The theme for this year’s meeting was “Sharpening Your Edge”
Over 400 insurance agency members, company partners, vendors and staff attended the Renaissance Alliance’s 2016 Annual Meeting. The annual event, held this year at the Hyatt Regency in Newport, Rhode Island, comprised an intensive two-day program focused on learning, collaborative networking in addition to an overview of the Alliance’s goals and achievements.
This year’s theme was “Sharpening Our Edge” designed with the goal of highlighting the importance of maximizing all of the potential that technology, digital marketing and other sales skills can offer agents. Summing up the meeting, Renaissance’s President & CEO Bruce Cochrane said,
This is our annual opportunity to share ideas and passion with some of the best and the brightest minds that our industry has to offer. It’s a time for our agency members and valued partners to recommit to our shared vision and rededicate ourselves to taking our Alliance to even higher levels of shared excellence.”
Other highlights from this year’s meeting
Renaissance Alliance provided us with the following highlights from the two-day seminar.
- This year’s Carrier & Vendor Pavilion featured 22 representatives staffing booths to showcase new programs and initiatives
- Renaissance Alliance Member Central, a learning and sharing lab featuring a variety of training programs and demos of new services and products
- A showcase of the proprietary MAPSTrak, a component of the Renaissance Alliance data warehouse that harnesses search engines, tested results, and proprietary data scrubbing rules to deliver key performance indicators and client segmentation analyses from within each agency’s management system.
- A keynote presentation on the effect of Artificial Intelligence on Independent Agencies by Renaissance Alliance President Bruce Cochrane
- A review of 2016-2017 shared goals and achievements by Renaissance Alliance Vice President Heather Cochrane Russo
- An evening of dinner, entertainment and cocktails at the Belle Mer
- Webinars on sales & service, data measurement and management, cyber liability, social media marketing, and market segmentation
Agencies, New and Old, also recognized during the annual event
In addition to workshops, presentations and the trade show, member agencies old and new were also recognized. Four new member agencies, including two from Massachusetts, were recognized during this year’s meeting. They were the Aquadro & Associates Insurance Agency of Northampton, MA, Click Insurance of Wellesley MA, Gary Blaustein Associates, Stamford, CT and Paradiso Financial & Insurance Services, Stafford Springs, CT
As for old members, those agencies celebrating their 5th, 10th and 15th anniversaries as members of the Renaissance Alliance were also recognized. Those agency members included the following:
15th Anniversary
- Costello Insurance Agency, Bradford, MA
- E.J. Stochaj Insurance Agency, Dudley, MA
- Wayside Insurance Group, Framingham, MA
- Wiersma Insurance Agency, Whitinsville, MA
- William L. Goodrich Agency, Milton, MA
10th Anniversary
- Anastasi Insurance Agency, Charlton, MA
- Cabot Risk Strategies, Woburn MA
- CAV Insurance Agency, Wellesley, MA
- Newport Insurance Agency, Inc., Newport, RI
- Sumner & Sumner, Inc., Willimantic, CT
- The Richard W. Squeri Agency, Inc., Branford, CT
5th Anniversary
- Deming Insurance Agency, Inc., Farmington, CT
- Greenberg, Rhein & Margolis, Inc., Woodbridge, CT
- Penny-Hanley & Howley Co., Inc., Stafford Springs, CT
