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Conference 2025
Protection Review Conference was on 27th November 2025.
Watch the Conference 2025 Highlights Video
We've put together a short video (only 4 mins) of the highlights of this year's Protection Review Conference.
Starting in early 2026 we'll be publishing videos of the full conference in bingeable boxset format. So watch out for the first playlist dropping in January - we'll be adding the videos to this page down below.
Opening Address by Kevin Carr
Session One: Are we disruptable? Chaired by Kevin Carr
Someone said to us a few weeks ago, “You can’t Uber protection”. But surely, we must be disruptable because so many things are still done they way they used to be?
Then again, maybe things are done that way for good reasons. Lots of little things are changing but when an industry is disrupted it’s the big things that change. Will that ever happen to protection? Let’s talk about it.
Speakers:
- Phil Jeynes, MetLife
- Chris Samuel, iPipeline
Panel:
- Mark Townsend, Reassured
- Karan Mehta, Blueberry Life
- Joanne Cole, Yavia
- Itumeleng Kgafela, Gen Re
Session Two: Brand new customers only? Chaired by Jo Miller
In this session we’ll be challenging our audience to think about the way that we work as an industry and whether it’s right to offer new product features or upgrades to new customers only. And what about taking features away?
We’ll consider the reasons we often work this way and the implications of doing so.
Speakers:
- Jason Hurley, Global Life Reinsurance
- Carlton Hood, Guardian
- Lizzy Lubczanski, RGA
Panel:
- Ryan Griffin, Beagle Street
- Rhys Williams, Quietroom
- Emma Astley, Cover My Bubble
- Alisa Wallington, iPipeline
AMI Protection Viewpoint Q&A. Chaired by Kevin Carr
Session Three: ProtectX Live - 7 speakers. 7 minutes each. 7 different topics. Chaired by Roger Edwards
Speakers:
- Shelley Walker, The Exeter
- Sally Waterfield, National Friendly
- Charlie Carroll, Push
- Fiona Wynn, Royal London
- Will Trump, Unconventional Wisdom
- Meg Kirby MBE, Legacare
- Dave Eaton, Cicero