Dive In opens registration for final 2026 festival focused on AI and culture

Registration is now open for Dive In 2026, the insurance industry’s global culture-and-talent festival, which will run Sept. 22-24, 2026. The final edition will center on how AI is reshaping workplace culture, leadership and collaboration across the sector.

Why it matters: - Dive In 2026 is the 12th and final year of the festival, making this a closing moment for one of insurance’s longest-running global conversations on culture and talent. - The event is shifting the industry’s focus toward AI and the future of work, a topic with direct implications for how insurers build teams, manage talent and design workplaces. - Registration is free and open to all, which broadens access across the global insurance sector.

What happened: - Registration opened at 08:00 BST on 14 July 2026 for Dive In 2026. - The festival will take place 22-24 September 2026. - The event is described as the world’s largest festival for culture and talent in the insurance sector. - The 2026 theme is “The Human gAIn: Powering culture and connection.” - The festival is scheduled to run across events in 30 countries and in 60 languages. - The full agenda and registration are available at the festival website.

The details: - Sessions will cover human-AI relationships, building high-performance teams, psychological safety and neurodiversity. - The program will include new formats such as design jams, TED-style talks and debates. - Featured speakers include Will Greenwood MBE, customer officer at Afiniti; Sarah Armstrong-Smith, chief security advisor for EMEA at Microsoft; and behavioural and leadership expert Jez Rose. - Early registrants who sign up within the first 24 hours after registration opened are entered into a prize draw. - The festival aims to bring together thousands of professionals from across the global insurance market. - Supporters include AIG, Antares, Aon, Arch, Asta, Aviva, AXA XL, Clyde & Co, Gallagher, Guidewire, Liberty Mutual, Lloyd’s, Markel, Marsh, Moody’s, Pelagos Insurance Capital, RenaissanceRe and WTW. - Supporter Partners for 2026 include Alliant, AXIS, Everest, GP Strategies, KPMG, Lockton Re, RGA and Swiss Re.

Between the lines: - The final-year framing turns Dive In into both a retrospective and a reset point for the industry. - The festival’s emphasis on “human” qualities alongside AI suggests insurers are trying to balance automation with culture, belonging and leadership. - Lloyd’s and WTW framed the event as a forum for broadening talent pools, reinforcing inclusion and preparing workplaces for technology-driven change. - That message points to a broader insurance-sector concern: AI adoption is not just a technology issue, but a people and organizational-design issue.

What's next: - Dive In 2026 will unfold over three days in September, with global sessions and local programming across the participating countries. - Organizers are urging early registration to secure a place. - The industry will use the final festival to reflect on more than a decade of progress and to set priorities for culture and talent in an AI-driven workplace.

The bottom line: - Dive In is closing on a clear theme: insurance wants to use AI without losing the human skills that shape culture, connection and performance.