Accelerate 2026 – the Climate Transition Risk Forum
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Join 100+ senior insurance and corporate risk leaders for a curated forum on resilience, insurability and innovation in an evolving risk landscape.
Hosted by Better Insurance Network in London, this event facilitates practical, commercially-focused discussion under Chatham House Rules to help corporates and insurers safeguard long-term profitability.
Core discussion themes
- Incentivising resilience and climate adaptation
- Managing climate and transition risk across complex supply chains
- Enabling the transition to low-carbon business models
- Addressing interconnected emerging risks and Black Swan exposures
- Climate scenario analysis and risk quantification
- Embedding transition risk within underwriting decision-making
- Insurance and ART innovation opportunities
Who should attend?
Accelerate connects stakeholders across the risk and insurance
and ecosystem, including:
- Corporate risk managers
- Corporate sustainability leaders
- Underwriters
- Brokers
- Reinsurers & reinsurance brokers
- Climate, resilience and transition-risk specialists
- Alternative risk transfer innovators
- Insurance sustainability leaders
Speakers
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Laurent Nihoul
CEO, FERMA
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Melissa Dunham
Global Head of Insurance & Risk Management, Lightsource BP
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Louise Harry
Director, Sustainability, Siemens
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Ilkay Kurt-Bobac
Global Environmental Sustainability Manager, Hitachi Energy
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Karl Makravarara
Corporate Insurance Manager, ENGIE UK
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Sam McHillary
Senior manager, ESG strategy, Halfords
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Brett Ormrod
Head of Sustainability, Europe, LaSalle Investment Management
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Sarune Ringelyte
Director, Strategy & Governance, Savills Earth
Agenda
- 09.00 - 09.10 Welcoming remarks Antony Ireland, Founder, BIN
- 9.15 - 10.00 Risk rewired: Addressing the new interconnected risk landscape Panel on how clients and insurers are navigating a world of multiple crises, Black Swan events and interconnectivity
- 10.00 - 10.30 Corporate fireside: Building long-term risk partnerships Melissa Dunham, Global Head of Insurance & Risk Management for Lightsource BP, shares experiences working with insurance partners as risk partners, proactively addressing physical risks and de-risking technological transition.
- 10.30 - 11.00 Networking coffee break
- 11.00 - 11.45 Enabling innovation: De-risking the transition to low-carbon business models Panel on which business risks are being created in the Net Zero transition and how insurers, brokers and corporates can collaborate to reduce risk and accelerate adoption
- 11.45 - 12.15 Keynote fireside: Redefining the role of insurance in a changing world In conversation with FERMA CEO Laurent Nihoul, exploring how insurance can evolve to meet the evolving needs of corporate clients
- 12.15 - 13.00 Foundations for the future: Incentivising resilience and climate adaptation Panel exploring how insurers can proactively mitigate risk and incentivise climate adaptation
- 13.00 - 14.00 Networking lunch
- 14.00 - 15.00 Workshops (round 1) Action-oriented, practitioner-led sessions driving practical outcomes - topics to be announced soon
- 15.00 - 15.30 Networking coffee break
- 15.30 - 16.30 Workshops (round 2) Action-oriented, practitioner-led sessions driving practical outcomes - topics to be announced soon
- 16.30 - 16.45 Closing remarks
- 16.45 - 18.00 Networking drinks