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Pulse of the Region, Kate Bawman. Hello, Hello, and welcome to

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Pulse of the Region, the show where we highlight a lot of the great

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things that are happening here through out our business community here in the Hertford region.

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From innovation collaborations and so much more. I'm your host, Kate Bauman,

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and here in the iHeartMedia Studios today in my favorite building, I'd say

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the Candy Cane Building. Maybe it's just my favorite name for all the buildings

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here in Hartford. But excited for a great conversation today with our guests.

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Today we are getting the pulse about Hertford's insuretech innovation scene and how it's putting

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Hertford on the map not only across the country but also globally. A wonderful

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conversation today, and we have a power team of women here today, so

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really women leading innovation and really helping to kind of wave the flag for Hertford

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the insurance capital of the world. So, without further ado, I would

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love to introduce our guests. First from Nasau. She is their innovation brand

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director, Laura Dina and so Laura, welcome to Pulse of the Region.

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Hey, thanks Kate, Thanks Susan, thanks for having me. Larisa,

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it's always exciting to join you in these efforts, so you know, excited

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to dive right in today. Fantastic and you're wearing the proper hire you have

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one of the conference t shirts on I wish I had done something themed.

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I blew it. I love a good theme and so when my colleague created

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these, it was it was only important that I wear it today for our conversation. Okay, good, So everyone will have to look at the social

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media pictures while you listen in order to get the full vibe. So next,

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but certainly not second, is from She's from the Yukon Business the Yukon

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School of Business. She's their director of Global and Experience Experiential Education. Larissa

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Burke. Larissa, welcome to the show. Thank you so much, happy

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to be here, glad to have you. And your title is a tongue

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twister, as you could tell, but I'm excited to learn more about that.

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I want a fun title like that. Wait until you hear the names

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of our programs, also tongue twister. I'm glad you'll be saying them and

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not me. To me, so fantastic. And last joining the show is

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I would say we're I should probably just be co hosts at this point,

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but it is my colleague, Susan Winkler. She is our vice resident and

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executive director of the Connecticut Insurance and Financial Services Cluster, also known as CTIFS.

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SO Susan, welcome back to the show. Always great to be here. Kate, thank you well. We love having you. So first things

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first, why don't we'll do some introductions and I think or maybe reminders,

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because I think NASA and Yukon certainly two big brands here in Hartford. But

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Laura, if you don't mind giving kind of just a reminder about NASAU and

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really your footprint here in the city of Hartford. Yeah, absolutely, So

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for those of you who are familiar with the city of Hartford, we are the two sided boat building located on the Beautiful Constitution Plaza formerly known as the

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Phoenix. So that is definitely I'm sure perking up some ears. But we

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at NASA we have a large footprint in the city of Hartford, and for

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those of you who know Hartford, it may be small, but is certainly

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mighty. So we've made our name within the annuities space, medsub space,

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but also the innovation space, and that's really the focus of today's conversation.

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So back in twenty nineteen, my colleague Paul Tyler's started what we call NASAU

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Reimagine, which is an insured tech and retire tech incubator located withinside of our

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building and what's grown from a conversation and getting startups, global startups around the

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table here in Hartford has really grown into so much more so. It's about

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connection, it's about community, it's about education, aligning people and goals where

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they fit and making sure that we can do our part in the success of

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others. Fantastic love to hear more about that. Certainly. I think the

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work that you're doing here is so impactful in a positive way in our community.

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So fantastic intro and next, Laurisa. Certainly many people know, especially

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after the two time national champions. I have to throw it in every time

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I mentioned Yukon in any context. Is certainly people familiar with Yukon, but

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would love if you could give a little bit more of an overview because I'm not sure as many are familiar or it's great for a refresher about the Yukon

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School of Business if you could talk a little bit about that school. Absolutely

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so everyone yes, and you said nay of Yukon famous for our basketball teams,

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where the state flagship university and it's heier one Research university at the grad

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School of Business. We have a history of leading the way in education.

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So, for example, the three programs I work specifically with our Financial and

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Enterprise Risk Management program, our Business analytics and Project management program, they were

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first movers to a large degree, and more recently with our new Fintech program.

