Digital Minds Evolve
Building on the knowledge, judgement, and experience that drive success today, while strengthening the capabilities needed for tomorrow.
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Evolve UK Cohort 4
9-10 November 2026
Marygreen Manor Hotel, Essex
Shaping the Future of Insurance
AI, digital technologies, evolving customer expectations, and new market challenges are reshaping the insurance industry. As the pace of change accelerates, leaders must build on the knowledge, judgement, and experience that have made them successful, while developing the capabilities needed to navigate new challenges, opportunities, and ways of working.
Digital Minds Evolve is designed for insurance leaders shaping the future of the industry. The programme strengthens the capabilities needed to think strategically, shape direction, navigate complexity, and drive meaningful change.
Evolve is a two-day, CII-accredited, in-person programme. Immersive, insurance-specific and highly practical, it combines expert facilitation, peer learning, and hands-on application to deliver capabilities that are immediately relevant in today’s rapidly evolving market.
Through practical exploration of emerging technologies, changing customer expectations, and the forces transforming the market, delegates gain fresh perspective, challenge established thinking, and develop new approaches to decision-making, influence, and change.
The Insurance Industry’s Leading Innovation Programmes
Who Is Digital Minds Evolve For?
Digital Minds Evolve is designed specifically for leaders shaping the future in their organisations and the industry. Delegates typically:
“Since being on the programme, I cannot envisage our team strategy sessions without using the EDII discovery system and ideation techniques. They truly help to get to the heart of the problems we are looking to solve and generate a range of creative ideas.”
Lloyd’s
About the Programme
Duration and structure
Evolve is delivered as a 2-day in-person programme, on a residential model.
Cohort size
Each cohort is capped at a maximum of 22 delegates, enabling small-group learning with a range of perspectives across the industry.
Facilitation
Evolve is led by EDII’s coaching directors: experienced facilitators with deep insurance industry experience. They are joined by industry experts, who bring live market experience directly into the room.
Content
Digital Minds Evolve focuses on the real-world challenges facing the insurance industry today. Through immersive case studies, hands-on exercises, coaching, and peer learning, delegates explore new approaches to leadership, change, and transformation in a way that is directly relevant to their roles and organisations. Every element of the programme is designed to be practical, applicable, and grounded in the realities of the insurance market.
AI is part of the conversation
“The Evolve programme was an engaging and highly practical experience. The combination of design thinking methodologies and a real insurance case study made the content both valuable and immediately applicable. The facilitators created an inclusive environment that encouraged discussion, challenged conventional thinking, and drew on rich industry experience. I particularly enjoyed connecting with professionals from across the insurance ecosystem, gaining diverse perspectives on common challenges, and hearing from industry leaders. I left with new insights, valuable connections, and practical tools to drive innovation in my work.”
QBE Ventures
Leadership Through the EDII Digital Mindset™
Evolve draws on the EDII Digital Mindset™ to help leaders navigate the opportunities and challenges of an insurance industry being reshaped by AI, technology, and change.
Through practical exercises and real-world scenarios, delegates strengthen the judgement, adaptability, and strategic thinking needed to navigate complexity and shape the future of insurance.
“Digital Minds Evolve was two days genuinely grounded in insurance, not generic innovation theory. The frameworks are practical enough to take straight back into a live transformation programme, and the room itself was the other half of the value: senior leaders from across the market being honest about what’s working with AI and what isn’t. I left with better tools and better questions, and a peer network I’ll actually use. Highly recommend it for anyone leading change in insurance.”
IAG
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of Digital Minds Evolve, delegates will:
Evaluate emerging technologies, changing customer expectations, and market developments to understand their strategic implications.
Use deeper understanding of customer needs, motivations, and behaviours to identify opportunities and challenge assumptions.
Enhance their ability to assess complex challenges, balance competing priorities, and make informed decisions in dynamic environments.
Create the conditions for change by building engagement, overcoming resistance, and aligning stakeholders around a common direction.
Use practical frameworks, tools, and techniques to evaluate opportunities, solve problems, and respond to uncertainty.
Strengthen the judgement, adaptability, and broader thinking needed to shape the future of insurance.
“We had an incredible experience. Over two days, we tackled a realistic insurance market case study, explored strategic innovation, and advanced our design thinking skills. With expert EDII coaching, hands-on learning, and valuable networking, the experience was both insightful and impactful. We’re excited to embed these takeaways into our everyday work.”
Artificial Labs
Why Invest in Digital Minds Evolve?
Strengthen leadership for a changing industry
Help leaders evolve their approach to leadership, decision-making, and change in response to emerging technologies, shifting customer expectations, and an increasingly complex market.
Broaden perspective and strengthen judgement
Give leaders the opportunity to challenge assumptions, explore new ways of thinking, and strengthen the judgement needed to make confident decisions in uncertain environments.
See complex challenges through a different lens
Help leaders step back from day-to-day pressures, explore new approaches, and gain fresh perspectives on the strategic challenges facing the industry.
Drive meaningful transformation
Support leaders in creating momentum for change and turning ideas into outcomes that deliver value for organisations and customers.
Learn alongside industry peers
Create space for leaders from across the insurance market to appropriately share experiences, explore common challenges, and learn from different perspectives and approaches.
Support ongoing professional development for leadership
Benefit from professional development designed for experienced insurance leaders. The programme is aligned to the CII Professional Map, and eligible for up to 14 hours of structured CPD.
Certification & Accreditation
Evolve is a structured learning programme. Completion may account for up to:
- 14 CPD hours with the CII in the UK.
- 12 CPD hours with ANZIIF in Australia.
EDII certification
Upon successful completion of Evolve, delegates will receive the Digital Minds Evolve Certificate in Advanced Insurance Innovation and Design Thinking, and an invitation to join the Digital Minds Alumni Network.
Pricing
The price for the Digital Minds Evolve programme is £1,995+ VAT per delegate, and includes accommodation and catering.
A discount of 15% applies for 3 or more delegates from one organisation.