# EP 11: Growing Technology Footprints in Insurance Sector

An episode of [Data Science With Sam](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1587954336), 15 Apr 2023, 32 min.

Audio: https://content.rss.com/episodes/401132/3127473/data-science-with-sam-podcast/2026_09_05_20_37_32_21095f66-d7ab-4a6b-bcfc-7ab44dc9b995.mp3

This podcast geared towards an effort to explore new technology toolkits that helping insurance professionals in their risk management and operational risk practices. The guest speaker provides an overview of a new technology called "Spark", a cloud-based logic engine, which has a lot of potential to automate some of excel-driven insurance business function modules into API. Furthermore, the discussion took a different tangent at the end just to touch upon the importance of AI and technological innovation in changing the paradigm of risk practices in the insurance realm in the foreseeable future.Podcast guest: Nick Leimer, Senior Director Of Technology at Coherent, ex-Microsoft Useful links: https://azuremarketplace.microsoft.com/en-us/marketplace/apps/coherent1634571349676.coherent_spark?tab=Overviewhttps://www.soa.org/

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