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All of these programs were built with industry input from a board of advisors

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and really built to fill a skills gap that was being recognized in industry.

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So, for example, the Financial Risk Management program I'm just going to say

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FRM from here on out, was built established in twenty ten, directly after

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the financial collapse nine and it's still one of the only FRM programs out there.

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Business Analytics program is the only one that I know of that ads project

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management in which really benefiting our students in the market. So we really aim

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to continue that tradition of being a leader in education as technology and talent need

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to continue to involve. And my role specifically within that is as a director

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of Global and Experiential Education, is to just bridge the gap between academia and

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industry. Okay, love it, love it, and kind of on the

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industry side, Susan is a quick reminder about ctifs, but really you can

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highlight to the work that's being done in that insurance, insuran, tech and

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innovation kind of sector. I mean, we are a business body of twenty

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five senior executives representing insurance industry, life, property, casualty, and health.

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We have some tech companies that sit around the board and as well as

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some service providers and financial services companies. So our mission, I don't want

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to repeat this over and over again, but I'm happy to do so,

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is you know, we call us quarterly to strengthen the industry in innovation,

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insure tech or one of those those initiatives, programs, strategies that we looked

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at five years ago and said, Okay, how are we going to double

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down on this? We know we need it. Our partners at UCON,

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you know, we helped forge some of those academic programs with industry input.

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We work with our private partners such as Nasau Financial and others to bring innovation

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to the community and we've been doing that for twenty years. Fantastic. So

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kind of would love Laura and Laris and oppose the same question that each of

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you. You've both kind of started to tee up, but really the work

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that you and your organizations are doing here in the Hartford community. So if

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you kind of describe I guess a little bit a day, a day in

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the life, you know, because certainly there's I think what we may know

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your organizations for as, but really the work you're doing is very different and

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very unique to kind of the overall I guess you'd say brand of the company.

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So I know, Laura, if you want, I'll start with you on that and then Lauris will have to toss that over to you. Right,

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So a day in the life of is you know, it varies from

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day to day obviously, but I would say, you know, we just

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came back from a very successful conference in Las Vegas. Retire Tech is something

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that we've been focusing on a lot over the last three years, so it was exciting to have over sixty speakers come together to really share their thoughts on

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where the future of retirement is headed, both from a technical standpoint, from

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a human standpoint, the connectivity AI, etc. So really it's a combination,

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and a lot of what we do is partnering people with products, but

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at the end of the day, it's really how do you join these things

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together? How do you join the technicalities the realities of today with the future

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of tomorrow at such a speed where you know, I heard a great quote.

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You know, things are evolving faster today than they've ever been, but

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it's the slowest it will ever be. So when you think about it,

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it's like, oh, sugar, things seem really really fast. So how

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do we adapt to them, how do we acknowledge them? How do we

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educate ourselves around them? And a lot of that is through the community and

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the partnerships that we're building. So I'll actually take this time to call out

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a program that we're partnering with Larissa and her colleagues on over at yukon something

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we've called Talent Bridge. We're in our second year there, and it's a

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combination of insure techs plus students plus community around so community being the insurers in

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a lot of cases, and pairing those three groups of individuals together to give

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mentorship opportunities, to give internship opportunities, and to really get a greater understanding

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of what is going on in the insure tech and the retire tech space,

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how we can bring those solutions to Hartford or into the globe in some cases,

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and how can we do it in a way that's going to build up

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students, their opportunity to be hands on for the startups, to really engage

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with the talent that he's here within Connecticut at our flagship university, and how

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can we pair it all together to bring forward the purpose and what we're working

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towards at NASAU. So we have a lot of really great options and opportunities

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in the area. Yukon is one of our favorite partners. I think it's safe to say that in the work that we're accomplishing together. But it's something

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that we're very proud of, is not only bringing NASA forward, but to

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see who else we can bring forward with us. That's wonderful. And Larissa,

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if you don't mind, I'll put my last question to you on the

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day. What's the day in the life look like? I'll put that on

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pause for one moment if you don't mind kind of chiming in a little bit about the partnership with NASA. Yes, and I also want to a second.

