Leading Conference Series Brings Expanded Programming to Soldier Field for Third Annual Event

Nationally ranked startup accelerator, gener8tor, will host the third annual OnRamp Insurance Conference with presenting sponsor American Family Insurance on April 12, 2018. The conference will welcome over 1,000 attendees from the corporate, venture capital and startup communities. As the foremost conference for insurance innovation, the curated one-day event will provide attendees with the option of three tracks which include one-on-one pitch sessions with over 50 committed corporations, exclusive panel discussions, product demonstrations and keynote speakers, among others.

Returning to Chicago’s Soldier Field for the third year, the highly anticipated event will highlight the innovations disrupting the insurance industry, the leaders making such ideas possible and how new technologies and business models will reinvent the industry.

“I’m happy to give a keynote speech on the IoT Insurance paradigm at this awesome event sponsored by American Family, one of the most active members of my think tank and a pioneer of smart home insurance adoption” said Matteo Carbone, Founder of the IoT Insurance Observatory. “IoT sensors if used in the right way – and there are many examples around the world – are a tremendous opportunity for the insurance sector. The best practices on IoT insurance are the perfect examples for applying the 4Ps framework which I have developed a few years ago to evaluate any InsurTech initiative. Some players have managed to obtain great results on technical Profitability, Productivity, Proximity with the clients, and Persistency of the book of business. The use of that technology in the insurance sector is still immature: a lot of talks but unfortunately 90% of the discussions are scraping the surface or focusing on some myths crystallized there for years. You can find many analysts discussing IoT only from a pricing perspective while missing all the other applications along the insurance value chain. The IoT Insurance Observatory helps its members – more than 40 Insurance and Reinsurance Group in North America and Europe – in shaping a strategy for the adoption of IoT, provides a unique constant update on the best practices and pitfalls around the world and connects people and ideas to help them understand the opportunity presented by IoT for the insurance value chain”.

“More than 330 startups applied to this year’s OnRamp Insurance Conference, representing $1.4 billion of venture capital financing,” said Troy Vosseller, Co-Founder of gener8tor. "As one of the premier gatherings of insurance corporate venture capital and innovation executives, we’re facilitating new ways for startups to gain additional funding, new customers and corporate partners to grow their business no matter where they are.”

The one-day event includes a Conference Track featuring keynote speakers, panel discussions, fireside chats and product demos. Agenda topics for Conference Track attendees will include: The Future of Insurtech, Autonomous Vehicles, The Behavioral Economics of Insurance, Perspectives on Corporate Venture, The Emerging Impact of Cyber Security, Telematics, Innovating Commercial Insurance, Blockchain, and Aerial Intelligence, among others. More than 30 corporations are registered to participate, and attendees will have the opportunity to engage with this year’s keynote speakers: Farron Blanc of RGAx, Shefi Ben-Hutta of Coverger, Kyle Nakatsuji of Clearcover, and Katelyn Johnson of American Family Ventures.

Unique to OnRamp, the conference also offers a Startup Track. This programming track will feature curated, one-on-one pitch sessions between selected startups, corporate venture capital and innovation executives from participating insurance companies to discuss potential customer relationships, strategic partnerships, and if appropriate, investment opportunities. Agenda topics for the Startup Track will include: Fundraising Insurtech, A Birds Eye View of Aerial Intelligence, Rising Above the Rest in Insurtech and Making Insurance Innovation Profitable, among others.

The 2018 OnRamp Insurance Conference is sponsored by American Family Insurance, Jornaya, 4490 Ventures, Auth0, Aflac Ventures, Betterview, Carex Consulting Group, Carpe Data, Cole X-Dates, Coverhound, CREATe Compliance, Godfrey & Kahn, Mintz Levin, Nation Safe Drivers, RhinoDox, Tata Consultancy Services, Insperity, Geomni, Assure Professional, Octo Telematics, Perr&Knight, Pitchbook, Assure Professional, Coverhound, Boardwalktech, Understory & Roost.

In addition to OnRamp Insurance, gener8tor organizes the OnRamp Conference Series, which includes OnRamp Manufacturing and OnRamp Retail verticals.

About the OnRamp Insurance Conference

The OnRamp Insurance Conference brings together the insurance industry’s leading corporations, investors and startups. The conference highlights innovations disrupting the insurance industry, the leaders making such innovations possible and how new technologies and business models will reinvent the industry.

About gener8tor

gener8tor is a nationally ranked accelerator that invests in high-growth startups. Three times a year gener8tor invests up to $140K in each of five startups who receive a- concierge experience during our 12- week program. gener8tor supports the growth of these startups through our network of experienced mentors, technologists, corporate partners, angel investors and venture capitalists.

About the OnRamp Conference Series

The OnRamp Conference Series grew out of a desire to provide entrepreneurs at various stages of growth with access to high level corporate leaders and later stage investors. Started by gener8tor in 2013, OnRamp has evolved into vertical-specific events featuring conference programming and curated one-onone pitch sessions between startups and corporate venture capital and innovation executives. OnRamp strives to be the premier gathering of corporate venture capital and innovation executives in each industry it serves.

To date, gener8tor runs three OnRamp Conference verticals: OnRamp Insurance Conference, OnRamp Retail Conference and OnRamp Insurance Conference.