Topic: Who’s winning the war for UK insurers’ tech spend?
Writer: Damisola Sulaiman (damisola.sulaiman@infopro-digital.com)
Deadline: Wednesday 7 January
The UK insurance sector is pouring billions into digital transformation, cloud migration, and artificial intelligence infrastructure.
While Amazon retains cloud scale and maturity, Microsoft Azure dominates core system migrations, and Google Cloud is gaining fast in AI, data analytics, and cost transparency, which company is strongest on the use-case battlefield in 2026?
Questions for insurers:
- Which companies are you using - for what and why?
- Beyond cost savings, can you show tangible outcomes — faster claims, lower fraud, better pricing accuracy?
- How much leverage will you have if a regulator or your board demands a switch of technology provider in a few years’ time?
Questions for insurtechs:
- How are these providers solving insurance problems? Share UK-specific insurance references and outcomes, not generic cloud case studies.
- What difference do these technology provider’s governance toolkits, model-explainability options, and audit capabilities in regulated environments have on selection?
- Is it possible for any other company to enter the battlefield and end Amazon, Microsoft and Google’s dominance?
Topic: Crypto & Crime - the new frontier of insurance fraud
Writer: Fiona Nicolson (fiona.nicolson@googlemail.com)
Deadline: Friday 9 January
As digital assets become mainstream, the intersection between cryptocurrency and insurance fraud is growing harder to ignore. How prepared is the industry to detect, deter, and defend against crypto-linked fraud?
- How is cryptocurrency being used to facilitate or conceal insurance fraud?
- What red flags should insurers and investigators look for in claims or payments involving digital assets?
- How can insurers strengthen fraud prevention while navigating data privacy and regulatory complexity in crypto transactions?
- Are current fraud detection tools and anti-money laundering frameworks fit for purpose in a tokenised economy?
- Could blockchain technology itself offer part of the solution, improving transparency and traceability in claims handling?
Topic: What insurers need before the roads go driverless
Writer: Scott McGee (scott.mcgee@infopro-digital.com)
Deadline: Friday 16 January
With the first real-world tests of autonomous driving technology set to begin in 2026, how are insurers gathering the data required from connected and autonomous vehicles to underwrite, price and handle claims for driverless vehicles.
- What real-time and event-based data is required from autonomous vehicles to accurately price risk, determine liability and manage claims?
- Have insurers established the right partnerships, protocols and agreements with motor manufacturers to guarantee timely, secure and standardised access to that data?
- Are underwriting models, claims teams, legal frameworks and cyber-resilience plans ready for a future where responsibility shifts from human drivers to vehicle systems and software?
Topic: Where does cyber insurance go from here?
Writer: Harry Curtis (harry.curtis@infopro-digital.com)
Deadline: Thursday 22 January
How can cyber insurers regain control of risk – both before an incident occurs and in the critical hours and days after a breach?
- Will cyber insurers prioritise growing the customer base in 2026, or shift focus to protecting loss ratios through tighter underwriting and pricing?
- What lessons can insurers take from the M&S cyber-attack and similar incidents in 2025? How should these events shape underwriting and claims responses?
- How can insurers ensure policyholders understand – and follow – cyber risk management guidance? Is there a need for tighter policy language or clearer compliance requirements?
- How can insurers improve early detection and ensure rapid notification of incidents to limit claims severity?
Topic: Geopolitical and trade policy risk rocking marine insurance
Writer: Tim Evershed (mail@timevershed.co.uk)
Deadline: Thursday 22 January
2026 is likely to see global trade increasingly blocked by geopolitical instability in terms of both armed conflict plus the use of trading tariffs and restrictions as an instrument of foreign policy.
- Which areas currently present the greatest risk of vessels being attacked, delayed, and detained?
- Which hotspots may flare up in 2026?
- What impact are US tariffs already having? Will we see the imposition of more tariffs next year?
- What are the insurance implications of potential incidents?
- How well prepared are marine insurers for a spike in claims?
