PwC at Guidewire Connections 2025
Clear outcomes. Delivered with confidence.
October 27-30, 2025
Join PwC in Las Vegas for Guidewire Connections 2025
Connections brings together the industry’s largest community of insurers, industry leaders, and valued partners for three powerful days of education, networking, and fun. As a Diamond Plus Sponsor at Guidewire Connections for a record eighth year in a row, PwC is proud to support this must-attend event for the property and casualty industry.
Step into a world of unparalleled elegance at the newest icon on the strip, Fontainebleau Las Vegas. With its sleek design, world-class dining and opulent accommodations, this destination redefines luxury.
Join us for engaging experiences, valuable networking, and insightful sessions. Swing by the PwC booth to test your racing skills on a real F1 simulator. Take a pit stop to recharge and connect in our Café or unwind at the chill and charge lounge. Stop by the headshot lounge for an updated professional photo, then wrap up your week at the PwC-sponsored co-branded party at LIV nightclub on Wednesday evening.
PwC is proud to sponsor the Spotlight Theater and streaming lounge, where you can catch live session broadcasts throughout the conference.
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PwC sessions
PwC will be leading two engaging sessions and one roundtable at Connections 2025, covering key trends related to how insurers are utilizing Generative AI to create real value and how GenAI aided in a highly complex cloud upgrade transformation.
- Unlocking Value: How Commercial and Personal Insurers Use Generative AI
- Accelerating Cloud Transformation through Strategic Partnership: PwC, ZNA & Guidewire
- Roundtable
- Demo: Workers Compensation JDP
- Demo: Hackathon Winners - PwC Gig Guards
Unlocking Value: How Commercial and Personal Insurers Use Generative AI
Join a panel discussion with leaders from EMC, CURE, and Amerisure Insurance as they explore how insurers are leveraging Generative AI (GenAI) to create real value. Learn how insurers are enhancing customer experiences, streamlining underwriting and claims processes, and improving delivery efficiency. Panelists will share real-world insights into how GenAI is reshaping operations, boosting productivity, and driving competitive advantage across the insurance industry.
Date: Tuesday, October 28
Time: 2:15 - 3:00 PM
Room Assignment: Azure 7-8
Speakers:
EMC | Erik Keninger, VP of Enterprise Applications
CURE Insurance | Doug Benalan, Chief Information Officer
Amerisure | Scott Reister, Senior Leader, Enterprise Data Strategy
PwC facilitator | Rob Jiang, Director
Accelerating Cloud Transformation through Strategic Partnership: PwC, ZNA & Guidewire
In our collaboration with ZNA and Guidewire, we delivered a highly complex cloud upgrade by combining automation, GenAI, and deep technical expertise:
- 80% Code Merge Automation: Streamlined over 4,000 files across 7 sprints, saving 2+ weeks per sprint.
- GenAI-Powered Testing: Accelerated GUnit script development for Workers Comp and Commercial Auto, cutting delivery time by 1 month and ensuring cloud compliance.
- Cloud-Ready Skilled Staffing: Deployed expert resources for remediation and cloud assurance with rigorous code reviews and proactive defect prevention.
- Early Business & Testing Collaboration: Enabled early regression testing, identifying issues in stabilization for improved reliability.
- Deep Guidewire Partnership: Co-validated innovative solutions including Product Content Analyzer for Cloud, optimized repository size via JARs, and implemented DB triggers for meta remediation.
- Performance Focus: Initiated early performance testing to address rating and document generation bottlenecks ahead of go-live.
This collaboration showcases how strategic partnerships and advanced tooling can accelerate cloud journeys while ensuring quality and stability.
Date: Wednesday, October 29
Time: 2:15 - 3:00 PM
Room Assignment: Cobalt 7
Speakers:
Zurich North America
Amy Rontal, VP, Project Execution
Annamalai Kannappan, VP, Head of Application Architecture
Erin Doyle, VP, UW Landscape Solutions
PwC speaker - Tirath Desai
Roundtable
Building Modern Digital Experiences in P&C Insurance
Led by Tirath Desai, Partner.
This interactive roundtable explores evolving customer expectations across policy, billing, and claims; highlights Guidewire’s Jutro digital architecture—decoupled, headless, micro-frontend—aligned with PolicyCenter, BillingCenter, and ClaimCenter; and shows how human-centered design and reusable components accelerate delivery. It also covers security and personalization via token design and OIDC/OAuth2, the role of APIs and a composable ecosystem, and the CX and engineering metrics that matter.
Date: Wednesday, October 29
Time: 12:00 PM
Room Assignment: TBD
Demo: Workers Compensation JDP
Join us for an insightful demo showcasing the Workers' Compensation Quote and Buy Digital Experience powered by the Guidewire platform. This session highlights a preconfigured, customizable JDP template that accelerates the digital rollout by enabling seamless quote and buy capabilities for agents and customers. Leveraging PolicyCenter validations and rating configurations, the solution delivers automated quoting with up to 40% reduction in development effort, improved quality, and faster speed-to-market. Discover how easy it is to tailor workflows with the Jutro Design System and integrate branding while enhancing user experience in your next implementation.
Date: Tuesday, October 28
Time: 3:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Location: Spotlight Theater
Demo: Hackathon Winners - PwC Gig Guards
PwC Workers Comp JDP
PwC team Gig Guards developed a smart, AI-powered insurance solution tailored for gig economy workers, offering affordable, on-demand coverage that activates only when they're working. Using real-time weather and traffic data, the solution dynamically adjusts premiums and provides targeted protections like medical, income loss, and vehicle coverage. Built on Guidewire technologies and the Jutro Digital Platform, it enables insurers to scale usage-based insurance for this fast-growing, underserved market. Stop by the Marketplace Theater or the PwC booth to learn more about this solution.
Date: Monday, October 27
Time: 6:50 PM - 7:05 PM
Location: Marketplace Theater
Client sessions
In addition to PwC’s hosted sessions, many PwC clients will be presenting on their own transformation journey and modernization strategy at Guidewire Connections. We invite you to learn more about these sessions by visiting Guidewire Connections Website.
Connect with the PwC team at our booth or one of our lounges
Level up your Connections experience at the PwC booth and put your racing skills to the test on one of two F1 simulators.
“We’re proud of our dynamic, long-standing partnership with Guidewire — 20 years of driving real impact together. By combining our innovative, tech-forward solutions with deep industry expertise, we’ve helped hundreds of clients transform their core systems, digital platforms, data capabilities, and cloud environments. Our collaboration empowers insurers to confidently accelerate their transformation journeys and achieve lasting success.”
Awards and alliances
ISG identifies PwC as the Leader in the ISG Provider Lens on Guidewire Services Ecosystem 2025
2024 Consulting Partner Outstanding Market Growth – Americas
PwC is a Global Strategic Guidewire partner
Click here to learn more about PwC’s Guidewire alliance.
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