Laura Drabik
Insurance Industry Thought Leader
Guidewire Chief Evangelist
Laura is a recognized thought leader and trusted advisor to P&C insurers seeking to harness disruptive technologies to their competitive advantage.
Latest Blog Posts
Tech Trendsetters, Part 1: Octo & Personalized Insurance
A look at how Guidewire integrated with telematics providers, such as our solution partner OCTO, empowers insurers to more easily offer and manage usage-based insurance
Tech Trendsetters, Part 2: Betterview & Assessing Risk with Machine Learning
How Betterview integrated with Guidewire leverages geospatial data and modern machine learning to provide underwriting with improved visibility into risk for more accurate pricing and adjudication
Tech Trendsetters, Part 3: Mitchell & Streamlining Collision Repair Claims
How Mitchell integrated with Guidewire helps insurers to streamline collision repairs—enabling field appraisers to complete an average 16 estimates a day vs. 4–5
InsurTalk Podcast
Videos
Confidence at Her Core – Achieving Success in Silicon Valley and Beyond
In her smash-hit keynote for Girls in Tech Conference 2020, tech visionary Laura Drabik spills the tea on what it takes to achieve success in Silicon Valley and beyond
How Technology is Changing the Stale Insurance Industry
Amazon & Netflix are changing consumer expectations of how they want to interact with “lame” industries. Here‘s how insurance can up its game
Two-Minute Tech Trends #1: Omnichannel
A look at how P&C insurers can leverage personalized, self-service technologies to serve policyholders in bold new ways – or else
Two-Minute Tech Trend #2: Chatbots
Get the 411 on chatbots, or conversational AI, that interact with humans to deliver customer service anytime, anywhere–and make a powerful addition to omnichannel strategies
Two-Minute Tech Trends #3: The On-Demand Economy
It’s a paradigm shift for the industry: moving from insuring people as owners of assets to insuring people as users of assets—are you ready?
Two-Minute Tech Trends #4: Wearables
How insurers are leveraging wearable devices to connect with their customers in real time to drive better experiences and reduce risk
Two-Minute Tech Trends #5: Telematics
Where telematics help auto insurers to break free from the past and provide personalized pricing for drivers based on their unique driving behaviors
Two-Minute Tech Trends #6: Digital Small Business
It’s the fastest-growing segment of the commercial insurance market and represents enormous opportunities—if you can make the insurance-buying experience much easier
Events
IIG Insights: Technology’s Bold New Contribution to Insurers
Webinar: An overview of global innovation themes and their impact on the way the insurance industry meets ever-increasing customer expectations in a “want it now” world
Connections Reimagined
November 18-19: From your living room, or office, or workout, tune in to 25+ Connections sessions
On-Demand: Innovating for the Next Normal, Pt 2
As the world continues to battle COVID-19, insurance companies find themselves adjusting to new realities—while scoping out compelling new opportunities.
On-Demand: Innovating for the Next Normal, Pt 1
A panel of seasoned executives discuss how insurers are accelerating innovation in the wake of COVID-19.
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