How Fast Is Too Fast? Rethinking Speed in Commercial Underwriting
Automation and agentic AI can now carry a commercial submission most of the way to a decision, and the pressure to let them is growing. Join leaders from AWS, Pega, and Coherent as they work out which underwriting decisions belong to automation, which belong to an agent, and which still belong to the underwriter -- and what a regulator will ask to see underneath all three.
Know the risk. Then move fast.
Personal lines got fast by taking people out of the process. Commercial brokers now expect the same, and the first carrier back wins a disproportionate share of what it quotes. Commercial and specialty risks were never built for that. They need analysis, specialized pricing and modeling, and judgment from several people at once. The carriers under the most pressure to go faster are the ones with the least room to guess.
This 45-minute conversation is about where speed pays and where it turns into a bet nobody priced. Expect practical examples rather than theory. You will leave with a clear view of how the job changes for the people who still make the call as more of the analysis becomes explicit, and of what has to sit beneath the whole journey for the numbers to hold up in an audit.