- Strengthen underwriting practices and portfolio performance to protect margins in a competitive, soft market while supporting sustainable growth and profitable outcomes.
- Address regulatory and market pressures, reinforce governance frameworks, and develop strategies that improve both risk management and client satisfaction.
- Explore new and evolving exposures — including AI, tech-dependent supply chains, and secondary perils — while creating innovative solutions to meet changing client needs and mitigate operational and liability risks.
- Leverage new data sources, automation, and AI tools to improve risk assessment, pricing accuracy, and workflow efficiency, while ensuring human expertise remains central to decision-making.
- Examine new distribution models, alternative capital, and broker collaboration to optimise reach, alignment, and profitability across the market.
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Discipline – Innovation – Growth
Sharpen underwriting strategy in an evolving market
November 17, 2026 | The Westin Times Square, New York
225+ Senior Underwriters Attending
2 Tracks: Distribution and Technology
20+ CUOs Speaking on the Agenda
Thrive through economic uncertainty by boosting underwriting profitability
While underwriting is the cornerstone of insurance, the industry is shrouded in a sense of uncertainty. In such unpredictable times, where external factors and competition collide, it takes a wealth of skills, collaboration, and expertise to maintain underwriting profitability.
This expertise is spearheaded by the industry’s finest Chief Underwriting Officers, who are tasked with navigating the choppy waters of a softening market, geopolitical turbulence, an evolving emerging risk landscape, environmental challenges, and capital constraints – all while the drive for top-line growth gets ever more aggressive.
Join Intelligent Insurer and the industry’s leading Chief Underwriting Officers at the Underwriting Innovation USA (November 17, The Westin New York at Times Square)
The 2025 event brought together 200+ senior underwriters from leading insurers. This year’s agenda focuses on how underwriters can maintain discipline and profitability in a soft market, strengthen distribution and broker collaboration, responsibly integrate data and AI, and build operational resilience while improving customer outcomes amid ongoing unpredictability.
Find out more by registering your interest today.
An agenda designed to tackle the biggest threats and opportunities for underwriters
Speakers for 2026 will be announced shortly - in the meantime, here's who took to the stage last year :
Network with senior underwriters from leading carriers – here’s who attended last year:
Last year's attendees by company type:
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Last year's attendees by seniority:
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See what your peers had to say about our previous event:
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Don't just take our word for it-take a look at the highlights from our 2025 conference:
Why you cannot afford to miss the USA's premier underwriting event
It’s not just about technology
Understand the evolving role of underwriters alongside actuaries and data scientists. Learn how to upskill, take on higher-value work, and become an innovation champion.
Network with the USA's most forward-thinking underwriters
Connect with chief underwriting officers, VPs, and SVPs from insurers, reinsurers, brokers, MGAs, and insurtechs. Benchmark strategies, build partnerships, and accelerate growth—for your business and your career.
Purely focused on underwriting
Cut through the noise and dive straight into the core of insurer profitability. Explore how underwriters are adapting to new risks and technology—and sharpen your own underwriting edge.
Stay ahead of the innovation curve
From Agentic/Generative AI to IoT, smart contracts, blockchain, and digital twins, discover how insurers are applying cutting-edge technology today—and how to map it to your business.
Partners who joined us in 2025
Gold Sponsors
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We are here to help
For sponsorship opportunities:
Mahdi Malik
Partnerships Director - Intelligent Insurer
Newton Media
Direct: +44 208 323 2568
Email: mmalik@intelligentinsurer.com
For speaking opportunities:
Aysima Ahmadli
Conference Producer - Intelligent Insurer
Newton Media
Direct: +44 203 301 8216
Email: aahmadli@newtonmedia.co.uk
For help registering:
Rob Lawton
Senior Delegate Sales Manager - Intelligent Insurer
Newton Media
Direct: +44 203 3018 246
Email: rlawton@newtonmedia.co.uk
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