2025 RIMS RISKWORLD

Frontline strategies to manage evolving cyber technology, threats, and regulation

Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

Location: Room 176ABC

Speakers:

• Adam Cottini, Director of Business Development, CrowdStrike
• Meredith Schnur, US and Canada Cyber Practice Leader, Marsh
• Ron Wills, Vice President of Legal, CrowdStrike

Session Description:

Consider the three major cyber events that reverberated globally in the last year across airlines, hospitals, emergency response units, and car dealerships. Whether stemming from cyberattacks or IT outages, the threats to critical functions have been made more complex by trends in third-party reliance, business enabled by generative artificial intelligence (AI), and data protection laws.

Explore best practices for managing third-party cyber risk. Examine the intersection of AI and cyber risks. Gain insight into changing privacy regulations. Equip yourself with the knowledge and strategies needed to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of cyber risk.

Leveraging AI to prevent supply chain risk on a global scale

Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 2:50 PM - 3:20 PM

Location: Global Stage - Booth #825

Speakers:

• Randal Waters, Senior Vice President, Marsh
• Loren Crannell, Global Risk and Insurance Manager, JUUL Labs, Inc.
• Jeff Wenger, Managing Director, EY

Session Description:

Cyberattacks, market shifts, political instability, catastrophic events, and supply chain compromises can cause potentially devastating disruption to your organization due to the interconnectivity of its global operations. Investigate the artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can help prevent this. Explore the impact of AI and cyber risks on the global integration of technologies, including assessing the reliability and performance of suppliers. Identify proactive approaches for structuring insurance products to prevent volatile risks from destabilizing integrated supply chains. Discover responsible ways to incorporate AI into risk management tools for identification, prediction, and monitoring.

Roads to resilience: Building health capacity and climate adaptation for stable supply chains

Date: Tuesday, May 6

Time: 10:45 AM - 11:45 AM

Location: Room 178A

Speakers:

• Amy Barnes, Global Head of Energy & Power, Marsh
• Dr. Lorna Friedman, Senior Partner, Health Transformation and Sustainability, Mercer
• T Lee, VP, Insurance & Risk, Pine Gate Renewables

Session Description:

As the effects of climate change intensify, attending to the health and safety of supply chain workers has become increasingly critical. Gain insight into the impact of a healthy workforce on costs and business success. Explore the interplay between employee well-being and environmental changes that affects risk, regulatory compliance, and insurance costs. Through case studies, follow successful models that integrate innovative financing solutions to protect workers in vulnerable areas while controlling costs and improving supply certainty. Discuss how your organization can navigate complex regulatory landscapes to ensure compliance and leverage insurance and risk mitigation to bolster resilience. Whether you are a risk professional, compliance officer, or business leader, join others who recognize that investing in employee health is a cornerstone of resilient supply chains and long-term organizational success.

Electric disruption: How electric vehicles are driving change in the insurance industry

Date: Tuesday, May 6

Time: 12:50 PM - 1:20 PM

Location: Innovation Stage IS-Booth #1291

Speakers:

• Lisa Caldwell, Commercial US Manufacturing and Automotive Industry Practice Leader, Marsh
• Laura Hollerich, Managing Director, Ernst and Young LLP
• Lynn Haley Pilarski, Counsel, Risk Management & Insurance, General Motors Company

Session Description:

As adoption of electric vehicles continues to rise, insurers and risk professionals face considerations and challenges regarding battery incidents, degradation, and lifecycle management. Learn about the challenges, risks, and rewards associated with investing in and implementing such sustainable machinery and technologies. Understand the types of electric vehicles and the emerging risks and losses rooted in electric vehicle batteries. See how insurers must transform how they develop products, underwrite risk and manage claims for these risks.

Excellence in risk management: Global risks 2025

Date: Tuesday, May 6

Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

Location: Room 185BC

Speakers:

• Carolina Klint, Chief Commercial Officer, Europe, Marsh McLennan
• Reid Sawyer, Managing Director and Head, Emerging Risks Group, Marsh Advisory
• David Arick, Managing Director, Global Risk Management, Sedgwick
• Franck Baron, Group General Manager - Risk Mgmt. & Insurance, International SOS

Session Description:

Drive strategic conversations within your organization when you fully appreciate how risk perception and management have fundamentally changed. Consider the impact of dozens of global elections, conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, civil unrest fueled by inflation and cost-of-living crises, accelerated workplace and workforce transformations, expansive generative artificial intelligence use, intensified natural catastrophes, and frequent global supply chain disruptions. Get up to date on trending and emerging risks. See how risk management strategies and approaches diverge or converge. Using the Global Risks Report 2025 as a starting point, explore issues such as cybersecurity, climate change and sustainability, automation in the workplace, and value chains, as well as the risk strategies that can be applied. This session is hosted by RIMS and Marsh.

A hard market is not the only reason to put property risks in a captive

Date: Tuesday, May 6

Time: 2:45 PM - 3:45 PM

Location: Room 175ABC

Speakers:

• Michael Serricchio, Managing Director, Captive Solutions Group, Marsh
• Ian Ascher, Executive Director, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
• Sandy Bigglestone, Deputy Commissioner, Captive Insurance, Vermont Department of Financial Regulation
• Adriana Scherzinger, Group Head of Captives, Zurich Insurance Company

Session Description:

Even as property rates moderate, captives are more relevant now than ever. Discuss legislative changes that increase captive availability and versatility. Consider why captives are no longer reserved for just high-frequency, low-severity risks. Explore why captives today represent nearly 25% of the overall commercial insurance market, with property the top risk placed.