Pre-conference Day: Summits & WorkshopsMonday, 16 November 2026 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)

CRO Panel

Reinsurance capacity constraints and cost escalation—understanding how climate losses are reshaping global reinsurance markets and assessing capital market appetite for insurance-linked securities in a higher-loss environment

How are leading CROs keeping on top: Discussing strategic frameworks and best practices.

• Challenge some of the assumptions that underpin how we approach DEI, from our focus on diversity numbers and quick wins to whether we are always solving the right problems.
• Explore what meaningful progress looks like in practice, including the role of equity, culture, psychological safety and individual action in moving DEI from frustration to function.

• High reliance on models predicting the changing behavior of both customers and markets

• AI agents changing the way we can do our job and make and maintain models

• Model risk management tries to keep up within these developing environments

• Using AI to support model risk management

The African Art of Turning Systemic Risk into Competitive Advantage.

In Africa, volatility is not an occasional disruption. It is often the operating environment.

Yet organisations continue to innovate, connect, insure, invest, serve customers and create value—often in conditions that would test even the most sophisticated risk frameworks.

Join African CROs for a provocative conversation that turns the traditional risk narrative on its head.

Because the future of risk belongs to those who are learning to dance with it.

Reinsurance capacity constraints and cost escalation—understanding how climate losses are reshaping global reinsurance markets and assessing capital market appetite for insurance-linked securities in a higher-loss environment

In a market shaped by high volatility, regulatory change and increasingly interconnected risks, enterprise resilience is becoming a source of strategic advantage — not just a defensive risk-management capability. This session will explore how AI-enabled scenario intelligence can help insurers connect stress testing, Solvency II review requirements, ALM, SAA, capital optimization and portfolio construction within a single decision framework. We will discuss how integrated modeling across assets, liabilities, market and credit risk, climate and liquidity scenarios can support better balance-sheet steering, improved pension risk transfer analytics and more robust alternative asset modeling. Finally, we will show how high-performance computing and cloud-based risk platforms can turn complex scenario analysis into faster, more actionable decisions for CROs, CIOs and investment teams.

• Every organisation will need risk leadership, but will it still need a CRO?

• Are CROs designing their next role or defending their current one?

• ⁠Is the CRO becoming more powerful or increasingly getting extinct?

Moderator: Thabile Nyaba, Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Solrikin Advisory

Panellists:

Jessica Kutumela, Chief Risk Officer, Guardrisk Group

Russel Goldstein, Chief Risk Officer, Darta Saving Life Insurance

Malebu Makgalemela Mogohloane, Group Executive: ERM, Forensics and Insurance, Telkom

• Solvency II standard model (2027) has recalibrated tranched SPV debt with most material changes in AAA ratings and in CLOs.
• How are Collateralised Loan Obligations structured and why opt for € CLOs over US$ CLOs?
• Private CLOs can deal with specific insurer issues.
• Standard model or internal model?
• Legal and document analysis Large Language Model support.