Preconference Day: Summits & Workshops - 2025 AgendaMonday, 17 November 2025 - GMT (Greenwich Mean Time, GMTZ)

Intensifying AI governance and digital regulations, consumer duty protection and ESG integration

How can insurance companies transform compliance challenges into strategic advantages?

What is the outlook on growth and inflation in an increasingly competitive marketplace?

McKinsey’s latest research reveals a significant shift in what boards, CEOs, and other executives will demand from their risk function in the next 3–5 years. This calls for a fundamental reimagination of the role of the Chief Risk Officer (CRO) and the risk team to be more dynamic, forward-looking, and focused on the business's profitable growth priorities. This shift will affect every risk professional. 

What will the Risk function of 2030 look like? How do we get there? What role will the next generation of agentic AI play in shaping this transformation, both for defense and offense

Industry outlook for 2026

Tips on building a resilience-focused culture, investing in technology, creating a sound operational framework to strengthening your business

Asset Managers face various systemic and idiosyncratic challenges which prompts the need to apply effective ex-ante risk management. As an industry, Asset Managers need to pay attention to these challenges and be willing to learn from each other to ensure resilience and enable relevance. Join this session to delve into how richer sets of data can help firms to learn and anticipate trends, to better address risks in an ex-ante manner, as well as help firms (be they active or passive in their investment disciplines), bootstrap their operational resilience and, thus, be more effective and efficient.

• What developments are shaping how insurers optimise balance sheets

• How should insurers design the analytics systems they use for management

• What stress and scenario capabilities do insurers need in the future

• How will automation and AI change analytics teams

From stress-testing portfolios, to adapting underwriting strategies and engaging with policymakers, we’ll discuss how CROs of the largest insurers are strengthening resilience, aligning with evolving regulations, and ensuring adaptability in an increasingly volatile global landscape

Risk managers today face new systemic threats, such as climate change and geopolitical instability, that materially impact liquidity, as well as market and credit exposures. Through practical and historical examples, this session illustrates how traditional siloed models falter under compound stresses. Modern platforms, on the other hand, combine stochastic simulations and forward‑looking scenario analysis over correlated financial risk factors, where emerging threats are estimated precisely. Attendees will learn how to shift from fragmented regulatory compliance toward actionable business insight.

• Building resilient talent pipelines for Insurance risk functions
• Attracting and retaining risk professionals in a competitive insurance landscape

Advancements in AI provide significant opportunities in transforming risk management and regulatory compliance.  In this panel discussion, the panelists will deliberate on AI led high impact experience transformation in risk management, key considerations for moving from pilot to scaled execution, point of views on guardrails, model risk assurance and different operating models for industrialization of Gen AI and AI agents in insurance risk management