S 01 | Ep 17 A Journey Through the Insurance Technology Landscape with The InsurTech Queen Sabine VanderLinden has spent 25 years at the intersection of insurance and innovation , building startup accelerators , connecting global insurers with emerging technology , and most recently running Alchemy Crew while hosting the Scouting for Growth podcast , which hit 170 , 000 downloads in just two years . The conversation covers why insurance , despite its reputation as a slow - moving industry , is actually one of the most interesting places to watch technology play out . Insurance touches everything from climate risk to health to enterprise data , and the pressure to make complex information consumable and trustworthy is more acute there than almost anywhere else . Sabine makes the case that the next wave of differentiation in the industry will not come from pricing or product features alone but from branding , storytelling , and the ability to communicate with specific customer segments in ways that actually feel human . She also shares how she built the kind of trust that lets her work across continents with some of the world ' s largest financial institutions . The answer is less strategic than it sounds . Read a lot , give generously , focus on other people ' s success , and stay in the room long enough for it to compound .