Qorus Innovation in Insurance Awards 2025

The 10th edition of the Qorus Innovation in Insurance Awards is now open for entries until 26 February 2025! Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to be recognized and rewarded by one of the world's most prestigious and credible financial services awards programs.

About the awards

This global competition is a showcase of the most exciting and effective innovations that are taking advantage of emerging technologies and responding to the disruption and opportunities in insurance.

 

A rigorous, independent judging and voting process ensures the credibility of the awards. The awards ceremony is recognized as the premier annual gathering of insurance innovators and their ideas worldwide

There is no charge to enter, or to participate in the awards ceremony if you are a finalist.

Why enter?


Help promote a culture of innovation in insurance
• Achieve the recognition of your colleagues
• Be acknowledged by your industry peers
• Gain public acclaim for your organization as an innovation leader
• Network with other executives who are driving innovation
• Benchmark your innovation against those of other insurers
• Be inspired by the creativity and boldness of your peers

Our criteria

An innovation committee shortlists the best innovation in each category based on 4 criteria:

Originality: The uniqueness of the idea in the marketplace and its potential as a game-changer.

Impact: The innovation’s capacity to generate a superior, long-term competitive edge. This includes KPIs such as RoI, NPS, cost reduction, churn rate, employee engagement score, customer lifetime value (CLV), time reduction, carbon footprint, etc.

Universality: The innovation’s potential to be relevant and/or adapted for use in other markets, or even industries.

Form Quality: A detailed description of the innovation in its various phases, its results, and the addition of presentation slides, videos, or images to visualize and better understand the project.

Key dates

Categories

  • Operational Efficiency

    This category awards insurance companies that have successfully navigated the complexities of process re-engineering and smarter operations, laying the groundwork for profitable growth. Initiatives cover scalable processes that drive improved efficiency to support a faster pace of growth for the company’s revenue stream and asset base than for its overhead costs.

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  • Product & Service Innovation

    Innovations that significantly enhance, extend or replace the traditional offer, creating new profit pools by serving new customer segments or existing segments in new ways, and entering or creating new markets typically beyond the reach of insurance players.

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  • Re-imagining the Customer Experience

    Innovations that significantly enhance the way companies engage with customers. These new approaches create value through, for example, seamless and personalized experiences across physical and/or digital channels, new customer management models, artificial-intelligence-driven advice, and innovative management of customer loyalty and satisfaction.

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  • Social, Sustainable & Responsible

    Innovations that advance Insurance’s social purpose and its commitment to being a good corporate citizen and a true ally of its customers.

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  • Workforce Transformation

    Innovations that successfully bring together people, culture, leadership, organization and technology, enabling the insurer to realize the full potential of the human and machine workplace.

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  • Insurtech

    The creation and/or application of innovative technology that substantially enhances the customer experience and/or develops new sources of value for insurers. This category is reserved for insurance start-ups and spin-offs, and technology firms targeting the insurance industry. Innovations must be stage-one funded, have a market release proposition, and/ or have completed a successful market proof of concept.

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  • Embedded Insurance Innovators

    Innovative embedded insurance solutions offered by companies across various sectors, including OEM, travel, retail, and healthcare, as well as insurance companies and brokers. It celebrates the integration of insurance products into the customer journey, providing seamless protection within the purchasing experience.

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Last but not least... special awards categories for 2025

GEN AI INNOVATION OF THE YEAR
Groundbreaking solutions that leverage generative AI to enhance processes, products, and customer experiences within the insurance industry in areas such as underwriting, claims processing, risk assessment, and customer engagement. You cannot submit your innovation in this category, with nominees selected from the awards categories above.

 

GLOBAL INNOVATOR OF THE YEAR
The most innovative insurer that displays innovation in their strategic direction, business practices and practical outputs. The winning organization’s corporate vision is fully committed to continuous innovation and transformation, to the development and leadership of a broad ecosystem of partners extending beyond insurance and to the strategic use of emerging technologies that improve the experience of its customers and the performance of its business. Winners must have submitted entries in at least three categories and be invited to submit to the Global Innovator category.

Innovation of the Month
January 2025

Social, Sustainable & Responsible

Vehicle Interruption Cover for Uber Drivers in the UK

Allianz Partners & Indeez launched Vehicle Interruption Cover in the UK to support Uber drivers whose vehicles are immobilized due...

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Innovation of the Month
December 2024

Workforce Transformation

desBRAva Program

Empowering Innovation Champions: Driving cultural transformation through an innovative and immersive corporate program.

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Innovation of the Month
November 2024

Operational Efficiency

Agent Virtual Assistant

AI-based tool that optimizes agent advice, personalizing the response to customer needs and queries.

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Our expert jury

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Carine Weill

Kereis

Chief Marketing Officer

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George Valmas

Eurobank Greece

Head of Bancassurance

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Christian Roland

AIA Thailand

Chief Strategy and Digital Officer

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Gareth Friedlander

Discovery

Deputy CEO

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Jerome Liegeois

Société Générale Assurances

Head of Innovation

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Paloma Rousseau

MoraBanc

Head of Digital Transformation and Innovation

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Dipu KV

Bajaj Allianz

Senior President (COO)

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Eric Gaubert

Innovation Expert

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Samantha Lim Li Wah

Alliance Financial Group

Head of Wealth Management Products: Group Consumer Banking

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Zakaria Talbi

Crédit Agricole du Maroc

Strategy and Innovation Diirector

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Nathalie Bois-Monier

Crédit Agricole Assurances

Head of International Marketing and Distribution

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Mehdi Bennani

Wafa Assurance

CDO

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Harry van der Zwan

NN Group

Chief Commercial Officer, Brokers & Partnerships

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Michael Murphy

Board Director and Executive Advisor

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Tomasz Raczynski

mBank

Director, Insurance Department

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Camila Serna

Chubb

EVP, Global Revenue Officer, Digital Business

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Pablo Campo

Laboral Kutxa

Director of Innovation & Open Business

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Angelo Di Rocco

Generali

Group BD & Partnerships Manager

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Matteo Carbone

IoT Insurance Observatory

Founder

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Carmen del Campo

Mutua Madrileña

Chief Innovation Officer

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Rajesh Gupta

CIMB

Regional Head of Affluent Product and Proposition

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Daniel Riscado

Fidelidade

Head of Center for Transformation

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Marcin Kurczab

PZU

Director of Innovation

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Telmo Pinho

Millennium BCP

Director

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Rob Galbraith

Forestview Insights

Founder and CEO

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Fernando Mendonca

Bradesco Seguros

Innovation Senior Manager

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Ursuline Foley

Board Member: Provident Financial Services & Bank and Greenlight Capital Re

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Javier Campos Lopez

Santalucía Seguros

Director de Negocio digital directo y alianzas

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Bjorn Bruschke

Desjardins General Insurance Group

Vice President, Marketing Planning and Implementation

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Santiago Ibernon Vilaro

Caixa Enginyers

General Manager of the Insurance Banking Operator

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Fran Morente

VidaCaixa

CINNO

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Nuno Horta

Grupo Ageas Portugal

Managing Director of Innovation Services

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Ahmet Yasar

Quick Sigorta (Maher Holdings)

General Manager

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Laura Lorenzo

Catalana Occidente

Innovation Manager

Get in touch

Want to get in touch regarding the submission process, invitations or sponsoring this event? Please write us at innovation@qorusglobal.com

Meet the awards team

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Boris Plantier

Qorus

Head of content

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Petra Balazova

Qorus

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