IUMI 2026

Rotterdam Conference

PROGRAMME

TIMETABLE

Time Event Speaker Room
12.00 – 14.30 Education Forum Meeting IUMI Education Forum members only 11. J.F. Staal Room
15.00 – 17.00 Speakers Preview For all conference speakers 6. Penn Room 1
15.00 – 17.30 Secretaries Meeting 4. Mees Room 1
18.30 Meet for President’s Dinner in the Postillion Hotel lobby – Coaches to the Restaurant by Invitation only
18.30 – 22.00 President’s Dinner by invitation only In Den Rustwat

Time Event Details/ Speaker Room
08.30 – 18.00 Registration/Information
09.00 – 17.00 Speakers Preview For all conference speakers 6. Penn Room 1
12.00 – 18.00 Press Room 3. Mees Room 2
09.00 – 17.00 Committee Meetings Coffee served in the committee rooms
09.00 – 10.00 Nominating Committee 7. Leeuwen Room 2
09.30 – 12.30 Cargo Committee 11. J.F. Staal Room
09.30 – 12.30 Ocean Hull Committee 12. Blue Room
09.30 – 12.30 Inland Hull, Fishing Vessels and Yachting Committee 9. Goudriaan Room 2
09.30 – 12.30 Facts and Figures Committee 14. Van Walsum Room
09.30 – 12.30 Legal and Liability Committee 10. Goudriaan Room 1
09.30 – 12.30 Loss Prevention Committee 4. Mees Room 1
09.30 – 12.30 Offshore Energy Committee 5. Penn Room 2
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch For IUMI Committee and Forum members only 17. Van Oldenbarnevelt Room
13.00 – 14.30 Informal lunch meeting For President, Members of the Executive Committee, Secretary General, Technical Committee Chairs and Liaison Officers with the Press 3. Mees Room
14.30 – 16.30 Policy Forum Meeting 9. Goudriaan Room 2
14.30 – 16.30 Data & Digitalization Forum Meeting 14. Van Walsum Room
14.30 – 16.30 Salvage Forum Meeting 7. Leeuwen Room 2
16.45 – 17.15 Meeting for President, Secretary General and Committee Chairs for final details 4. Mees Room 1
17.15 – 18.15 First Timers’ and Young Professionals‘ Reception sponsored by Stichting Assurantiebeurs Amsterdam For First Timers, Young professionals, IPPs, EC, TC Chairs Conference Venue – Balcony
18.45 Meet to walk to Welcome Reception at de Doelen Guides to be dotted along the route for directions WTC Entrance
19.00 – 22.00 Welcome Reception hosted by hosted by Verbond van Verzekeraars and sponsored by Willis Re De Doelen

Time Event Details/ Speaker Room
08.00 – 18.00 Speakers Preview For all conference speakers 6. Penn Room 1
07.30 – 08.30 Speaker rehearsal in main conference room Rottedam Halls
08.00 – 18.00 Registration – IUMI Conference Office/Hospitality Desk Exhibition Hall
08.00 – 08.30 Tea and Coffee Start of the day
08.00 – 18.00 Press Room 3. Mees Room 2
08.00 – 18.00 Exhibition / Sponsors Exhibition Hall
08.30- 10.00 Opening Session
 Rotterdam Halls
08.30 – 08.35 Welcome, Introduction, Call to Order Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President Rotterdam Halls
08.35 – 08.40 Welcome by the Host Association Richard Weurding, General Director Dutch Association of Insurers. NL-Den Haag Rotterdam Halls
08.40 – 09.10 Keynote: Naval operations in a dynamic world – safeguarding global shipping lanes George Pastoor, Fleet Commander Royal Dutch Navy, NL-Den Haag Rotterdam Halls
09.10 – 09.40 Introduction of the Common Theme Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President Rotterdam Halls
09.40 – 10.00     Report of the Secretary General

