Other key issues discussed at the show included:

- - - - Distracted driving: I spoke on a Distracted Driving panel to share information about how telematics can help monitor and change distracted driving behavior and help insurers to more accurately price based on individual scores. With telematics providing feedback to drivers on their overall driving habits, they learn to practice safer driving — less hard braking, less tailgating and so on — and telematics can also help with safer routes, understanding of crash events, and even to maintain safer vehicles.
      - Future proof telematics: Octo's global CMO Jonathan Hewett was a keynote speaker. He addressed the ways insurers can "ride the digital wave," claim a leadership position by aligning investments from policy center to agency center, and unlock the power of advanced analytics, AI and on-demand services.
      - Claims automation: We participated in "The Next Step for Claims is Automation" panel with John Heffernan, Octo's senior sales director for North America, Luke Harris from Metromile, Dawn Mortimer from Verisk Insurance Solutions and Roger Lanctot from Strategy Analytics.
      - The price of autonomous safety: Analyzing whether sensors make more sense and how to calculate vehicle risk as advanced and expensive tech, such as computer vision and omnidirectional cameras increases safety ratings and vehicle costs.
      - UBI ecosystem expansion: How to monetize and prepare for game-changing revisions of auto insurance pricing.

Thank you to TU Automotive for another great show! We hope everyone enjoyed their time as much as we did.

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