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Airmic (Association for Insurance & Risk) 2026 🛑 Look Beyond the Heatmap - https://lnkd.in/evMi_QuJ At the Airmic 2026 conference in Birmingham, leading industry experts warned that traditional risk registers and heatmaps can create a false sense of security, meaning risk managers must shift their focus toward core business vulnerabilities as interconnected threats rapidly converge. Here are the key takeaways from the plenary session: 🔹 The Illusion of Clarity: Traditional heatmaps often fail to capture how fast-moving, interconnected risks like cyber attacks, supply chain disruptions, and energy volatility amplify one another. 🔹 Vulnerability Over Risk: Panellists urged businesses to adopt a vulnerability-led approach, mapping out the weakest, hardest-to-replace operational points, such as critical sites, single-source suppliers, or energy-dependent processes. 🔹 Resilience Over Efficiency: The corporate landscape is shifting away from operating models built purely around cost and speed, moving instead toward securing long-term earning stability and operational resilience. 🔹 Actionable Scenario Planning: To protect the balance sheet, organisations need to embed forward-looking stress testing and scenario roundtables that actively bridge board-level assumptions with operational realities. 🔹 Collaborative Insurance Partnerships: Managing complex, systemic threats requires moving away from simple transactional renewals and toward deep collaboration with brokers and insurers to map out coverage gaps before a loss crystallises. Read the full analysis from the session to see how your organisation can adapt its risk framework for this interconnected environment: https://lnkd.in/evMi_QuJ A special thank you to our session panellists Clarissa Franks from Lockton UK, Nina Arquint from Swiss Re Corporate Solutions, and Sean McGovern from AXA XL for sharing their invaluable strategic insights with the Airmic (Association for Insurance & Risk) delegates. #Airmic2026 #RiskManagement #StrategicRisk #BusinessResilience #CorporateGovernance #SupplyChainRisk #CyberSecurity #EnergySecurity #GeopoliticalRisk #ScenarioPlanning #InsuranceIndustry #RiskFinancing #CommercialInsurance #EnterpriseRisk #RiskConsulting