Tony Pinch, head of sales, broker and MGA, UK and Ireland at LexisNexis Risk Solutions suggests a New Era of broking will feature more data enrichment; passes down some tips from his 15 years experience attending the event; and recommends delegates might fancy a trip to see a local exhibition called Operation Ouch! Brains, Bogies and You!

The tagline for the 2025 Biba conference is ‘New Era’. In your view, what does the ‘New Era’ of insurance broking look like?

There is far greater pressure on brokers to understand more about the risk of the individuals and assets they are presenting to their panel of insurers. As such, the new era of insurance broking is one in which data enrichment at the point of quote features far more heavily with brokers increasingly calling upon geospatial intelligence data, for example, for commercial and