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| Company | Job Title | Name | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bechtel | Risk Manager | Paul Aird |  | Paul has been a corporate risk and insurance manager for over 30 years on a global basis. He has been a Risk & Insurance Manager for Bechtel (a global engineering and construction company) for most of his career (23+ years). He is currently based in London and the Risk Manager for Bechtel’s Infrastructure Division. This work has involved being responsible for the placement of insurance and the allocation of contractual risk for a variety of business lines including Power, Oil and Gas, Government and Infrastructure and he has worked extensively in both the USA and London with additional time living in Singapore, Dubai and Zurich. | Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer? |
| HDI Global SE, UK & Ireland | Principal Risk Engineer | Mark Allan |  | Within the insurance industry, Mark works in Risk Engineering for the Construction and Engineering sectors, undertaking UK and international CAR and EAR surveys for projects valued anything between a £few million up to €1bn within the building, tunnelling, dams, transportation and industrial sectors. He also provides desk top review and technical guidance to underwriting and clients, as well as training and contribution to professional working groups including development of guidance papers. Prior to joining the insurance industry in 2010, Mark worked for 10 years within Civil Engineering Industry, working on heavy civil engineering projects within transportation, power distribution, and aviation sectors in both site and design based roles. | Workshop: Green construction – new materials |
| nPlan | CEO & Co-Founder | Dev Amratia |  | Dev is a chartered engineer and the Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan, a machine learning company that learns how completed construction projects performed to forecast the outcomes of future projects. nPlan delivers a new paradigm in the management of risk and uncertainty. Dev’s experience is in delivering construction projects for the energy industry, spanning three continents over nine years. Following this, Dev worked within the UK government to launch and deliver the national review on AI, which was published as part of the Industrial Strategy in 2017. | Presentation: Avoiding bloated timelines and costs blowouts |
| Aon | Executive Director | Tom Anderson |  | Tom has 20 years’ experience in construction and construction insurance. His career was spent at one of the UK’s largest contractors where he led their insurance and risk management programme. Now at Aon he is now focussed on supporting the Professional Services team and their clients with insight and innovation. | Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer? |
| Allianz Commercial | Senior Risk Engineer | Clara Anthonysamy |  | Clara is a Senior Risk Consultant at Allianz Commercial. A Civil Engineer, she has over 12 years’ experience in the London Insurance Market as a Risk Engineer and previously worked in continental Europe, North America and Asian insurance markets, looking at a variety of large complex construction risks. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change risk |
| Beazley | Underwriter – Large Client Professions & Product Leader - Large AEC | Michael Attwell |  | Michael is an Underwriter and Product Leader at Beazley in London. He has excess of 20 years’ experience in professional liability insurance and has spent most of that time specialising on global construction, architecture and engineering firms. He was the inaugural chair of the International Underwriting Association’s construction working group, a grouping of professional liability underwriters specialising in construction risks. | Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer? |
| Aon | Vincent.banton@aon.com | Vincent Banton |  | Vincent leads Aon’s regional Construction and Infrastructure practice across Asia and has 23 years of experience in the insurance and construction industries. He has managed underwriting portfolios in facultative reinsurance and direct market insurance together with working as a practicing project engineer for major civil and building construction contractors in the United Kingdom, West Indies and Australia. | Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response |
| SCOR | Global Segment Leader, Environmental Impairment Liability | Emma Bartolo |  | Emma joined SCOR in February 2023 as the Global Segment leader for Environmental Impairment Liability (EIL), responsible for the growth and development of the EIL portfolio. Emma joined SCOR from Chubb, where she was the London Corporate Regional Manager, responsible for the delivery of the middle-market strategy and financial plan in London. Prior to this, she worked as an environmental underwriter and was responsible for the EIL portfolio at Chubb for its UKI and Syndicate business. Before joining the insurance industry, Emma worked as a Consultant at WSP, and as a Technical Officer, Contaminated Land at Manchester City Council. She has written a number of industry publications on environmental insurance and is considered a leader in her field. | Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response Workshop: Sustainability – How insurance can assist |
| Aon | Energy Transition Risk Engineer | Adam Beardmore |  | Adam joined Aon in 2022 within the global risk engineering consultancy practice and recently moved into the Offshore Construction & Decommissioning team in London. He has over a decade of experience in engineering and operational roles across upstream energy assets and renewable generation. As a chartered chemical engineer with an MBA, he provides technical risk modelling, strategic insights and engagement with clients to translate construction project risk to the insurance markets. Adam leads Aon’s energy transition risk engineering support with recent projects including BP’s Northern Endurance carbon capture and storage project and Aberdeen Council’s hydrogen hub development. | Presentation: Renewable Energy - Insurance coverage for batteries |
| HDI Global | Director of Engineering & Construction, HDI Global SE, UK & Ireland | Richard Beeby |  | Richard has 24 years insurance industry experience, 8 years of those at HDI Global and is responsible for a diverse portfolio covering; commercial and residential construction, renewable energy (BESS, PV and Wind), civil engineering and manufacturing. Products written include Construction and Engineering Annual Programmes and Project Specifics and Inherent Defects Insurance in the UK and Internationally. | Workshop: Green construction – new materials |
