2014 ICTC: Sponsor Directory & Booth Details

12th Annual Insurance-Canada.ca P&C Insurance Technology Conference

“Re-energize, Refocus, Realign”

In the Real Race, Winners Excel at Sprints and Marathons

Sheraton Centre Hotel, Toronto — March 17-18, 2014

Re-energize, Refocus, Realign

Conference Overview
Topics & Speaker Details
Agenda at a Glance (PDF)

Photos from the Conference
Sponsor Directory & Exhibits
ICTA Awards Overview

ICTC2014 was held Monday and Tuesday, March 18-19, 2013.
ICTC2015 will be held March 9-10, 2015, in Toronto.

Sponsor Directory: Information, Exhibits & Prize Draws

Jump to details via the alphabetized list below.

Accenture
Applied Systems
Brovada
Clearwater Analytics
D&B
DMTI Spatial
Equifax
Exigen Insurance Solutions
GMC Software Technology

Information Builders
Kanetix SaaS
Kumaran Systems
LexisNexis Risk Solutions
MajescoMastek
Mariner Innovations
NTT DATA
IMS

Oceanwide
OneShield
PaperWise
Pitney Bowes
Quindell
Silanis
Telus
Tritech

Pitney Bowes

Gold Sponsor; Booth 32

The ability to aggregate, visualize, understand and manage risk is fundamental to the profitability of today's insurance carriers and reinsurance companies. Stop by the Pitney Bowes booth and see how our leading location intelligence technologies can help you make superior underwriting, actuarial, CAT management and operational decisions. And if you take our quick 1-minute survey, we'll enter you into a drawing for a chance to win an iPad Air.

Pitney Bowes

Quindell

Gold Sponsor; Booth 23

Quindell Plc is a provider of sector-leading expertise in software, consultancy and technology enabled outsourcing in its key markets being insurance, telecommunications and their related sectors. Our award-winning business transformational, software, consultancy and outsourcing solutions are recognised as delivering significant savings and additional sales to our customers every year.

Visit us at Booth #23 and enter for a chance to win an iPhone 5C. For further information, please visit www.quindell.com.

Quindell

IMS

Gold Sponsor; Booths 30-31

At Booth #30/#31, meet with our knowledgeable UBI team where we will be showcasing the many “flavors” of UBI, including solutions for: personal and commercial lines, young drivers, value-added services, consultancy services and more. It's a great opportunity to learn from experts that have worked with 10 of the top 25 US insurers and 3 of the top 10 Canadian insurers.

Booth visitors will receive our free, DriveSync connected car app (Android version) – for safer, voice-powered access to information and entertainment.

Make sure to also attend our latest UBI Bootcamp installment: Telematics Bootcamp 2014: Winning Through Differentiation.

IMS

NTT DATA

Gold Sponsor; Booth 9

Visit NTT DATA at booth #9 to meet our team of experts and learn about our Insurance solutions. Enter our draw to win an Apple TV!

NTT DATA is your Innovation Partner anywhere around the world, with operations in approximately 40 countries. NTT DATA emphasizes long-term commitment and combines global reach and local intimacy to provide premier professional services from consulting, application services, business process and IT outsourcing to cloud-based solutions.

NTT DATA has been operating in Canada since 1997, and has been on MacLean Magazine's “Canada's Top 100 Employers” list since 2006.

Our presentation, Customer Communication Management: New Revenue, Better Retention will take place Tuesday, March 18, 11:45am - 12:30pm, in the Grand Ballroom Centre.

NTT DATA

MajescoMastek

Silver Sponsor; Booth 29

Five of the top Canadian insurance carriers work with MajescoMastek on their core technology needs.

Visit our display, talk to our experts and witness why core insurance products including policy administration, billing and claims from MajescoMastek are the top choice for P&C Insurance Carriers. With industry leading products, MajescoMastek also walks the whole nine yards with you in implementing the product from start to finish ensuring you of not just the best product but a project and business success.

Sal Abano, EVP – Chief of Strategy and Client Services, MajescoMastek, and Peter Smith, Director – Information Technology, AMA, will be speaking about “The Path to Customer Centricity: Putting the Customer Front and Center” at the conference.

MajescoMastek provides IT Software + Services to more than 80 carriers in North America.

Majesco

Brovada

Silver Sponsor; Booth 28

Drop by our booth for a demonstration of our NexCenter product in action. See examples of real time transactions available through multiple BMSs to over 50 insurers. Enter to win a $100 gift certificate to Future Shop.