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I mean Nasai, Laura specifically in Paul are some of our favorite partners

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as well. They've just been phenomenal. She explained it beautifully. The only

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thing I would add is one of the things that we're doing is tying the

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internships that NASA is sourcing through their portfolio startups with a course on the fundamentals

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of insurance. So I work with these STEM designated programs, so they've got

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these quant skills that are really needed in the industry, and we're just making

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sure that they really understand insurance as well and then hitting the market so they

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can be most helpful to NASAI and the startups. Okay, and if I

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don't if you don't mind bringing in really full circle, Laura, Larissa,

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is that we have the UK in shirt Tech Corridor. These companies and other

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startups are coming into the market making a commitment to Hartford in this region because

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of the amount of innovation, the amount of insured tech, the amount of

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commitment from private industry, public industry, and our insured techs are taking advantage

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of Talent Bridge twenty four the talent so when they come here and they're like,

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Okay, we need X, we're able to satisfy that with our partnership.

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Okay, no, thank you Susan for chiming in on that. And

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is that really something you see, Susan as you're attending conferences like retire Tech

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and others that that's one of kind of the selling points for for Hertford for

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Connecticut is really that talent piece. I think, so that is the key.

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Well, there's two things. I mean, we also have the highest

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concentration of insurance employment in the country. Hence insurance capital of the world of

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the US at least, is very very intriguing to insured texts as they look

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at where they're going to place their business. They need the customers number one.

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Number two, they want a better relationship with the insurance community. Secondly,

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so talent, So first the insurers talent is second. Thirdly, you

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also have a reg regulator here in Connecticut. That's very appealing as our relationship

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with the Department of Insurance is strong and we're able to tap that as a

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resource for our insured techs to look at from an advisory standpoint and insight and

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guide them on their journey of the fifty state regulatory system that we have here

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in the US. Okay, fantastic, and Larisa back to you. I

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will go back to that question, I promise you I would. But is

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really you know, as you're looking at talent here and again, how kind

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of Yukon is approaching this really new? I think It's so innovative to me,

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and I've been very excited to be kind of on the sidelines watching,

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you know, really how everything is evolved over the last several years. So

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Larisa, I would love if you could talk a little bit about the day

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to day and really what students and what even kind of staff that you kind

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of are experiencing, you know, really kind of in the work that you're focused on. Absolutely, so likewise to what Laura was saying, there's not

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really a typical day. I've been spending this week really strategizing how to add

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in those leadership skills. I was at the conference in George at Hartford and

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someone mentioned for you know, stop calling them solve skills, called them essential

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skills. I like that, and so to that end, we had a

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series with Enturity where we've brought their entire cy suite on campus or met with

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them virtually throughout the semester to really give different perspectives on leadership and just people

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who act differently, have different personality types. Some are introverted, some are

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extroverted, and really show them how our STEM students can be leaders in their

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respective fields. So strategizing kind of new and innovative ideas around that and other

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applied leadership opportunities. And this really just kind of helps build out our stem

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talent by blinds ensuring that our quant students have these skills like how to communicate

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effectively, how to lead, that what they learned during their time at Yukon

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isn't just going to be beneficial for their first like five ten years post graduation.

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We really wanted to serve them deep into their career. But next week,

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for example, we're hosting e n S. It's a Brazilian educational company

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that takes insurance executives abroad and introduces them to other insurance ecosystems. So we're

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really we're really proud about this one. It's their first trip to the United

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States and they're coming to Hartford, right, So we're thrilled because I think

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we're all involved, right, Larissa tapped all of us to be part of

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that, all of it, because it's so important that they're introduced to the

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ecosystem that's here and that CCIFF and that's your Hartford Alliance are such a massive

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part of that. They're going to be doing company visits, they're going to

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be meeting with the Brazilian Consulate and at the end of this a week long

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trip, we just want them to be able to understand obviously the ecosystem here,

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the regulatory system here, as Susan alluded to, UH, and the

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benefits of living and working in Hartford. So it's just very unique. Every

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week could be different, yes, which sounds fun, and that's our kind

