Emerging Trends Academy

The forces reshaping
insurance are creating
extraordinary opportunity.

ETA is an invitation-only intelligence network for insurance leaders who want to understand the forces defining their industry - while there's still time to act on them.

Entry
By invitation only
Cohort size
20 min · 50 max
Intelligence cadence
Monthly + quarterly
Positioning
Early signal access
Why ETA exists

The signals are already there.
Most of the industry
isn't listening yet.

ETA brings together the people who are. Each cohort focuses on a single trend, goes deep for twelve months, and collectively works out what the industry needs to do about it.

Early, not reactive

By the time it's a headline, the window has closed.

ETA is built around trends at the point where positions are still forming and there's still room to influence what happens. Monthly briefings and quarterly deep dives track each trend as it evolves - not after it's arrived.

One trend. Twelve months.

A depth of focus that traditional industry research rarely reaches.

Each cohort works a single emerging force across a full year. The accumulated understanding of a group that has been thinking about nothing else - combined with Sønr's underlying market data - produces a quality of intelligence that broad-based research cannot replicate.

Backed by Sønr's data infrastructure

Emerging markets punish bad assumptions quickly.

Sønr tracks over five million companies and a decade of market signals across the global insurance ecosystem. ETA members access the underlying market intelligence - not just the headlines. Better data doesn't guarantee the right decision. It makes the wrong one much less likely.

The full ecosystem, in one room

The ambition isn't to leave better informed. It's to identify what needs to exist, and start building it.

Incumbents, pioneers, builders, capital, thinkers, and regulators - each cohort is a deliberate cross-section of the industry, working the same question at the same moment. That collision is where insight becomes action.

How it works

Commitment first.
Intelligence follows.

A cohort opens when enough of the right people have committed. A minimum of 20 members is required to launch; each cohort is capped at 50 to preserve the quality of the conversation. If demand exceeds that, a second cohort forms automatically. No payment is taken until launch.

1

Choose your trend and tier

Select the trend most relevant to your organisation and the membership level that fits. No payment at this stage.

2

The cohort reaches critical mass

When the right number of members have committed, everyone is notified simultaneously and the cohort goes live. If demand exceeds capacity, a second cohort forms - waitlisted members always go first.

3

Your first briefing lands. Your cohort is live.

The subscription begins, access opens, and your cohort community goes live. Events are charged at cost - invoiced separately, never bundled.

Who's in the cohort
Incumbents
Carriers, brokers, reinsurers
Pioneers
Insurtechs, emerging MGAs, and new market entrants
Builders
Technology and infrastructure providers
Capital
Investors backing what comes next
Thinkers
Academics and independent researchers
Regulators
Policy thinkers shaping the framework
Membership

Three levels of access.
One cohort.

ETA membership is per trend. Each tier reflects how much access you want - to the intelligence, to the people, and to the in-person conversations.

Signal
Intelligence access
£99
per month · per trend
"I know what's coming before my competitors do."
  • Monthly trend intelligence briefing
  • Quarterly deep-dive report
  • Sønr live data dashboard for this trend
  • Curated watchlist: who's building what, and where
  • Cohort community - peers only, no vendors
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Connect
Cohort participation
£149
per month · per trend
"I'm in the room where it's being decided."
  • Full Signal access - all intelligence and data
  • Quarterly sessions with practitioners working directly in this space
  • Invitations to in-person meetups - charged at cost, invoiced separately
  • Access to the ETA annual gathering
  • Priority access and founding-member status on new cohorts
Teams
Organisational alignment
£499
per month · per trend · 5 seats
"Our whole organisation moves with the same intelligence, in the same direction."
  • Five Connect memberships - every benefit, for your whole team
  • Shared team intelligence workspace
  • Five event invitations across all meetups and show & tells
  • Add colleagues by email - they join your cohort directly

Monthly subscription. Cancel anytime. No charge is taken until your cohort has the right number of committed members to launch. All events are priced at cost and invoiced separately - they are never included in subscription pricing.

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What we'll explore

The questions we're here to answer.

This isn't abstract.
The implications are landing now.

Membership for this trend

Three ways in.

Membership is specific to this trend.