For over 10 years, Brovada Technologies has been a software company focused entirely on insurer and broker connectivity. For Insurers, we specialize in connecting legacy systems to web based platforms, connecting internal disparate policy admin, claims, accounting and underwriting services for ease of business processes, as well as providing external connectivity to your broker partners. For brokers, we provide a simple, BMS agnostic connectivity platform that removes double entry of data and streamlines insurer submissions into real time, once-and-done transactions.

Brovada

Applied Systems

Silver Sponsor

Applied Systems is recognized as a pioneer in brokerage management systems and data exchange between brokers, carriers and their clients. Our insurance software and data exchange technology have revolutionized the insurance industry and continue to shape its future across the globe. By automating the insurance lifecycle, our people and products allow the insurance industry to fulfill its promise to safeguard and protect the things that matter most in people's lives.

Applied Systems

Exigen Insurance Solutions

Silver Sponsor; Booth 37

Planning a policy, billing or claims system replacement?

Don't miss this speaking session, 3:45 am – 4:15pm on Monday, in the Grand Ballroom Centre:

Achieving the End-Game: Executing Legacy Core Systems Replacement to Achieve Self-sufficiency

Legacy core systems replacement is a complex and risky operation. Hear new ways to manage implementation in real time that deliver the greatest benefits to your organization down the road, such as self-sufficiency, upgradeability and agility.

We look forward to seeing you.

Do visit us at booth #37 to talk about your core system needs and enter to win an iPad Mini!

Exigen Insurance Solutions

OneShield

Silver Sponsor; Booth 33

Visit the OneShield booth, #33, to learn how Travelers Canada and The Guarantee Company of North America are using OneShield Policy® to automate underwriting, dramatically ease the quote process for brokers, accelerate growth and lower total cost of ownership.

Enter to win a Kindle Fire HD.

Plan for success at our session, Transformation Through Policy Management System Replacement: Key Success Factors.

OneShield

Accenture

Silver Sponsor; Booth 21

Accenture is a global management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company, with approximately 281,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Combining unparalleled experience, comprehensive capabilities across all industries and business functions, and extensive research on the world's most successful companies, Accenture collaborates with clients to help them become high-performance businesses and governments. The company generated net revenues of US$28.6 billion for the fiscal year ended Aug. 31, 2013. Its home page is www.accenture.com.

Drop by booth #21 for a demonstration of scenarios showcasing our suite of products – Policy, Claims and Billing

Accenture

GMC Software Technology

Silver Sponsor; Booth 22

How agile are your customer communications?

At ICTC 2014, GMC Software Technology (GMC) will be demonstrating how GMC Inspire, a leading multi-channel customer communications management (CCM) platform as cited by Forrester and Gartner, can help your enterprise:

  • Achieve up to a 70% reduction in development time;
  • Reach your policyholders faster with more relevant, personalized communications;
  • Deliver customer communications on demand, interactively or in high-volume batches without replacing legacy systems.

If you are looking to simplify the customer experience from onboarding to retention and deliver a unified customer experience, be sure to join GMC on Tuesday, March 18 at 3:45pm in the Grand Ballroom Centre to gain insights for your organization.

GMC Software Technology

Silanis

Silver Sponsor; Booth 7

Visit us at booth #7 and learn how to:

  • E-Sign on an iPad, smartphone, laptop or PC
  • Authenticate remote signers online
  • Get started with your free trial

Winner of a Novarica RAVE Award and processing 600 million documents annually, Silanis is the e-signature standard for insurance carriers and agents of all sizes. The e-SignLive™ platform enables straight-through processing for new business, e-disclosure/e-policy delivery, agent licensing and more. www.silanis.com

To learn how provincial laws apply to the use of electronic signatures, join us and Daniel Fabiano of Fasken Martineau, for the E-Signature Legal and Implementation Best Practices session at 3:45pm on Tuesday, March 18.

Silanis e-SignLive

Tritech

Silver Sponsor; Booth 4

Is UBI right for you? Why not test-drive DriveTech and find out?

Visit booth #4 for a test-drive.

DriveFactor
DriveFactor's uniquely flexible platform allows insurers to gather, calibrate, and score data across multiple data sources and provide consistent, highly segmented experiences to policyholders. We are experts in coordinating scoring, product, value proposition, and consumer experience – with mobile and self install products in market on three continents.

