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DAY ONE

Airmic 2025: How risk managers are thinking about the threats they face

Every week, Airmic polls its members on the biggest risks facing their organisations. Six months into 2025, we take a look at what’s been keeping CROs up at night.

Global strength, local delivery

As risk and complexity continue to surge across global markets, RSA is doubling down on consistent partnership, innovation and local expertise – laying the foundations for a bold new chapter

Meet the Airmic shadow board chair: Network Rail’s Taiwo Omo-Ikerodah

Airmic is handing the mic to the next generation through its shadow board. The initiative allows rising risk stars to share their fresh and diverse perspectives while offering those future leaders exceptional boardroom-level access and experience.

Facing into risk: Interconnected threats demand a smarter, faster response from risk managers

AXA XL is enabling businesses to tackle everything from natural disasters to cyber threats with smarter tools, clearer insights and joined-up strategies between risk managers and insurers.

Airmic 2025: The truth about lithium-ion battery risks and how to manage them

Electric vehicles may be the spark, but lithium-ion battery risks run deeper. At Airmic 2025, Marsh’s Alistair Schuberth gave a briefing on what risk managers need to know

Airmic 2025: Take the long view as tariffs bite, says financial chief Charles Brindamour

Intact’s CEO urges risk managers to focus on long-term strategies as geopolitical volatility and trade protectionism threaten growth, trust, and global supply chains.

Airmic 2025: A geopolitics survival guide for risk managers

At the Airmic conference, an expert panel dissected today’s geopolitical and economic turmoil, urging risk managers to adapt their strategies for an era of chronic disruption.

Captives gain ground as Airmic hints at Treasury’s next move

With strong backing from Airmic and growing government engagement, the UK is now laying the groundwork for a domestic captive insurance regime, a move that could reshape risk financing strategies for British firms.

Airmic 2025: US in fiscal cliff danger as global economic risk rises

Trump doubles down on tariffs and deficit spending, Robert Peston warns the US is heading for fiscal crisis – and Europe must seize the moment.

Airmic 2025: AI, cyber risk and trust: how risk managers can keep pace with fast-moving threats

As artificial intelligence transforms the cyber threat landscape, risk professionals must learn to translate technical risks into boardroom strategy and ensure their organisations are prepared for what’s next. Experts from government, underwriting and cyber security explain how.

Airmic 2025: Employers urged to stay ahead of rising travel risks

As global instability accelerates, risk managers are being urged to rethink travel risk strategies, improve governance, and collaborate more closely with insurers to protect staff overseas.

Airmic 2025: AI will demand new skills from risk managers and underwriters

Risk professionals and insurers must upskill urgently to unlock the full potential of artificial intelligence and avoid being left behind, experts told the Airmic conference.

Airmic 2025: Geopolitics dominates, but strategic clarity is the real challenge

Airmic’s 2025 member survey reveals a profession at a crossroads - called on to rise above global turmoil, embrace AI, and deliver long-term strategic value.

Airmic 2025: Five lessons for risk managers from Charles Hecker

At Airmic, geopolitical expert Charles Hecker urged risk managers to abandon outdated assumptions and prepare for a world defined by constant disruption