Commercial banking

Ulf Brüning is Principal and International Client Executive Leader at Global Risk Consultants based in Darmstadt, Germany. He has spent nearly 20 years with the company helping some of the world's most successful businesses identify risks and shape their risk management strategies.

R. Dale Hall, FSA, MAAA, CERA, CFA is Managing Director of Research for the Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA). In his role, Dale is responsible for managing research projects and experience studies across the SOA's wide variety of actuarial practice areas and markets and coordinating strategic research partnerships. Additionally, Dale hosts the SOA's Research Insights Podcast and has appeared on behalf of the SOA in a variety of media outlets including NPR, C-SPAN and National Geographic. 

Prior to joining the SOA in 2013, Dale spent over 20 years in the US insurance industry, primarily as Chief Actuary for the Life/Health companies of COUNTRY Financial and as an adjunct professor in the actuarial science program at Illinois State University. 

The 2025 Telematics Report from SambaSafety reveals that 88% of fleets use telematics for safety reasons.

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Octavio "OJ" Laos is a director at Armanino, leading the charge in the firm's AI Lab. Over the past five years, the AI Lab at Armanino has been at the forefront of AI technology within the accounting sector, delivering solutions ranging from custom chatbot development to predictive analytics.

Of the 15 states most affected by natural disasters, California and Florida had the highest non-renewal rates in 2024, a Weiss Ratings study found.

Digital Insurance spoke with Ashok Krishnan, an innovation executive at AXA XL, about AI's impact in underwriting operations.

Ian Vacin is co-founder and chief partnerships officer at Karbon and is co-author of Scale with Purpose: The Service Entrepreneur's Guide to Intentional Growth. He has nearly three decades of leadership experience in technology and accounting with Karbon, Xero and Intuit, and is passionate about helping accounting professionals be as successful as possible so they can better serve the small businesses they support.