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of again to a lot of events. And I think going back to that

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whole partnership is, you know, many times there's different organizations, the three

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of our organizations, but then others to participating to really spotlight what's happening here

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and Susan want to touch you know. It was great, Laura, you

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hit on kind of retire Tech and a lot of the details about that event,

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but also another conference recently, so I don't know if you want to

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highlight a little bit about that. Well, we were really thrilled to participate

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in order to ask ask to be participated in retire Tech, So thank you

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again Lauren and Paul company. There. The other large event that just happened

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concurrently was the Hartford Insure Tech Symposium, and this is led by Stacy Brown,

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who originated the idea about five years ago. And this is a way

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that Hartford the region is put on the map global map for insured tech.

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So we're there to support that effort. You're you have you know everything.

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Insurance touches everything as you know, every uh personal part of our own business,

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part of our lives. And whether it is the protection of assets or

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whether it's to promote and sustain those assets and provide a better life, a

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better customer experience, uh, you know, protections against cyber flood, anything

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you can think of global risks, insurance is there. So the industry is

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adopted insure tech about five years ago, uh as a way to fill that

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gap, and the insurance look towards these insured tech companies to offer their their

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solutions for those particular issues. As I said, there even driving a great

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customer experience. So it's you know, the positive side or hey, how

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are you going to protect me better with the risks that are out there today

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in today's world? Fantastic? And Laura, can you talk a little bit

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about Nasau's involvement in insurantek Hartford. Yeah, so, you know, we

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love to get out there, we love to meet people, see old friends,

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NASA, you know, Paul Tyler myself, Jackie Baman or Chief People

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Officer were all there sharing the stage at one point or the other. So

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whether it was moderating panel discussions about the backstage truth of adventure tech startups,

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which was a lot of fun all the way to potentially, you know,

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being on stage to accept an award that night. So it was a lot

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of memory making, it was a lot of idea sharing, It was a

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lot of information that you just can't get through a screen. And the importance

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of that connection. I keep going back to it, where it is the people being in person, being able to connect with one another's It's very helpful

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and it's very important, I think, in the work that we're doing because in many cases, when we're moving quickly or we're treading in waters that maybe

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not everyone's comfortable swimming in yet, it's good to know that you have a

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support system there and people who are willing to jump in with you. Definitely,

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And Laurisa, can you talk a little bit about Yukon's presence at insurre

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Tech Hartford. Absolutely, so, we've had a relationship with Insurrechech Hartford for

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a few years now. As I mentioned upfront, all of our stem programs.

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We're really built with this kind of practical filling a skills gap nature in

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mind, and so one of our strategies was this conference strategy where it's essentially

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fish where the fish are. So yeah, So the academic director for Fintech,

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John Wilson, has been going to these conferences before the program was either

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launched, and we started bringing students when I started my role last year and

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that's expanded, so we're seeing interest increase. I think we did only seven

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students sign up to attend last year. We got thirty plus a wait list

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this year, so that's been great to see. I think our conference strategy

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and the conferences we're selecting are really aligning. And you'll hear I think you've

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been hearing this wall Susan and Lawyer I'll speak as well with what CTISS,

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what Metropart, durn Alliance are really driving towards and like in terms of creating

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a cohesive ecosystem that attracts companies and talent to this area. So my role

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was kind of preparing the students for being there for the day, and then

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we expanded our involvement with IHS to post a pre conference event this year.

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Cyber Defense Connect. It counted for five CEUs accredited by Big ICT and that

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yeah, yeah, it was a lot of fun. There was a full

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cyber attack simulation. So industry folks and students learning from leaders in cyber defense

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field. So we're just you know, continually trying to find innovative ways to

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you know, help help upskill and also benefit our students. That's and what's

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the feedback from from students. It's been very positive. I can't imagine it's

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not. I mean talk about a real life scenario and at a fun event,

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I mean talk about a way to get into making insurance in that industry

20:33

a lot sexier than maybe we once thought it was. Right, that's a

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goal. That's a goal. I like my job. That's really Yeah.

