Insurance Forum 2025

Get as much information as possible about the current state of the Czech insurance industry and predictions of where it will develop in the future. This year, the meeting of leaders of Czech insurance companies, insurance brokers, professional companies and representatives of the state administration will be devoted to the topic of Autonomous vehicles and the change of paradigms in the insurance industry.

The conference with three thematic blocks will be opened with an introductory speech by the Minister of Transport's delegate for clean mobility Jan Bezděkovský, and the event will be moderated by economic journalist Michaela Nováková. In the introductory block I, focused on regulation and legislation, experts from a factual, legislative and technological perspective will speak. The topic will be current developments in legislation or the impact of upcoming changes on the issue of autonomous vehicles. Speakers will include Tereza Čížková, head of the Department for Autonomous Mobility of the Ministry of Transport of the Czech Republic, and Zdeněk Lokaj, who is a recognized expert in information and communication technologies and systems, especially in the areas of transport and industry with an overlap in the issue of cybersecurity, and Gerrit Kuiper, a lawyer for the Dutch company EMS. Its topics will be digitalization and AI claims settlement in the Netherlands and the anchoring of autonomous mobility in the local legal environment.

The topic of the second block of the conference will touch on the ethical and cyber perspective. The audience can look forward to an insight into the ethics and cyber perspective of experts on autonomous vehicles and the impact on insurance. The speakers will be Miloslav Lujka, a fighter for a safer online world, and Zdeněk Petzl, CEO of AutoSAP.

In the afternoon of the third block of the conference, there will be a panel discussion of insurance market experts, representatives of insurance companies, a leasing company, an IT provider providing software for insurance intermediaries and comparison sites, a top representative of the brokerage association and, last but not least, a representative of the Insurers' Office. They will debate the issue of autonomous mobility and its impact on the insurance sector. The discussion will be moderated by Lucie Žulavská, project manager at Slavia insurance, and her guests will be the chairman of the AČPM Ivan Špirakus, CEO of Creasoft Tomáš Síkora, senior manager of product management of motor vehicle insurance at Generali Česká pojišťovna Tomáš Kabele, aftersales products teamleader at Volkswagen Financial Services Daniela Zemanová, head of the actuarial and analysis department at ČKP Petr Jedlička, and innovation director of Uniqa insurance Michal Kozub.