Juan Vergel

Admiral Europe Tech | Admiral Group

Admiral main business is direct insurance. Admiral Group is an international group that was born 20 years ago in the UK and that has been a phenomenal entrepreneurial success story. In Europe we operate insurance and price comparison business in Spain, Italy in France. Our business is largely digital (most of our one million European customers come to us via the Internet),and by its nature, collects and uses a lot of data (for marketing, for pricing, for operations optimisation) and heavily depends on technology to be successful and deliver great customer experiences. Admiral Group wants technology to be one its key business competitive advantages. We are making progress everyday in that direction, by: - Increasing our investment in IT - Upgrading and evolving our IT stack - Experimenting and taking advantages of the latest technologies (cloud, microservices, big data…) - Evolving how business and IT work within the organisation (devops, agile, ..) - Being open to all new ideas and opportunities that can make us better. In technology, we have a number of key missions: - Being a competitive advantage - Be the enabler of change and new business ideas, not the obstacle - Create new business opportunities - Be fast, efficient and no non-sense Today, Admiral Europe Tech is made of about 320 staff split across France, Spain and Italy.