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May 4 – 7, 2025 | Chicago, Illinois at the McCormick Place Convention Center

RIMS RISKWORLD 2025

Join us to gain insights into the latest risk management trends.

When you know more, you can do more. Come gain the broader, deeper insights you need to assess today’s challenges and global dynamics, meet with the expert support you need to proactively navigate them, and learn about the data-driven and innovative solutions you need to make informed decisions with confidence.

Throughout the week, we'll explore the latest industry trends and priority issues, such as supply chain and tariff uncertainties, artificial intelligence risks and opportunities, rising geopolitical tensions, extreme weather readiness and recovery, risk financing optimization, and even more complex and interconnected risks.   

Visit the Marsh Cafe, attend our hospitality functions, and participate in our RIMS RISKWORLD 2025 educational sessions to engage with our specialists, network with your industry peers, and learn how much more you can do with our data analytics, industry insights, and customized strategies supporting your risk management, resilience, and business growth objectives.

We look forward to seeing you at RIMS RISKWORLD 2025.  

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Don’t forget to register for RIMS RISKWORLD 2025. To ensure the safety of all participants, RIMS has implemented a mandatory conference registration requirement for access to the event premises.

RIMS RISKWORLD does offer a Marketplace/Hospitality badge, which allows access to the Marsh Cafe and other hospitality spaces at the convention center (please note, this badge will not allow access to speaking sessions). To learn more, click here.

Dates: May 4 - 7, 2025
Venue: McCormick Convention Center
Location: Chicago, Illinois

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Gain industry insights from our subject matter experts

Insuring the future: Climate change and the energy transition

Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm

Location: Room 178A

Speakers: 

  • Michael Kolodner, Global Renewable Energy and US Energy & Power Practice Leader, Marsh Specialty
  • Isaac McLean, Head of Property, kWh Analytics

Session Description: 

As climate change intensifies, more frequent severe weather events present challenges for the renewable energy sector. Explore how carriers, managing general agents, and developers are rethinking risk management and resilience strategies in the face of escalating risks to solar, wind, and battery storage assets. Consider the unique position of carriers to drive positive change. Survey their innovative approaches, such as pre-quote site visits and direct client engagement to increase risk evaluation accuracy. Follow the renewable energy sector response, including climate-resilient designs and adaptive management strategies. Question how long-term resilience investments can be aligned with short-term insurance incentives. Examine resilience credits and parametric insurance products that better reflect climate change realities in risk transfer mechanisms. Enhance your understanding of the importance of collaborative risk mitigation efforts to build a more resilient energy infrastructure that benefits not just the renewable sector but society as a whole.

Frontline strategies to manage evolving cyber technology, threats, and regulation

Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm

Location: Room 176ABC

Speakers: 

  • Adam Cottini, Director of Business Development, CrowdStrike
  • Meredith Schnur, US & Canada, Cyber Practice Leader, Marsh
  • Ron Wills, Vice President of Legal, CrowdStrike

Session Description: 

Consider the three major cyber events that reverberated globally in the last year across airlines, hospitals, emergency response units, and car dealerships. Whether stemming from cyberattacks or IT outages, the threats to critical functions have been made more complex by trends in third-party reliance, business enabled by generative artificial intelligence (AI), and data protection laws. 

Explore best practices for managing third-party cyber risk. Examine the intersection of AI and cyber risks. Gain insight into changing privacy regulations. Equip yourself with the knowledge and strategies needed to navigate the ever-evolving landscape of cyber risk.

Leveraging AI to prevent supply chain risk on a global scale

Date: Monday, May 5

Time: 2:50 pm - 3:20 pm

Location: Global Stage – Booth #825

Speakers:

  • Randal Waters, Senior Vice President, Marsh
  • Olivia Sobczyk, Senior Consultant, EY

Session Description: 

Cyberattacks, market shifts, political instability, catastrophic events, and supply chain compromises can cause potentially devastating disruption to your organization due to the interconnectivity of its global operations. Investigate the artificial intelligence (AI) tools that can help prevent this. Explore the impact of AI and cyber risks on the global integration of technologies, including assessing the reliability and performance of suppliers. Identify proactive approaches for structuring insurance products to prevent volatile risks from destabilizing integrated supply chains. Discover responsible ways to incorporate AI into risk management tools for identification, prediction, and monitoring.

