From “Uncertainty to Confidence” Building reliable, proactive risk & compliance in a volatile world
Join senior insurance, legal and risk leaders for a day focused on one thing:
How to run a reliable business in an unpredictable world.
War, cyber threats, inflation and regulation are reshaping the industry in real time.
This summit cuts through theory to what actually works — where risk is breaking, what regulators expect, and how leading firms are building confidence through better decisions.
Not compliance as obligation. Confidence as capability.
The agenda
ACT I Uncertainty Is the New Baseline
08:30 – 09:00 Registration & Welcome Coffee
09:00 – 09:10 Welcome & Acknowledgement of Country
MC: Andrew Silcox, CEO, Insurance News
09:10 – 09:30 Keynote: Built In, Not Bolted On
The firms that win the next decade won’t have the thickest manuals — they’ll have turned risk into a decision-making edge. The business case and the legal reality, in one conversation.
Speaker: Tetiana George, CEO, Curium · Yvonne Lam, Partner, Clyde & Co
09:30 – 10:15 Keynote: Turning the Tide: From Vulnerability to World Leader
In February 2022, analysts gave Ukraine days. They were wrong. What happens when an entire nation’s risk framework is stress-tested in real time. Extended session with audience Q&A.
Speaker: H.E. Vasyl Myroshnychenko, Ambassador of Ukraine to Australia & New Zealand
ACT II Where Confidence Is Tested
10:15 – 10:55 Panel: Claims: Where Confidence Is Tested
Every promise gets cashed in a claim. Why good processes still produce bad outcomes — and what separates the insurers people recommend from the ones they report.
Moderator: David McDonald, Co-Founder and Executive Director at the Bridge
Speakers: Drew Schnehage, CEO & Co-founder, Clarion Claims · Suneet Rangarajan, Head of Claims & Responsible Manager, Assetinsure · Luke Whenman, Chief Claims Officer, Allianz Australia
10:55 – 11:10 Morning Tea & Networking
11:10 – 11:50 Panel: Building a Resilient Brokerage in the 21st Century
Leaders who run broking businesses day to day on what resilience actually costs, what paid off, and what they’d fix first. No theory.
Speakers: Allana Dynon, Head of Risk & Compliance, Network Insurance House · Debbi Thorne, GM, BMIA Broker Network · Mitchell Lipscombe, COO, BAC Insurance Brokers · Richard Klipin, CEO NIBA
11:50 – 12:35 Panel: The Buck Stops Here
Leaders who run broking businesses day to day on what resilience actually costs, what paid off, and what they’d fix first. No theory.
Speakers: Katrina Shanks, CEO, ANZIIF · Kimberley Jonsson, CEO, CHU Underwriting Agencies · David Southwell, CRO, Assetinsure
12:35 – 01:25 Lunch & Networking
ACT III The Bigger Picture
01:25 – 01:55 Keynote: A Deliberate Country
The world’s 14th-largest economy, ranked 107th of 128 for economic complexity. The biggest risks on your register aren’t in your register at all. Includes Q&A.
Speaker: Andrew Horton, Board Chair, Non-Executive Director & Strategic Adviser, The Horton Group
01:55 – 02:10 Keynote: No Policy Covers This
We spend our careers assessing risk on paper. Our speaker met one in person. A true story from the wild about the moment preparation runs out and instinct takes over. What happened? Come find out.
Speaker: Matthew Morgan, CEO, Argyle Insurance
02:10 – 02:40 Interactive: Is This a Breach?
You’ve argued about it in the office — now settle it in public. Real scenarios, live votes, and the people who make these calls reveal the answers. Top scorer collects a prize at drinks.
Presenters: Daniela Kirchlinde, Senior Manager Code Compliance, at Insurance Brokers Code Compliance Committee, Carli Kidd, Senior Compliance Analyst, at Insurance Brokers Code Compliance Committee,
2:40 – 03:00 Fireside Chat: Whose Neck Is on the Line?
It used to be the company that got fined. Increasingly, it’s you. Twenty minutes on boards, responsible managers, and what “reasonable steps” means when it’s your name on the register — from the lawyer who sees what happens when it goes wrong.
Presenters: Malcolm Wood, Partner, Clyde & Co, Laura Thomas, Head of Operations, Curium
03:00 – 03:20 Afternoon Tea
ACT IV Confidence in Practice
03:20 – 03:55 Panel: Compliance That Works: Those Who Set the Bar and Those Who Clear It
Practical compliance from those who oversee a market and those who run it inside a firm: what consistently works, what only looks like it works, and what to fix first.
Moderator: Simone Dossetor, CEO at Insurtech Australia
Presenters: Dipali Dongre, Regulatory & Compliance Manager, Lloyd’s · Sarah Geistendor, Head of Risk, Regulatory & Compliance, MIPS
03:55 – 04:30 Panel: Your Vendor, Your Problem
You can outsource the work — not the risk. CPS 230 in practice, and how to find your single points of failure before an outage finds them for you.
Presenters: TBA
04:30 – 04:40 Closing Remarks
Presenters: Louise Andrews, Head of Partnerships, Curium
04:30 Onwards – Networking Drinks