Tritech Financial Systems Inc.
Since 1992, Tritech Financial Systems Inc. has successfully implemented its General Insurance Management System (GIMS) solution and provided outsourcing/professional IT services for stock and mutual P&C insurance companies in the USA, Canada, and the Caribbean. Our clients have included five of the 10 largest companies in North America.

Tritech Financial Systems Inc.

Telus

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 34

As a network leader and transformative force in Canadian Insurance, TELUS is delivering unique solutions for the Insurance Industry and is committed to helping improve your business. Be sure to drop by our booth to speak with our subject matter experts and see how we can help your business by eliminating paper based forms, leveraging eApps with digital signatures, alleviating network and data security and privacy concerns, to enabling mobility across your organization, while minimizing costs and risks.

Visit the TELUS booth and enter for a chance to win a BlackBerry Z30.

Book an appointment with Telus

TELUS

Kanetix SaaS

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 20

Kanetix SaaS is the leading provider of Web Quoting Solutions to Canada's largest and most respected insurance companies. Leveraging our extensive experience and deep knowledge of insurance and technology best practices, we work with Direct Writers, Broker-based Carriers and Brokers since 1999. We deliver quoting solutions across all touch points, including desktop, mobile and tablets. We deliver both consumer-facing solutions as well as internal products for underwriters, actuaries, and agents. Our services harness the web to create cost effective, high-converting solutions that create and enhance revenue channels for our partners.

Visit us at booth #20 to speak with our team and enter for a chance to win an iPad Air.

Kanetix

D&B

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 11

Not the D&B you thought you knew! Drop by booth #11 to learn more about our capabilities relating specifically to our commercial P&C customers.

While at the booth, drop your business card for a chance to win 1 of 15 blue tooth speakers. Everyone is a winner, try our spin to win wheel and walk away with a prize!

D&B, the world's leading source of commercial information and insight on businesses, enabling companies to make informed perspectives for more than 172 years. Our global commercial database contains more than 215 million business records. The D&B database provides our customers with unparalleled quality business information – the foundation of our global solutions that customers rely on to make critical business decisions.

Dun & Bradstreet

Oceanwide

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 35

Founded in 1996, Oceanwide has been at the forefront of delivering SaaS insurance software for 17 years. Bridge, the latest offering from Oceanwide, offers a new approach to insurance policy administration systems for commercial and specialty lines. Empower your business to take creative new ideas to market in weeks, not years. With Bridge, you can make changes to your products, create portals, even build and launch completely new products tailored to the markets you need to reach. Here's how Bridge empowers your company to grow:

  • No custom programming or scripting needed – from product configuration to portal creation, everything you want to do can be done in Bridge without any custom programming
  • Priced to maximize ROI – with multiple pricing options available, we'll help you choose what makes the most sense for your business
  • True SaaS – significantly lower overhead compared to on premise or other hosted software models
  • Freedom from professional services fees – Spend 70% less on professional services fees

To learn more about Oceanwide and Bridge, please visit www.oceanwide.com or call (888) 289-7744.

Oceanwide

Equifax

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 2

Equifax's consultants are excited to give you a tour of all the places our data and analytics can take you at booth #2. We've applied analytics to our comprehensive data, along with advanced technology platforms, to create solutions that address the foremost challenges of the insurance lifecycle:

  • Fraud Prevention/Detection
  • Policy Management/Strategy
  • Business Intelligence

Spotlight solution: Learn how protect yourself from online fraud through real-time device identification and shared device reputation.

Rely on Equifax's history, reputation and proven abilities to help your business run as efficiently and thoroughly as possible.

Visit us at Booth #2 and enter our draw for a chance to win a Bose SoundLink Bluetooth speaker III.

Equifax

Mariner Innovations

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 12

Drop by to discover the value that automated application modernization and other innovative IT consulting can bring to your firm. Mariner Innovations is a unique IT professional services company, with a specialization in Insurance and a philosophy of innovation. With years of experience, we go above and beyond to ensure that our clients gain value from our projects and resources. With Mariner Innovations, you can align your IT with your business needs – our aim is to make effective IT easy for insurance companies. To find out more, please visit www.marinerinnovations.com, or contact Kyle McGuffin at [email protected].

Mariner - partners in innovation

DMTI Spatial

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 19

DMTI Spatial, a member of the Neopost group, is the Canadian market leader in location based information and data quality.

