0:02 so I hope you like our uh our bolte
0:05 branding these are my bolte socks but
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0:13 sneakers hi I'm Rob shimik I am the
0:16 group CEO of btech and my fun fact is
0:19 that I'm an extreme sports junkie later
0:21 this calendar year I will be doing the
0:24 Antarctica marathon in some very cold
0:28 temperatures deep deep deep down
0:33 south btech is the world's most scaled
0:35 Insurance distribution business in the
0:38 insure Tech space today we operate in
0:41 three continents and 30 plus countries
0:44 covering North America Europe and Asia
0:47 Singapore's very own homegrown inure Tech
0:51 unicorn first of all think about the
0:54 pace of change in the world around us
0:56 climate change for example is causing
0:59 natural catastrophes to occur at an
1:02 increasing speed and risks like cyber
1:05 risk are evolving and all of these
1:08 things create new risks that require new
1:10 Solutions at bolte we're focused on the
1:13 power of connection we're connecting the
1:16 need of those risks protected against
1:19 the providers who provide the protection
1:21 for those
1:24 risks southeast Asia is an amazing
1:26 opportunity for Insurance Solutions
1:29 there's opportunities for new innovation
1:32 for new business models to emerge that
1:34 enable us to meet this growing
1:38 protection Gap today less than 2% of GDP
1:41 is spent in this region buying
1:43 protection and yet everyone in this
1:46 region needs protection just like they
1:49 do in the more advanced markets around
1:51 the world and so we see that as a
1:53 tremendous opportunity and we see that
1:56 as an important place where Bola can
2:01 difference the most important recent
2:04 announcement that we've made is that Bol
2:06 hug has achieved the world's largest
2:09 ever series B fundraising round for an
2:12 insure Tech and that fundraising round
2:15 talks to the confidence of investors in
2:19 the business model of boltek we raised
2:22 $246 million in connection with our
2:24 series B fundraising round we're
2:28 extremely proud that we include the edbi
2:35 investors we do this in many countries
2:38 here in Southeast Asia in Thailand we
2:41 work with AIS one of the leading Telos
2:43 in the Philippines we've recently
2:45 launched with globe but we also worked
2:48 outside of the Telco space with
2:52 companies like Maya or Lazada or big
2:55 names here in South East Asia who are
2:57 really themselves transforming the
3:00 landscape in the marketplace and we just
3:02 want to be a part of helping them to
3:05 succeed we want to be an enabler to the
3:07 long-term success of the other players
3:16 Asia the first question am I a morning
3:19 person or a night person I'm both
3:21 exercise in the morning and family time
3:23 at night especially with my wife next
3:26 question the book I'm currently reading
3:29 are my favorite I love two authors John
3:32 Grisham and Michael Lewis the book that
3:35 I'm reading now is the next new new
3:37 thing by Michael Lewis about the Silicon
3:40 Valley if you could have any superpower
3:43 what would it be so I'm going to cheat I
3:45 want to be a member of The Avengers
3:47 where I'm associated with a whole team
3:49 of um Partners who have all of the
3:52 superpowers we don't want one superpower
3:54 at btech we want them all my dream
3:56 travel destination without a doubt I
3:59 want to do a safari in Africa come join
4:02 me my favorite app on my phone right now
4:06 I am a huge Philadelphia US sports fan
4:08 and so my Philadelphia US Sports app
4:10 that shows me how all of the teams are
4:13 doing go Philadelphia Eagles and lastly
4:17 complete this sentence Innovation is the
4:23 growth edbi is one of our favorite
4:25 Partners on our growth Journey a
4:27 participant in boltek successful series
4:30 a fund raise and again in our series B
4:33 fundraising also a wonderful partner for
4:35 helping us to establish our group
4:37 headquarters here in Singapore including
4:41 allowing us to get our talent into the
4:43 country when they came from other
4:46 geographies around southeast Asia very
4:49 proud of the connections that edbi
4:51 continues to help us make um both with
4:55 other insure techs or other aexs here in
4:57 the Singapore or Southeast Asian
5:00 Marketplace um but also with larger
5:03 companies that we target as potential
5:05 Partners where we think a boltek
5:07 solution Innovation or new business
5:14 succeed without a doubt one of the most
5:16 exciting things happening in boltek
5:19 today is the implementation of
5:21 artificial intelligence and it impacts
5:22 the entire value chain the way we
5:25 interact with customers in distribution
5:27 to the way we understand and underrate
5:29 risks and to the way we handle the
5:31 claims so one of the exciting things
5:33 that we've really done inside of btech
5:35 is we've unleashed the capability of
5:38 chat GPT we can use that to improve
5:40 efficiency but we can do it in a very
5:43 protected way so our information is not
5:45 shared with the outside world but we get
5:48 the benefit of llm capabilities you're
5:50 going to see exciting things coming from
5:56 future one piece of advice that I have
5:59 comes from stepen Cy's seven habits of
6:02 high Effective People begin with the end
6:04 in mind that means understand where
6:07 you're headed and never lose track of
6:09 that don't lose the forest through the
6:12 trees there's many distractions but stay
6:14 true to the vision that you've
6:16 undertaken in the first place and you'll be
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