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Là où l'IA transforme réellement le travail en assurance vie et en rentes — souscription, service, distribution — et ce qu'exige son adoption au sein d'un assureur.

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November 27, 2025

The Role of AI in Securing Insurance Data and Cloud Security

In an expert opinion piece for CXO Today, Zinnia India CTO Pawan Choudhary explores how AI and cloud computing are reshaping cybersecurity in the insurance sector, from real-time threat detection to blockchain-based policy records.

Lire la suiteNovember 19, 2025

How AI is Lowering the Barrier for Annuity Sales

In a feature for InsuranceNewsNet, Zinnia CEO George Esposito shares his vision for how AI is transforming annuity distribution, turning wealth advisors into informed retirement experts while building consumer trust through transparency.

Lire la suiteJuly 1, 2025

Rewiring Insurance: Zinnia's Vision for Blockchain, AI, and APIs

In a revealing interview with CXO Today, Josh Everett, CEO of Zinnia India, outlined how emerging technologies are fundamentally reshaping insurance infrastructure. Learn about Zinnia's strategic approach to integrating blockchain, artificial intelligence, and API-first architecture.

Lire la suiteJune 3, 2025

Inside the AI-Driven Hiring Wave in Insurance

When Zinnia hired an aerospace engineer for insurance technology, it wasn't an anomaly—it was a statement. Learn how Josh Everett and the India team are dismantling traditional hiring barriers and building a workforce based on technological capability rather than industry pedigree.

Lire la suiteMay 21, 2025

The Gen AI and Digital Dragons Insurance Revolution

Picture walking into an insurance office in 1983. File cabinets line the walls. A thick haze of cigarette smoke hangs in the air. Now fast forward to 2024. An agent is having coffee at home while her AI assistant analyzes 50 applications simultaneously.

Lire la suiteMarch 6, 2025

Beyond Traditional Underwriting

Beyond Traditional Underwriting Imagine reducing your underwriting decision time from weeks to minutes while improving—not compromising—risk assessment accuracy. This isn’t..

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S1E15 · 37:08

AI Doesn't Know How to Do Your Job. You Do.

Jane Vevea spent 20 years in life insurance before anyone would have called her a tech person. She started at Prudential in 2006 running a retention call center, wholesaled through the bank channel at PNC, got laid off, and made a sharp left turn into insurtech. That detour took her through White Swan, then Atidot — where she was predicting lapses, surrenders, and upsell opportunities using AI before most carriers had even thought to ask the question — and now to xAI, where she works as a finance domain expert on large language models.

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S1E13 · 44:17

Who Owns the Workflow? The Organizational Problem AI Actually Exposes

Wei Chen is an Associate Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Business and co-leader of the Digital Frontiers Initiative. His central argument: every serious conversation about AI and the workforce stops at the task level — which tasks AI can automate, which jobs are at risk. But tasks are only the bottom tier. The level that actually determines whether AI transforms an organization is the workflow: the connected chain of tasks that produces a business outcome. And the piece nobody's building is ownership — a named human who's accountable for the whole workflow, with the authority to stop it when something goes wrong.

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S1E11 · 38:02

"You Can't Just Slap AI On It" — Brian Poppe's Four-Phase Test for Carrier AI Adoption

Brian Poppe — SVP of Life Insurance Solutions at Mutual of Omaha — has been an actuary, the entire innovation department, the Chief Data Officer, and now a P&L owner. In this episode he walks through his four-phase AI adoption framework, gives an honest read on where Mutual of Omaha actually sits (phases two and three), and explains why a memorial-book partnership he loved had to be killed because the timing of the offer was wrong.

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S1E21 · 43:02

The Robots Took the Easy Cases — What's Left for Human Underwriters

Frank Chechel — VP and Head of Individual Life Underwriting at Gen Re, and an actuary who fell into underwriting a decade ago building an R&D team — argues underwriting is only just scratching the surface after a hundred years. He and Paul trace how COVID turned accelerated underwriting from experiment into mandate overnight, why wellness programs went quiet and are now roaring back, and how to think about AI in three layers: predictive, generative, and the still-early agentic frontier. Frank is blunt about the limits: a summary that's 95% accurate is a good way to get fired, and the same case put in front of five underwriters yields five answers. The robots are taking the easy cases — which makes the human's job harder, not obsolete.

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S1E9 · 42:27

"A Garage Full of Mac Minis" — AI, Angel Investing, and the Next Wave of L&A Innovation

James Wong built a massive IMO from scratch, sold it to a Fortune 500, and then launched The Founder's Chair — an insurance-focused angel investing platform that has funded 17 companies and deployed $11M+ in two and a half years. He breaks down what AI is actually doing to startup teams right now and shares his unfiltered read on the LPL-Anthropic deal and why it overnight made the biggest firms every startup's competitor.

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S1E8 · 33:21

Why Half Our Company Are Engineers: Reinventing the IMO

Patrick Kelly, Co-Founder and CEO of Signal Advisors, breaks down his IMO 4.0 thesis — the idea that modern IMOs should implement best practices through technology, not just teach them. From founding RepPro to building an AI-native IMO in Detroit, Patrick shares what it took to create features like One Click Annual Review, TruePay, and Pay Later Marketing that are changing how advisors run their businesses.

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S1E4 · 28:34

From the Rangers to Reinventing Annuity Applications

Andrew Barnett, VP of Technology Innovation at FIG, shares how a stint in minor league baseball led him to one of the most forward-thinking tech teams in insurance distribution. He breaks down FIG's work at the IRI hackathon — including an AI agent that calls clients to gather application data — and makes a compelling case for why the industry needs to stop planning to 2028 and start shipping in weeks.

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S1E1 · 27:24

Ash Sawhney On The Future Of Underwriting And AI

Paul Tyler speaks with Ash Sawhney, President and Chief Revenue Officer of Zinnia, about the transformative changes in the life insurance and annuity sectors. They discuss the evolution of underwriting, the impact of technology and AI, and the entrepreneurial journey within the insurance industry.

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