Parima’s digital conference on resilience gets underway
The annual conference of the Pan-Asia Risk & Insurance Management Association (Parima) began today, with an opening session on the lessons learned by risk managers during the course of the pandemic.
The event, which is being held online for the second year in a row, takes place on 25–29 October, with two sessions on each day covering five major risk themes – sustainability, mega trends, people risks, digitalisation and big data, and the hard market.
Titled ‘Resilience Week V2.1’, the digital conference has adopted the tagline ‘adapt.transform.overcome’, and Parima said it is “aiming to equip risk managers with the knowledge and skills they need as they adapt and transform the way they look at risks in order to overcome challenges coming their way”.
The pandemic has dominated the risk management agenda in Asia just as it has elsewhere, so unsurprisingly it features prominently in the conference agenda – from the opening session on the battle scars suffered by risk managers since early 2020, to a session on 28 October that will look at the vital signs of health and wellbeing in the Covid era and how they should be monitored.
Speakers for that session include Arnaud Vaissie, CEO of health and security services group International SOS; and Sandy Tay, HR director at Singapore-based National University Health System.
A number of senior executives from the insurance industry will feature during the week, including John Doyle, CEO of Marsh; Jonathan Rake, CEO APAC at Swiss Re Corporate Solutions; Anne Corona, CEO APAC at Aon; and Xavier Veyry, CEO APAC and Europe at AXA XL.
Risk managers from regional and international companies will also be appearing on the numerous panels. The companies include US engineering firm Cummins, Singapore-based logistics company Lazada, and Hong Kong-based supply chain management provider Fung Group.
The main conference was preceded by a series of technical workshops held by four insurers and brokers – Aon, FM Global, Marsh and Zurich. As with the main event, these workshops were held online.