Insurance Capital Summit

The First Annual

May 8, 2025 | New York City

Equal Ventures is excited to announce the inaugural Insurance Capital Summit, which will take place in NYC on May 8, 2025.

This event brings together insurance industry leaders across carriers, distributors, emerging startups, and private investors. The goal is to foster an intimate discussion and debate key trends, strategies and priorities for innovation.

This summit is invite-only and free of charge for attendees. If you are interested to attend or to inquire about speaking opportunities, please join the waitlist below to receive more information before registration opens.

2025 Speakers

Additional speakers will be announced closer to the event

Agenda

  • Welcome remarks as our content programming kicks off!

  • Fireside Chat with Brian Haney, President & COO at Kinsale Capital Group

  • A discussion about bringing together technology, data and loss control to profitably cover specialty risks.

    Featuring:

    • Cam Serigne (Founder & CEO, vQuip)

    • Linda Ventresca (Independent Board Member & Advisor)

    • Michael Price (CEO, Dellwood Insurance Group)

    • Rotem Iram (Founder & CEO, At-Bay)

  • Fireside chat with John Mina, CEO at Risk Strategies Company

  • A discussion about broker/carrier partnerships and how technology supports efficient/innovative brokerage.

    Featuring:

    • James Jiang (Founder & CEO, Spark Advisors)

    • Kabir Syed (Founder & CEO, ennabl)

    • Kyle Nakatsuji (Founder & CEO, Clearcover)

    • Rashmi Melgiri (Founder & CEO, Functional Finance)

  • Lunch will be served

  • A discussion about how insurers and brokers are embracing resiliency in the face of worsening climate risks.

    Featuring:

    • Dan Preston (Founder & CEO, Stand Insurance)

    • Isaac Espinoza (CEO, Kettle)

    • Katherine Frattarola (EVP & Head of Private Client, HUB International)

  • Fireside chat with Nick Zerbib, President & CIO at Stone Point Capital

  • Exploring how early and growth stage VCs are approaching the insurance and insurtech sectors.

    Featuring:

    • Lotti Siniscalco (Partner, Emergence Capital)

    • Mark Batsiyan (General Partner, Inspired Capital)

    • Martha Notaras (General Partner, Brewer Lane Ventures)

    • Sheel Mohnot (General Partner, Better Tomorrow Ventures)

  • A discussion about strategic reinsurance and capacity enablement with Geoffrey Lubert (President, Gallagher Re North America) and David Clare (CEO, The Trisura Group)

  • A discussion about enabling and accelerating growth at insurance agencies.

    Featuring:

    • Garrett Koehn (Chief Innovation Officer, CRC Group)

    • Michael Witte (Founder & CEO, Equal Parts)

    • Peter Gilbertson (President, King Risk Partners)

    • Sam Hodges (Cofounder & CEO, Vouch Insurance)

  • Item description of emerging AI solutions for the insurance industry and the impact they might have carriers, distributors, and insureds.

    Featuring:

    • Gordon Wintrob (Cofounder & COO, Newfront)

    • Michael Saltzman (Cofounder & Co-CEO, EvolutionIQ)

    • Ryan Sachtjen (Cofounder & CEO, ThreeFlow)

    • Sean Chou (Cofounder & CEO, 9root)

  • A history of how insurtech has evolved over the past 3+ decades and where it’s going, with Former CEO of Assurex Global, Jim Hackbarth.

  • Join us for a Cocktail Reception (at the same venue) for drinks, passed bites, and networking.

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