  • IMO from Oct 2025 to Sep 2026
  • Secretariat’s Activities 2025/2026
  • IUMI Policy Statement
  • Announcements / Practical Information
 Lars Lange, IUMI SG, Hamburg Rotterdam Halls
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 12.30 Workshop „Topic Workshop 1 (President’s Workshop): War Challenges for Marine Insurance – Mind the Gap“
 Rotterdam Halls
10.30 – 10.35 President’s introduction Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President
10.35 – 10.45 Marine Reinsurer View on War Exposures, Scenarios (RDS) and Historical Losses Romain Rossier, Head of Marine – Global Clients, Lloyd’s, Energy, P&I, Munich Re, GER-Munich
10.45 – 11.00 Global Chokepoints: Tracking Trade Flows & War Losses Julian Kirkman Page, Head of Business Development, Russell, UK-London
11.15 – 11.30 Security perspectives, title tba RA Matthew J. Kawas, Deputy Commander, U.S. Naval Forces Central Command / Deputy Commander, US 5th Fleet, US-New Jersey
11.15 – 11.30 Legal and practical challenges arising out of Marine war risk insurance claims Jonathan Evans, Partner Global Risks, DWF, UK-London
11.30 – 12.10 Panel discussion: Industry insights Moderator: Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President, F-Paris
Participants:
12.10 – 12.30 Q&A and take aways Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President, F-Paris
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch Break (participants)
12.30 – 14.00 Partner Lunch with IPPs and Affiliates, Members of the Executive Committee, SG, Committee Chairs, International Observers, Liaison Officers, Affiliates and IPPs with Dutch Delegation (seated Lunch)

By invitation only

 17. Van Oldenbarnevelt Room
13.25 – 13.55 Speaker rehearsal in main conference room
14.00 – 15.30 Workshop „Facts & Figures“
 Rotterdam Halls
14.00 – 14.15 Chair’s Report & Report on World Merchant Fleet and World Trade Jun Lin, Chair Facts & Figures Committee; Gard, UK-London
14.15 – 14.50 Global Marine Insurance Report Veith Huesmann, IUMI, Chief Analyst, GER-Hamburg
14.50 – 15.00 The „Trapped Fleet“ Lifecycle Andrew Yeoman, CEO, Concirrus, UK-London
15.00 – 15.25 Macroeconomic Overview Steve Gordon, Managing Director, Clarksons Research, UK-London
15.25 – 15.30 Q&A /  Conclusion and Take away Jun Lin, Chair Facts & Figures Committee; Gard, UK-London
15.30 – 16.00 Afternoon Break
16.00 – 17.30  Workshop “Legal & Liability” Rotterdam Halls
16.00 – 16.10 Chair’s Report & Introduction Brian F. Murphy, Chair Legal & Liability Committee, Senior Vice President, Berkley Offshore Underwriting Managers, USA-New York
16.10 – 16.40 Recent Legal Developments: Key Cases and Emerging Trends Moderator: Brian Murphy

Panelists:

  • Chris Zavos, Partner, Kennedys, UK-London
  • Joe Grasso, Partner, Grasso Moeller LLC, USA-Philadelphia
16.40 – 17.20 Panel: Places of Refuge Moderator: Nick Shaw, CEO, International Group of P&I Clubs, UK-London
Panelists:

  • Stephan Hennig, Consultant, former UK SOSREP, UK-London
  • Richard Janssen, CEO, Smit, Salvage, NL-Papendrecht
  • Alan Mackinnon, Head of Claims, UK Club, Chair of the Large Claims Committee at the IG, UK-London
IPP Presentation:
17.20 – 17.30 Q&A; Conclusion and Take away Brian F. Murphy, Chair Legal & Liability Committee, Senior Vice President, Berkley Offshore Underwriting Managers, USA-New York
17.45 – 18.15 Meeting the Press 3. Mees Room 2
18.30 Coaches to Secretaries Dinner, meet in the Postillion Hotel lobby by Invitation only
19.00 – 22.00 Secretaries‘ Dinner
 by Invitation only Euromast, Rotterdam

Time Event Details/ Speaker Room
08.00 – 18.00 Speakers Preview For all conference speakers 6. Penn Room 1
07.30 – 08.30 Speaker rehearsal in main conference room Rotterdam Halls
08.00 – 18.00 Registration/Information
08.00 – 18.00 Press Room 3. Mees Room 2
08.00 – 08.30 Tea and Coffee Start of the day
08.00 – 18.00 Exhibition  / Sponsors
08.30 – 10.00 Workshop “Cargo”
08.30 – 08.35 Chair’s Report & Introduction Mike Brews, Chair Cargo Committee, Horizon Underwriting Managers, ZA-Johannesburg Rotterdam Halls
08.35 – 08.40 Introduction Karla Scott, Head of Cargo and Logistics, MSIG USA-San Francisco Rotterdam Halls
08.40 – 09.00 Cargo theft: Global statistics & modus operandi Thorsten Neumann, President & CEO, Transported Asset Protection Association (TAPA) EMEA, NL-Leiden Rotterdam Halls
09.00 – 09.20 Fake carriers and how carrier’s liability insurers (should) react Steffen Maelicke, Lawyer, Arnecke Siebeth Dabelstein, GER-Hamburg Rotterdam Halls
09.20 – 09.55 Panel Discussion / Q&A Moderator: Karla Scott, Head of Cargo and Logistics, MSIG USA-San Francisco