Roads to resilience: Building health capacity and climate adaptation for stable supply chains

Date: Tuesday, May 6 

Time: 10:45 am - 11:45 am 

Location: Room 178A

Speakers:

  • Amy Barnes, Global Head of Energy & Power, Marsh
  • Dr. Lorna Friedman, Senior Partner, Health Transformation and Sustainability, Mercer
  • T Lee, VP, Insurance & Risk, Pine Gate Renewables

Session Description: 

As the effects of climate change intensify, attending to the health and safety of supply chain workers has become increasingly critical. Gain insight into the impact of a healthy workforce on costs and business success. Explore the interplay between employee well-being and environmental changes that affects risk, regulatory compliance, and insurance costs. Through case studies, follow successful models that integrate innovative financing solutions to protect workers in vulnerable areas while controlling costs and improving supply certainty. Discuss how your organization can navigate complex regulatory landscapes to ensure compliance and leverage insurance and risk mitigation to bolster resilience. Whether you are a risk professional, compliance officer, or business leader, join others who recognize that investing in employee health is a cornerstone of resilient supply chains and long-term organizational success.

Electric disruption: How electric vehicles are driving change in the insurance industry

Date: Tuesday, May 6 

Time: 12:50 pm - 1:20 pm 

Location: Innovation Stage IS-Booth #1291

Speakers: 

  • Lisa Caldwell, Commercial US Manufacturing and Automotive Industry Practice Leader, Marsh
  • Laura Hollerich, Managing Director, Ernst and Young LLP
  • Olivia Sobczyk, Senior Consultant, EY

Session Description: 

As adoption of electric vehicles continues to rise, insurers and risk professionals face considerations and challenges regarding battery incidents, degradation, and lifecycle management. Learn about the challenges, risks, and rewards associated with investing in and implementing such sustainable machinery and technologies. Understand the types of electric vehicles and the emerging risks and losses rooted in electric vehicle batteries. See how insurers must transform how they develop products, underwrite risk and manage claims for these risks. 

Asian American and Pacific Islander professionals community meetup

Date: Tuesday, May 6

Time: 2:40 pm - 3:25 pm

Location: DEI-Booth #737

Speakers: 

  • Angela Lee, Executive Board Member, Corporate Treasurer, AAIN Senior Vice President – National Claims Director, Marsh McLennan Agency
  • Peter Woo, Board Chairperson/President and Co-Founder (AAIN), Jackson Lewis P.C
  • Melinda Yee-Dong, Director of Risk Management, Panda Restaurant Group, Inc

Session Description: 

Join Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) professionals across the risk and insurance industry for a dedicated networking session focused on community-building, leadership, and professional development. Hosted by the Asian American Insurance Network (AAIN), this session will offer an overview of the organization’s mission, initiatives, and membership benefits. Attendees will also learn how to engage with AAIN’s efforts to advance AAPI representation and leadership across the industry. Allies are welcome and encouraged to attend.

Excellence in risk management: Global risks 2025

Date: Tuesday, May 6 

Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm 

Location: Room 185BC

Speakers:  

  • Carolina Klint, Chief Commercial Officer, Europe, Marsh McLennan 
  • Reid Sawyer, Managing Director and Head, Emerging Risks Group, Marsh Advisory
  • David Arick, Managing Director, Global Risk Management, Sedgwick
  • Franck Baron, Group General Manager - Risk Mgmt. & Insurance, International SOS

Session Description:

Drive strategic conversations within your organization when you fully appreciate how risk perception and management have fundamentally changed. Consider the impact of dozens of global elections, conflicts in Europe and the Middle East, civil unrest fueled by inflation and cost-of-living crises, accelerated workplace and workforce transformations, expansive generative artificial intelligence use, intensified natural catastrophes, and frequent global supply chain disruptions. Get up to date on trending and emerging risks. See how risk management strategies and approaches diverge or converge. Using the Global Risks Report 2025 as a starting point, explore issues such as cybersecurity, climate change and sustainability, automation in the workplace, and value chains, as well as the risk strategies that can be applied. This session is hosted by RIMS and Marsh. 

