Agenda

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In the wake of profound fiscal pressures in 2023, driven by industry-wide effects of escalating climate-related risks and other economic factors, Pekin Insurance faced an urgent need to redefine its operational strategy. This keynote session will explore the company’s extraordinary journey of recovery and transformation, offering a compelling blueprint for navigating volatility in an evolving insurance landscape.

The speaker will share insights into how Pekin Insurance leveraged innovative cost optimization strategies, embraced digital transformation, and partnered with WSO2 to migrate critical processes to a more agile and scalable platform. This strategic shift not only improved operational efficiency but played a pivotal role in driving profitability through expense reductions.

Attendees will gain actionable insights into:

• The critical role of technology modernization in achieving operational excellence.
• Strategies to mitigate risks and reduce costs during periods of high uncertainty.
• How a clear focus on agility and innovation can position an organization for sustained, profitable growth.

Join us to learn how Pekin Insurance turned a challenging year of unprecedented setbacks into a story of resilience, rebuilding, and long-term success in an increasingly unpredictable world.

Reuse is a critical element of an organization’s ability to deliver innovative products to market quickly and economically. APIs are at the heart of how organizations can reuse data and capabilities to drive new product development, efficiency agendas and client/customer satisfaction. By exposing data and capabilities through APIs, organizations can unlock new opportunities for growth, efficiency, agility, and create new value streams that were previously unimaginable.

In this keynote address, we will explore the power of APIs and how they can be used to drive modernization, innovation and collaboration – both internally and externally. We will discuss the key principles and best practices for designing, building, discovering and governing APIs, as well as the cultural and organizational changes needed to successfully support an API first strategy.

We will also delve into the role of APIs in enabling data sharing and collaboration, and how they can help organizations to overcome the traditional barriers and silos – both within and externally with customers and clients. By adopting an API-first approach, organizations can create more open, flexible, and interoperable ecosystems that enable greater collaboration, experimentation, and innovation, and unlock new opportunities for value creation.