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| Company | Job Title | Name | Profile Picture | Speaker Bio | Speaking At |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aon Ltd | Managing Director Construction & Infrastructure | Simon Simpson |  | - | Panel discussion: Contractual risk transfer – contract wordings |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| HDI | Principle 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 |
| 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 |
| Allianz Commercial | Senior Risk Consultant | 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 |
| WINT Water Intelligence | UK Country Manager | Scott Kingsbury |  | With a career spanning multiple years, Scott has collaborated with construction firms, facilities management entities, and large enterprises, offering expertise in the built environment sector. Before joining WINT, Scott made significant contributions at Matterport, a leader in the digital twin space. There, he helped numerous businesses in digitizing their physical assets, thereby optimizing processes, meeting sustainability targets, and delivering tangible returns on investment to clients. Prior to this, Scott played a pivotal role at Rightmove, the UK's no 1 property portal. Driven by his passion for building high-performing teams that help customers in resolving critical business challenges that align with their strategic objectives, he remains dedicated to driving innovation and success for customers. | Workshop: How to mitigate water damage risks and why should risk managers care? |
| 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 |
| Swiss Re Corporate Solutions | Senior E&C Underwriter | Anthony Norfolk |  | Anthony, who holds a Master's Degree in civil engineering and ACII qualified, has worked in the insurance industry for 15 years. He has been a Senior Engineering Underwriter at Swiss Re for 9 years, leading and underwriting large complex constructions risks. During this time he has mostly focused on Energy, Power and Heavy Industries. He also leads the Hydrogen Centre of Competence within Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. | Presentation: The hazards of the energy transition |
| Aon | Executive Director | Joe Chivers |  | - | Fireside discussion: Managing GIGA projects – Vision 2030 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Aon | Offshore Construction Team Leader | Adam Beardmore |  | Adam leads Aon’s global offshore construction practice and supports clients through the full lifecycle of complex energy projects. A Chartered Chemical Engineer with an MBA and over a decade of engineering and operational experience, he specialises in translating the risks of emerging energy transition technologies into insurable terms. Adam has worked extensively on carbon capture and storage and hydrogen developments, including major UK industrial CCS projects and integrated offshore wind–to–hydrogen concepts, helping sponsors and insurers address limited loss history, evolving standards and novel project structures. | Presentation: Renewable Energy - Insurance coverage for batteries |
| 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 |
| Portakabin Limited | Head of Risk & Internal Audit | Richard Hoult |  | - | Advancing your risk career: exclusive risk manager-only Airmic breakfast SIG: presentation & discussion |
| Zurich Insurance Company | Senior Underwriter, Cyber Liability | Nicholas Pritchard |  | Nick Pritchard is a Senior Cyber Underwriter for Zurich UK. Since 2019, Nick has specialised in underwriting large and complex cyber risks across a range of industries and territories. Alongside this, Nick has supported the development and launch of key cyber risk consultancy propositions aimed at improving customer risk posture. Prior to this, Nick worked in roles across underwriting, claims and sales as part of Zurich’s Graduate Programme. | Presentation: Cyber risk |