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Unqork Create 2025

Enterprise Meets AI

Hear from an outstanding roster of C-level executives, thought leaders, and practitioners on the intersection of enterprise software and AI—including real-word examples of businesses rapidly driving growth

Panel Sessions

Customer Panel

Business & IT-Led Deployment – Models for Success

Speakers


  • Robert Pick, EVP & CIO, Tokio Marine
  • Shanil Williams, CEO Americas and Board Member, Allianz Commercial
  • Rob Siegel, Managing Director & CTO at Global Infrastructure Partners

Moderator


  • Martin Harrysson, Senior Partner, McKinsey & Company

Customer Spotlight

Arch Insurance Customer Spotlight with Deloitte

Speaker


  • Lauren Dieterich, COO at Arch Insurance
  • Kanisha Agarwal, Principal at Deloitte

Moderator


  • Ant van Rensberg, President & COO at Unqork

Fireside Chat

Supercharge Digital Acceleration – From Legacy Modernization to Innovation

Speakers:


  • Bryan Brizzi, CDO at Crum & Forster
  • Sheetal Vyas, AVP Engineering at Co-operators

Moderator


  • Vinay Kumar, Global Business Head, AidenAI

Fireside Chat

Overcoming Legacy Systems – Eliminating Tech Debt & Building Secure, Modern Apps

Speakers


  • Michael Radziemski, SVP & CIO at Federal Home Loan Bank of New York
  • Gary Hoberman, CEO & Co-Founder, Unqork

Fireside Chat

Build What Doesn’t Exist (Yet) – Founders, Frameworks, and the Reality of Scaling Change

Speakers


  • Margo Giles, COO at IRYS Insurtech
  • Lisa Lundegard, Director of Solutions at Unqork

Moderator


  • Lisa Wardlaw, COO at IRYS Insurtech/360 Digital Immersion

Customer Spotlight

Efficiency Meets Experience: How Mercer Advisors Transformed Wealth Servicing at Scale

Speakers:


Daniel Gourvitch, President at Mercer Advisors

Moderator:


Ryan Lemoie, Co-Founder & CEO at Auxo Solutions

Customer Panel

Accelerate Insurance Transforamtion – Innovate, Integrate, and Grow

Speakers:


  • Stephen Lord, CIO at Axis Capital
  • Brad Bodell, CIO, Ryan Specialty Group

Moderator


  • CK, Head of Global Insurance and Healthcare, Unqork

Customer Panel

Owning Your Future: The Power of Business & Product-Led Transformation

Showing off the latest and greatest new techology Unqork will be bringing with AI

Speakers


  • Amit Mantrow, Chief Data, Analytics & Digital Officer, Lockton
  • Tricia Blair, Chief Digital Officer & CIO,
Aon
  • Gerard McGarry, 
Head of Strategy and Operations, Risk Management,
Macquarie

Moderator


  • Kayvan Parvin, Head of Financial Services, Unqork

More sessions coming soon

AI Demos

Demo: Accelerating Development on Unqork with Extensions and BYOC

Showing off the latest and greatest new techology Unqork will be bringing with AI

Speakers


  • Haley Turner, Senior Product Manager AI, Unqork
  • Rich Robinson, Chief Evangelist, Unqork

AI Demos

Demo: Unlocking the Power of Agentic AI with Unqork

See how Unqork’s platform leverages agentic AI to create dynamic, secure, and user-friendly applications that learn and adapt in real time.

Speakers


  • Haley Turner, Senior Product Manager AI, Unqork
  • Rich Robinson, Chief Evangelist, Unqork

AI Demos

EY Demo Session – How AI Can Accelerate App Configuration

EY Accelerates Application Configuration with AI

Speakers


  • Greg Beaumont, Principal at EY

More sessions coming soon

Q&A

Kanisha Khaitan of Deloitte

Kanisha Khaitan of Deloitte shares how insurers are scaling innovation with Unqork to drive faster speed to market and broader reuse. She reflects on the future of Unqork in an AI-driven world, and how new capabilities like branching, merging, and AI-generated interfaces are accelerating enterprise transformation

Q&A

Vinay Kumar of Aiden AI

Vinay Kumar of Aiden AI breaks down how enterprises can reduce technical debt while accelerating time to market. He highlights how Unqork’s regenerative approach empowers financial services firms to deliver value to stakeholders through rapid innovation.

Q&A

Steve Lord, Global CIO of Axis Capital

Steve Lord, Global CIO of Axis Capital, shares how innovation and modernization can go hand in hand, retiring technical debt while extending the value of existing systems. He outlines a dual mandate to invest in new technologies while optimizing the systems already in place.