Panelists:

 Rotterdam Halls
09.55 – 10.00 Conclusion and Take away Mike Brews, Chair Cargo Committee, Horizon Underwriting Managers, ZA-Johannesburg Rotterdam Halls
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.30 – 10.40 “Meet the Sponsors”

IUMI President + Host Country Organizing Committee Representative

 Rotterdam Halls
10.40 – 12.30 Workshop „Topic Workshop 2: Logistics and Trade“
 Rotterdam Halls
10.40 – 10.50 Workshop Introduction Matthias Kirchner, Underwriting Manager Marine Germany, Austria & Central and South Eastern Europe AXA XL, IUMI EC Member, GER-Cologne Rotterdam Halls
10.50 – 11.10 Make Freight Forwarding Liability Insurance a
Core Topic of IUMI		 Christian Dierks, Senior Underwriter Marine, AXA XL, GER-Hamburg Rotterdam Halls
11.10 – 11.20 Strait of Hormuz: How chokepoint disruption translates into cost escalation and marine risk Ioanna Touliatou, Senior Analyst, S&P Global, UK -London Rotterdam Halls
11.20 – 11.45 Freight Forwarders in the Polycrisis. How resilience, technology and multimodal networks are reshaping global logistics Koen van Leuven, Marsh Specialty, Head of Marine, Cargo & Logistics Europe, NL-Rotterdam Rotterdam Halls
11.45 – 12.10 Loss Prevention Specifics in Logistics Björn Hartong, Zurich Resilience Solutions, LPC Member, HH-Zurich Rotterdam Halls
12.10 – 12.25 Panel dscussion / Q&A Moderator: Matthias Kirchner, AXA XL

Panelists: Speakers of the workshop

 Rotterdam Halls
12.25 – 12.30 Conclusion and Take away Matthias Kirchner, Underwriting Manager Marine Germany, Austria & Central and South Eastern Europe AXA XL, IUMI EC Member, GER-Cologne Rotterdam Halls
12.30- 14.00 Lunch Break (participants)
12.30 – 14.00 Meeting of the Secretary General with the Organising Committee of the 2026 Rotterdam Conference and with representatives of the  Japan (2027), Belgium (2028) and Hong Kong (2029) Organising Committees (Buffet Style)

By invitation only

 16. Captain’s Lounge
13.25 – 13.55 Speaker rehearsal in main conference room Rotterdam Halls
14.00 – 15.30 Workshop “Policy Forum”:  The nuclear option
14.00 – 14.10 Chair’s Report & Introduction Neil Roberts, Chair Policy Forum and LMA, UK-London Rotterdam Halls
14.10 – 14.25 Technical insights on nuclear technologies available in maritime Jan Emblemsvåg, Ph.D., Professor, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), NOR-Alesund Rotterdam Halls
14.25 – 14.40 Developments in the regulatory space Eleni Poupaki, Senior Policy Adviser, Directorate for Maritime Affairs / Shipping Policy Division, Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management, Directorate-General for Civil Aviation and Maritime Affairs, NED-The Hague Rotterdam Halls
14.40 – 14.55 Insurance cover for nuclear power plants – a model for maritime? Mark Tetley, Senior Underwriter, Northcourt Ltd. (UK Branch), Optio, UK-London Rotterdam Halls
14.55 – 15.25 Panel / Q&A Moderator: Franco D’Andrea, Partner, Global Risks, DWF Law LLP, UK-LondonPanellists:

 Rotterdam Halls
15.25 – 15.30 Conclusion and Take away Neil Roberts, Chair Policy Forum and Head of Marine & Aviation, LMA, UK-London Rotterdam Halls
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30 Workshop “Inland Hull, Fishing Vessels and Yachts” Rotterdam Halls
16.00 – 16.10 Chair’s Report & Introduction Rick Salway, Chair IFY Committee and Great American Insurance Group, USA-New York
16.10 – 16.25 Autonomous inland hull vessels Frank Stevens, Associate Professor, Law School Erasmus University, NL-Rotterdam
16.25 – 16.40 EU fishing fleet policy, available EU funding and conditions related to the fleetFishing Eoin Mac Aoidh, Deputy Head of Unit, DG Maritime Affairs and Fisheries European Commission, BE-Brussels
16.40 – 17.05 Panel seission on Seafarer wellbeing Moderator:  Dylan Mercante, Senior Product Line Lead – Hull & Liabilities, AXA XL, USA-New York

Panelists:

