ITX Newsletter: September 2026 | Edition 2
The latest events, insights, research, and announcements shaping insurance innovation.
As September moves into its final stretch, the industry calendar is accelerating. LIMRA Annual Conference, ITC Vegas, and the Sureify Life & Annuity Summit are just ahead, while ITX is also bringing conversations from the LIDMA conference to LinkedIn Live.
This edition also looks at emerging underwriting data strategies, new technology for high-volume whole life business, changing consumer expectations in life insurance, and continued growth in application and sales activity. Plus, we’re featuring TransUnion, a new career opportunity from GreenWave, and the debut of Solvrays’ UNSOLVED podcast.
LIDMA AFTER DARK | LinkedIn Live
During the Havana Nights event at LIDMA 2026, ITX hosted a LinkedIn Live broadcast featuring spontaneous interviews with life insurance industry leaders, executives, and providers to discuss key trends, technology, distribution, and future opportunities.Â
Employee Pooling | LinkedIn Live
To mark Employee Pooling’s 15th anniversary, InsurTech Express is hosting a live stream at LIDMA featuring founder Tom Gray and Director of Technology Zane Gray, interviewed by Ken Leibow. The candid conversation will cover the company’s origins and milestones, its role alongside AI in modern insurance operations, and its vision for the next 15 years.Â
2026 LIMRA Annual Conference
September 27–29, 2026 | Grapevine, Texas
Under the theme Driving What’s Next, LIMRA will bring senior leaders from life insurance, annuities, and workplace benefits together to examine AI, consumer expectations, leadership, trust, and the forces reshaping financial services.
Explore the LIMRA Annual Conference
ITC Vegas 2026
September 29–October 1, 2026 | Las Vegas
ITC Vegas returns with three days of conversations spanning AI, underwriting, life & health, claims, distribution, cybersecurity, data, and emerging risk, alongside summits, demos, networking, and industry meetups.
For the ITX community, this is also a chance to take advantage of a special registration savings opportunity while connecting with the people and ideas shaping the future of insurance.
ITX community discount code: ITEITC400VIP
2026 Sureify Life & Annuity Summit
September 29, 2026 | 1:00–5:00 PM PT | Mandalay Bay, Las Vegas
Sureify brings carrier, distribution, and technology leaders together ahead of ITC Vegas to discuss removing technology bottlenecks, accelerating AI from pilot to production, and modernizing life and annuity distribution.
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Account Executive
GreenWave Commissions
GreenWave is looking for an Account Executive to own the full sales cycle—from prospecting and discovery through demonstrations, proposals, negotiation, and closing—while helping shape the company’s growing sales organization.
View the Account Executive opportunity
Pre-Bind Criminal Data for Insurance: Why Going Direct Matters
Checkr Trust
Checkr examines how relying on resold criminal-record data can create coverage gaps, delays, and additional cost for insurance carriers. The article explores direct access to county-level records and how earlier data can support more informed underwriting across life, auto, and home insurance.
Zinnia Launches Whole Life Chassis on Zahara
Zinnia
Zinnia has added a whole life chassis to its Zahara policy administration platform, designed to help carriers configure and launch products in as few as three months while supporting the growing volume of final expense and smaller-face-value whole life business.
TransUnion
Data and Intelligence Across the Insurance Lifecycle
TransUnion helps insurers use data and analytics across marketing, underwriting, fraud prevention, customer engagement, and claims. For life insurers, its solutions support areas including risk assessment, faster underwriting decisions, fraud mitigation, customer communications, and beneficiary identification.
Explore TransUnion Insurance Solutions
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World Life Insurance Report 2026
Capgemini
Capgemini examines how shifting demographics and consumer expectations are challenging traditional life insurance models. The report highlights opportunities to engage younger consumers through living benefits, more relevant products, hybrid advice, and stronger digital and data capabilities.
U.S. Life Insurance Application Activity Posts Record August Growth
MIB Life Index
MIB reports that U.S. life insurance application activity increased 18% year over year in August 2026, with growth across all age groups and especially strong activity in Term and Whole Life applications.
Read the August 2026 MIB Life Index
Second Quarter Shows Growth Across Life Insurance Sales
Wink, Inc.
Wink’s latest sales report points to continued growth across life insurance product categories, providing a snapshot of carrier, product, and market-share trends across the industry.
UNSOLVED — Episode 1
Solvrays
In UNSOLVED, a new podcast hosted by Solvrays CEO Bobbie Shrivastav, insurance leaders explore why decades of tech upgrades still leave teams copying and pasting data between systems. The series dives into the hidden workarounds and manual gaps across insurance operations, offering a practical look at how AI-powered orchestration—rather than massive rip-and-replace overhauls or stacking endless tech—can finally make the work work.Â
Watch the first episode of UNSOLVED
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