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In the small front there I go. So and with that too, is

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Susan. I want to go back, you know, kind of touching on the insure tech corridor and the companies that are coming here. I know,

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you know, if you could highlight just who has committed to Hartford. I

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know we have a couple recent commits, which would be great at least kind

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of high level just really what is the you know, what are you seeing

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and you know what is what do you think is kind of next within that

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with that pipeline. Yes, we at the Insurance Tech Quarter now is two

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years in running. We have seventeen companies that have committed to the Introtech Quarter.

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I have been through an application process and have been applied and approved.

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Four companies came to the Intro to Comfort symposium. We're really thrilled with that.

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One actually announced with the press release that they joined the Quarter, so

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they had some big fanfare as they made their trip to Hartford and said,

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hey, we're coming to this imposium, but we're also going to announce our

21:41

participation in the quarter going forward. So what we're seeing in the Quarter,

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first of all, is an incredible growth of companies wanting to participate. So

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the application process is just growing as exponentially. We're gaining global recognition as a

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insurance center of excellent. It's very similar to London and the UK Hartford,

22:03

Connecticut. We are now sisters and really pushing the insured tech envelope back and

22:07

forth. What I see though, is a trend working with Laura going through

22:12

a retire tech health tech. I think there's a we've we've always had very

22:18

it's been centered a little on property casualty solutions and technologies, and I see

22:22

that a little bit more of a trend going towards retire tech and health and

22:27

wellness, would you agree, Laura, Yeah, absolutely. And when insured

22:30

tech first hit the scene, right and it became familiar to many people,

22:34

it was a lot and within that P and C space, okay, but

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not everyone operates within the P and C space. So it's we're doing our

22:41

best to get the you know, the flashlights and the lights shown and the folks who are doing the work outside of that area. And not to say

22:45

anything negative around P and C, that's some of the best things we've seen

22:48

so far. But it's important as we look to the tech side of things

22:52

in a more holistic approach to include the insured, you know, not only

22:56

just insure tech, but the retire tech, fintech, et cetera. That's

23:00

great and certainly training kind of the workforce within this industries. And you know,

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Larissa would love for you to chime in here because I know there's kind of specific initiatives that Yukon is doing, especially in kind of some of your

23:14

specialized master's programs. If you could highlight a little bit about that and kind

23:18

of talk about how are they really targeting that fintech and then also the insure

23:22

tech but kind of all aspects of under the insure tech umbrella. Yeah,

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So, as I mentioned you guys, one of the first universities to offer

23:32

a formalized prate degree in fintech, and it was developed with like an acute

23:37

awareness that fintech is more than just crypto and blockchain, so it folded in

23:42

insure tech from the very beginning. We're developing an implementing curriculum that's designed to

23:49

address these talent needs. So, for example, we've developed a Fundamentals of

23:55

Insurance course that focuses on insurance and risk management, were developing and emerging tech

24:00

and insurance of course that focus of that tech aspect. And then we're resurrecting

24:07

an insure chech Venturing course that focuses on entrepreneurship. And all three of those

24:11

courses speed into the partnership that Laura mentioned with with NASARI. So that's yeah,

24:19

that's one way. We are chairing the Fintech Academic Council for the National

24:26

Fintech Organization. And I think lastly, it just really all of these insurance

24:33

immersion initiatives that we're doing, like bringing our students to relevant conferences, partnering

24:38

with the conferences. These are all innovations that we haven't yet seen be replicated

24:44

by other institutions. Okay, No, it seems like you kind of is

24:48

really leading the charge there. And I don't know if there's anything that you

24:51

know, Laura or Susan you want to add in to that. They're both

24:55

each other. Lord, I could just talk forever on the st but Laurisa,

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you spawned some great ideas. So Laura and I were kind of looking

25:03

at each other telepathically and I'm happy, Yeah, thank Lorissa. I think

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it's important too, right as we talk about the larger community and the work

25:17

that all of us are doing. You know, in sure Tech Hartford with Stacy Brown Yukon Larissa and her team, and we have University of Hartford.

25:23

We they have, you know, a focus in risk management insurance and I've

25:26

had the pleasure to not only graduate from there but also still be involved.

