Penny Black’s Insurance Week - 19 March

‘The Cloud’ is something she gazes up at while out for bracing walks at acquaintances’ country piles, and ‘cookies’ is a ghastly Americanism of Penny’s most favoured of snacks. However, she was pleasantly surprised when she attended the Hackathon at Post’s Digital Insurance Strategies conference. Penny found herself getting rather caught up in the competitive spirit as RSA, Ninety Create and Markel battled it out to be crowned Hackathon winners, with some of the teams forgoing the culinary delights on offer at lunch, declaring ‘food is for wimps!’, while others displayed their best fighting talk for the Post camera. Revelling in the nail-biting atmosphere in the main hall before the winner was declared, Penny had a whale of a time learning about Markel’s ‘insurance concierge’ Alfred (she wonders if she could get one to supplement her modest household team), Ninety Create’s one-stop insurance shop and RSA’s peer-to-peer Groups app. All worthy of a crown, but Penny was pleased to see RSA’s innovative offering pip its competitors to the post – even if she feels the winners’ crown would have been better suited to someone like herself...

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This article was published in the 19 March edition of Post magazine.