UBM Tech Introduces The New Insurance & Technology

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 11, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- UBM Tech today introduced the new community-driven Insurance & Technology (insurancetech.com), an interactive platform for insurance technology professionals to connect with peers, editors and industry experts. The redesigned site provides the latest news, commentary and discussion on the most pressing issues that technology and business leaders face in the insurance marketplace. Complementing the brand's award-winning editorial is perspective from more than 50 community contributors and subject matter experts involved in channel strategies, security, data management, compliance, policy administration, claims and underwriting.

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Insurance & Technology is now optimized for rapid interaction and engagement among community members through moderated online discussions, blogs and social media, as well as at live events. Insurance & Technology provides insurance technology professionals with business-critical content they have trusted for nearly 40 years, while bringing the community together online and at events like the Insurance & Technology Executive Summit, which will take place November 9-11, 2014, in Bal Harbour, FL.

"The insurance marketplace is highly competitive, and after years of caution is now undergoing dramatic change. It's estimated that insurance companies will spend $100 billion on IT worldwide in 2014 – much of that focused on transformative technologies such as cloud, analytics and mobile. Amid all this change, insurance executives need to be able to share ideas, pain points and questions. But they've never really had a forum to do so – until now," said Katherine Burger, Editorial Director, Insurance & Technology. "Our redesigned site will serve as an interactive community where members can come together to improve their understanding of most important issues facing the insurance industry today."

Core sections of Insurance & Technology include:

• Channels
• Policy Administration
• Claims
• Security
• Compliance
• Data & Analytics
• Infrastructure
• Management Strategies

Community contributors include:

• Rod Brooks, VP and CMO, Pemco
• Gerald Shields, Practice Director, Healthcare IT, Nolan Company
• Dave Schmitz, Head of Global Risk Engineering, XL Group
• Mark Breading, Partner, SMA
• Ray Oral, SVP and CIO, CNA
• Frank Petersmark, CIO Advocate, X by 2
• Karlyn Carnahan, Research Director, Insurance, Celent

Insurance & Technology is the latest in a series of groundbreaking online community-platform launches from UBM Tech. The InformationWeek community platform launched in November 2013, and has seen a significant lift in engagement with a 40 percent increase in comments, and a 22 percent increase in page views. EE Times' site launched in July 2013, and has experienced similar increases, attesting to UBM Tech's unique community-based online model. UBM Tech launched the Dark Reading information security community in March; the Network Computing infrastructure community in April, the Wall Street & Technology community in May and the Bank Systems & Technology community in July.

The Insurance & Technology editorial team is led by Burger. Other editorial team members include:

• Nathan Golia, Senior Editor
• Kelly Sheridan, Associate Editor

Insurance & Technology invites insurance technology professionals to help shape the future of the industry on its site, Insurance & Technology and on Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter and Google+.

For Insurance & Technology editorial inquiries, contact Katherine Burger at katherine.burger@ubm.com. For marketing partnerships and other general inquires, contact Hilary Jansen at hilary.jansen@ubm.com. For advertising opportunities, visit CreateYourNextCustomer.com.

About UBM Tech
UBM Tech is a global media business that brings together the world's technology communities through live events, online properties and custom services. UBM Tech's community-focused approach provides its users and clients with expertly curated research, education, training, community advocacy, user-generated content and peer-to-peer engagement opportunities that serve the Electronics, Security, Enterprise IT and Communications, Network Infrastructure and Applications, Game and App Developers, and Tech Marketing communities. UBM Tech's brands include Black Hat, DesignCon, EE Times, Enterprise Connect, Game Developers Conference (GDC), HDI, InformationWeek, and Interop. Create, a UBM Tech full range marketing services division, includes custom events, content marketing solutions, community development and demand generation programs based on its content and technology market expertise. UBM Tech is a part of UBM (UBM.L), a global provider of media and information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. For more information, go to http://tech.ubm.com/.

CONTACT: Hilary Jansen, Marketing Specialist, T: (415) 947-6205, E: hilary.jansen@ubm.com.

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