CLIMATE TO CYBER: risk managers’ concerns as AIRMIC 2025 starts
Weather resilience, climate change and cyber security are the three risks that top the agenda of Taiwo Omo-Ikerodah, enterprise risk account manager, group risk at Network Rail and AIRMIC shadow board chair.
Speaking to AIRMIC Today, she said her number-one priority is train service delivery, given its importance to the UK economy. “If trains are delayed, we fail to meet our objective of getting customers to their destination on time,” she said.
Some major issues associated with this are weather resilience and climate change as well as cyber security – especially in the context of several prominent UK organisations that have been hacked. “That exemplifies the threat to cyber security that our environment faces today,” she said.
But she praised the role of AIRMIC in helping risk professionals such as her better understand and get to grips with such risks. She highlighted the many benefits and opportunities AIRMIC offers members in terms of professional development and industry insights.
“Members of AIRMIC receive unique perks and experiences not available anywhere else,” she said. “As a member, you have a professional path you can pursue at your own pace. This pathway assists individuals in understanding and becoming acquainted with the resources at their disposal. I have yet to come across an institution that prioritises its members and partners in all its offerings.”
Reflecting on her own tenure as both a member and a board member of AIRMIC, she said she has had great value from completing the Business Excellence Programme and stepping to the position of shadow board chair. But she said she now wants to help AIRMIC grow further and develop as an organisation.
“One of my main objectives for AIRMIC as it continues to grow is to strengthen its global partner and member base, achieve global recognition and join the league of prestigious associations across the globe,” she said. “The AIRMIC team delivers exceptional work that is recognised by the risk and insurance industry.”
Asked about this year’s event in Liverpool, Omo-Ikerodah highlighted several speakers and sessions she is looking forward to. These include Marsh’s partner lunch on geopolitics on Monday and, on Tuesday, the AIG leadership breakfast called ‘A new world of risk? Navigating geo-political uncertainty and risks in a changing world’.
She also flagged sessions on geopolitics and technology, AI and cyber. On the Wednesday, she is keen to attend a session called ‘Natural catastrophe, climate and weather and a new global order’.
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