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A New AI Course for Insurance Professionals

AI Isn’t Just A Technology
- It’s a Business and Career Strategy
AI is revolutionizing insurance.

Give your career a competitive edge. Stand out by getting the knowledge, skills, and strategies you need for the AI-driven era ahead.

Sign up for SVIA's new
Online Self-Paced
AI Leadership Course 
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Now to Next 
AI Leadership Course
for 
Insurance Professionals


Insights & skills in AI to help you thrive in your Career 

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For Senior Leaders

Guide your organization confidently using a deep insight and an agile AI framework. Enhance customer experience, ensure compliance and security, drive cultural change, foster innovation, and mitigate risks effectively
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For Individuals

Accelerate your career with key AI skills and insights. Become a pivotal voice in shaping how AI transforms the insurance sector, contributing valuable perspectives and driving innovation.
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For Managers

Empower yourself and your team with essential AI insights. Foster a forward-thinking culture, and align your efforts with the organization’s AI vision and strategy to maximize impact.

Those who can help organizations harness AI's power will be the future leaders


"As AI is transforming industry after industry, the leaders who can understand and leverage AI will increasingly be in high demand. It’s not just about technical skills; it’s about understanding how to integrate AI into the strategic decision-making process."

Andrew Ng
Co-founder of Google Brain & Coursera


"The ability to learn how AI works and how to use it effectively in business strategies will be a critical skill for leaders. This knowledge will be a cornerstone for future career growth and opportunities."

Ginni Rometty
Former CEO of IBM


"The key to leadership in this era of digital transformation is the ability to demystify AI, to make it understandable and actionable for your team. This ability will be central to how careers evolve in the future."

Satya Nadella
CEO of Microsoft

What do you get from this AI Leadership Course?

"Now to Next" course equips insurance professionals with the skills and insights necessary to succeed and lead in an insurance industry being transformed by AI. This program is designed specifically for decision-makers, leaders, and influencers who recognize that AI is not just a technology upgrade but a fundamental shift that offers new pathways for their career, innovation and efficiency.

Insurance Career & Leadership Benefits

Gain a deep understanding of AI technologies and their transformative potential: Learn how to seamlessly integrate AI into your business model, enhancing decision-making and operations.

Develop Future-Focused Strategies: Acquire the tools to craft forward-looking visions and strategies that leverage AI to deliver superior customer experiences and drive competitive advantage. You will learn to navigate the rapidly evolving AI & Insurance landscape with agility, positioning your company for sustainable growth - teach students about arr 

Lead with Confidence: Enhance your leadership skills to manage the change AI brings. Develop the ability to guide your teams through digital transformations by fostering an environment where AI is used ethically and effectively to support business goals.

Drive Customer-Centric AI Initiatives: Utilize AI to understand and predict customer needs better, enabling personalized and engaging customer interactions. Learn how AI can transform customer service, claims processing, and overall engagement to create value and deepen customer loyalty.

Foster a Proactive Culture: Understand how to cultivate a culture that embraces AI, with a focus on collaboration, innovation, and continuous learning. You will be equipped to lead cultural transformations that make AI a positive force within your organization.

Enhance Risk Management and Compliance: Through a clear comprehension of AI’s impact, learn to improve risk management practices and ensure compliance with evolving regulations. This program helps you anticipate and mitigate the challenges associated with AI deployment.

What's included in the Now To Next AI Course?

  • 6 On-Demand Lesson Modules
    - 1 hour each, Self-Paced Instructor led Videos
  •  Workbook excercises for each Lesson Module
  • Test Assessments
    - Optional if not getting Certificate
  • Certificate of Completion
    - After Course completion
  • Course Materials Library
    • Lesson Slides
    • Exercise Workbooks
    • White Papers
    • Executive AI Playbook

AI Business Skills & Insights

Now to Next is designed to help you master the business side of AI in insurance, not the coding bench.

This course provides a deep understanding of AI's impact on the industry and the strategic insights needed to lead and manage organizations effectively in the AI era.

While you will gain comprehensive knowledge of essential leadership topics, remember true leadership comes from applying what you learn here in the real world.

This course is your gateway to becoming a visionary leader in the AI-transformed landscape of insurance — it’s about strategy and leadership, not prompts, algorithms and coding.

AI Certificate of Completion

AI Leadership in Insurance Certificate of Completion, you'll be required to complete a Test at the end of each Lesson.

The Certificate will also include an emblem that you may use on your LinkedIn Profile and resume. 

