2014 GEB Network Meeting

Strengthen our leadership, unlock new opportunities.

Over 180 delegates from 45 countries across the globe joined the 2014 GEB Network Meeting on 14 October in Prague, Czech Republic. Each year this major conference gathers top experts from the GEB network to discuss major trends and strategic needs of the industry worldwide. 2014 focus was clearly on unlocking new commercial opportunities by formulating sophisticated answers to what experts define as the “perfect storm” in human capital management.

Faced with a shortage of skills, and under the impact of varied factors such as ageing population, spread of chronic diseases, increasing private-funded welfare, and the rise of a global workforce, mature and emerging markets are converging towards greater emphasis on employee benefits to attract and retain talents and to define their corporate culture and public profile. Benefits offered at the workplace, and their impact on daily lives, are increasingly under the spotlight as key to achieving societal wellbeing and competitive advantage. How a leading global network as GEB can continue to represent the ideal partner to match challenges ahead with superior benefits strategies?

“Benefits programs still differ widely from one country to another, so being promptly informed by GEB when there are regulatory changes in one country is of great value to us, as we find it extremely difficult to cover everything centrally”: the appreciation for locally compliant and transparent solutions is what strongly emerged during a panel with client companies from Brasil, China and Germany, along with the need for data to support decision making and annual planning.

Timely data collection and cutting-edge reporting was the main focus in one of the hands-on workshop sessions included in the program to shape product and service innovation within GEB offer. Other topics included global healthcare and expatriate solutions, and new products for pooling risks in the International Middle Market, promoting economies of scale and cross-savings while contributing to removing all barriers to internationalisation for small and medium enterprises. The Global Business Lines session explored the great potential to better serve Generali’s clients with the contribution of its three strategic units lead by Mr Paolo Vagnone (GEB, Global Corporate & Commercial and Europ Assistance), providing a one stop shop for a full range of global insurance solutions to assist multinational companies, from employee benefits, to property, casualty and specialty insurance as well as assistance services.

Among other special activities, the Partnership Awards, a special session inaugurated at the 2013 GEB Network Meeting in Portugal, to reward companies in our network that have distinguished themselves for the long-lasting collaboration and continued excellence with GEB. GEB CEO Mauro Dugulin hosted the event and invited the winners on stage.

This year GEB celebrated a very special 30-year partnership with DNB (Norway), while the best 10-year partnership was awarded  to:  

The 2014 GEB Network Conference shows once again the great passion and commitment of all the GEB Network participants to create value for our clients offering solid solutions to their challenges.