Keynote
A signature main-stage talk that reframes how your audience thinks about AI, leadership, and the road ahead. Tailored to your event's theme.
Keynote Speaker · Chief Claims Officer
For nearly two decades I've led claims and transformation at the industry's largest carriers. I help insurance leaders harness AI to amplify human judgment, not replace it.

Operator First. Strategist Always.
Awais Farooq
Chief Claims Officer, Venbrook
Signature Keynotes
Artificial intelligence is already reshaping how insurers process claims, assess risk, and serve customers. But the biggest transformation will not come from technology alone.
This keynote explores how AI will redefine workflows, decision-making, and leadership across the insurance enterprise.
Rather than asking whether AI will replace human roles, the conversation focuses on how organizations can design operating models where technology enhances human capability.
Audience Takeaways
Automation is creating new capacity inside insurance organizations. The most important leadership question is what companies choose to do with it.
This keynote explores how insurers can redeploy talent toward higher-value work, improved customer experience, and innovation rather than simply reducing cost.
Leaders will learn how to rethink workforce strategy as technology reshapes operational roles across the enterprise.
Audience Takeaways
Periods of rapid technological change often create uncertainty within organizations. Employees worry about their roles. Leaders struggle to align teams around transformation strategies. Cultural resistance slows progress.
This keynote focuses on the leadership behaviors that help organizations successfully navigate disruption.
Drawing on real experiences leading transformation initiatives across multiple insurance organizations, Awais shares lessons on how leaders can guide teams through change while maintaining trust and performance.
Audience Takeaways
As technology reshapes industries, leadership must evolve alongside it.
This keynote explores how leaders can maintain strong cultures, develop talent, and inspire teams while navigating rapid technological change.
The conversation focuses on how human-centered leadership will become even more important in organizations increasingly shaped by automation and data.
Audience Takeaways
The thesis
Insurance is often described as a business of risk. But at its core, it is a business of trust.
Awais Farooq
The hardest calls in claims still come down to people, not models.
Technology shifts fast. Teams need someone to steer them through it.
Behind every claim is a person having one of their worst days.
Technology will transform how insurance operates, but the most important moments in the industry will always require human judgment, leadership, and empathy.
Coming soon
Why Humans Still Matter in a High-Tech World
A field guide for insurance leaders navigating the AI era, built on two decades inside the claims operations of the world's largest carriers. Less prediction, more playbook.
Why humans still matter in a high-tech world.
About Awais

I'm Chief Claims Officer at Venbrook and a nationally recognized voice on insurance transformation, leadership, and the future of work. Over nearly two decades across State Farm, Chubb, Berkshire Hathaway GUARD, and Crawford & Company, I've led large-scale claims operations and enterprise transformation, from catastrophe response to building a P&C claims organization from the ground up.
My belief is simple: technology will transform how insurance operates, but the most important moments in the industry will always require human judgment, leadership, and empathy. The organizations that win won't be the ones that automate the most. They'll be the ones that use AI to make their people sharper, faster, and more human in the moments that matter.
Education
MS, Insurance Management
Boston University
BA, Human Performance Management
Immaculata University
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Ways to work together
A signature main-stage talk that reframes how your audience thinks about AI, leadership, and the road ahead. Tailored to your event's theme.
An interactive working session for leadership teams. We move from big ideas to a concrete plan your people can act on Monday morning.
A moderated conversation or panel appearance, candid and unscripted, drawing on two decades inside the largest carriers.
Strategic guidance for carriers navigating transformation, from claims modernization to building AI-augmented teams that last.
Virtual or in-person, worldwide.
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