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Welcome to the Underwriting Club

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Taking place on 24 April 2025 at Events @no.6 in London, the first Underwriting Club briefing will focus on the key issues impacting personal lines motor and commercial fleet underwriting in 2025 and beyond.

Featuring Thatcham Research CEO Jonathan Hewett, this is a briefing you won't want to miss.

Other upcoming Underwriting Club Briefings

Intimate closed-door events that provide the opportunity to meet, share ideas and discuss common challenges with peers and key partners. For underwriters.
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Underwriting Club Briefing 2

June 6, 2025 | Events @ no.6, London
Topic Focus: Responding to climate risks and sustainability in underwriting

  • Evaluating the underwriting implications of extreme weather events and climate-related risks.
  • Developing frameworks for sustainable underwriting, including the role of green policies and ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) considerations.
  • Balancing profitability and societal responsibility in underwriting decisions.
  • Collaborating with reinsurers to address large-scale climate exposures.

Workshop:
Future-proofing portfolios – Practical exercises on stress-testing underwriting portfolios against climate scenarios.
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Underwriting Club Briefing 3

September 11, 2025 | Events @no.6, London
Topic Focus: Underwriting cyber risks
in a connected world

  • Staying ahead in the rapidly evolving cyber insurance market: Emerging threats and mitigation strategies.
  • Quantifying intangible risks: Tools and methodologies for pricing cyber risks effectively.
  • Partnering with cyber specialists and leveraging real-time threat intelligence.
  • The role of underwriters in shaping the future of cyber insurance products.

Panel Discussion
  • Breaking the silence – Candid insights from underwriters, reinsurers, and risk managers about the challenges in cyber underwriting.
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Technology, Underwriting, Claims, and Fraud Confex

October 9, 2025 | Birmingham
Topic Focus: The Future of underwriting
– Cultural and technological
transformation

  • Preparing for the underwriter of tomorrow: The skills and mindset needed to thrive in a data-driven environment.
  • How technology like blockchain, IoT, and quantum computing will redefine underwriting processes.
  • Overcoming cultural resistance: Encouraging innovation and collaboration across teams.
  • Benchmarking underwriting excellence: Insights from global leaders on navigating disruption.

Roundtable Session
  • Vision 2030 – Collaborative discussions on what the underwriting profession will look like in a decade.

Agenda

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Underwriting Club Sponsors 2025

Verisk

Verisk

Underwriting Club Speakers

Jonathan Hewett

Jonathan Hewett

CEO

Thatcham Research