Insurtech Insights USA returns to New York with OpenAI, Anthropic speakers

Insurtech Insights USA is heading back to the Javits Center in New York on June 3 and 4, and the biggest signal in the lineup is not a product demo or a startup pitch. It is the fact that speakers from Anthropic and OpenAI are opening the main-stage program, a booking that tells you where insurance technology buying is headed.

The organizer says the 2026 event will bring together more than 6,000 attendees, 400-plus speakers and 20,000-plus meetings across six stages. The agenda stretches across claims, distribution, innovation, leadership, life and health, property and casualty, specialty and commercial, tech and underwriting, which is exactly the kind of spread that makes conference programming worth watching as a market indicator. When foundation-model companies sit at the center of a flagship insurtech event, carrier IT leaders are no longer just asking what AI can do in a sandbox. They are asking how it plugs into underwriting systems, claims workflows, broker tools and customer service stacks without creating a governance headache.

The June 3 opening session is titled The AI-Defined Insurer: Rewriting the Rules of Risk, Data, and Competitive Advantage. It features Mike Ram, Head of Insurance at Anthropic, alongside Christian Freytag, Head of Group Technology and Data, Group CTO at Allianz, with Insurtech Insights CEO Kristoffer Lunderberg moderating. That pairing matters because it puts a model vendor and a major insurer in the same conversation about how AI changes the operating model, not just the feature set.

The next morning’s main-stage opener brings Bastiaan de Goei of OpenAI together with Patrick Miller of Newfront, a WTW company, moderated by Ori Ben-Yishai of Viewpoint Ventures. That is the more practical side of the story: how an AI platform company and a distribution-focused insurance business talk about deployment, integration and measurable return. For P&C software vendors, brokers and carriers, that is the real buying conversation now. Copilots, document processing, decision support and customer-facing automation are only interesting if the model layer can be governed, secured and scaled inside existing insurance platforms.

Insurtech Insights says it is the world’s largest insurtech community, and the scale of this year’s program builds on last year’s event at the same venue. Insurtech Insights USA 2025 drew more than 6,000 attendees and 400-plus speakers at the Javits Center on June 4 and 5, 2025. The 2026 edition is clearly trying to keep that momentum, but the deeper shift is bigger than attendance: insurance technology buying has moved past whether AI belongs in the stack and into the harder question of how to embed it safely, govern it tightly and make it pay.