InsuranceCom CE

Senior Executive Conference

September 24/25, 2025

GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute Ruschlikon/Zurich

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The "InsuranceCom CE" Senior Executive Conference is the leading independent platform for decision makers of the insurance industry in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Liechtenstein. The high-caliber community is composed of an exclusive circle of personally invited members of executive management, boards of directors and supervisory boards of the insurance industry, as well as top managers of relevant business partners. The focus is on informal dialogues between the executives and peers. The private conference is media-free. The University of St. Gallen (HSG) is actively involved as an expertise partner. The conference will be held bilingually in German and English with simultaneous translation.

InsuranceCom CE-Zurich 2025

Driving Resilience, Growth and Shaping the Future of Insurance

  • Global Economic and Insurance Market Outlook 2026+

  • Balancing Efficiency, Automation and Profitable Growth

  • Customer Acquisition and Retention: Trust Beyond Transactions

  • Agentic AI will change Core Elements of the Business Model

  • Innovation and Future Sustainability

Jerome Jean Haegeli, Group Chief Economist of Swiss Re, will introduce the conference with a Global Economic and Insurance Market Outlook 2026+. A fragile overall economic environment and volatile geopolitical backdrop raises risks of adverse macroeconomic scenarios. Early and proactive scenario monitoring will be critical for the insurance industry.

Efficiency, cost reduction, and competitiveness are at the core. Swiss and Central European insurers are focusing on profitability, improving customer loyalty, and driving digitalization and technological transformation. Operational resilience and organizational agility are also top priorities, enabling insurers to respond flexibly and effectively to market fluctuations. Fabian Rupprecht, Group CEO, Helvetia Insurance Group, will share his assessment with you in a personal dialogue based on the challenges he has faced with the Helvetia Group.

Customer focus and personalization as growth drivers. Traditional growth paths are becoming more challenging, margins are under pressure, and disruption will continue. Anticipating customer behavior and developing suitable insurance models will be crucial. Direct, embedded, and advisory models, along with omnichannel strategies that best enable the seamless integration of digital and physical distribution channels, will prevail. In this context, the latest findings from the Swiss Insurance Monitor 2025 by ETH Zurich are also being incorporated.

‘Simplicity, transparency, and the combination of artificial and human intelligence, bringing together the best of both worlds’— will be one of the key success factors.

Innovation and Future Sustainability. In the afternoon session, we will receive an extraordinary Leaders' Insights on DeepTech and Digital Opportunities, Geopolitical Competition between States, Regulations on Data use, Artificial intelligence, future of Quantum Computing and the Threat to Digital Security from leading global group executives from IBM Research Europe, AXA Group and Zurich Insurance Group.

The InsuranceCom 2025 will once again address and discuss fundamental questions at the highest level. The participants are senior executives who have been personally invited.

The conference will be bilingual German/English (with simultaneous translation).

InsuranceCom CE-Central Europe – the platform where Senior decision-makers of the Swiss and Central Europe Insurance industry meet and exchange their experiences.

Program

24.09.2025 
 Prevenue Senior Dialogues & Aperitif and Dinner at Hotel Belvoir
 

25.09.2025
08.50

Prof Dr Peter Maas

Professor of Management at the University of St.Gallen & Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of wefox Insurance



09.00

Jerome Jean Haegeli

Group Chief Economist, Managing Director, Swiss Re Management AG

09.30

Fabian Rupprecht

Group CEO, Helvetia Insurance Group


11.00

Mark Klein

Member of the Board of Management, Chief Digital Officer, ERGO Group AG


Hedwig Ulmer Busenhart

Member of the Executive Management, Head of Pension Provision, Helvetia Switzerland

Michael Dritsas

CEO, vlot AG & President of the Digital Insurance Association of Switzerland (DIAS)


Dr David Finken

Professor for Technology, Marketing, Senior Researcher, TUM / ETH Zurich  

14.00

Dr Marc Ph Stoecklin

Department Head, Security, Principal Research Scientist, IBM Research Europe


Claudio Gienal

Chief Transformation Officer European Markets & Global Health, AXA Gruppe (Zurich)


Ericson Chan

Member of ExeCom, Group Chief Information, Digital Officer,Zurich Insurance Group

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Venue


Senior Dialogues & Dinner
September 24, 2025

Hotel Belvoir
Säumerstrasse 37
CH-8803 Ruschlikon/Zurich
T  +41 44 723 83 83
E info@hotel-belvoir.ch
W www.hotel-belvoir.ch



Senior Executive Conference
September 25, 2025

GDI Gottlieb Duttweiler Institute
Langhaldenstrasse 21
CH-8803 Ruschlikon/Zurich
+41 44 724 61 11
E info@gdi.ch
W www.gdi.ch

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