Recognizing the outstanding achievements of its global PartnerConnect ecosystem and ‘All-Star’ customer recipients for their innovative solutions and impactful work

CONNECTIONS CONFERENCE – Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) revealed the recipients of its annual customer and partner awards, including the Partner Excellence Awards recognizing partners in the Guidewire PartnerConnect program. The awards also recognize Guidewire Insurtech Vanguard global pitch day winners*, the customer All-Star** Class of 2024, and Guidewire’s esteemed Innovation Awards***. The awards showcased the year's most innovative achievements celebrating Agility in Action, with more than 2,800 Guidewire customers and partners in attendance.

“Guidewire is honored to celebrate the achievements and powerful work of our customers and partners in solving complex business challenges,” said Christina Colby, Chief Customer Officer, Guidewire. “We’re delighted to recognize the groundbreaking solutions and accomplishments that have unlocked transformation through cloud implementations and applications accelerating agility, growth and reimagining the customer experience.”

Guidewire PartnerConnect Excellence Awards honor Consulting and Technology partners and Insurtech Vanguards that demonstrated outstanding achievements in growth, excellence, and impact across our expansive global partner ecosystem. Award winners were recognized at Guidewire’s annual Partner Preview briefing event that took place on Sunday, November 17, 2024.

2024 PartnerConnect Consulting/SI Excellence Award recipients are:

  • SI Customer Impact: EY
  • Consulting Partner Outstanding Market Growth:
    • AMER – PwC
    • EMEA – Capgemini
    • APAC – Tenzing | Tech Mahindra
  • Consulting Partner Marketplace Excellence – Hexaware

2024 PartnerConnect Technology Excellence Award recipients are:

  • Technology Ecosystem Partner of the Year: One Inc
  • Technology Cloud Integration Excellence: Newgen Software
  • Technology Marketplace Excellence: AWS

*2024 Insurtech Vanguard Pitch Day Winner recipients are:

  • Insurtech Vanguard AMER: Faura
  • Insurtech Vanguard EMEA: Xtract
  • Insurtech Vanguard APAC: Codafication

**2024 All-Stars

Colby recognized Guidewire’s second annual class of All-Stars, which this year recognizes 49 individuals as “exceptional leaders from our global end-user community, nominated by their peers, companies or partner organizations, whose impact and inspiring innovation enabled their companies to achieve powerful, over and above results.” All-Stars include standout underwriters, claims adjusters and operations management who are leaders in their field.

“We are thrilled to recognize these All-Stars for their dedication, leadership and extraordinary skill in driving excellence and their companies’ success,” she said.

Selecting the 2024 class of All-Stars “was a difficult decision with many excellent nominations collected, representing significant work and results,” Colby added. “We feel this year’s class of winners ultimately represents the champions among our global customer community.”

To learn more about this year’s winners and the All-Star Awards, read our blog, “Unveiling the 2024 Guidewire All-Star Class.”

***2024 Innovation Award Recipients

The 2024 Innovation Award winners were recognized for their use of Guidewire to accelerate change, optimize speed to market, enhance the customer experience, and drive business growth in a rapidly evolving industry environment. This year’s winners are:

Alberta Motor Association – Alberta Motor Association for accelerating the delivery of Alberta’s first pay-as-you-drive product and helping its customers to save up to 55% on their auto policy premiums.

Ascot Group (with Guidewire) – Ascot Group for developing an AI-assisted underwriting system for cyber insurance in collaboration with Guidewire, resulting in an 85.7% reduction in time spent gathering and pulling data per submission.

Mountain West Farm Bureau – Mountain West Farm Bureau utilized Guidewire Data Platform to provide actionable insights, enhancing overall decision making and operational efficiency..

The recipients were presented with their awards on the main stage during the Connections conference.

*Insurtech Vanguard pitch event winners were named at the InsurPitch 2024 event during the Insurtech Connect (ITC) conference in Las Vegas on October 16, 2024 (AMER), at Pitch Days in Dublin on June 13, 2024 (EMEA), and in Sydney on May 23, 2024 (APAC). Read more about the AMER Guidewire Insurtech Pitch Day winner here and the Dublin and Sydney winners here.

**Learn more about the 2024 class of Guidewire All-Star recipients on our blog.

***Guidewire Innovation Award winners were also announced in a separate press release on November 19, 2024.

About Guidewire PartnerConnect

Guidewire’s technology ecosystem is the largest in the P&C industry, featuring over 220 technology partners and more than 250 integrations available in the Guidewire Marketplace. Guidewire PartnerConnect Technology partners offer a range of software, technology, and data solutions, including integrations, extensions, apps, and other complementary products that drive business value and innovation for insurers. All apps are validated for quality and compatibility with Guidewire, and can be found on the Guidewire Marketplace.

Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partners deliver specialized consulting services, including business transformation, strategy, implementation, and related solution and delivery services with over 25,000 consultants worldwide who have been trained or are experienced in Guidewire products. Guidewire PartnerConnect is an invitation-only program.

For more information about Guidewire PartnerConnect, visit www.guidewire.com/partnerconnect.

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. More than 570 insurers in 42 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, rely on Guidewire products. With core systems leveraging data and analytics, digital, and artificial intelligence, Guidewire defines cloud platform excellence for P&C insurers.

We are proud of our unparalleled implementation record, with 1,700+ successful projects supported by the industry’s largest R&D team and SI partner ecosystem. Our marketplace represents the largest solution partner community in P&C, where customers can access hundreds of applications to accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

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Melissa Cobb Director, Public Relations Guidewire Software, Inc. +1.650.464.1177 mcobb@guidewire.com

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