Insurtech Hartford Helps Companies Grow and Prosper (w/Stacey Brown, Insurtech Hartford and AXA-XL)

Today meet Stacey Brown who is Head of Global Technology Innovation at AXA XL, a Division of AXA, and Founder at InsurTech Hartford. Stacey is an insurance technology executive with a strong tech background with over 20 years industry experience developing high-performing IT teams and strategic solutions. Atop his responsibilities as an IT executive, Stacey is most recently known for his role in jumpstarting the one of the world’s most successful InsurTech ecosystems, InsurTech Hartford.

Stacey founded Insurtech Hartford by a genuine interest, he saw the insurtech scene happening in other places and didn't see it outside his window in Hartford. His mission since then has been to host events and bring people together, he struggled on his own for a while but then met the folks at Upward Hartford in a partnership to run networking, hackathon and startup pitch night events.

Stacey says the activity around insurtech has changed, with valuations drastically increasing, and having more VCs in the game than five years ago. As an industry insider, Stacey's broad definition of insurtech as, "Applying technology to make the insurance industry better." He is witnessing the transformation where once 'edge' technologies such as advanced analytics, #machinelearning and #AI as becoming more commercially viable and get down to solving real problems.

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