Airmic Talks

This episode of Airmic Talks was recorded in Dublin where we recently held the Airmic Island of Ireland Conference on 19 November. The event had speakers across a range of topics, including geopolitics and captives, tariffs and sustainable building practices, and parametrics and the local insurance market. In this episode, Richard interviews three of the speakers at the conference. First, we will...

Welcome to the podcast brought to you by the UK risk and insurance management association, and hosted by Richard Cutcher. In our latest our interview based on themes emerging from the Airmic Conference in Edinburgh in June, Richard welcomes Peter Carter, is Head of WTW’s Climate Practice as well as Head of Captive & Insurance Management Solutions at the broker, onto the podcast. In a 15 minute dis...

In this episode of Airmic Talks, Richard is joined by Daniel Hulme, a real artificial intelligence expert, who is CEO of Satalia and Chief AI Officer at WPP. Daniel shares his views on the direction of travel for AI, the risks and opportunities, and explains his career and extensive background in artificial intelligence.

Airmic Talks is back, hosted by Richard Cutcher, and is bringing a series of conversations recorded at the annual conference in Edinburgh on Monday, 3 June. In the following weeks, you are going to hear from experts on geopolitics, Ai, cyber and climate, while we will also share discussion between Airmic CEO Julia Graham and Airmic chair Angela Iannetta on the future of the profession. In this epi...

Airmic Talks is back, hosted by Richard Cutcher, and is bringing a series of conversations recorded at the annual conference in Edinburgh on Monday, 3 June. In the following weeks, you are going to hear from experts on geopolitics, Ai, cyber and climate, while we will also share discussion between Airmic CEO Julia Graham and Airmic chair Angela Iannetta on the future of the profession. In this epi...

Richard is joined by Swenja Surminski, Managing Director for Climate and Sustainability at Marsh McLennan, as she reports back on the progress, agreements and implications of COP27, held in Sharm El Sheikh in Egypt, in November. For the full Airmic Talks ESG archive, visit: https://www.airmic.com/airmic-talks

Welcome to episode five of Airmic Talks ESG, where this week Richard is joined by Chris Hickin, Vice President and Operations Engineering Manager at FM Global, who discusses how risk engineering efforts to mitigate climate events can also compliment broader resilience and sustainability initiatives, as well as contributing to reporting requirements. For more information on FM Global's resources an...

Welcome to episode four of Airmic Talks ESG – your monthly podcast from the UK’s risk and insurance community, all about on trends in Environmental, Social and Governance topics within our profession. Our guest in this episode is Emma Arnold, a Director based in London, leading Control Risks’ environmental practice for EMEA, which forms part of its wider global ESG consulting team. Emma has a stro...

Welcome to Airmic Talks ESG – your monthly podcast from the UK’s risk and insurance community and this year all focused on trends in Environmental, Social and Governance topics within our profession. In our third episode, you are going to hear from Simon Edwards, Technical Parametric Underwriter at Generali Global Corporate & Commercial, with him focusing on how ESG principles can begin to be inte...

Airmic's latest podcast series will be featuring prominent thought leaders on the topic of ESG within the risk and insurance community. Richard Cutcher will be joined by risk and insurance experts providing different perspectives on how organisations and their partners can tackle ESG challenges and opportunities head on. In episode two of the series, Richard is joined by Ciarán Healy, Director of...

Airmic's latest podcast series will be featuring prominent thought leaders on the topic of ESG within the risk and insurance community. Richard Cutcher will be joined by risk and insurance experts providing different perspectives on how organisations and their partners can tackle ESG challenges and opportunities head on. In our first episode, Richard is joined by Sean McGovern, CEO for the UK and...

In our fourth episode of the Airmic Talks CEO Series, Richard welcomes Chris Lay, CEO of Marsh UK & Ireland, onto the podcast. Adding a member's perspective is Scott Feltham, Group Insurance Manager at Compass Group, Plc. Chris and Scott debate the future of insurance beyond the hard market, including the definition of emerging risks, the demand for relevant risk financing solutions and the need t...

In our third episode of the Airmic Talks CEO series, Richard is joined by Melanie Slack , the new Head for UK, Ireland, South Africa & EMEA Wholesale at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and Tracey Skinner, Group Insurance Director for the BT Group and also Airmic’s outgoing Chair of the board. The theme for this series has been ‘insurance beyond the hard market’ so Melanie and Tracey discuss how Swis...

