Episode 7:  Not chickenfeed

Episode 7: Not chickenfeed

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 7: Not chickenfeed Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance IT Diary Back in 1993, my class visited a farm where we were shown a tech-driven gadget that would monitor the weight of battery hens, and based on that, adjust the amount of feed...
Episode 6:  Dream a little stream for me

Episode 6: Dream a little stream for me

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 6: Dream a little stream for me Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance IT Diary An email from a company called Weather Trade Net dropped into my inbox last week. It was super interesting. Based on geocodes, the company assesses physical...
Episode 5: Saucy secrets

Episode 5: Saucy secrets

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 5: Saucy secrets Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance IT Diary Last week Mark Zuckerberg announced in an open letter that Meta – parent of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram – is making its AI platform Llama into an open-source tool. That...
Episode 4: No Need to Strike

Episode 4: No Need to Strike

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 4: No Need to Strike Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance IT Diary Last Friday’s global CrowdStrike systems outage raised multiple, highly justifiable concerns about our increasing dependence on IT. It showed how most of us (except the...
Episode 3: Standard fare

Episode 3: Standard fare

Insurance Technology Diary Episode 3: Standard fare Guillaume Bonnissent’s Insurance IT Diary A cartoon I saw circulating here has outraged users complaining that 14 competing sets of standards exist. Ridiculous, they say. Far too many. They agree one standard is...