A hard market is not the only reason to put property risks in a captive

Date: Tuesday, May 6 

Time: 2:45 pm - 3:45 pm 

Location: Room 175ABC

Speakers:  

  • Michael Serricchio, Managing Director, Captive Solutions Group, Marsh
  • Ian Ascher, Executive Director, Jones Lang LaSalle Incorporated
  • Sandy Bigglestone, Deputy Commissioner, Captive Insurance, Vermont Department of Financial Regulation
  • Adriana Scherzinger, Group Head of Captives, Zurich Insurance Company

Session Description: 

Even as property rates moderate, captives are more relevant now than ever. Discuss legislative changes that increase captive availability and versatility. Consider why captives are no longer reserved for just high-frequency, low-severity risks. Explore why captives today represent nearly 25% of the overall commercial insurance market, with property the top risk placed.

Innovative risk financing: Why parametric solutions should be part of your risk management portfolio

Date: Wednesday, May 7 

Time: 1:45 pm - 2:45 pm 

Location: Room 175ABC

Speakers:

  • Tom Markovic, Global Head of Parametric Solutions, Marsh
  • Casey Markovic, Manager, Risk Management, Prologis, Inc

Session Description:

In light of increasing climate volatility, widening coverage gaps, and hard property markets, have you considered parametric solutions? Discuss these tools, how they work, and their benefits. Distinguish how they dovetail with traditional risk transfer mechanisms to optimize risk financing programs. Review the pros and cons, potential pitfalls, and key considerations when using them. Explore scenarios in which parametric solutions can close coverage gaps, manage the impact of the current property cycle, diversify risk management options, and address the post-disaster need for liquidity and certainty through the rapid settlement process.

Marsh Cafe

Step into the Marsh Cafe, your hub for connection and collaboration. Meet one-on-one with our experts, explore cutting-edge products and solutions, and network with industry peers.

Location: The Marsh Cafe is conveniently located inside the McCormick Place West Building, in Skyline Ballroom D&E on the 3rd floor.

Marsh Cafe Hours:

  • Monday, May 5: 9:30 am – 5:00 pm
  • Tuesday, May 6: 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
  • Wednesday, May 7: 8:30 am – 1:30 pm

Marsh Booth

Looking to refresh your professional image? We’ve got you covered! A skilled photographer will be on-site to capture your new headshot during the hours listed below.

Location: The Marsh Booth, #1131, is located on the Marketplace show floor, 3rd floor of McCormick Place West Building.

Marsh Booth Hours:

  • Monday, May 5: 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
  • Tuesday, May 6: 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
  • Wednesday, May 7: 9:00 am – 1:30 pm

Hear about our latest solutions – live at the Marsh Cafe!

In an increasingly complex risk landscape, Marsh’s Blue[i] suite of solutions equips organizations to navigate uncertainties with confidence. Our industry-leading insights, combined with the analytical capabilities of our dedicated specialists, provide business leaders with the vision and perspective needed to seize opportunities and help your business to thrive. 

Blue[i] offers adaptable dashboards that enable you to view risk data by specific lines of coverage or by your aggregate portfolio to assess your overall cost of risk, allowing you to create the most efficient program for your organization. With our Blue[i] solutions, you receive industry-leading insights to help you navigate risk, inform and guide decision-making, and invest in your business’s future. 

  • Navigate risk: Our tailored solutions operate on an intuitive digital platform and deliver real-time insights and actionable business intelligence. Our team of specialists can provide valuable risk advice to help you anticipate and navigate emerging risks effectively, ensuring continued success in today’s ever-evolving environment.
  • Inform and guide decision-making: Our proprietary data and advanced modeling techniques, combined with our specialists’ data-driven decision support enable you to navigate uncertainties with confidence and take the necessary action to optimize your exposure, financing, and allocation decisions. 
  • Invest in your business’s future: Our solutions offer a broader perspective to help you better understand your risk environment and make the most effective and information-based decisions to manage and minimize risks in the long term while unlocking growth opportunities.