25:30

And it's amazing to see what the institutions in the area, SEC su et

25:36

cetera are doing to really kind of bolster what they're offering to students. And

25:40

I think it's also interesting to note that a lot of the work is for

25:44

the upcoming group of individuals who are joining you know, full time employment,

25:48

but also those within the existing companies as well. Right so now, so

25:51

we're doing a lot to educate our employees specifically around AI. For example,

25:56

we have a few initiatives that we're working on internally, and that starts with

25:59

education and making sure that people understand what does it mean, how can we

26:03

use it, what are the risks. So a lot of what you know, Larisa's event had covered, but at a real level with people who may

26:08

have been in their careers for four or five decades, but it's still important

26:12

to them to understand, you know, why it's important, and you know

26:15

what it can do in the future. And you know, i'd be remiss

26:18

in not mentioning, you know, as I mentioned AI here, the whole

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fear of what tomorrow brings, and just reminding folks that you know, it's

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not AI that will be replacing our education system or our people in the workplace,

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it's people who know how to use it. So I think it's a very very very good point. Yeah, So I think it's interesting to take

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that angle to when we talk about the education as well, and AI was everywhere, right Laura Laris's. I mean every conference that we've been to so

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far, it has been a subject matter part of keynote presentations. So and

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I would say overall, the industry is standing steadfast and ready. As Laura

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indicated that there's not there's not a backing away or fear of it. As

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a matter of fact, they're looking, Okay, how could utilize IS to

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be a better industry? Definitely, I just want to add in on this,

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you know, with regards to kind of making insurance sexy and intertech sexy,

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why don't we take our students to these conferences or like take them on

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company visits. Tanasaari and other companies like kat Gemini, they and they're talking

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about AI, and there they get to actually see how all of these technologies

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that they're learning about in class are like deployed in the real world. Then

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that's like it makes it a lot more exciting for them, right They no

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longer think of, oh, this insurance company only doing kind of what they

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would maybe typically think of as boring. So they should be kind of brought

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into the fold and shown the ecosystems that they can see all the exciting things

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that are going on. Definitely, no very good point there, Larsa.

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And if companies are interested to looking to get more involved with the work that

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Yukon's doing, or if they're students interested in getting involved, where's a great

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place for p able to get more information? Brad dot business dot Yukon dot

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b du. I'd say that one more time, Brad dot business dot Yukon

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dot edu. Perfect grad. That's why I didn't get the first part. So g r A D love it. And for everything that's happening over at

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nasaal or where's best to get more information? Yeah? Sure, So we're

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very active on our social media channels that would also check out NFG dot com,

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slash imagine, and I'll also invite you in the next few weeks here

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we're gonna go live with our Hartford Innovationweek website. So that is another culmination

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of many corporate and private, you know, entrepreneurial partners within the area putting

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on a week full of education opportunities to connect with the ecosystem in many ways,

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not just with an insuretech. So I invite you again Hartford Innovationweek dot

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com. You can reach out to me directly as well if you have interested

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in that at l Dinanhaber at NFG dot com. Perfect and part of that

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Innovationweek will be the Insurance Capital Summit, which Susan if you you want to

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tee that up a little, just the date save the Dptember tenth, so

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right in the week of September ninth. We're happy to partner inside of Innovation

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Week and the Insurance Couplittle SUMP. This year will have a different look.

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It will be a co joined effort with the Department of Insurance Commissioner Mace and

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his team with the ctifs and the Metro Harvard teams putting forward a thematic day

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on climate fantastic. Yeah, it's going to be a great thing. So

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Innovation Week, put it on your calendars. And thank you so much,

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ladies the power team here today. I'm loving it, so thank you so

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much for all of your contributions, and really, you know, to Nasau

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to Yukon, thank you so much kind of for the collaborations and the commitments

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you guys are making back to our community because it certainly is making Hartford and

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our region a great place to be, all right, thank you, Thanks,

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of course, for all the details about today's show, you can visit

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our show partner okel and thanks to you for listening. I'm Kate Bauman.

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Go out and make today a good day here in Connecticut.