Key messages coming from the Guidewire Connections were about the insurance of the near future. The focus was ease for the customer and in some cases we saw insurers already making the best use of current tech to allow consumers to buy, amend and claim. MetLife's new personal lines motor product, My Direct, was a case in point. Gary Hoberman, exec VP and co-CIO at the insurer, told visitors to the conference in San Francisco, that Met Life adopted a start-up attitude in order to develop the product with the aim of taking it from the drawing board to finished product in just 60 days.