Through advanced analytics, Blue[i] gives you a clear view of your risks, enabling confident, data-driven decision-making and the clarity necessary to thrive in an unpredictable world.

Sentrisk is our AI-powered platform that enables companies to better uncover, understand, and manage their supply chain risk. Sentrisk can help you achieve breakthrough risk outcomes by delivering cutting-edge risk analytics with unparalleled precision and is being used by clients to transform their supply chain risk exposure into business opportunity.

Using Sentrisk, you can:

  • Uncover your risk: Reconstruct your supply chain ecosystem at the atomic level, with the power to focus at any juncture.
  • Understand your risk: Contextualize risk and exposures with our proprietary risk score (“xR”).
  • Monitor your risk: Receive real-time alerts of disruptions at critical points in your ecosystem.
  • Report your risk: Generate automated reports you can share across your organization.
  • Enhance risk transfer: Improve insurance renewal with wider coverages, higher policy limits, and more certain claims outcomes.
  • Bring in risk expertise: Get access to specialists to help you plan mitigation strategies for high-risk suppliers, components, or products.

Marsh’s proprietary, web-based custom platform empowers your risk management team with digital solutions tailored to your organization’s unique risk profile and needs.

Data Navigator allows you to build custom dashboards, aggregate data from disparate sources, and create targeted workflows, providing powerful, custom tools and analytics to identify trends, improve processes, and make informed decisions that can better protect your organization. Our suite of solutions enables you to:

  • Develop a custom digital platform: Customize every aspect of the platform to align with your specific risk management requirements, ensuring that you have the tools you need to succeed.
  • Integrate data management: Seamlessly connect data from various sources, providing a comprehensive view of your risk landscape in one centralized location.
  • Enhance collaboration: Improve teamwork with features that facilitate more streamlined communication, allowing your risk management team to work together more effectively and efficiently.
  • Access end-to-end support: Rely on our team of consultants and analysts to take on the heavy lifting of data consolidation, cleaning, and system maintenance.
  • Gain data-driven insights: Leverage powerful analytics tools to identify trends, assess risks, and make informed decisions that protect your organization.

The Marsh difference

Equipped with a custom data management platform, your organization can strengthen its risk approach with Marsh expertise behind you. The advantages include:

  • Flexibility: Adapt the platform as your risk management needs evolve, helping you to stay ahead of emerging challenges.
  • Scalability: Easily scale your solution to accommodate growth, changing business dynamics, or new risk management needs.
  • Ongoing expert support: Benefit from our dedicated and experienced team of specialists, who can assist you in building, using, and optimizing your platform.


Check with your Marsh representative for more details about these demos.

Come listen to our experts

Amy Barnes

Amy Barnes

Global Head of Energy & Power, Marsh

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Lisa Caldwell

Commercial US Manufacturing and Automotive Industry Practice Leader

Dr Lorna Friedman

Dr. Lorna Friedman

Senior Partner, Health, Transformation and Sustainability, Mercer

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Carolina Klint

Risk Management Leader for Continental Europe, Marsh McLennan

Michael Kolodner

Michael Kolodner

Global Renewable Energy and US Energy & Power Practice Leader, Marsh Specialty

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Angela Lee

Executive Board Member, Corporate Treasurer, AAIN Senior Vice President – National Claims Director, Marsh McLennan Agency

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Tom Markovic

Global Head of Parametric Solutions, Marsh

Reid Sawyer

Reid Sawyer

Managing Director, Head Emerging Risks Group, Marsh

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Meredith Schnur

US & Canada, Cyber Practice Leader, Marsh

Michael Serricchio

Michael Serricchio

Regional Leader, US & Canada, Captive Solutions, Marsh

Randal Waters

Randal Waters

Senior Vice President, Emerging Risks Group, Marsh Advisory, North America