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05 May 2017

 

 

 

The Insurance Conference 2017 - Speakers

With just two months left ahead of the Insurance Conference 2017, we are pleased to introduce yet another line-up of local and international speakers. This impressive array of speakers will delve into the latest advances and most thought provoking topics in the industry in line with our theme "DISRUPT – DEBATE - DELIVER"
Seats are filling up fast; we already have in excess of 1020 attendees booked from 287 organisations from 24 countries. 

 

 

 

INNOVATION PLATEAU
 DR. ALEJANDRO RUELAS-GOSSI

 

Professor Ruelas-Gossi has written several articles for Harvard Business School which have been cited extensively and reprinted in several languages. The Financial Times has also singled out and published his work in the specialised section: Mastering Series. In its December 2005 edition, Expansion Magazine (a subsidiary of Time) featured Professor Ruelas-Gossi's work together with Porter's, Drucker's, Prahalad's, Hamel's and Christensen's contributions as the most influential in the field of business strategy. His concept of strategic orchestration has been the cover article at Harvard Business Review, November 2006, and at London Business School Business Strategy Review, Spring 2011, and has been considered in both books and articles as an essential part of the new taxonomy of the field of strategy.
 
Invited among the world specialists in strategy and innovation to write for hbr.org from the Harvard Business Review, his articles are consistently top stories at hbr.org. Professor Ruelas-Gossi has served as a consultant and speaker for several of the Fortune 500 companies, including Sony, Motorola, Microsoft, Bristol-Myers, IBM, Philips, Caterpillar, Cemex, Baxter, Ernst & Young, AON, Techint, AT&T, and Abbott. He was the founding managing director of the think-tankOrkestra (named after his concept of orchestration) – the Basque Institute of Competitiveness, in the Basque country - Spain.
 
Professor Ruelas-Gossi is a Professor of Strategy and Innovation at the University of Miami School of Business Administration. He is a Research Professor at the New York Stern School of Business. He has a Master of Science degree in the management of technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT. He has a PhD in strategy from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering and Systems Dynamics from Monterrey Tech.

 

 

HOW PEER-TO-PEER INSURANCE IS BECOMING MARKET STANDARD
DR. SEBASTIAN HERFURTH

 

Friendsurance is the pioneer in peer-to-peer insurance; when it launched its peer-to-peer insurance model in 2010, it was completely unique. In the meantime, at least 18 copycats have emerged all over the world and a new segment solely for peer-to-peer insurance has established with Friendsurance as segment leader. Friendsurance is expecting that in the long run peer-to-peer insurance will become market standard. The main beneficiaries of this development will be the consumers and insurance companies as the peer-to-peer insurance model helps to increase customer satisfaction and customer loyalty. At the same time, insurance partners will profit from reduced processing costs for small claims and reduced fraud.
 
Sebastian Herfurth studied Law in Freiburg, Bonn and Hong Kong, and Chinese in Beijing. After his studies, he analysed the political and human rights situation in Iran as a member of the German Embassy in Tehran, hunted white-collar criminals during his time at the Department of Public Prosecution in Frankfurt, and eventually joined a private equity group of an international law firm.
 
Sebastian likes disruptive business models. He is co-founder and managing director of Friendsurance and is responsible for: Insurance Co-operations, Finance, Investor Relations, Human Resources, Customer Support and Business Intelligence and Controlling.

 

 

 

INCREASED PARTICIPATION IN THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
RAPELANG RABANA

 

The fourth industrial revolution, 4IR, promises far-reaching socio-economic benefits, while also running the risk of accelerating job destruction ahead of creation. Without increased entrepreneurial and innovative involvement, the gap between the forerunners and passive observers will continue to widen. Education systems and models of assessing true ability must be redefined in order for individuals to continue to contribute beyond the automated world. Occupational Intelligence, or responsiveness, indicates the extent to which a person can ably respond to tasks and challenges. In terms of human capital, a positive outcome of the 4IR will be determined by how adeptly people build new skills and competencies.
 
With a different framework of measuring human development, we can better understand the practical triggers from which an individual would most benefit. Developing people that are primarily response-able is, ultimately, an ideal goal in creating self-motivation and self-reliance which, in turn, adds increased value in all spheres of life and business. Measuring and developing responsiveness will yield a new set of integrative tools as well as a new thought paradigm to grow this latent potential.
 
Rapelang Rabana was recently honoured by the World Economic Forum as a Young Global Leader for 2017 and was featured on the cover of Forbes Africa by the age of 30. She is an entrepreneur and thoughtleader in the burgeoning technology industry. A founding member of Yeigo Communications, one the first Voice Over Internet Protocol applications, her latest project Rekindle Learning has been profiled as a 'striking innovation' in mobile learning for both academia and corporate training environments. Named Entrepreneur for the World 2014 by the World Entrepreneurship Forum, Rapelang is lauded as an international speaker and has shared the stage with the likes of the president of Rwanda, Paul Kagame, and Professor Mohammed Yunus of Grameen Bank.

 

 

 

POLITICAL DISRUPTION AND ECONOMIC PROSPECTS FOR SA 2017-2019
AUBREY MATSHIQI

 

As a key advisor to political parties as well as blue chip companies, Aubrey has his finger on the pulse of "what's next" on the political landscape. Aubrey will examine the current political trends and how they will affect the future course of South Africa. In his presentation, Political Disruption and Economic Prospects for SA 2017-2019, Aubrey will share the latest insights to the future and possible transformations which lie ahead for the country. Aubrey's talks are highly informative, engaging, and are also combined with his wicked sense of humour.
 
Aubrey Matshiqi was a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in Johannesburg until March 2011, and was a Research Fellow at the Helen Suzman Foundation until December 2016. In 2010, he was invited to take up a research fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS). At CPS, he specialised in South African Politics with a special focus on the ANC and the Alliance, the realignment of opposition political politics, electoral system reform and the state of democracy in South Africa. At STIAS he did research on historical memory and politics in post-apartheid South Africa.
 
His services as a political analyst are used by academic institutions, research institutions, foreign embassies, political parties and private companies. Matshiqi is a former Mathematics, Science and English teacher and government strategist and spokesperson. Towards the end of his teaching career, he obtained a degree in History and English Literature. He is also a former member of the United Democratic Front, African National Congress and the South African Communist Party. He writes a weekly column for the Business Day and a monthly column for Engineering News and is a regular contributor to publications in and outside South Africa.

 

 

DRIVING BUSINESS OUTCOMES THROUGH CONVERSATION INTELLIGENCE
SHELLEY WALTERS

 

Shelley works with companies to radically increase the relevancy and effectiveness of their Communication Intelligence. Her focus is on driving business outcomes through relevant conversations. She works with companies with quality products and services, all of whom are facing a clear and present danger. The ability to compete on price and product is becoming increasingly difficult. The future of differentiation strategies is likely to be moving to one of client intimacy, where companies align their organisation around the buying patterns of the market and offer an exceptional client experience.
 
The clients Shelley works with understand that client experience is the final frontier of differentiation. This, however, requires the ability to consistently and predictably engineer relevance into conversations. This skill is crucial to the complex Financial Services and Insurance environments.
 
Her relentless quest to find out what works in an ever-changing business environment and 18 years experience has led her to become an internationally recognised expert in the area of Conversation Intelligence and is currently the Executive Director of Conversation Intelligence Africa. She is passionate, direct, energetic and practical. An unstoppable force, trend-spotter, risk taker and deal-maker. A source of fresh client engagement strategies, practical ideas and good old fashioned common sense, delivered with humour and humility. Don't miss this session.

 

 

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