DMTI is the creator of market leading CanMap® mapping solutions, Location Hub® Address Management Solution, and maintains the gold standard for GIS location-based data in Canada.

Stop by our booth, #19, and see why and how insurance providers in Canada depend on DMTI.

Experience an interactive demo session – taking place on Monday, March 17th at 3:15pm and Tuesday, March 18th at 10:30am, 12:30pm and 3:15pm – that will show you how you can:

  • Identifying new opportunities within residential/commercial markets,
  • Analyze markets that have high or low, product penetration,
  • Conduct sound risk assessment and natural catastrophe planning,
  • Visualize accumulation and exposure to related natural disaster or catastrophic events.
DMTI Spatial

PaperWise

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 14

PaperWise has taken our history, our 25 years of experience, 50,000+ users, best in class business process management and built one solution, uniquely for your industry. Instead of shuffling papers all around your office and wasting time looking for emails you need to be taking care of more important things, your customers. So we invite you to join PaperWise and Make Work Flow.

PaperWise

LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 1

Drop by to learn more about Canada's first and only predictive flood risk solution.....and to see a demo of Map View, the leading risk assessment and exposure management platform for Canadian property insurers.

About LexisNexis® Risk Solutions

LexisNexis Risk Solutions (lexisnexis.com/risk) is a leader in providing essential information that helps customers assess and manage risk. Combining cutting-edge technology, unique data and advanced scoring analytics, we provide products and services that address evolving client needs in the risk sector. LexisNexis Risk Solutions is part of Reed Elsevier.

Our insurance solutions assist insurers with automating and improving the performance of critical workflow processes to reduce expenses, improve service and position customers for growth.

For more information on LexisNexis® Map View, visit www.lexisnexis.com/risk/mapview or contact us at [email protected].

Lexis Nexis

Information Builders

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 16

With investment returns low, and underwriting profit under attack, insurers are looking at new ways to turn their data into sustainable engines for profitable growth. Allow us to show you how our Insurance specific solutions around operational excellence, product/risk leadership and customer intimacy can provide the right mix for you to compete differently.

All of our insurance solutions leverage our expertise in Intelligence, Integration, and Integrity. This enables insurance organizations to treat information as working capital and drive greater returns on IT investments which often require customer facing, mobile and collaborative capabilities, as we have delivered for Chubb, Travelers, Erie, and Aegon. We do this by making it easy for everyone in the organization to consume and analyze information – from senior management to actuaries to claims adjusters. And only Information Builders safely extends information on a common, cost effective platform outside the firewall to all your agents, brokers, and customers – for extreme ROI.

Visit us at Booth #16 to speak to our insurance experts and enter to win an iPad Mini.

Information Builders

Kumaran Systems

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 17

Visit Kumaran Systems at Booth #17 to learn about our flexible and proven engagement models to deliver quality IT services and solutions. Enter to win an iPad Mini. (The winner is: Mr. Steve Lucaks of Wynward Insurance Group!)

Kumaran Systems is an IT Solutions and Services offering company marching towards 25 years with global offices in Canada, US and India. With over 24 years of customer orientation, and 2000+ successful engagements across Banking, Insurance, Telecom, Education & Retail services spread across the globe, we help insurance companies to improve the bottom line by delivering business driven technology solutions & services in the areas of Application Modernization, Application Development, Maintenance, Production Support, QA, Enterprise Data Warehouse and BI Solutions. Our Dual competency in Insurance Domain and Technology ensures client's IT investment spent on best breed of technology & solutions to achieve business efficiency and quick ROI. Reach us by email at [email protected] or visit www.kumaran.com.

Kumaran Systems

Clearwater Analytics

Bronze Sponsor; Booth 13

Visit Clearwater Analytics in the exhibit hall to learn more about streamlining your investment accounting and reporting processes.

Clearwater provides web-based investment portfolio reporting and analytics for corporate treasuries, insurance companies, and asset managers. Clearwater's daily aggregated and reconciled solutions deliver the highest level of portfolio transparency available on the market today for clients such as Cisco, Oracle, Starbucks, SCF Arizona, The Warranty Group, and WellCare. Launched in 2004, with offices in New York, New York; Boise, Idaho; and Edinburgh, U.K., Clearwater Analytics reports on more than $1 trillion in assets for thousands of institutional investors. For more information about Clearwater Analytics, visit www.clearwateranalytics.com.

Clearwater Analytics