HR Reimagined: Leading the New Era of Work
31 March – 1 April 2026
International Convention Centre, Sydney

CELEBRATING EXCELLENCE IN THE INSURANCE INDUSTRY
The annual Insurance Business Australia Awards is the leading independent program recognising the country’s top brokers, brokerages, insurers, underwriting agencies, BDMs and more for their achievements, best practices, and leadership over the past 12 months.
Winning an Insurance Business Australia Award is a mark of distinction—an accolade that celebrates your dedication, inspires your peers, and elevates your reputation across the industry. Getting involved is your opportunity to showcase your success, gain valuable recognition, and be part of a community that sets the benchmark for excellence.
Nominations are now open and close on 20 November! Across 20 categories, we celebrate leading brokerages, insurers, underwriting agencies, individual contributors, workplaces, communities, and industry partners. Submit your nomination today!
Nominations closing soon!
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Previous Winners
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This award is a validation of all the hard work that everyone puts in everyday to make sure that we are delivering the best customer experience
Northbridge Insurance
It’s a wonderful validation for the incredible team that we have. We’re incredibly fortunate to be in such an amazing industry that, in its heart, has a noble purpose. This is an industry where we have fierce competitors but is also a fabulous community.
Insurance Business Canada Awards is one of the highlights of my calendar. We continue to grow. We continue to strive for excellence. We continue to try and be a best-in-class brokerage, support our people, and support our clients.
I pour so much of myself into this industry, and it feels so amazing to have this recognition in return. So, I’m very grateful to Insurance Business, for our industry and the people within it.
FIRST Insurance Funding of Canada
Why enter the Canadian Legal Awards
- Build trusted credibility
Recognition signals quality and judgment to clients, recruits, and peers. - Win more mandates
Stand out in pitches and RFPs with clear proof of excellence. - Attract and retain top talent
Showcase a culture where great lawyers do their best work. - Raise your profile
Gain high-visibility exposure across our platforms and event programming.
- Benchmark with the best
Measure your work against national peers and refine your strategy. - Celebrate your team
Recognise the people behind the results and strengthen firm pride. - Turn recognition into results
Leverage your shortlisting or win across marketing, BD, and client communications.
What Makes the Canadian Legal Awards Unique?
- Multi-Channel Media Exposure: Digital, print, and event coverage at every stage.
- Exclusive Access: Speaking, judging, and research opportunities for winners and finalists.
- Powerful Network: Direct connection to Canada’s leading legal professionals.
- VIP Networking Reception: Mingle with the nation’s top legal minds, industry influencers, and decision-makers at an exclusive, invitation-only pre-awards reception.
- Winners’ Showcase: Be featured in a special edition of Canadian Lawyer magazine and across our digital platforms, highlighting your achievements and sharing your story with the entire legal community.
Don’t just celebrate excellence—elevate it.
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What awaits you:
- Main Stage: Dive into a robust agenda focused on the most pressing workforce issues and actionable strategies for success.
- Directors Forum: An exclusive program for senior HR executives tackling enterprise-level challenges and opportunities.
- Learning & Development Stage: Specialised sessions for L&D leaders looking to empower teams and drive continuous growth.
- HR Innovation Stage: Essential tech, zero hype. See what HR leaders are using to drive their business, people and culture forward.
- Workshops: Level up your team with practical, interactive sessions
NEW for 2026!
Find your people. Connect with peers on the topics that matter most to you.
Step into action with our all-new themed discussion tables—built for leaders who want results now. These fast-paced, interactive sessions go beyond theory, delivering tactical conversations and proven takeaways you can put to work immediately. Choose from 90+ roundtables and workshops, each focused on real-world challenges and led by industry experts.
Key Themes Include:
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What’s actually working with AI in HR right now
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How to map skills for real workforce agility
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Tactics for developing leaders who thrive through change
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How to get ahead of new psychosocial risk rules
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Real steps to make performance feedback continuous
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Data-driven ways to attract and keep great talent
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How to bake measurable inclusion into every HR process
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Proving L&D ROI with metrics that matter

EVENT PARTNER
AAMC is a specialist motor accident management provider offering a wide range of services to the Australian insurance, broking and corporate fleet sectors. AAMC is the largest provider of motor repair and assessing services and covers the entire spectrum of motor including passenger vehicle, heavy and light commercial and transport, plant and machinery, motorcycle and caravans. AAMC have been delivering innovative solutions to Australia’s largest and most prominent insurers for over 20 years and specialise in providing cost, quality and timeliness outcomes for their clients.
Daniel Lukich
Sales & Strategic Relationship Manager
daniel.lukich@aamc.com.au
0456 763 042
aamc.com.au
GOLD AWARD PARTNER
Grappler is a purpose-built insurance accounting and financial operations platform for insurers, MGAs and broker groups. Working across existing policy, claims, payment, banking and ERP systems, it connects reconciliation, settlement and accounting, giving insurance finance teams near-real-time visibility into their cash position.
By streamlining financial workflows and automating up to 95% of reconciliation work, customers can close month-end in days, improve audit readiness and support 2-3 times more premium volume with the same finance team.
SILVER AWARD PARTNERS
ARC Projects delivers award-winning insurance property repairs across homes and commercial buildings. We connect people, trades and processes into seamless, coordinated service, keeping claims moving. Through honest communication and experienced teams, we integrate estimating, construction and restoration, helping clients navigate insurance repairs with confidence and control from start to finish.