In our second episode of the Airmic Talks CEO series, Richard is joined by Claire McDonald, Managing Director for UK and Ireland at HDI Global, and Matthew McEwan, Director of Risk Management at Coca-Cola European Partners. In a 25 minute discussion Claire and Matt, among other topics, debate the prospect of longer term policies, the potential entrance of a major disruptor in the corporate insuran...

The second season of Airmic Talks, your fortnightly podcast from the UK’s risk and insurance management association, begins with a series of CEO interviews on the topic - Insurance beyond the hard market. Richard is joined by Julian James, CEO of Sompo International, and Julia Graham, Airmic's new CEO, to discuss whether this market cycle to different to others, the prospect of longer term policie...

In episode 20 of Airmic Talks, the fortnightly podcast from the UK's risk and insurance management community, RIchard is joined by Tim Jones, the Market Transformation Director at Lloyd’s. Tim explains how the business transformation work being undertaken at Lloyd's will ultimately benefit insurance buyers. Blueprint Two, the latest stage of the Future at Lloyd’s project, was launched on 5 Novembe...

In episode 19 of Airmic Talks, the fortnightly podcast brought to you by the UK’s risk and insurance management association. In this episode Richard is joined by Airmic's resident geopolitical expert Alex Frost and Dr Carrie Nordlund, Associate Director at the Annenberg Institute, Brown University (in Providence, Rhode Island), to discuss the results of the US presidential election, the current st...

In episode 18 of Airmic Talks, your fortnightly podcast from the UK's risk and insurance management association, Richard is joined by Alison Moriarty, Fleet Risk Director at DRiiVE Consulting LTD, and Mark Cartwright, Head of Commercial Vehicle Incident Prevention at Highways England, to discuss the evolving risks associated with motor fleets, how they can be addressed and why they need to be move...

In episode 17 of Airmic Talks, your fortnightly podcast from the UK’s risk and insurance management association, Richard showcases clips from the four of the 42 20-minute presentations found in the Airmic Fest Knowledge Hub. Airmic Fest remains open until March 2021 meaning anyone registered can continue exploring the vast content found on the platform. If you are not registered then you can acces...

In episode 16 of Airmic Talks, the fortnightly podcast from the UK’s risk and insurance management association, Richard speaks to three leading alumni from Airmic’s 2019 Leadership Programme, which is delivered in partnership with the Business School at City, University of London (formerly known as Cass Business School). Hermione Winterton, Nataliya Todorova and Stuart Turner talk us through their...

In episode 15 of Airmic Talks, we look ahead to Airmic Fest, the UK’s largest ever virtual risk and insurance conference taking place Tuesday 22 to Thursday 24 September. Richard is joined by four speakers featuring in the 27 educational workshops that will be played during the conference, followed by a live Q&A, and be available on the platform until March 2021. To access these sessions and parti...

In episode 14 of Airmic Talks, Richard is joined by Oliver Davies, Distribution and Strategic Initiatives Manager at HDI Global in the UK and Ireland. Oliver discusses the hard market, the role of brokers, what more insurers such as HDI can be doing to better communicate price rises and how Airmic members can get ahead in their renewals. You can register for Airmic Fest here: https://airmicfest.co...

In the third and final instalment of our deep dive into the Airmic annual survey report, Top risks and megatrends 2020, Richard is joined by Paul Merrey, Strategy Partner at KPMG, and Arturs Kokins, Associate Director at KPMG, to discuss trust and reputation, the role of the risk professional in this area and the insurance options already available and currently in development. In the second half,...

In the second of our three episodes focusing on the Airmic annual survey, Top risks and megatrends 2020, Richard is joined by Cécile Fresneau, Executive Director of the UK Insurance Division at QBE Insurance, and James Owen, a Partner at Control Risks and head of their Cyber Security practice in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Cécile discusses the resilience in an unpredictable year with refer...

In the first of three episodes dedicated to Airmic's Top Risks & Megatrends 2020 report, Richard is joined by Deputy CEO and Technical Director Julia Graham and Lucy Stanbrough, Research Manager for the Willis Research Network on Emerging Risks at Willis Towers Watson. Airmic's annual survey report can be found here: https://www.airmic.com/technical/library/top-risks-and-megatrends-2020 In the fir...