Guidewire Announces Winners of 2025 Customer and Partner Awards Celebrating the Power of Intelligent Insurance
Showcasing the exceptional accomplishments of its PartnerConnect ecosystem and standout 'All-Stars' across a global customer base for innovative, impactful work
CONNECTIONS CONFERENCE – Guidewire (NYSE:GWRE) recognized and celebrated several customer and partner award recipients at Connections, including the esteemed Guidewire Innovation Awards*, the Partner Excellence Awards honoring partners in the Guidewire PartnerConnect program, the Guidewire Insurtech Vanguard global InsurPitch winners**, and the distinguished customer All-Stars*** class of 2025. The annual awards spotlighted the year's most standout, innovative achievements celebrating Intelligent Insurance. More than 3,000 Guidewire customers and partners were in attendance.
"Guidewire is delighted to celebrate the exceptional work of our customers and partners to reinvent and transform the P&C industry," said Christina Colby, Chief Customer Officer, Guidewire. "We recognize their excellence in driving powerful outcomes and achievements that highlight how cloud, with intelligent capabilities, delivers real, measurable value."
*2025 Innovation Award
The 2025 Innovation Award winners were recognized for their transformative use of Guidewire to unlock agility, growth, and better outcomes for policyholders, agents, and insurers. This year's winners are:
Amerisure – Working with partner PwC, Amerisure transformed how it delivers Loss Sensitive billing solutions, driving greater operational efficiency, saving thousands of manual hours annually, and delivering higher-quality service to customers.
CNA – CNA boldly renewed their digital insurance processes by adopting Guidewire Cloud Platform, Jutro, and Advanced Product Designer with the help of partner PwC, enabling faster product delivery, streamlined underwriting, and scalable low-code solutions including a workers' compensation product that drastically accelerates time to market and enables agile growth.
OP Life – OP Life transformed its risk life insurance business, achieving 70% automation with its first release and driving significant efficiency gains. Working with CGI, and as the first insurer to implement life products on the Guidewire Cloud Platform, OP Life is setting a new standard for modernization in the industry.
The recipients were presented with their awards on the main stage during the Connections conference. Guidewire Innovation Award winners were also announced in a separate press release on October 29, 2025.
Guidewire PartnerConnect Excellence Awards honor Consulting and Technology partners and Insurtech Vanguards that have demonstrated outstanding achievements in growth, excellence, and impact across its expansive global partner ecosystem. Award winners were recognized at the annual Guidewire Partner Preview event that took place on Monday, October 27, 2025.
**2025 PartnerConnect Consulting/SI Excellence Award recipients are:
- Consulting Partner Global Outstanding Market Growth – PwC
- SI Customer Impact: Capgemini
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Consulting Partner Outstanding Market Growth by region:
- AMER – Deloitte
- APAC – Cognizant
- EMEA – Alchemy Technology Services
- Consulting Partner Marketplace Excellence – PwC
- Consulting Partner Corporate Compassion – EY
2025 PartnerConnect Technology Excellence Award recipients are:
- Technology Partner of the Year
- Marketplace Partner of the Year
- Global Technology Partner of the Year
2025 Insurtech Vanguard InsurPitch Winners:
Insurtech Vanguards Pitch of the Year:
Insurtech Vanguard pitch event winners were named at the Guidewire InsurPitch event in London on June 26, 2025 (EMEA) and at InsurPitch in Toronto on September 11, 2025 (AMER). Read more about the EMEA Insurtech Pitch Day winner here and the AMER winner here.
***2025 All-Stars
Colby honored the third annual class of Guidewire All-Stars, which recognizes 51 individuals, celebrating "outstanding champions from our global end-user community nominated by peers, companies, or partners, whose exceptional impact and innovative contributions drove remarkable, above-and-beyond results." All-Stars include standout underwriters, claims adjusters, operations managers, and others who are leaders in their field.
"We're thrilled to celebrate these outstanding users whose commitment, leadership, and excellence continue to raise the bar and drive meaningful success across their organizations and the industry," she said.
"With many exceptional nominations highlighting remarkable achievements and business impact, selecting the 2025 class of All-Stars was a difficult process," Colby added. "However, we believe this year's class of honorees best represent the excellence of our global customer community."
Additionally, All-Star recipients from prior years had the opportunity to tell their personal stories on the Connections main stage during a special segment hosted by The Moth on October 29. "These moving stories demonstrated personal commitment and passion to the purpose of the industry to protect society," Colby said.
Learn more about the 2025 class of Guidewire All-Stars on our blog.
About Guidewire PartnerConnect
Guidewire PartnerConnect, consisting of Consulting and Technology partners, helps insurers drive their businesses forward by delivering innovative solutions, industry and technology insights, and holistic advice.
Guidewire PartnerConnect Consulting partners deliver specialized consulting services, including business transformation, strategy, implementation, and related solution and delivery services with over 26,000 consultants worldwide who have been trained or are experienced in Guidewire products. Guidewire PartnerConnect is an invitation-only program.
Guidewire's technology ecosystem is the largest in the P&C industry, with over 220 technology partners providing over 290 integrations in the Guidewire Marketplace. Guidewire PartnerConnect Technology partners provide software, technology, and data solutions as well as insurance support services. Our Technology Alliances partners help drive business value and innovation for insurers by developing and delivering integrations, extensions, apps, and other complementary solutions for Guidewire products. All of our Ready for Guidewire partner solutions are validated for security, quality, and compatibility with Guidewire, and can be found on the Guidewire Marketplace.
For more information about Guidewire PartnerConnect, please visit http://www.guidewire.com/partners.
About Guidewire
Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. More than 570 insurers in 43 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, rely on Guidewire products. With core systems leveraging data and analytics, digital, and artificial intelligence, Guidewire defines cloud platform excellence for P&C insurers.
We are proud of our unparalleled implementation record, with 1,700+ successful projects supported by the industry's largest R&D team and SI partner ecosystem. Our marketplace represents the largest partner community in P&C, where customers can access hundreds of applications to accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.
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