Course Overview


Now To Next - AI Leadership
*Self-Paced Lessons

Lesson 1:
 Demystifying Modern AIs: The GPT Genie & Beyond

Explore the transformative power of ChatGPT and emerging AI technologies. Gain insights into a variety of AI tools and learn how to leverage them to shape the future of insurance, driving innovation and efficiency.

Lesson 2:
AI Use Case Prioritization
and Integration with Modernization

Master a strategic framework for identifying and prioritizing AI use cases aligned with your organization’s goals. Learn to assess the impact, feasibility, and ROI of AI initiatives, ensuring seamless integration with IT modernization efforts.

Lesson 3:
 Leading with Vision: Customer & AI-Centric Strategies

Gain the insight and skills needed to create a customer and AI-centric vision and strategy to compete in the rapidly evolving insurance industry.

Lesson 4:
 Innovating with AI: Data & Infrastructure

Understand the critical role of data architecture and infrastructure in AI innovation and how to advocate for the scalable frameworks and ecosystems required to achieve business goals and enhance customer experiences.

Lesson 5:
 Operational Excellence:
AI Transformation

Understand the impact of AI on core insurance functions. Learn how to develop agile strategies that adapt to AI’s evolution, fostering a culture of change and operational excellence.

Lesson 6:
 Leading in AI-Era:
Essential Management Skills

Develop essential leadership skills to cultivate an AI-centric culture. Learn tactical planning, governance structures, and risk mitigation to effectively lead your organization in the AI era.

Why take this Course vs. another AI Program? 

  • This is one of the only AI Courses out there focused on Insurance - the Now To Next Program specifically looks at current issues and business strategies needed in insurance going forward (takes the guess work of trying to figure out how to translate this to your work).

  • Many AI Programs require that you attend online at a specific time with others - this Program allows you to set your schedule for learning and is Self-Paced, allowing you to take the course when you have time.

  • The Now to Next AI Leadership Course is not focused on technical aspects of AI, but rather on the Business Use Case Priorities and Strategies for implementing AI in each area of Insurance.

  • The Now to Next Course also offers one of the only AI Leadership in Insurance Certificates of Completion. This can be used as part of your AI career education, on your resume, and your LinkedIn profile to show your development skills in AI Business Strategy in Insurance.

  • GenAI is all the rage and the focus of many AI Programs, but it's not the only AI you need to know about.
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Your Course Instructors

Keith Schraad
Former VP & Chief Innovation Officer
Blue Cross Blue Shield, Arizona - Former Director of Arizona’s Insurance &  Financial 

20 years of leadership in insurance, government, and technology, his expertise helps guide insurers in the strategic integration of AI. That experience includes leading venture investments, innovation initiatives, and executive workshops .


As Director of Arizona’s Insurance and Financial Institutions, he can provide deep insights into regulatory strategies. With a background as a State Senator, he can provide insight and guidance on working with lawmakers and mitigating potential risks associated with AI.
Mike Connor
Executive Director - Now To Next
CEO/Co-Founder
Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator/ SVIA

25 years of technology innovation experience with top firms like Apple, Silicon Graphics, Adobe, and various startups. 


He leads the design and delivery of our 'Now To Next Programs. His online courses on Digital Transformation and Innovation have reached 100,000+ students. 

He has defined and facilitated 100’s of SVIA’s webinars. conferences, as well as executive workshops on insurance innovation, Mike's enthusiasm for connecting people, ideas, and investments is pivotal in helping insurers shape the digital future of their companies.
Tom Warden

Current Founder: Bridgevine Analytics, LLC

Former SVP, Chief Data & Analytics Officer at Employers & Chief Data Officer at AIG,
Former VP of Research — Allstate
Former Chief Science & Insurance Officer at Clara Analytics

37 years of experience leading data, analytics and AI programs in the insurance industry. At Employers, he built the data and data science practice from the ground up while at AIG he established the data function at their life and retirement companies.

 At Allstate, Tom led the Research and Planning Center where he drove strategic innovation throughout the company.                                                                                                     

Your Course Instructors

Edward Vandenberg
Principal, Decision Science LLC.
Former Head of Analytics, Farmers Insurance Former Accenture Management Consultant

Over 30-year career working for leading insurance and consulting companies holding various program management and operations roles for large global underwriting organizations across personal and commercial lines P&C business.

Focusing on analytics for 20 years, Ted has led data science teams and consulting projects, developing and deploying innovative solutions and applications in claims and underwriting.


