08:00
Registration and morning coffee
08:40
Opening remarks
Christopher Cundy, Managing Editor, InsuranceERM & Insurance Asset Risk
8.45
Welcome
Andy Burrows, CEO, Bermuda Business Development Agency
09:00
Keynote Interview: The global economy, regulations and geopolitical risks
- The new US Model Reinsurance Act
- Developments on AI/big data regulation
- Views around the current Congress and next year’s election
Interviewer: Christopher Cundy, Managing Editor, InsuranceERM & Insurance Asset Risk
Michael Consedine, Chief Executive Officer, National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC)
09:30
Regulatory Panel Discussion: Pressures, opportunities and challenges of an evolving regulatory landscape
- Trends in new licensing of Bermuda insurers
- Changes to Bermuda capital regime
- Updates from other regimes
- IFRS 17 & US GAAP LDTI implementation
Moderator: Gokul Sudarsana, Director, Deloitte
Craig Swan, Managing Director, Supervision, BMA
John Hele, President and COO, Resolution Life Group Holdings
Sylvia Oliveira , CEO, Wilton Re Bermuda
10:15
Presentation: Trends in credit and political risk – the insurers’ perspective
Carolyn Thomas, Global Head, Credit & Political Risks, Aspen Insurance
10:45
Morning coffee break and networking
11:15
Panel Discussion: Developing and embedding a risk culture and framework within an organisation
Moderator: Anup Seth, Managing Director, Aon
Liz Cunningham, Chief Risk Officer, Nautilus Indemnity Holdings Limited
Paolo Fiandesio, Risk Manager, Somerset Reinsurance Limited
11:55
Panel Discussion: Climate change, cat exposures and the protection gap
- Success stories for closing protection gaps – and government policy initiatives that have worked
- How is climate change going to alter cat exposures?
- Will climate change expand or shrink the protection gap?
- Opportunities for traditional reinsurance and ILS in managing climate risk
Moderator: Stephen Weinstein, Senior Vice President and Group General Counsel, Renaissance Re Chair, Renaissance Re Risk Sciences Foundation
Arié Haziza, Senior Vice President, Head of Catastrophe Risk Analytics, Allied World Assurance Company, Ltd
Helen Wilson, VP Underwriting Operations, QBE Equator Re and QBE Blue Ocean Re
12:35
Lunch break and networking
13:35
Presentation: Leveraging ERM for capital efficiency
- Risk and capital management challenges
- Investor imperatives
- Risk capacity, appetite and business strategy
- Integrating ERM with capital management and capital allocation
- Driving a value-creation culture
- Financial governance
Leon Bloom, Retired Partner, Deloitte Canada
14:15
Panel Discussion: The evolving ILS market
- As ILS funds increase their scope, how are the evolving their risk tools?
- What are the key challenges for ILS funds as they report their risks to investors?
- As the level of alternative capital provided by ILS funds reduces – what are the implications for the market?
- Why are some ILS funds putting in capital but others are not? Are they pricing better? How are they using software and other tools to make decisions?
- The fragmentation in the regulatory framework for ILS providers and traditional players
- Could there be an emergence of shadow like players in the ILS space?
- How is the ILS market going to evolve in terms of governance, collateral and investor appetite given the recent challenging market?
Moderator: Edward Mishambi, Senior Vice President, RenaissanceRe
Scott Cobon, Managing Director, Artex Risk Solutions
Steve Britton, Managing Director, Aon
14:55
Panel Discussion: It’s time to talk about Tech: Using technology in insurance to grow businesses
- Which tech start-ups will be the next Uber?
- Where is the low-hanging fruit for technology to make a big difference to the insurance value chain?
- What are the opportunities for commercial insurers and reinsurers to make a difference?
- Recent developments in CasTech and opportunities for the industry
- Can reinsurers disrupt primary insurers with better technology?
- Technology risks: cyber, ethics and reputational
Moderator: Nicole Van Allen, Account Executive, Praedicat
Craig Swan, Managing Director, Supervision, BMA
Jonathan Gale, Chief Executive Bermuda Reinsurance, AXA XL
Shannon Totten, Excess Casualty Practice Leader, Sompo International
Thomas Olunloyo, CEO, Legal & General Reinsurance
15:35
Afternoon coffee break and networking
16:05
CRO Fireside Chat
Perspectives on the top 3 emerging risks
Andrew Smith, Chief Risk Officer, Qatar Reinsurance Company Limited
Interviewer: Patrick Tannock, Chief Executive, Bermuda Insuranceand Managing Director, AXA XL, Chairman, ABIC
16:35
C-Suite: Panel Discussion: Planning for disruptive scenarios
- Positioning the investment portfolio: how to cope with a low-for-long interest rates scenario, and the end of the credit cycle
- Bermuda and the European tax blacklist – will there be lasting implications?
- Expanding markets: the opportunities and risks in cyber insurance, intangible assets and cannabis businesses
- The impact of climate risk on re/insurance markets
- Addressing the talent gap and diversity in the insurance industry
- Maintaining relevance in a digital society
Moderator: John Huff, CEO, Association of Bermuda Insurers & Reinsurers
Janice Weidenborner. Executive Vice President and Group General Counsel, Third Point Reinsurance
Georgette Barit, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Bermuda, American International Company
Guy Soussan, Partner, Steptoe & Johnson
17:15
Closing remarks, followed by networking drinks reception
Christopher Cundy, Managing Editor, InsuranceERM & Insurance Asset Risk