Jess McCorkill
Business Development Manager
Jess.mccorkill@arcprojects.com.au
0407 297 164
Arch Insurance Australia delivers specialised insurance solutions across diverse industries, offering expertise in Financial Lines, Property, Casualty, Cyber, and Accident & Health. Our dedicated in-house claims team are qualified to ensure an efficient claims experience, while our backing by Arch Capital Group Ltd., an S&P 500 company, provides global support.
03 9629 5444
Australia Underwriting has a dedicated team with many years of experience focusing on Risk Placement, Servicing, and Maintenance of Programs and Binding Authority contracts.
Expertise within the team covers Property, Casualty, Construction & Engineering, Financial & Specialty Lines and Cyber Insurance.
Growth strategy targeting hard-to-place Property risks in the Manufacturing, Construction, Trades, Commercial, Multi-occupancy Strata, Island Properties, Far North QLD Risks, Recycling sectors, and Unoccupied Properties, Accommodation Holiday/Caravan Parks, Tobacconists, tattooists and to provide insurance solutions to the Australian Broker market.
SHOULD THERE BE A SECTOR NOT MENTIONED ABOVE THAT THE LOCAL MARKETS LOSE APPETITE FOR, WE CAN WORK WITH YOU TO FIND A SOLUTION.
We are committed to ongoing product development and expansion; our aim is to provide simple solutions to complex insurance to the Australian Broker market.
distribution@australiaunderwriting.au
1300 287 475
Coalition is the world's first Active Cyber and AI Insurance provider designed to help prevent digital risks before they strike. Active Insurance combines comprehensive insurance coverage and proven cybersecurity tools to make cyber and AI risks easier to manage and less costly for businesses of all sizes. Coalition customers receive AI-informed security alerts, expert advice, and other cybersecurity tools through its cyber risk management platform, Coalition Control®.
(02) 6189 8062
aus@coalitioninc.com
UAC is the peak representative body for Australian underwriting agencies. It provides professional development and educational events; market exchanges to showcase members’ specialisations to brokers; marketing campaigns; and representation to government and industry. UAC has more than 120 agency members and over 130 business service members. Members’ annual GWP is about $7.5 billion.
Jenny Bax
CEO
0423 758 653
ASSOCIATE SPONSOR
Xceedance delivers on everything an insurance company needs. Through IAN, our AI orchestration platform, we blend software, AI agents and human-in-the-loop expertise to run high-quality underwriting, claims and policy operations at value. Thirteen years of compounding, specialist insurance expertise make us the innovation partner insurers trust.
PHOTOBOOTH SPONSOR
Crawford is the world’s largest publicly listed claims management business. Working with Crawford means staying ahead of claims challenges with innovation that moves you forward and specialised experts at your side. Crawford is known for quality that sets industry benchmarks, expertise that is deep and eminent and digital that simplifies. olume with the same finance team.
Allison Watts
Head of Client Development
+61 (0) 429 233 001
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MAY 25, 2026
Nominations Open
Start your journey to recognition! Submit your nominations from this date and help us celebrate outstanding achievements in our industry.
JULY 24, 2026
Nominations Close
Don’t miss your chance—this is the final day to submit nominations for consideration. Make sure your entries are in before the deadline!
SEPTEMBER 7, 2026
Excellence Awardees Announced
Find out who made the shortlist! We’ll reveal the outstanding individuals and teams selected as Excellence Awardees.
NOVEMBER 17, 2026
Awards Night
Join us for the main event, where winners will be announced and excellence across the industry will be celebrated.
19 October 2026
Nominations Open
Start your journey to recognition! Submit your nominations from this date and help us celebrate outstanding achievements in our industry.
20 November 2026
Nominations Close
Don’t miss your chance—this is the final day to submit nominations for consideration. Make sure your entries are in before the deadline!
22 February 2027
Excellence Awardees Announced
Find out who made the shortlist! We’ll reveal the outstanding individuals and teams selected as Excellence Awardees.
28 May 2027
Event Date
Join us for the main event, where winners will be announced and excellence across the industry will be celebrated.
4 Content Stages. 90+ Peer-Led Roundtables. Your Blueprint to Elevate HR
Main Stage
Director's Forum
Connect with Australia’s boldest HR minds. No filters—just sharp ideas, real talk, and next-gen strategy shaping the future of work.
HR Innovation Stage
Tackle the future of work at the HR Innovation Stage—where bold ideas and new tech redefine what’s possible in people and culture.
Learning & Development Stage
Supercharge your people with the latest in AI, digital skills, and learning innovation. Real insights, real tools—transformative learning starts here.
Learning & Development Stage
Supercharge your people with the latest in AI, digital skills, and learning innovation. Real insights, real tools—transformative learning starts here.
HR Innovation Stage
HR Innovation Stage: Essential tech, zero hype. See what HR leaders are using to drive their business, people and culture forward.
Workshops
Get hands-on with expert-led sessions. Master compliance, tech, and leadership—walk away ready to make an impact.
2026 Sponsors
2025 Sponsors
Venue
International Convention Centre, Sydney
14 Darling Drive
Sydney, NSW 2000
Website: iccsydney.com.au
