Dorit Salinger, Managing Director of the Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings Authority, and Ittai Ben-Zeev, CEO of TASE, announced a hackathon that is the first of its kind: led by a financial regulator and aiming to promote digitalization and technological innovation in the fields of pension and insurance.
Winners will be awarded prizes worth thousands of shekels.
The hackathon will take place on November 6 and 7, 2017, in the TASE Conference Center.
The project’s goal is to help Israeli entrepreneurs understand the challenges facing the pension and insurance sectors, and to create meaningful connections between startup companies and the industry. By doing so, the project aims to promote solutions that will help the savers and the insured, and improve the organizations’ operational efficacy. The project is expected to form a basis for further cooperative projects between hi-tech entrepreneurs and the industry, ultimately engendering new products for the future of pensions and insurance.
Industry key figures will assist and share knowledge with entrepreneurs to insure a fruitful process The competitors will face challenges that have been carefully chosen by teams of experts from the Capital Market, Insurance, and Savings Authority, as well as TASE, and the pension and insurance industry. These challenges contain great potential for promoting innovation, for creating new tools and products in the fields of insurance and savings, and for the consumer’s wellbeing
Managing Director of the Capital Markets, Insurance and Savings Authority, Dorit Salinger: “The holding of this unique hackathon is another step in our efforts to advance innovation and digitalization in the fields of pension and insurance for the benefit of the insured and the savers, and to enable insurers and administrative bodies to enjoy a more efficient workflow. The solutions for the challenges we created are expected to redefine the consuming culture in pensions and insurance, and help exercise consumers rights to the fullest.”
TASE CEO Ittai Ben Zeev: “As an organization which promotes innovation and the use of digital platforms, and which believes in the importance of strengthening the general public’s access to financial information and tools, TASE is delighted to be cooperating with the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority in mounting this first-of-its-kind hackathon in Israel. We call upon entrepreneurs to join in this important project, and we believe that the new solutions and ideas that it will engender will make a real change for the savers and the insured in Israel.”
Further details and registration: https://www.insurancepensionhackathon.com/
