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| Company | Job Title | Name | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aon | Head of UK Retail Cyber | Nathan Hankin |  | Nathan Hankin is the head of the UK Retail Cyber team at Aon. He has fifteen years of experience in commercial insurance helping organisations across many industries of all sizes from start-ups to global organisations. Nathan has presented at many Cyber focused events across the country. He offers help and insight around Cyber risk with real life examples or media, to help educate colleagues and clients. | Presentation: Cyber risk |
| Invesis | Risk & Insurance BP | Nathalie Vandenbroucke |  | Nathalie Vandenbroucke is an experienced Risk Manager specialising in the construction sector. She currently serves as Risk & Insurance Business Partner for Invesis. Invesis is a global investor and developer in sustainable infrastructure projects who actively manage all aspects of an investment, from development and financing through to design, construction, maintenance, operations – all the way through to hand-back. Previously, Nathalie led the Risk Management, Compliance and Insurance portfolios of construction groups Eiffage in the Benelux region and BAM in Belgium and Luxembourg. She is a board member at Belrim. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change risk Workshop: Developing risk management strategies |
| Bechtel | General Manager – Commercial Infrastructure | Mike Wilkinson |  | Mike is a Partner at Bechtel, having joined in 2004 as the Global Head Counsel for the Mining & Metals business. Since then, he has served in various legal, financial, operational and management roles across the company. For several years, Mike was Bechtel’s Global Head of Risk Management, which included responsibility for Bechtel’s global insurance program. Before joining Bechtel, he specialised in front end project work in the motorway, rail, ports, water, power, mining and defence industries, largely working for owners, developers and financiers. | Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects |
| 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? |
| IMIA | Secretary general | Michael Spencer |  | Michael has held the position of Secretary General at IMIA (International Association of Engineering Insurers) sine 2018. IMIA was formed in 1968 and today representing a network of experts in Engineering Insurance from around the world. IMIA has expanded greatly and now has 20 member countries with members from Reinsurers, Insurance Companies, and representatives from Loss Adjusters and also Insurance Brokers. Prior to joining IMIA Michael held senior construction insurance roles for Marsh, RSA, Zurich and SCOR. | Panel discussion: Emerging risks and insurance market response |
| Zurich Resilience Solutions | Risk Engineer | Matthew Taylor |  | Matt Taylor works as a Risk Engineer for Zurich Resilience Solutions, specialising in the design, construction and operation of solar farms and battery storage systems. He has worked on solar and battery storage plants for clients in the UK, France, Spain, Portugal and Ireland and has a broad knowledge of the industry ecosystem in Europe, Australia and the US. | Presentation: Renewable Energy - Insurance coverage for batteries |
| Allianz Commercial | UK Head of Professional Indemnity, Large-Corp & Specialty | Katherine Watson |  | Kat is Head of Professional Indemnity at Allianz Commercial in the UK, a role she assumed in 2022. Prior to this she held underwriting roles of increasing seniority at different carriers including Ace, Hiscox and Berkshire Hathaway. | Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer? |
| CCi, a Rimkus Company | Head of Architectural Services | Joanne Williams |  | Joanne is an ARB registered Chartered Architect with more than 30 years of experience in the construction industry as a designer, technical lead, and project delivery manager across a broad range of building types, including residential, education, healthcare, leisure and industrial sectors. Joanne acts as an Expert Witness, writing reports in the fields of architecture and construction, including construction defects, professional negligence, design copyright issues and contract disputes. She also undertakes technical advisory reports in construction insurance-related matters and provides construction advice and contract troubleshooting. Joanne provides dispute resolution assistance, advice, and expertise, including CPR35 compliant reports for Court purposes and reports for adjudication and arbitration. | Workshop: Implications of the Buildings Safety Act (UK) |
| Aon | Global Head of Construction & Infrastructure | James MacNeal |  | James is currently Aon’s Global Head of the Construction and Infrastructure Practice which includes over 1000 specialist colleagues in 48 countries. In this role James is responsible for growth, thought-leadership and best practice in this key industry practice. James is also the relationship lead for certain Aon clients. He has over 33 years of construction insurance experience, of which 18 have been with the Aon Group. He was previously at Marsh where he led the UK Construction Units broking team. | Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects |
| SCOR & Executive Committee Member, IMIA | Global Head Construction | Isabelle Kowalski |  | Isabelle has worked for 27 years in the construction world, including six years as civil engineer and 21 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Since 2019 she has been Global Head Construction at SCOR Specialty Insurance, a member of the IMIA Executive committee, and is engaged in a number of working groups on ESG matters. She gained her experience in construction as site superintendent with Spie Batignolles and VINCI, as senior construction underwriter at SCOR, being lead market on a number of large projects around the world, and as senior practice leader at AXA Corporate Solutions, managing large corporate accounts on all construction lines. | Workshop: Sustainability – How insurance can assist |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Hawkins & Associates | Principal Associate | Dr Eleanor Jay |  | Eleanor has a 1st class Masters Degree and a PhD from Imperial College. After her PhD, she worked as a Research Associate for Imperial College, but was quickly seconded to the Government Office for Science and the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to be part of the Nuclear Energy Research and Development Review Board. She was heavily involved in assessing the UK’s nuclear energy landscape, which involved close communication with stakeholders across the nuclear industry in the UK. After this Eleanor then took up a consultant position with Adelard LLP, who specialise in risk, security and safety analysis for a wide range of industries; defence, nuclear, rail and critical frameworks. Whilst at Adelard, Eleanor established a new specialist work area in hydraulic fracturing. Eleanor is a Chartered Engineer and specialises in material failures, metallurgy, escapes of water and oil, system failures and personal injury. | Workshop: Water risks - beyond the usual |
| Qiddiya | Chief Delivery Officer | Eddie Sammut |  | Edward Sammut is the Chief Delivery Officer at Qiddiya - one of the flagship projects that form part of Saudi Arabia’s Vision 2030. In this position, he leads the construction portfolio with responsibility for program-wide delivery. With over 30 years of international work experience spanning Australia, the United Kingdom, Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, Ed has worked across a variety of roles including operational project and commercial management; was Executive General Manager for global risk with a major international contractor and has held various executive management roles. Having a keen interest in risk and how to understand the true interpretation of perceived risks, Ed is committed to changing the way risk and potential outcomes are viewed and mitigated, including the apportionment or risk to where it is best managed. | Fireside discussion: Managing GIGA projects – Vision 2030 |
| CISC | Risk Manager | Dimitrios Gravias |  | Dimitrios Gravias has 7 years of experience in the construction & infrastructure sector with direct involvement in Project Management Offices and in particular Project Risk Management. Prior to joining CISC, an exclusive service provider to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), as the Risk Management lead in its Global PMO function, Mr. Gravias worked as the Project Risk Manager for the cable-stayed Storstrøm Bridge in Denmark. Before that, he was the PMO Lead & Risk Champion for a large phosphate export port project in South Morocco for OCP. Dimitrios has also held a position as Site Civil Engineer at a major EPC Contractor in a road infrastructure project in Greece. | Panel discussion: Contractual risk transfer – contract wordings |
| 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 |
| Fenchurch Law | Senior Partner | David Pryce |  | David was a founding partner of Fenchurch Law, which was the first law firm in the UK to specialise exclusively in representing policyholders in insurance coverage disputes. Ranked as a leading individual by both Legal 500 and Chambers, David leads Fenchurch Law’s Reinsurance & International Risk practice group and has a particular focus on insurance disputes arising out of large construction projects both in the UK and abroad. | Panel discussion: Contractual risk transfer – contract wordings Case study: LEG3 Court decision – what it means for the CAR market |
| Aon | Managing Director Global Construction & Energy | David Gierski |  | David has more than 25 years of service in the insurance industry with 20+ years spent on carrier side from field risk engineering up to group head of commercial lines. David served in Asia for couple of years. Since 2018 David has moved to broking and he joined AON as EMEA Property Broking Director in 2022. In his role, David is supporting program structuring including parametric insurance and alternative risk transfer. | Presentation & panel discussion: NatCat trends accelerating alternative risk transfer solutions |
| Allianz Commercial | Global Head of Construction | Darren Smart |  | Darren is Global Head of Construction at Allianz Commercial. He returned to Allianz in 2024, where he started his underwriting career as an underwriter at Allianz Cornhill (Allianz UK), before working at Trans Re as Assistant Vice President. He joined Liberty Specialty Markets in 2007 as Construction Regional Product Line Manager for EMEA, before becoming Global Construction Practice Leader role in 2016. | Case study: LEG3 Court decision – what it means for the CAR market |