Natalie L. Wood
COO & Co-Founder
Silicon Valley Insurance Accelerator &
SVIA Insurance Leadership Academy

25 years of experience in Silicon Valley in  technology and innovation with top companies such as The Economist Intelligence Unit, PC World/IDG, WorldCom. Previous Apple Developer and founder of four startups focused on innovation.

Eight years with SVIA producing, facilitating and speaking at over 100 SVIA InsurTech Conferences / Startup Showcases, Workshops, Webinar Series, and customized Insurance Carrier Innovation Programs. Host of SVIA's Innovator Spotlight Series.


Don Lemmex
Principal, AI Experience Strategies
Former VP of IT - AVP Emerging Technologies & Platforms | Symetra Life Insurance

Over 25 years in the field of information technology in industries such as software, airlines, insurance and financial services, and healthcare. Focused on user experience and augmenting human interactions with technology.

Most recently applying the rapid developments of AI in the form of large language models and conversational AI, architecting solutions that build unique, ongoing, and deeper ability to embed new forms of intelligence in human experience.


Why Chose Us?


Our mission is accelerating innovation in the Insurance Industry.

Founded in 2016, SVIA has been recognized as one of the top influencers in InsurTech. SVIA has deep experience in producing programs on the adoption of new technologies and innovative solutions in the insurance industry. That along with years of building hundreds of connections with industry with thought leaders and innovators in every aspect of insurance including technology, operations, governance and legal mitigation.

  • SVIA has a strong history of showcasing the latest information in innovation to the insurance industry, bringing together and matching leading innovators and carriers.

  • SVIA has produced over 50 in-person InsurTech Conferences, Startup Showcases, Workshops and Custom Insurance Innovation Programs.

  • SVIA has hosted 60+ Webinars on Insurance Innovation over the last three years, and showcased over 400+ thought leaders, innovators, and startups.

    All this experience has led SVIA to create the new Now To Next AI Leadership Course. This is part of a new Series of Courses that we will be providing through our new Silicon Valley Insurance Leadership Academy.

    The Now To Next AI Leadership Course is designed to equip decision-makers at all levels with the skills and knowledge in AI needed to drive individual and organizational success as AI rapidly reshapes the insurance landscape.

    It fuses SVIA's extensive knowledge and experience in digital transformation, innovation leadership, and AI strategy with the expertise of our instructors into a rich, powerful, and compact learning experience.

    This transformative course empowers you to become one of your organization's most valuable assets as they prepare for the AI Era of Insurance ahead.


What others say about SVIA

"'Partnering with SVIA transformed our business at Irish Life. Their program, blending industry expertise with practical workshops, has been an invaluable asset. It fueled our digital shift, igniting a new vision for customer engagement and helped us build a culture with the tools to act."

Susan Gibson
Chief Executive
Canada Life Assurance Europe

"SVIA took our thinking and understanding about insurance innovation to who a whole different level. They made the changes coming tangible and introduced us to starups and vendors that made them actionable for our team."


Beverly Harris
VP Corporate Strategy & Product 
Texas Mutual Insurance Company

"We brought 30 of our top senior exec's and up and coming leaders together for a Workshop with SVIA in Dublin. Those two days entirely changed our business and innovation strategy and how we will approach our future planning. We are repeating that program next year with a larger group."

David Harney
President & COO - Europe and CRS
 Great West LifeCo, Inc
(Former CEO of Irish Life)
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Next Steps...

The Now To Next AI Course Program is delivered through six online self-paced Lesson Modules, each lasting 1 hour.  Lesson modules are led by insurance industry and AI thought leaders. 

Each Lesson includes a Test plus instructor led hands-on Workbook excercises with potential use case scenarios that help you understand AI technology, its impact, opportunities and challenges it presents specifically in insurance. This helps to ensure that your grasp of the subject matter is more than just theoretical. This course helps you to understand and gain skills that will help you to assess potential AI Insurance applications for your organization to generate more immediate, tangible results.

Upon completion, you will be able to receive a Now To Next AI Leadership Certificate of Completion in Insurance. This Certificate shows your full completion of the AI Course Program and can be added to your resume and LinkedIn Profile to showcase your understanding and readiness to lead in the AI era in insurance ahead.

You will have access to the AI Course Lessons for 6-months after registration and can download all Course Materials Library including additional SVIA White Papers. If you choose not to get the Certificate then the Testing section is optional. 

Individual Course Cost: $2500
Company Discounts:  5+ People
  • Please contact us for pricing on cost for groups of 5 or more people at info@sviacelerator.com
     

We look forward to having you join us! 
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