Extreme weather events, rising inflation and a constantly-evolving risk landscape are just some of the challenges Sansone uses technology to tackle.

The Women in Insurance Leadership honoree also launched Cake Insure, a technology subsidiary of Pinnacol that allows small business owners to provide workers' comp insurance for employees.

Brown's approach to diversity in business allows firms to compete on equal footing with larger competitors, which increases collaboration and yields stronger business results.

Blazes raged through more than 2,000 acres of wildland in recent months in his county deep in the woods of Oregon, where a wet climate once made forest fires unthinkable. That's an increasingly common scene around the world — from Canada to Greece, global warming has helped fuel larger and more destructive blazes, pushing firefighting services to the brink.

As part of the deal, Anthropic will move most of its software to Amazon Web Services data centers, and use the cloud computing company's homegrown chips to train the models it uses to power chatbots and other applications.

The Women in Insurance Leadership honoree identifies five specific moments where companies must excel for customers.

Melissa Gutierrez, senior vice president and general manager for Pets Best, sees a lot of opportunity for "rapid growth" in the pet insurance industry, especially in a digital space.