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. Ft. Nick Gallimore, Head of Sustainability, Munich Re Specialty; David Broughton, Head of Connected Risk, Russell
- 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 a low-carbon economy 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. Ft. Ilkay Kurt-Bobac, Global Environmental Sustainability Manager, Hitachi Energy; Karl Makravarara, Corporate Insurance Manager, ENGIE UK; Brett Ormrod, Head of Sustainability, Europe, LaSalle Investment Management
- 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. Ft. Louise Harry, Director, Sustainability, Siemens; Sarune Ringelyte, Director, Strategy & Governance, Savills Earth
- 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