  • Annet Koster, Director, Royal Association of Netherlands Shipowners, NL-Rotterdam
  • Çiğdem Temelli, Head of Underwriting, Turkish P&I Club, TUR-Istanbul
17.05 – 17.25 Forum Discussion with the Workshop Speakers:
Follow-up on Inland Hull topics Current and new technology in IFY markets and insurability		 Moderator: Frouwke de Vries, Member IFY Committee and Secretary General IVR, NL-Rotterdam

Panelist: Workshop speakers
17.25 – 17.30 Conclusion and Take Away Rick Salway, Chair IFY Committee and Vice President, Great American Insurance Group, USA-New York

Time Event Details/ Speaker Room
07.00 – 15.30 Speakers Preview For all conference speakers 6. Penn Room 1
07.00 – 08.00 Speaker rehearsal in main conference room Rotterdam Halls
07.00 – 16.00 Registration/Information Rotterdam Halls
08.00 – 18.00 Press Room 3. Mees Room2
08.00 – 08.30 Tea and Coffee Start of the day
08.00 – 18.00 Exhibition Hall / Sponsors
08.30 – 10.00 Workshop “Offshore Energy”: Evolution of Upstream offshore underwriting Rotterdam Halls
08.30 – 08.35 Chair’s Report and Introduction Michele Cibrario, Chair Offshore Energy Committee, Swiss Re, Co-Head Energy, CH-Zurich Rotterdam Halls
08.35 – 08.50 Technological innovations on the road to sustainable energy solutions Hanneke van Oss, Department Head Insurance at Bluewater Energy Services, NL- Hoofddorp Rotterdam Halls
08.50 – 09.05 CO2 infrastructure becomes reality Dorus Bakker, Porthos, Director Finance at Porthos (Port of Rotterdam), NL- Baarn Rotterdam Halls
09.05 – 09.20 Managing a portfolio of Carbon project Cristel Lambton, Technical and Orchestration Director, Eni CCUS Holding Ltd., UK-London Rotterdam Halls
09.20 – 09.55 Evolution of Upstream offshore underwriting

Part 2: Panel discussion and Q&A

 Moderator: Alex Harrison, Group Managing Director – Energy, ABL Group, AUS-Perth

Panellists:

  • May Hleileh, Chief Underwriting Officer International, Emirates Insurance Company, UAE-Dubai,
  • Hanneke van Oss, Department Head Insurance, Bluewater Energy Services, NL- Hoofddorp,
  • Dorus Bakker, Porthos, Director Finance at Porthos (Port of Rotterdam), NL- Baarn,
  • Cristel Lambton, Technical and Orchestration Director, Eni CCUS Holding Ltd., UK-London
 Rotterdam Halls
09.55 – 10.00 Wrap up and Take away Michele Cibrario, Chair Offshore Energy Committee, Swiss Re, Co-Head Energy, CH-Zurich Rotterdam Halls
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break
10.00 – 10.30 Council Meeting

  • Minutes of the 2025 Annual Conference Singapore
  1. Council Approvals / Decisions
  • Finances: Approval of the annual Accounts 2025
  • Report External Auditor 2025
  • Determine Membership Fee 2027
 Council Members by invitation only 17. Van Oldenbarnevelt
10.30 – 12.00 Workshop “Loss Prevention” Rotterdam Halls
10.30 – 10.40 Chair’s Report and Introduction Pascal Dubois, Chair, Loss Prevention Committee and CEO CESAM, FRA-Paris Rotterdam Halls
10.40 – 11.10 Fraud within the supply chain (Panel 1) Moderator: Björn Hartong, Global Head of RE Marine, Security & Supply Chain, Zürich Resilience Solutions, CH-Zürich

Panelists:

  • Tiina Ruhlandt, Managing Director, EIMC, USA-Jersey City
  • Samuel A Markov, Director ARM Services Argentina/Chile, ARG-Buenos Aires
  • Ynse de Vos, Partner, Senior Surveyor at TT Experts and Co-founder of CarrierCheck, NL-La Randstad
 Rotterdam Halls
11.10 – 11.45 Recent evolutions concerning ion batteries and corresponding loss prevention recommendations (Panel 2) Moderator: Timothy Kennedy, Vice President, Director Loss Control Services Marine, Starr Insurance, USA-New-York City

Panelists:

