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Capgemini at Guidewire Connections 2025

Accelerate with confidence. Scale with purpose.
Building tomorrow’s success with today’s momentum
When: October 27–30, 2025
Where: Las Vegas, Nevada
Booth#: D+3

As a Diamond Plus Sponsor at Guidewire Connections 2025, Capgemini is proud to support the P&C industry’s premiere event of the year. We’re excited to showcase how Capgemini empowers insurers to reimagine their core capabilities by harnessing the full potential of the Guidewire ecosystem.

Join our experts at the event to discover how we help insurers accelerate time-to-value with unprecedented efficiency. Explore how utilizing our powerful suite of reusable, cloud-native marketplace assets and generative AI-driven solutions, you can lay the foundation for a future-ready core that drives innovation, efficiency, and growth.

Catch the action on stage

Session 1: ‘Everest’s billing breakthrough: Fast-tracking global billing transformation with Guidewire Cloud’

Everest achieved record-setting rollout of Guidewire BillingCenter — 90% of North America’s premium book went live in six months — launching the first-ever single-instance, multi-currency deployment. Learn how Everest’s innovation-first strategy, global foundation with local agility, and deep cross-functional collaboration delivered rapid automation, improved cash flow, and elevated the customer experience across markets.

Date: Tuesday, October 28

Time: 3:45 – 4:30 PM PDT

Featured speakers:

  • Shana Romeo, VP Finance Operations, Everest Insurance
  • Suresh Subramanian, Chief Information Officer, Everest Insurance
  • Prashant Shastri, EVP, MU West Leader, Capgemini

Session 2: Modernizing underwriting for Commercial Lines  

In the rapidly evolving landscape of commercial lines insurance, underwriters face significant challenges including managing unstructured data, maintaining efficiency, a shrinking underwriting talent pool, and adapting to market changes. This panel will explore how insurers can modernize and scale their underwriting processes by –

  1. Establishing a solid foundation with a modern Policy Administration System (PAS);
  2. Strategically assembling the right underwriting solution(s); and
  3. Clearly defining the placement of implementation elements to achieve architectural success.

Date: Tuesday, October 28

Time: 3:45 – 4:30 PM PDT

Featured speakers:

  • Mark Fowler, Vice President, Product Management, Amerisure 
  • Andrew MacDonald, CIO, US, Ascot Group
  • Mike Quintal, Vice President & GM, Policy & Billing, Guidewire
  • Adarsh Pangotra, Head of UK Insurance Delivery, Capgemini

Lunchtime roundtable: How to align enterprise strategy with AI-centric transformation

Facilitator: Praveen Rai, Senior Director, Capgemini

Date: Wednesday, October 29

Time: 12 PM PDT


AutoPilot Pitch-a-Thon showcase: Intelligent retention in action

Date: Wednesday, October 29

Time: 9:55-10:40 am PDT

As a Top 3 finalist of the 2nd annual Guidewire Pitch-a-thon, Capgemini is proud to present our intelligent retention engine powered by Guidewire AutoPilot during Guidewire Connections 2025. Discover how our solution transforms policy cancellations into proactive, personalized retention journeys by delivering:

  • Tailored retention offers based on real-time customer insights
  • Automated policy updates that reduce manual intervention
  • Seamless engagement workflows that elevate the policyholder experience

This demo will highlight how insurers can leverage Guidewire Autopilot to drive higher retention rates, lower operational costs, and smarter, real-time decisioning. Don’t miss this opportunity to see intelligent automation in action and explore how Capgemini is redefining customer retention in P&C insurance.

Meet our experts

Shane Cassidy

Shane Cassidy

Insurance Business Unit Leader
Shane Cassidy is the head of Capgemini’s Global Insurance Business Unit. Shane has been at the forefront of digital disruption and innovation for two decades, identifying and developing solutions to address the market evolution.
Satish Weber

Satish Weber

Executive Vice President, Financial Services, Insurance Chief Sales Officer and FS Global Sustainability Lead
With over 25 years of experience in technology and business consulting within the Financial Services Industry, Satish is currently responsible for Capgemini’s capabilities to help clients set, achieve, and measure their ESG objectives and commitments to remain competitive and profitable in our ever-changing world.
Prashant Shastri

Prashant Shastri

Executive Vice President at Capgemini Financial Services
Prashant Shastri, Executive Vice President at Capgemini, specializes in the Insurance Sector with 20+ years of financial services expertise. He drives strategic initiatives and fosters growth within the sector, playing a pivotal role in multiple enterprise transformation programs for insurance carriers. Leading and expanding Capgemini’s Insurance Practice and MU West globally, he is based in San Francisco and continues to be a driving force in financial services, contributing significantly to Capgemini’s success. 
Shivakumar Balasubramaniyan

Shivakumar Balasubramaniyan

Chief Innovation Officer, Insurance Technology, Innovations, & Ventures, Capgemini
Leveraging emerging technologies and new business models, Shiva leads innovation efforts for high growth business clients by defining vision, roadmap, and commercial strategy for competitive advantage. Shiva works with global insurers and financial services institutions in collaboration with ecosystem partners, BigTechs and hyperscalers to deliver new technology solutions from ideation to deployment.
James Kruger

James Kruger

Executive Vice President, Capgemini Insurance
James leads the Insurance Business for Capgemini UK, which consists of P&C, Health, Life and London Market divisions. He is responsible for developing and driving strategy, and aligning the organization to meet customer needs.
andrew-hood

Andrew Hood

Executive Vice President, Global Insurance Practice Head, Capgemini Financial Services
Kathy-Miller

Kathy Miller

Vice President, Head of Global Insurance Alliances

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