Kick off with a presenting sponsor interview with Allen Laman, followed by Andrea Wells hosting a panel discussion on how climate change is no longer an abstract risk—it's hitting balance sheets through property damage, supply chain disruptions, liability exposures, and rising litigation. This panel will explore how insurance is evolving from a financial backstop to a strategic partner in resilience.

Hear from experts on how insurers are innovating with new technologies, data, and products to help businesses tackle climate-driven challenges. From transferring risk to incentivizing proactive mitigation, you’ll learn how coverage strategies are evolving—and how your company can leverage insurance to protect assets, maintain continuity, and stay ahead of regulatory and market pressures.

Learn about:

1. How insurance is evolving to not only transfer risk but also drive proactive resilience through data, technology, and innovative products.
2. Practical strategies for managing climate-related exposures.
3. Innovative ways that insurers can help your enterprise risk strategy to withstand climate pressures.

As companies increasingly rely on third-party vendors and cloud-based services, the exposure to cyber risk grows more complex. A single vendor vulnerability can cascade across organizations, leading to regulatory scrutiny, financial loss, and reputational damage.

In this session, Elizabeth Blosfield and a panel of risk management and cybersecurity experts will explore how companies and their insurers can better assess, monitor, and mitigate cyber risk within vendor ecosystems. Panelists will share practical approaches to due diligence, contract management, ongoing monitoring, and incident response planning, highlighting what works, what doesn’t, and what the future holds as threats evolve.

You'll learn about emerging trends in third-party vendor risk management, best practices for vendor due diligence and monitoring, balancing efficiency and security in complex vendor networks, and lessons learned from recent cyber incidents.

How can risk managers help company leaders reduce the chance of going to trial and paying outsized jury awards? In this panel, led by Allen Laman and Ezra Amacher, we'll explore how nuclear verdicts are reshaping the directors and officers (D&O) insurance market and outline strategies that risk managers can implement to give their clients the best executive risk coverage.