InsurTech Insights: What’s New | 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.
What’s Ahead: Industry Events
LIDMA After Dark
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.
View the LIDMA LinkedIn Event →Inside the Future of Insurance Operations
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.
View the LinkedIn Live Event →2026 LIMRA Annual Conference
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
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
Explore ITC Vegas →2026 Sureify Life & Annuity Summit
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.
Explore the Sureify Summit →
ITX Career Spotlight
Account Executive
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 →Top Industry Insights
Pre-Bind Criminal Data for Insurance: Why Going Direct Matters
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.
Read the Checkr Insight →Press Release Roundup
Zinnia Launches Whole Life Chassis on Zahara
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.
Read the Zinnia Announcement →Partner Spotlight
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 →
Research & Reports
World Life Insurance Report 2026
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.
Explore the Capgemini Report →U.S. Life Insurance Application Activity Posts Record August Growth
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’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.
Read the Wink Report →Listen & Learn
UNSOLVED — Episode 1
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.
Watch the First Episode of UNSOLVED →