Session guide

Marsh-hosted sessions at RIMS 2024

The session guide includes a day-by-day listing of Marsh speakers and panels at RIMS. While we will continue to update as changes occur, please note, last-minute changes to the schedule may occur.

Beating the property risk odds: How to win with quality data and risk financing strategies

1:30 pm – 2:30 pm | Room 8, San Diego Convention Center

Ryan Barber
Managing Director, Property, Marsh

Juliana Keaton, Esq.,
VP Corporate Insurance and Associate General Counsel, Vystar Credit Union

Stephen McKay
Practice Leader, Property Consulting, Advisory, Marsh

Catherine Miller
SVP, Head of Property US & Canada, Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance

Today's property insurance market is the toughest it has been in 30 years, with insureds struggling to stand out among stacks of submissions. See how an effective data strategy could help reduce your property risk transfer costs by improving capacity pricing, access, and availability, as well as identifying alternative solutions. Begin with a study of the array of mutable factors — extreme weather, emerging technologies, geopolitical tensions, pandemics, strained supply chains — that complicates business resiliency. Follow the increased focus on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks that influences underwriting decisions and capacity allocation. Then observe how quality and complete data on such risks can enable underwriters to make informed, timely assessments and unlock coveted capacity for your organization. Be warned of how a lack of robust data could lead to conservative risk decisions or submission rejection. Prepare to get your organization’s decision makers on board with investment in a data-based, comprehensive property risk financing strategy.

Excellence in risk management: Global risks 2024

9:30 – 10:30 am | Room 10, San Diego Convention Center

David Arick
Managing Director, Global Risk Management, Sedgwick and RIMS President

Kevin Bates
Group Head of Risk & Insurance, Lend Lease and RIMS Treasurer

Carolina Klint
Chief Commercial Officer, Europe, Marsh McLennan

Reid Sawyer
Head, Emerging Risks Group, Advisory, Marsh

Drive strategic conversations within your organization when you fully appreciate how risk perception and management has fundamentally changed. Consider: the impact of the conflict between Ukraine and Russia, 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 the trending and emerging risks. See how management approaches diverge or converge. Using the Global Risks Report 2024 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.

ESG and the elusive impact on global insurance programs

10:45 – 11:45 am - Room 6, San Diego Convention Center

Jamie Brady
Manager, Risk Management, World Wide Technology Holding Co., Inc.

Christian Hunter
North America Practice Leader, Global Insurance Regulatory and Tax Consulting Practice, Marsh

As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) goals and policies take center stage, recognize the sudden impact on your global organization’s ability to source funding, investment, and insurance coverage. Frame the stakes raised by ESG against the inherent complexity of a global insurance program and its competing priorities of cost, coverage, and compliance. Review the elevated compliance concerns that arise when designing and running a global risk strategy. Uncover commonly overlooked considerations — such as premium taxes and supplemental workplace injury coverage — that could either bolster or impede your organization’s ESG risk rating. Determine what you can do to advance your organization’s global insurance program in response to ESG.

Is your risk appetite statement working for you?

10:45 – 11:45 am - Room 10, San Diego Convention Center

Lorie Graham
SVP and Chief Risk Officer, American Agricultural Ins. Co.

Trish Sqrow
Vice President, Consulting Solutions, Advisory, Marsh

Your organization’s defined risk appetite may not utilize enterprise risk management (ERM) to its fullest potential. Sift through the nebulous and abstract components of establishing your organization’s risk appetite as part of its ERM program. Prepare to make clear — even to leaders unfamiliar with risk terminology — risk appetite’s key role in tying your organization’s ERM program to strategic goals, initiatives, and decisions. Discover leading practices for developing, implementing, and utilizing risk appetite so that your ERM program enables intelligent risk taking within established limits.

Navigating the W(AI)LD west: Maximizing the transformative power of artificial intelligence

1:30 – 2:30 pm - Room 1, San Diego Convention Center

Jaymin Kim
Senior Vice President, Cyber, Marsh

Monica Shokrai
Risk Consulting Lead, Business Risk & Insurance, Google, LLC

Stay up to date on the enterprise-wide scale of using generative artificial intelligence (AI) to drive revenue growth and realize efficiencies previously out of reach. Learn from use cases, claims, and regulations that have emerged over the last year. Study the many new risks introduced with the swiftly advancing technology. Be aware of questions you should ask before selecting vendors or building your own models. Consider how your organization must balance the tremendous new opportunities and risks. Benefit from lessons learned since the advent of models like ChatGPT4, Bard, and Claude 2. Explore the latest trends in the generative AI landscape and the corresponding insurance and risk management solutions.

Mastering soft skills for industry success

2:30 – 2:50 pm - Thought Leader Theater – Booth #445

Victoria Dinh
Director of Risk Management, Anschutz Entertainment Group, Inc.

Jasmine Klein
Assistant Vice President, West Zone FINPRO, Marsh

Tyler Vaughan
Insurance Risk Analyst, Avery Dennison Corporation

As a student, rising risk professional, or someone who simply could benefit from improved soft skills, come work on best practices in communication, relationship building, and leadership that can help boost your career. This session is hosted by the RIMS Rising Risk Professionals Advisory Group.

Another extension? A guide to DSU, construction, and international development

2:45 – 3:05 pm - Global Studio, Room 27, San Diego Convention Center

Donnette Bellamy
Insurance Risk Manager, CloudHQ

Kathleen Crowe
Zonal Power & Renewable Growth Energy Leader, Marsh

Uncover domestic and international construction challenges based on anecdotes from real experiences. Take a look at examples of overseas delay in start-up (DSU) interpretations. Assess US investors’ contractual expectations with overseas projects based on contract examples and local standards differentiation in insurance. Decipher your role in working with the markets and internal stakeholders so you can best communicate delays during construction. Learn best practices that you can leverage within your organization.

Trending issues in D&O coverage – securing coverage in an ever-changing world

2:45 – 3:45 pm - Room 3, San Diego Convention Center

John Failla
Partner, Proskauer Rose LLP

Jack Flug
Managing Director, FINPRO, Marsh

Molly Reilly
Vice President, Risk Management, Activision Blizzard Inc.

Keep current on trending and emerging risks that may trigger coverage under your directors and officers (D&O) liability insurance policies. Examine lesser-known avenues of accessing D&O coverage linked to prominent cyber, environmental, and macroeconomic issues. In addition to well-known exposures, such as shareholder class actions, consider the implications of finding coverage under D&O for regulatory investigations, informal interviews, subpoenas, and other complaints against individual directors.

Brave new world: Measuring and understanding geopolitical risk, and considerations for 2024

1:45 – 2:45 pm - Room 9, San Diego Convention Center

Gayle Jacobs
Senior Vice President, Political Risk & Structured Credit, Credit Specialties, Marsh Specialty

Megan Wagner
Risk Manager, Valmont Industries, Inc.

Two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the geopolitical reverberations continue to be felt around the world. Coupled with significant economic turbulence, the impact can be seen in foreign investment and disrupted supply chains. Tackle political risks as you seek to adequately protect assets and revenue streams abroad. Prepare to meet the expectations of your senior management and board-level leadership with a thorough grasp of this high-stakes task. Examine how other organizations have evaluated and prioritized which risks to insure and in which market. Guide your strategic thought process with a better understanding of your company’s distinct pressure points under current and future geopolitical risk considerations.