Beyond the Hype: Real-World Blockchain Applications Transforming Insurance

Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Innovation in Action Track

While crypto often grabs headlines for speculation, blockchain’s real promise lies in transforming legacy industries and insurance is ripe for reinvention. This session explores pragmatic, value-driven applications already reshaping underwriting, claims, risk pooling, and reinsurance. Dave Wechsler of OMERS Ventures joins leading founders and technologists to examine blockchain-enabled parametric insurance, smart contract-driven claims automation and fraud prevention, tokenized risk pools, regulatory momentum, and lessons from early adopters. Carriers, brokers, reinsurers, and investors alike will gain concrete use cases, implementation stories, and a roadmap to blockchain’s most promising paths forward cutting through hype to highlight where real impact is happening today.

Session Moderator
Dave Wechsler
Dave Wechsler, Chief Business Officer - Plume
Speakers
Karn Saroya
Karn Saroya, CEO - Re.xyz 
David Verbeeten
David Verbeeten, CCO & Co-Founder - OnRe