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Wilma de Bruijn leaves Eurapco and Achmea
Wilma de Bruijn will step down from her position as general manager at Eurapco in Zurich on 1 January 2024. Frauke Feess of the German insurer Gothaer succeeds her. In her pursuit of a better work-life balance, Wilma has decided not to return to Achmea. She will use her infectious energy and large network to…
Lisanne van Nes joins the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team
Bas van Gerwen succeeded by Lisanne van Nes as a member of the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team Bas was part of the Eurapco Lab Innovation team as a representative for Achmea. He has now returned to Achmea to work as a Release Train Engineer. Bas was one of the key players of the Eurapco Hackathon event,…
Getting Value From ChatGPT
The insurance industry has readily embraced AI as an opportunity to evolve and improve its business operations, and thus is deploying AI (Artificial Intelligence) solutions across various functional areas. However, most companies still struggle where to begin and have therefore decided -in the first phase- to limit their AI experiments to pilot projects. As the industry has yet to fully transform through widespread…
First Eurapco Innovation Hackathon
In June 2023 we had the privilege of bringing together brilliant minds and enthusiastic individuals in Barcelona for the very first Eurapco Innovation Hackathon. An Innovation Hackathon is a fast-paced and intense event that encourages participants to think creatively and come up with innovative solutions. During this 3-day event participants tackled four different topics that…
Nicole Nebelung joins the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team
We would like to welcome Nicole Nebelung as a new member of the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team. With over 20 years of experience in the insurance industry, she brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the team. In this article, we will get to know her better and learn about her background, what motivates…
Eurapco Highlights & Progress Report 2022
Eurapco has enjoyed a year of notable growth and success in 2022, driven by increased exchange benefits, rising premiums, and a strong focus on innovation and digital transformation. The company experienced a 4% increase in exchange benefits, rising from €20.7 million to €21.6 million. Additionally, Eurapco's Commercial Lines Business Group saw an increase in gross…
Manuel Valle was succeeded by Sara de Pablo as a Eurapco Project Manager representing Caser
Manuel was part of the Eurapco Team for two years as a representative for Caser. His assignment ends in March. During these two years, in the middle of the pandemic, where Eurapco has changed and evolved both in terms of staff and organization, Manuel has worked on exciting, innovative ideas such as Telematics, Quantum Computation,…
Eurapco Joint Marine Business
The Eurapco Marine Desk is one of the three Eurapco’s joint business groups. It consists of a network of Marine Managers and Senior Marine Underwriters that exchange knowledge, expertise, business, and best practices to build a book of Joint Marine Business by sharing marine risks on a facultative reinsurance basis. Joint Business Figures at a GlanceThe…
Aleksandar Atanasovski succeeded by Hélène Pasquini as a member of the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team
Aleksandar was part of the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team for one year as a representative for La Mobilière. His assignment ended at the end of last year and he rejoined La Mobilière after the Christmas holidays as a product developer for cyber services. During this challenging year, where Eurapco Lab has changed and evolved both…
Fabio Bortone was succeeded by Federico Bragagia as a Eurapco Project Manager representing Reale Group
Fabio was part of the Eurapco Team for three years as a representative for Reale Group. His assignment ends in February, and he is rejoining Reale Mutua as Innovation Manager focused on Mobility and SME from March 2023. During his assignment, Fabio was supporting the Customer Centricity Community by the reshape of the main Group…
Ethical Guidelines for a trustworthy AI
Eurapco has created an exciting new offering for its’ Partners, aimed at enabling sustainable & secure use of AI in accordance with EU regulations. Pan-Eurapco AI Ethical Principles, developed by the Data Excellence Workstream, are now ready, and any interested person from Business, IT or Data & Analytics who is working of planning to work…
Luigi Pio Damato succeeded by Matteo Vassallo as a member of the Eurapco Lab Core Innovation Team
Luigi served for almost 3 years as an Innovation Manager within the Eurapco Innovation Lab, assigned by Reale Group. During his time, he focused on testing and validating new products, technologies, services, and business offerings to challenge the existing insurance industry, and internal business departments of the Alliance as well. Luigi: “In the past years as…
Selfie Health Update
With so many services making the switch from face-to-face contact to online, the idea that the latest technological advances will also make their mark in the field of Telemedicine is a no-brainer. Awareness of the priorities of potential users is key to the acceptance of such platforms, begging the question: What are the main hurdles…
Mathias Collén has been appointed CEO of Länsförsäkringar
Mathias CollĂ©n has been appointed CEO of Länsförsäkringar AB and assumed the role on December 13. Mathias succeeds Malin Rylander Leijon, who has been acting CEO of Länsförsäkringar AB since February 2022. "We on the Board are very pleased with the recruitment of Mathias as CEO of Länsförsäkringar AB. He has a very good background…
Metaverse
The Metaverse is becoming more nd more a topic of discussion, what can the insurance sector expect from it in the near future? The Metaverse has been one of the top buzz words in 2022. Both the tech and business world are investing heavily in this new 3D layer of the internet despite it being…
Jutta Joffell was succeeded by Pasi Korhonen as a member of the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team.
Jutta was part of the Eurapco Lab Innovation team for almost two years as a LocalTapiola representative. She will end her assignment at the end of the year and at the same time says farewell to the whole finance branch and starts new challenges in 2023. As a customer experience expert, Jutta worked with several…
Agile Peer Seminar to support Eurapco Partners towards Agile Working
Eurapco organized an Agile Peer Seminar to support ever-growing interests from Partners towards agile working. The 2-day online event was attended by 63 representatives from Achmea, Caser, Gothaer, La Mobilière, Länsförsäkringar, LocalTapiola and Reale Group and full of interesting insights and discussions on agile-related topics. On the first day, La Mobilière started with an inspiring presentation…
Limoncello Project
Following the recent trends in conversational interfaces, how can we evolve our approach to digital customers? Based on that main question, Eurapco started investigating that field in 2020 and proposed a new project aimed at stepping forward the digital customer journeys of the Partners of the Alliance. In particular, we were able to test and validate different…
Eurapco Non-Life Reinsurers Group Members visit the AHR Valley
Eurapco Non-Life Reinsurers Group members recently visited the Ahr Valley in Western Germany. On July 14, 2021, the low-pressure weather system Bernd devastated the area causing an unprecedented catastrophe that claimed the lives of more than 180 people. Particularly affected was the Ahr Valley with entire villages destroyed by the flood. The water rose suddenly to…
Slush
Once again the Eurapco Lab Innovation Team attended Slush in Helsinki! This year the theme for the 15th edition of the biggest start-up event in Europe was Break of Dawn. The Eurapco Lab Innovation Team was able to connect with dozens of start-ups over two days. We listened to exciting speeches and discussions and had the…