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| Company | Job Title | Name | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jupiter Intelligence | Business Development Director | Stuart Large |  | Based just outside London, Stuart operates in the Construction, Industrial, Energy and Mining sectors, covering the Europe, Middle East and African markets for Jupiter Intelligence. Stuart has more than twenty years of experience in Business Development and Product Management, providing technical solutions to challenges in Energy, Security, Infrastructure, Smart Cities and Transportation. | Presentation & panel discussion: Climate change risk |
| 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 | Chief Commercial Officer, Construction & Infrastructure | Tariq Taherbhai |  | Tariq is the Chief Commercial Officer for Aon’s Global Construction & Infrastructure (C&I) industry specialty. In his role, Tariq is tasked with developing and implementing the global growth and marketing strategies for the specialty. In addition, Tariq works with other leaders to ensure that the full capabilities and expertise of Aon are properly delivered to the firm’s global C&I clients. Tariq has significant experience with project finance and public private partnerships, having advised on multiple large, complex projects over the past two decades. Before joining Aon, Tariq was vice president of the project legal group at Infrastructure Ontario, with responsibility for all legal and procurement matters related to public private partnerships procured by the Province of Ontario, Canada. | Workshop: Developing risk management strategies |
| 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 |
| Zurich Insurance Company | Credit Lines Chief Underwriting Officer | Piergiorgio D'Ignazio |  | Piergiorgio D’Ignazio is the Global Head of Credit Lines for the Zurich Group. He has more than 25 years of experience in financial markets, banking and insurance. Prior to joining Zurich in 2017, Piergiorgio was the Chief Risk Officer of SACE, the Italian export credit agency, and held various positions as senior executive or board member for various trade insurance and factoring companies in the group and in other financial institutions. Before SACE, he worked for several major financial institutions in Italy and Europe. He holds a M.Sc. in Computer Engineering from University of Pisa. | Workshop: Contractor / subcontractor insolvency |
| Aon | Design Firms Professional Risks | Oliver Heaton |  | - | Panel discussion: Professional Liability – What does the London Market have to offer? |
| CCi, a Rimkus Company | Director | Simon Hay |  | Simon is an experienced Chartered Architect and Expert Witness. He has been appointed on many disputes, producing CPR 35 reports focused on the performance of architects, contractors, and the professional team. He has expertise in façade and fire compliance issues, cladding and roofing. Brickwork is of particular interest, having led the brick industry as CEO of the BDA for some years. Simon has led design teams, building an extensive portfolio of projects ranging from Grade 1 listed buildings to new builds such as a previous Green Building of the Year. He has designed and supervised significant facilities, understanding public and private commissions. | Workshop: Implications of the Buildings Safety Act (UK) |
| 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 |
| HDI | Director of Engineering and Construction | 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 |
| Aon | Executive Director | Joe Chivers |  | - | Fireside discussion: Managing GIGA projects – Vision 2030 |
| 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? |
| Aon | France Head of Construction and Natural Resources | 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 |
| 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 |
| Aon | Global Claims Leader, Construction & Infrastructure Industry Specialties Claims Leader, Asia | Clarence Ting |  | Clarence has been working in insurance since 2003. During this time he has been effectively managing Energy, Construction, Machinery Breakdown, Delay Start-Up and Business Interruption claims globally. Prior to joining Aon, he worked with global reinsurance firms leading their major and complex losses in the region. In his current role, he is a member of Aon’s Global Construction & Infrastructure Leadership team and a member of the Global Claims Leadership team delivering significant client value through Aon’s escalation protocols, and dedicated Claims Advocacy. Clarence is empaneled with the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and a member of the Singapore Institute of Directors (SID). | Panel discussion: Claims – trends & future |
| Bechtel | Global Head of Big Data & AI | Fatemeh Mirrashed |  | As the global head of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) at Bechtel Corporation, Dr. Fatemeh Mirrashed is at the forefront of driving AI adoption strategy and execution within the enterprise. She leads a team of world-class data scientists and data engineers to devise and deploy AI-powered digital solutions that aim to increase productivity and enhance data-driven decision-making in the complex work processes of planning, execution, and delivery of Bechtel's mega-scale Engineering, Procurement, Construction, and Management (EPCM) projects. Before her tenure at Bechtel, Dr. Mirrashed has a proven track record in applying innovative AI solutions across various industries, including e-commerce, healthcare, education, and visual surveillance and intelligence. | Case study: How AI is being adopted within the EPCM industry |
| SCOR & IMIA Executive Committee Member | Global Head of Construction | Isabelle Kowalski |  | Isabelle has worked for 30 years in the construction world, including six years as civil engineer and 25 years in the insurance and reinsurance industry. Since 2019 she has been Global Head Construction at SCOR Business Solutions. As member of the IMIA Executive committee, she is also engaged in a number of initiatives, the latest one being Claims Classification. 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 |
| 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 |
| Aon | Global Head of Construction and 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 35 years of construction insurance experience, of which 21 have been with the Aon Group. He was previously at Marsh where he led the UK Construction Units broking team. James has travelled extensively and placed a wide variety of major construction projects in most parts of the world, for Owners, Contractors and Infrastructure Funds. James has a strong track record of delivering on clients' expectations with some of the largest firms in the Construction sector. He has designed insurance programmes across a wide variety of industry segments, with particular specialisation around energy/power, digital infrastructure and transportation. James is actively engaged as the Executive Sponsor / Account Director on some of Aon's largest construction accounts and leads the carrier relationships in this key industry. | Fireside discussion: Leadership approach to managing risk on large construction projects |
| SCOR | Global Practice Lead for Construction Claims | Paulina Herrington |  | Paulina has over 18 years of claims handling experience predominantly within CAR, EAR, onshore energy and power generation. Paulina joined SCOR UK in June 2022 as Global Practice Lead for Construction Claims where her focus is on managing large lead construction claims worldwide, with a large proportion of her portfolio being Builders Risk losses in the US. Prior to joining SCOR, she spent almost 11 years at Liberty Specialty Markets as a Senior Claims Specialist handling large and complex energy and construction claims. Before Liberty, Paulina spent 4 years working in the energy loss adjusting division of Charles Taylor. Paulina is also a deputy chair of the IUA’s Construction and Engineering Claims Committee which focuses on promoting good practice, hosting educational presentations and sharing industry insights within the London market claims community. | Panel discussion: Claims – trends & future |