| Aon | Energy Lead - Climate | sophie burnoud |  | Sophie is the Energy Lead for Aon’s Climate Risk Advisory Practice. She has more than 20 years of experience in the London insurance market. Prior to joining Aon she was the Regional Group Practice Leader at Allianz for Downstream Energy, Power and Renewables for 4 years. She spent most of her early career in broking roles, including 8 years within Marsh Energy Practice as a Lead Client Executive. As part of the Climate team – she focuses on understanding Natural Resources clients’ needs related to climate and how Aon solutions can increase clients’ resilience against physical risk, reduce costs, volatility and unlock growth opportunities. She is also actively involved in developing new products and solutions to insure the energy transition. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change risk |
| Copenhagen Infrastructure Service Company (CISC) | Risk and Insurance Specialist | Steven Carney |  | Steven is an insurance specialist at CISC, who deliver construction and operational services to CIPs market leading greenfield renewable pipeline of approximately 120 GW of energy projects across technologies and geographies. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change risk |
| SCOR | Global Segment Leader Civil Works & EMEA Head of Construction | Tim Chapman |  | Tim is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is currently Global Segment Leader for Civil Works and EMEA Head of Construction for SCOR. He commenced his career working as an engineer in the construction and detailed design of large infrastructure projects and then as a risk control engineer before becoming an underwriter. | Panel discussion: Contractual risk transfer – contract wordings |
| Aon | Executive Director, International Construction | Joe Chivers |  | - | Fireside discussion: Managing GIGA projects – Vision 2030 |
| Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Head E&C Risk Engineering | Ian Clarke |  | Ian is currently head of the engineering and construction risk engineering team at Swiss Re, and has spent 30 years as a risk engineer in the energy, construction and property sectors. His industrial experience included drilling for oil and gas in the Australian desert, trying to make oil out of low grade Australian brown coal, and working in a technical safety capacity at one of Melbourne's most diverse petrochemical facilities before joining the insurance industry. He is a Chartered Chemical Engineer and a registered Professional Process Safety Engineer with the Institution of Chemical Engineers and also the current Chairman of OPERA. | Presentation: The hazards of the energy transition |
| Zurich Insurance Company | Senior Claims Adjuster Energy Marine & Construction | Alison Collins |  | Alison has worked in claims for over thirty years. She joined Zurich in 2013 and moved into the construction team in 2018. Her previous experience includes working as a loss adjuster, fraud investigator and customer relationship role. As a result, Alison brings a rounded blend of skills to her current role. She has handled a number of large and complex losses in the UK and overseas. | Panel discussion: Claims – trends & future |
| CCi, a Rimkus Company | Director | Hugh Corrigan |  | Hugh Corrigan is a Chartered Civil Engineer, a Chartered Water and Environmental Manager, a Chartered Project Manager, and an accredited Adjudicator. He has over 35 years of experience in design, construction delivery and client programme management. He has significant experience in managing risk on major, complex projects and programmes of work from both the design/construction and client perspectives. He has acted as Design Director and Programme Director on many design-build, PFI and BOT projects, including major coastal and marine projects. Hugh specialises in providing independent expert witness advice related to design/engineering, professional services, and construction delivery, and provides due diligence and strategic project advice on contract, procurement, governance, and assurance issues. | Workshop: Marine risks in construction – and how to mitigate them |
| CCi, a Rimkus Company | Managing Director – EMEA | Robert Coupe |  | Rob has a wealth of construction and corporate management experience, particularly in the design and build environment, focusing on driving the best value. He has also been at the forefront of combining the early engagement of all parties to form collaborative teams to solve problems and ensure the success of projects. In recent years Rob has used his experience to provide a range of multidisciplinary solutions to disputes and major insurance losses in construction, renewable energies and infrastructure. | Workshop: Marine risks in construction – and how to mitigate them Panel discussion: Claims – trends & future |
| AXIS Capital and Chairman, London Engineering Group (LEG) | Head of Construction & Power | Steve Cross |  | Steve Cross is a Chartered Civil Engineer and is currently the Global Head of Construction at AXIS. Prior to his insurance career Steve worked with both contractors and designers over a 10 year period, chiefly in the design and construction of tunnels. Since 2001 Steve has held a number of underwriting positions in the Company and Lloyd’s markets culminating in his current role at AXIS. | Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response |
| Landsec | Group Insurance Director | Cleo Curl |  | Cleo is Group Insurance Director within the Corporate Governance team of Landsec, a FTSE 100 company and is one of the leading real estate companies in the UK. Cleo has responsibility for risk financing of insurable risk for the group and coordination of risk management activity across the portfolio. She is a Chartered Insurance Risk Manager of the Chartered Insurance Institute and a Certified Risk Professional of the Institute of Risk Management. Cleo started her career in a small motor trade insurance broker before moving to in-house insurance roles in various industries such as Helphire, London Luton Airport, Luminar and Threadneedle before moving on to Landsec in 2016. | Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response |