22-24 September 2026
We’re proud to announce that Illuminate AI is an official partner for Dive In Festival 2026!
Led by Lloyd’s, Dive In is the insurance industry’s global festival for diversity, equity, and inclusion. Every year, it brings the international insurance market together to champion inclusive, sustainable workplace cultures through events hosted across the world.
As AI continues to reshape the financial and insurance sectors, ensuring technology adoption is inclusive, accessible, and human-first has never been more vital.
The festival will take place 22–24 September 2026, AND we’re thrilled to be hosting a headline lunchtime session on the 23rd September, exploring the evolving role of AI in insurance.
Registrations for this year’s festival are officially open! Join us and thousands of industry professionals around the globe!
This year’s Dive In Festival theme is “The Human gAIn: Powering Culture & Connection.“
Most AI conversations in insurance start with what the technology can do. Faster underwriting, faster claims triage, faster reporting.
The better starting point is what it frees a person up to do instead. If only AI could do the admin, I could do the parts of the job that actually need a person – the client conversation, the judgement call on a complex case, the moment someone needs to be heard rather than processed.
We call this repositioning, not reskilling. Nobody needs to become a different person to work alongside AI well. They need the space and the method to spend their time on the work that was always theirs to do.
That’s the gain worth measuring. Not adoption on its own – what adoption gives people back, and what that does for culture and connection across a team.
Dive In Festival closes on 24 September with a session built around one question: What happens to everything sparked across the festival once the festival ends?
Our CEO, Billy Lyle, joins JEZ ROSE, Sue Turner OBE, Patrick Tiernan, Huw Evans and Nick Line for the closing headline event – a TED-style keynote from Jez followed by contrasting perspectives on where technology, leadership, culture and belonging are taking the insurance industry next.
It’s the kind of room we like Illuminate AI to be in. Not there to talk about the tools, but to talk about what people do differently once the tools are just part of how the work gets done.
The session is built around shared discussion and is designed to leave attendees with something to act on, not just something to have heard.