latin Convention. I was a parent chaperone of 59 middle school Latin students who, along with 1600 secondary school students from around Virginia, came together to share their love and knowledge of Latin and everything related to the Classics. [...]