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Here’s your February update of the Acadia Innovation newsletter, your consolidated source for new innovation happenings at Acadia Insurance. Browse below to learn more!
200 Experiments for $200M Campaign | 2025Year End Results
Knowledge Check Check out the 2025 year end results for the 200 Experiments for $200 Million Campaign on page 1
Innovation in 2026
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February 2026
NEW! The Edge Podcast Episode
There is a new episode of The Edge Podcast available featuring Bill Rohde, former Berkley Head of Innovation. In this episode, Christoph Ritterson who has taken over as SVP of Berkley Innovation after Bill’s retirement at the end of last year, turns the microphone around to interview the long-time host of The Edge
Together, they look back on the evolution of Berkley’s innovation journey, from early sparks and behavioral foundations to global collaboration, tools like I-Lab and SPARK!, and the culture of creativity Bill helped build
Bill reflects on the courage, resilience, and leadership lessons behind nearly a decade of shaping Berkley’s innovation engine and what the next chapter holds It’s a thoughtful, energizing conversation about stepping into the arena and enabling others to do the same.
200 Experiments for $200 Million Campaign | End ofYear 2025 Results
The 2025 200 Experiments for $200 Million campaign concluded ahead of impact, but behind on t
with 39 Berkley Businesses delive
generated $262.9M in impact value—surpassing the $200M target.
The 2025 200 Experiments for $200 Million campaign concluded ahead of impact, but behind on total experiments, with 39 Berkley Businesses delivering 112 experiments that generated $262 9M in impact value surpassing the $200M target
As of November, teams from 34 businesses had logged 86 experiments, creating $127.2M in value, up from 34 experiments and $19.1M in May. December’s strategic focus drove a surge, adding over $135M in inc
As of November, teams from businesses had logged experiments, creating $127.2M value, up from experiments and $19.1M May. December’s strategic focus drove surge, adding over incremental value.
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February 2026
Reimagining Search with AI
Brent Wittman recently completed the 2025 Leadership Development Circle, culminating in an Innovation Capstone Project that brought together teams of Berkley leaders from around the world. In this final project, each team addressed a business need facing a Berkley organization by developing a bold, forward looking hypothesis and presenting their concept in a short video for an executive audience The goal was to spark innovative thinking and inspire ideas that could help shape W.R. Berkley’s future.
Sponsored by Glen Riddell, CEO of Berkley Re–Asia Pacific, Brent’s team, the Berkley Ballers, took on an exciting question: How can Berkley more effectively identify key lines of business specialists and share that expertise quickly across the W.R. Berkley enterprise? Using SPARK! and guided by the tutelage of their coach, Sharon Murphy, Acadia Regional VP and Branch Manager, the team
brainstormed more than 20 ideas before consolidating them to 9 contenders After the rating process an ambitious concept rose to the top: an AI powered chatbot designed to streamline the existing Berkley search engine.
This proposed solution would elevate Berkley’s internal search experience by making it faster, smarter, and more intuitive With an AI chatbot, employees could simply ask questions in their natural language, receive tailored summaries and specialist recommendations instantly, and access information from across Berkley all from a single, streamlined interface No more navigating multiple companies’ websites or searching through disparate systems; expertise would be at employees’ fingertips.
To explore the team’s vision including their hypothesis and the key assumptions that need to be tested take a look at the video below and discover how AI driven innovation could unlock new levels of collaboration and efficiency across Berkley
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Introducing the Innovation Theme for 2026
Each year, Berkley Innovation chooses a specific theme to focus Innovation efforts for the year The 2026 theme is “Innovation with Purpose, Together ” What does that mean? We will be focusing on: Aligning the use of our common Innovation platform and processes with the strategic objectives of our businesses and practice groups. Coming together to define and solve problems by fostering collaboration between businesses, shared services, and practice groups
Innovation Leaders will be receiving additional information about how we’re going to be implementing this theme throughout the year. Look out on The Berkley Green and in future Innovation Monthly Newsletters for other initiatives you can participate in to bring “Innovation with Purpose, Together” to life
