When a substation fire closed one of the world’s busiest airports, thousands of businesses felt the impact without a single flame touching their premises. Today’s losses increasingly come from outside the insured asset: a neighbouring fire, a failed power supply, a flooded access road, a disrupted supplier. These knock-on effects drive business interruption claims, unexpected accumulation, and painful surprises in the portfolio.
This roundtable brings together senior leaders from underwriting, claims, risk, portfolio management and data to swap notes on where these hidden exposures are coming from, how peers are spotting them earlier, and what it takes to move from reacting to losses to preventing them.
Join to:
- Benchmark how your peers are identifying and managing interconnected risk
- Hear which emerging exposures other insurers are most worried about
- Take away practical ideas for using better data and insight to catch accumulation and loss earlier
Welcome and participant introductions
Discussion
- Where are the surprise losses coming from? Which off-site and interconnected exposures worry you most right now?
- Learning from recent events: What have recent infrastructure failures, extreme weather and supply chain shocks taught us about how losses really spread?
- Where are the blind spots? What’s hardest to see, measure or price today, and where do the biggest gaps in visibility remain?
- Accumulation and the portfolio view: How confident are you that you’d spot a hidden concentration of risk before it turns into a loss?
- What’s working? How are insurers combining data, technology and underwriting expertise to build a sharper, more dynamic picture of risk?
- From prediction to prevention: What would it take, across teams, data and customer relationships, to step in before the loss happens?
Closing remarks
(60 minutes)
Speakers:
Grzegorz Dron
Chief Risk Officer
ERGO
Stephen Way
Market Development Lead
Ordnance Survey
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About Ordnance Survey
Ordnance Survey is the national mapping service for Great Britain. We provide accurate location data, from basement presence and nearby environmental factors to the property lifecycle stage and address verification.Our products and insights, combined with our partners’ services and solutions, create smarter solutions for business-critical problems, including bespoke underwriting and climate change scenario testing.Get location data that helps you easily spot potential risks, remove uncertainty, and make confident decisions. www.os.uk/financialservices
