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Roundtable: Control your innovation destiny

Endava roundtable
Back row, l-r: Mark Budd, UK head of innovation, Zurich; Ben Spencer, group chief information officer, Beazley; Matthieu Caillat, chief operating officer, Axa XL; Bradley Howes, head of product experience and innovation, Endava; Jason Chambers, head of underwriting transformation, Aviva; Adam Miller, group head of IT, Markerstudy; and Peter Howard, head of change, Willis Towers Watson. Front row, l-r: Ben Fraser, senior business development manager, Endava; Charlie Fellerman, innovation manager and strategy lead, Brit; David Germain, group chief information officer, RSA; Richard Webb, director, Manchester Underwriting Management; and Martin Smith, lead developer and systems architect, Iprism

Few disagree that the industry needs to innovate, but blue sky thinking is quickly clouded by conundrums around outsourcing, unwieldy legacy systems and the short-term need to turn a profit

Innovation is increasingly a watchword for firms across the insurance sector, with many hoping digital and technological solutions hold the key to future profitability.

However, while progress has

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