The escalating Middle East crisis has created a live stress test for construction and infrastructure delivery worldwide while the increasing scale and complexity of global megaprojects has amplified the consequences of failure, including cost overruns, structural defects, contractor insolvencies and schedule collapses. This panel brings these two realities together to examine how organisations respond to extreme disruption and why large-scale projects fail, drawing on both real-time crisis experience and historical project breakdowns to identify systemic weaknesses in governance, design coordination, procurement, supply chains and contractual risk allocation.

Senior risk leaders, insurers and brokers will explore how organisations can move beyond reactive contingency planning toward more resilient delivery systems, with a strong emphasis on the importance of risk management and close collaboration with insurance and risk transfer partners to ensure coverage remains effective during a crisis, avoid protection gaps and align policy structures with operational realities. The discussion will also highlight the value of early-warning indicators, data-driven risk monitoring and proactive risk engineering in reducing both the likelihood and severity of failure. Attendees will leave with practical insights into strengthening crisis preparedness, improving cross-sector collaboration, and embedding more effective risk and insurance strategies across the full lifecycle of complex