Steve Cratchley

Steve Cratchley is the Pricing Manager - Asset and Advanced Technology for PI CI Australia and NZ. He is a specialist on advanced automotive technologies and has been investigating these for many years. He is particularly well connected worldwide in this space with those working with these technologies.
Steve has worked in many fields at Suncorp across Strategy, Innovation and Underwriting roles and is uniquely qualified to talk about emerging vehicle technology.

Colin Fagen

Colin is co-founder and Managing Director of Blue Zebra. Blue Zebra is an Insurtech start-up which is redefining the traditional insurance landscape, delivering big insurance expertise with entrepreneurial agility.
Colin is a highly respected financial services executive with 27 years’ experience leading local, divisional and global teams of up to 6,000 people across 35 countries. Previously Colin held global c-suite roles at QBE including Group Chief Operations Officer, Group Chief Strategy Officer and CEO of QBE Australia and New Zealand. He was Chairman of Equator Re, QBE’s Bermuda-based captive reinsurer. He was President, Vice-President and a Director of the Insurance Council of Australia and a Director of Australian and New Zealand Institute of Insurance and Finance (ANZIIF).

Mathew Finch

Mathew is based out in Newcastle, Australia and is an experienced technology leader, passionate about breaking new ground through emerging technologies.

Currently he is the Head of Emerging Technology for nib health funds and its associated group businesses, providing strategic thinking and thought leadership across a range of emerging technologies such as AI & ML, Health & Biotech, IoT, and Cloud and the way in which they could have an application across the business, with a focus on solving customer problems over predefined solutions.

He is driving a culture of experimentation through build, measure, learn approaches with a focus on incremental improvements and developing continuous learning patterns.

Michael Graham

Michael is an InsureTech innovator and responsible for overall strategy relating to the Mercurien Group. Mercurien Insurance Pty Ltd is an underwiting agency specialising in light commercial vehicles.

Prior to forming Mercurien, Michael Graham was Managing Director of Landor Associates (Australia), a global marketing and brand development consultancy part of WPP Plc.
Michael's experience covers high-level management of professional services firms as well as marketing strategy and brand development in services, industrial markets and packaged goods in the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, China, Singapore, Korea, the United States and Australia.