Q&A

Michael Radziemski, Chief Information Officer at the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York

Michael Radziemski, Chief Information Officer at the Federal Home Loan Bank of New York, shares how Unqork is helping the bank escape the technical debt treadmill. By replacing legacy Java applications with a flexible zero-code platform, FHLBNY is accelerating delivery, reducing upgrade burdens, and empowering teams to innovate at scale.

Q&A

Shanil Williams, CEO Americas at Allianz Commercial

Shanil Williams, CEO Americas at Allianz Commercial, shares how Unqork is helping bridge the gap between business and IT to accelerate delivery and collaboration. By creating a shared space for underwriters, technologists, and vendors, Allianz is delivering faster, reusing proven capabilities, and freeing up valuable time for teams to focus on high-impact work.

Q&A

Brian Brizzi, Chief Digital Officer of Crum & Forster

Brian Brizzi, Chief Digital Officer of Crum & Forster’s Surplus & Specialty division, shares how Unqork is helping modernize legacy systems and accelerate innovation. By enabling faster development, streamlined training, and scalable deployment, Unqork empowers the team to meet business needs with greater agility—without compromising on standards or security.

Q&A

Gerard McGarry, Head of Strategy & Operations at Macquarie

Gerard McGarry, Head of Strategy & Operations at Macquarie, shares how the team moved from manual processes to modern, digital workflows with Unqork. By eliminating spreadsheets and emails in favor of automation and digitization, Macquarie empowered teams to work faster, respond more effectively, and better serve their clients.

Q&A

Lauren Dieterich, COO of Arch Insurance

Lauren Dieterich, COO of Arch Insurance, explains how Unqork helped transform operations into a competitive advantage. By standardizing processes and building a modular, user-friendly interaction layer, Arch streamlined workflows, enabled scale, and empowered teams with a single view across systems.

Q&A

Robert Pick, CIO of Tokio Marine HCC

Robert Pick, CIO of Tokio Marine HCC, shares how Unqork is helping drive architectural simplification and accelerate transformation across the business. From underwriting to portal experiences, learn how the team is delivering faster, higher-quality solutions with reusable components and greater focus on business value—not technical complexity.

Q&A

Amit Manthro, Chief Data, Analytics & Digital Officer for Lockton

Amit Manthro, Chief Data, Analytics & Digital Officer for Lockton, shares how Unqork is helping break the traditional trade-offs between speed, cost, and quality. Drawing on his business-side experience, Amit explains how the platform empowers teams to deliver high-quality solutions faster, without sacrificing flexibility or budget.

Q&A

Daniel Gourvitch, President of Mercer Advisors

Daniel Gourvitch, President of Mercer Advisors, shares how Unqork is helping unify complex financial services into a seamless experience for clients and advisors alike. By consolidating fragmented systems, Mercer is empowering advisors to focus more on delivering value, and less on navigating disjointed tools.

Q&A

Brad Bodell, Chief Information Officer at Ryan Specialty Group

Brad Bodell, Chief Information Officer at Ryan Specialty Group, discusses how Unqork is helping the company modernize after more than 60 acquisitions. With hundreds of legacy applications in play, Unqork enables a smarter enterprise architecture strategy—streamlining systems, unlocking data, and laying the groundwork for AI-driven insights.

Q&A

Tricia Blair, Chief Digital Officer & CIO Global Affinity, AON

Hear how Aon is driving business and product-led transformation by aligning around value-creating solutions and client outcomes. Tricia Blair, Chief Digital Officer, shares how the company is organizing for speed, simplicity, and strategic focus in an increasingly complex world.

More sessions coming soon

Opening Keynote

Unqork’s Founder & CEO Gary Hoberman lays out a bold vision for the future of enterprise application development. Learn why Unqork is uniquely positioned to unlock AI at scale—without the burden of tech debt. And get a preview of major new capabilities coming to the Unqork platform.

Relive the Highlights

Experience the energy of Unqork Create through our event highlight reel, featuring exciting moments from our visionary speakers, and inspiring insights from customers including FHLBNY, Co-Operators, Crum & Forster, and Arch Insurance.

Discover how customers are powering digital transformation with Unqork

Unqork enables us to digitize legacy manual processes very quickly and deliver value as fast as we possibly can.

Unqork brings such an incredible amount of experience and expertise in our space, and that has been inordinately valuable in helping us accelerate innovation. 

With the help of Unqork, it’s likely that we will replace 100% of our Java apps over the course of time, and every single one gets off the treadmill. We are no longer coming back three years later to upgrade, three years after that to upgrade it again, then three years after that.

With Unqork, we could really bring together and synchronize business, IT, and the vendor to do things faster, while piggybacking on the lessons learned from all Unqork’s experience and the reusability of their software and data.

The ease of use of Unqork has really helped us strengthen the transformation muscle at Arch… So far, Unqork has been fantastic for driving user adoption and accelerating time to market for our underwriters.

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