Signal
Intelligence access
£99
per month
  • Monthly briefings
  • Quarterly reports
  • Live data dashboard
  • Cohort community
Most popular
Connect
Cohort participation
£149
per month
  • Everything in Signal
  • Quarterly show & tells
  • In-person meetups
  • ETA annual gathering
Teams
Organisational alignment
£499
per month · 5 seats
  • 5 Connect memberships
  • Shared team workspace
  • All benefits × 5

Events at cost, invoiced separately. Cancel anytime. No charge until your cohort is ready to launch.

Join this cohort

The window to shape this conversation is open. Commit now - and help get to 20.

About ETA

The industry isn't short
of information. It's short
of coherent intelligence
at the right moment.

Sonr helps leaders avoid confidently making the wrong decisions about tech and innovation. ETA takes that same purpose and applies it collectively - to the trends that will define the next decade of insurance, before the industry has made up its mind about them.

Sonr founded
2016
Organisations served
60+
Companies tracked
5 million+
Reach
Global
The organisation behind ETA

Sonr makes uncertainty visible before confidence hardens into commitment.

Most bad decisions in insurance aren't made in doubt. They're made when a course of action feels clear before the uncertainty around it has been properly understood. Leaders are surrounded by persuasive signals - vendor narratives, analyst opinions, peer stories, AI-generated summaries that sound authoritative.

Sonr exists to turn partial views into defensible decisions. Since 2016 we have worked with more than 60 of the world's leading carriers and reinsurers - building a dataset that now tracks over five million companies across the global insurance ecosystem, and using it to surface what matters before it becomes consensus.

ETA is Sonr's answer to a version of the same problem at industry scale. Not the bad decisions of individual organisations - but the collective blind spot of an industry that is not yet looking clearly at the forces that will reshape it.

Visit sonr.global
From Sonr's about page
"There is no shortage of data. What's missing is coherence. The information exists, but it's fragmented, uneven, and rarely designed to support the specific decision you're being asked to make. When the external picture remains incomplete, confidence fills the gaps."
ETA addresses that at the industry level. The emerging trends reshaping insurance are not poorly covered because the information doesn't exist. They're poorly covered because no one has built the structure to go deep on them collectively, with the right people, supported by the right data, for long enough to develop genuine understanding.
Sonr clients
Global carriers
and reinsurers
Data coverage
5 million+
companies tracked globally
Why ETA exists

Confidence is filling the gaps
at the industry level too.

The same dynamic Sonr addresses for individual decisions is playing out across the industry. The trends that will matter most are not well understood. Positions are forming on incomplete information. And the window to act - rather than react - is narrowing.

The information problem

The trends that will reshape insurance are generating signals now. But those signals are fragmented across research, conferences, vendor claims, and academic work - and almost none of it is designed to support a decision.

The time problem

By the time a trend reaches mainstream industry coverage, the positions of advantage have already been taken. The organisations that move well are the ones that understood the landscape before it hardened into consensus.

The structure problem

There is no sustained, structured space for the industry to go deep on emerging forces together - with the right mix of people, supported by real data, over long enough to build genuine collective understanding. ETA is that structure.

What ETA is

Sonr's intelligence infrastructure,
opened to a community
that can act on it together.

Built on a decade of data

The intelligence behind ETA is not assembled from public sources.

Every briefing and report draws on Sonr's proprietary dataset - ten years of tracking five million companies across the global insurance ecosystem. Members receive the analysis that Sonr's largest clients rely on to make strategy decisions, not a curated version of what's already in the press.

Designed for collective coherence

The same trend. The same data. Twelve months. The right people.

A Sonr ETA cohort creates the conditions for coherent collective intelligence - a group that stays with a single emerging force long enough for understanding to compound, supported by continuous data, and structured to produce action rather than just awareness.

Before confidence hardens

ETA exists at the moment when positions are still forming.

Each trend ETA tracks is chosen because the questions are still open - because the industry has not yet made up its mind. That is precisely when understanding has the most value, and when the organisations that go deep earliest have the most to gain.

From partial views to defensible positions

The goal is not to leave members better informed. It is to leave them better positioned.

Sonr turns partial views into defensible decisions for individual leaders. ETA does the same for the industry - bringing together incumbents, pioneers, builders, capital, academics, and regulators to collectively identify what the evidence actually says, and what needs to happen next.

Eight trends. Forming now.

Find the trend most relevant to your organisation and secure your place before the positions harden.