Agentic and Generative AI for Insurance EU 2026

Half-day workshop: Frontier risks and product innovation - AI & Robotics

Uncover the hidden dangers of AI and robotic risks to develop insurance products for the future

Intelligent Insurer presents its first workshop focused on the emerging risks of AI and robotics. Held alongside the third annual ‘Agentic and Generative AI for Insurance’ conference, the session brings leading experts together to examine how intelligent machines are reshaping risk management and product development.

AI’s rapid adoption is transforming the insurance landscape, creating exposures across many lines. These risks extend far beyond sci-fi notions of humanoid robots—any organisation using AI for decision-making faces new and often untested liabilities. As systems grow more autonomous, issues such as cyber vulnerabilities, operational failures, liability disputes and casualty events become increasingly urgent.

This workshop will address key questions: What happens when AI gets it wrong? Who is accountable, and how should insurance respond to these frontier risks? It will also explore how insurers can prepare the wider market, guide regulators and build products that keep pace with evolving exposures.

Join us as we examine these emerging challenges—and the race to understand, price and insure the next generation of risk.

Confirmed Speakers Include:

Claire Davey

Head of Product Innovation and Emerging Risk

Relm Insurance

Akash Bharadia

Founder and CEO

Robophobic

Neil Arklie

Director

AI UK International Ltd.

Madhu Acharyya

Senior Lecturer In Risk and Finance

Glasgow Caledonian University

Ed Pocock

Global Head of Cyber Security

Gallagher Re

Sam Haslam

Director and Practice Leader at WTW Risk & Resilience Advisory

WTW

Michael von Gablenz

Head of Insure AI

Munich Re

George Holevas

SVP Cyber, Media & Technology Practice, Specialty UK

Marsh

Ed Ventham

Co-Founder & Head of Broking

Assured

Katie Tingley

Critical Care Nurse

East Suffolk Northeast Essex Foundation Trust

Christopher Norwood

Cyber Analyst

Chaucer

George Grimshaw

Divisional Head of Cyber and Technology

Clear Insurance Management

Chris Moore

President

Apollo ibott Commercial

Workshop agenda

14:00 - 14:10 Chair’s introduction:

Akash Bharadia, Founder/CEO, Robophobic

14:10 - 14:50 Panel- The New Frontier: Mapping Risks and Exposures

Hear a rapid overview of unknown AI/robot exposures: cyber, mechanical, property damage, bodily injury, liability and silent coverage
Addressing the data challenge and market gap: A scarcity of loss data makes underwriting challenging – how can we bridge the data gap and manage new exposures?
Who’s exposed – and where are today’s claims coming from?
How to measure risk data in underwriting and post-binding to price effectively and manage the risk?

Ed Pocock, Global Head of Cyber Security, Gallagher Re

Dr. Michael von Gablenz, Head of AI Sure, Munich Re

George Grimshaw, Divisional Head of Cyber and Technology, Clear Insurance Management

Moderator: Neil Arklie, Director, AI UK International Ltd.

14:50 - 15:10 Presentation - Evolving AI Regulations: Implications for Insurers and Clients

Analyse the Potential Impact of Regulations on Emerging Insurance Products Using Robotic and Agentic AI

Dr Madhu Acharyya, Senior Lecturer in Risk & Finance & Program Leader for MSc Insurance and Sustainable Risk Management, Glasgow Caledonian University

15:10 - 15:40 Networking Coffee Break

15:40 - 16:25 Panel: Product liability and AI: Crafting Fit-For-Purpose AI Risk Products

Tackle the liability issue: who is liable – the human, the programmer, the robot OEM or the company?
What do regulators (EU, AI Act, U.S. NIST, MoD) demand? And how will insurers navigate this?
How are insurers adapting policies, exclusions and coverage? Discuss how existing policies (cyber, D&O, E&O, reps and warranties) need to change to account for the new risks from AI
What steps can insurers take to protect themselves – such as adding specific provisions and limitations, accounting for AI oversight and decision-making and determining liability?
Debate the opportunity for the creation of new AI products to meet policyholders’ needs

Claire Davey, Head of Product Innovation and Emerging Risk, Relm Insurance

Hayley Budd, Class Leader, Innovation, Apollo ibott 1971

Ed Ventham, Co-Founder & Head of Broking, Assured

George Holevas, SVP, Cyber, Media & Technology Practice, Specialty UK, Marsh

Moderator: Akash Bharadia, Independent Consultant & Mentor, Lloyd’s Lab & Founder/CEO, Robophobic

16:25 - 17:10 Spotlight on Robotics - Mastering the Autonomous Risk Frontier

Examine a forward looking distribution centre scenario where insider threats intersect with AI and robotics advancements, revealing catastrophic failures
Explore how robotics enhances surgical precision and AI-driven early detection. Assess the critical risk-benefit balance
Analyse how AI and robotics unite the cyber‑physical domains, raising questions for the insurance industry on risk analysis, productization and exposure, within the context of supporting national resilience

Sam Haslam, Director and Practice Leader at WTW Risk & Resilience Advisory, WTW
Katie Tingley, Critical Care Nurse, East Suffolk Northeast Essex Foundation Trust
Christopher Norwood, Cyber Analyst, Chaucer

17:10 onwards Networking Drinks Reception

2026 Sponsors

Workshop Lanyard Sponsor

Who will be attending?

Insurers/reinsurers: directors/heads of – product development/product management, innovation, underwriting, technical underwriting, exposure management, emerging risks/emerging marketing, compliance, claims, actuarial
MGAs
Lloyd’s syndicates
Brokers
Risk managers
Tech companies, service providers and consultants

Sponsor opportunities include:

Thought leadership (including presentations and panels)
Branding (online, via marketing, in the workshop room)
Pre-event webinar sponsorship (includes the lead-list from the webinar)
Exhibition stand (either in the workshop room or in the ‘AI Risk’ corner of the main hall)