  • Maria Dragoumerli, Country Manager, ABL Group, GR-Piraeus
  • Dr Carsten Schulte, Global Head Marine, HDI Group, GR-Hannover
  • Wenxiao Song, Senior Engineer, Shanghai Motor Vehicle Inspection and Certification Technology Research Center Co., Ltd., PRC-Shanghai
  • Jarek Klimczak, Chief Risk Consulting Officer, Specialty, AXA XL, UK-London
 Rotterdam Halls
11.45 – 11.55 ISPM 15 Nicolas Gabriel, Divisional Director/Consultant, Worldwide Survey Coordination, Battermann & Tillery Global Marine GmbH, GER-Bremen Rotterdam Halls
11.55 – 12.00 Q&A; Conclusion and Take Aways Pascal Dubois, Chair Loss Prevention Committee and CEO, CESAM, FRA-Paris
12.00 – 13.30 Lunch Break (participants)
12.10 – 13.30 Working lunch:

Roundtable on Crew Wellbeing
President, Members of the Executive Committee with registered participants

 By invitation only, pre-registration required

Moderator: Pauline des Vallières, Chair IUMI Sustainability WG

Panel:

  • Kristina Kunigenas, Sustainable Shipping Initiative (SSI)
  • Sean Dalton, Munich Re & IUMI Vice President
  • Ben Bailey, Director of Programme, The Mission to Seafarers
 17. Van Oldenbarnevelt Room
12.55 – 13.25 Speaker rehearsal in main conference room
13.30 – 15.00 Workshop „Ocean Hull“
13.30 – 13.40 Chair’s Report & Introduction Ilias Tsakiris, Chair, Ocean Hull Committee and CEO, American Hellenic Hull, CY-Limassol Rotterdam Halls
13.40 – 14.05 The Human Data Gap: The Risk We Are Still Not Measuring Meei Wong. Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Circle Digital Ventures Co-Chair All Aboard Alliance, Singapore
14.05 – 14.30 False Flag Ships and the Insurable Risks Pertaining to Seafarers Prof. George Theocharidis, Professor of Maritime Law & Policy at WMU, SWE-Malmö
14.30 – 14.55 Casualties and Conflict Zones: Crew at the Core of What We Do Edward Wollaston Director Global Response, AMBREY, UK
14.55 – 15.00 Q&A / Conclusion and Take away Ilias Tsakiris, Chair, Ocean Hull Committee and CEO, American Hellenic Hull, CY-Limassol
15.00 – 15.40 Final Session Rotterdam Halls
Thanks and Wrap-up Frédéric Denèfle, IUMI President Rotterdam Halls
Announcment Council meeting results/ new EC + Nominating Committee Isabelle Therrien, Chair of the IUMI Nominating Committee, Executive Vice President, Head of Cargo, Falvey Insurance Group, CAN-Toronto Rotterdam Halls
Address by the new President New IUMI President Rotterdam Halls
Handing over of the IUMI flag to the Japanese Delegation Netherlands: Anneke Kooiman, IVR; Marko van Leeuwen, Verbond van Verzekeraars; Victor van de Lest, Corins; Jenny Groeneveld, HDI; Simon Laros, Nationale-Nederlanden

Japan: Tom Shinya, Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd; Shinsuke Asai, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance Co., Ltd; Rie Hirose, Sompo Japan Insurance Inc.; Tomo Sugiura, The General Insurance Association of Japan; Shuya Ashizawa, The General Insurance Association of Japan

 Rotterdam Halls
Information on the Yokohama Conference 2027 Tom Shinya, Senior Expert – Marine Underwriting Dept., Tokio Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd, IUMI EC Member, JP-Tokyo Rotterdam Halls
Closing of the Conference New IUMI President Rotterdam Halls
15.45 – 16.15 Wrap-Up Meeting Workshop Chairs  with members of the Executive Committee (old and new) 17. Van Oldenbarnevelt Room
18.00 – 18.15 Meeting point at Postillion Hotel​ Busses depart to Williamskate pier for spido boats

Note: if not taking Spido boats, own way to be made to the Cruise Terminal (no transfers directly there)

Or 6-8 min walk to Cruise Terminal or to Pier for boat
18.30 – 18.15 Arrival at the Willemskade terminal and start boarding on the Spido Boats​ 18:45: Spido Boats depart (40 min​ tour)

19:25 – 19:30: Spido boats – Arrival at the Hotel New York​, there is a 7–9 minute walk from the boat to the venue

19:30 – 19:35: Arrival at the Cruise Terminal​
19.30 – 0.00 Dutch Evening hosted by Verbond van Verzekeraars and sponsored by Marsh Re 19:30: Welcome drinks

19:40: Water Solute

20:15-20:30: Dinner commences

22:00 – 00:00: Mingle and dance

 Cruise Terminal
22.30 – 0.00 Coach shuttles back to hotel Postillion