ICMIF Sustainability Summit 2023: Agenda

Agenda

Wednesday, 1 November
Understanding the problem – how to measure actions and lead.
How to take a strategic approach to tackling climate change and how to measure success.

09.30-10.00

State of the planet

  • Fireside chat with Jessica Fries, Executive Chair of The Prince’s Accounting for Sustainability (A4S) and
    Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, ICMIF (UK)
10.00-11.30

Building a sustainability strategy across the business

Chair: Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, ICMIF
  • Best practice – Erin Keating, Director, Sustainability and Climate Resilience, Wawanesa (Canada)
  • Best practice – Barry O’Dwyer, Group CEO, Royal London (UK)
  • Best practice - Aviva Investor’s approach to a net zero strategy, presentation by Mirza Baig, Global Head of ESG Investments, Aviva Investors (UK)
11.30 -11.50 Coffee break
11.50-13.00

Investment session 1 – greening your investment portfolio

Chair: Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, ICMIF
  • Case study - Danny McHugh, CIO, Aviva Investors (UK)
  • Case study - Johannes Jögi, Head of Manager Selection, Folksam (Sweden) and Emilie Westholm, Head of Responsible Investments and Corporate Governance, Folksam (Sweden)
  • Case study - Emma Haigh, Sustainability Investor, UNDRR IAB (UK)
  • Q&A and discussions
13.00 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15

Investment session 2 – impact and sustainable investing

Chair: David Crosoer, CIO, PPS Insurance (South Africa)
  • Presentation - Sean Kidney, CEO, Climate Bonds Initiative (UK)
  • Presentation - Chad Park, Vice President, Sustainability & Citizenship, Co-operators (Canada)
  • Presentation - Per Stahl, CIO of Jäderberg & Cie. Impact Investing Group (UK)
15.15 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.45

Building a resilient world

Keynote speaker: Sarah Wade-Apicella, Head of Partnerships, UNDRR

The importance of resilience to insurers – creating a more resilience world – panel session

Chair: Tom Ewart, AVP Sustainability, Co-operators (Canada)
  • Sarah Wade-Apicella, Head of Partnerships, UNDRR – Building a Resilient World
  • Saoirse Jones, Head of IDF Engagement, Zurich Insurance (Switzerland) and Co-Chair, Insurance Development Forum (IDF) DRR Task Force (Switzerland)
  • Nicola Ranger, Director Resilience Finance Lab, Oxford, GRII (Switzerland)
  • Q&A and discussions
16.45 – 18.00

Unstructured networking session and walk to drinks & dinner reception
19.00 – 22.00

Drinks reception and dinner

  • Keynote speaker: Butch Bacani, Programme Leader, UN Environment Programme's Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative (Switzerland)

Thursday, 2 November

08.30-09.00 Coffee/breakfast
09.15 – 10.30

Embedding resilience in strategy – the Seven mechanisms panel session:

  • Chair & introduction to the seven mechanisms, Liam Carter, Senior Vice-President – Sustainability, ICMIF (UK)
  • Malvern Chirume, Chief Underwriting Officer, African Risk Capacity Ltd (South Africa)
  • Giulia Balugani, Sustainability Manager, Unipol (Italy)
  • Tom Ewart, AVP Sustainability, Co-operators (Canada)
  • Q&A and discussions
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.30

Quantifying sustainable business through the SDGs and the ICMIF-calibrated Insurance SDG Calculator

Announcement: "Launch of the ICMIF Insurance SDG Benchmark"

Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, ICMIF (UK) Alicia Montoya, Head of Research Commercialisation, Swiss Re Institute (Switzerland)


Opening: 'ICMIF-calibrated Insurance SDG Calculator", including 2023 refinements and new indicators

Alicia Montoya, Head of Research Commercialisation, Swiss Re Institute (Switzerland)

Chair: Tom Ewart, AVP Sustainability, Co-operators (Canada)
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.45

Embedding (implementing and tracking) the 17 SDGs into your underwriting strategy

Chair: Alicia Montoya, Head of Research Commercialisation, Swiss Re Institute (Switzerland)

ICMIF member panel shares examples of how they embedded the SDGs into their strategies.
  • Doris Popplein, Sustainability Markets Lead, Swiss Re (Switzerland)
  • Andrea Salemme, Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility Specialist - UnipolSai (Italy)
  • Babs Dijkshoorn, Director CSR & Sustainability, Achmea (Netherlands)
14.45-15.00 Coffee break
15.00-16.45

The future of sustainability reporting

Chair: Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, ICMIF

What are the regulatory challenges coming our way and how to balance compliance with business opportunities

Panel discussion:
  • Clare Dugan, Senior Manager of Standards (financial services sectors), Global Reporting Initiative (GRI)
  • Mathieu Filippo, Senior Manager Prudential Supervision, Achmea (Netherlands)
  • Benjamin Bettan, Executive Director, Strategic & Financial Advisory, Gallagher Re (UK)
16.45– 17.15

Closing general feedback session: Attendees' perspective

Chair: Shaun Tarbuck, CEO, ICMIF

Panel discussion:
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