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Navigating a World Where Rules No Longer Apply

Thursday 19 June 2025
Event: 16.30 - 18.00
Venue: Beazley, 22 Bishopsgate, London EC2N 4BQ

AUDIENCE

This event is open to Chief Underwriting Officers and Active Underwriters in the Lloyd's market.

DESCRIPTION

The LMA is pleased to invite you to our exclusive event, Navigating a World Where Rules No Longer Apply, featuring conversations with General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO ADC Gen and Alex Creswell OBE.

This session will explore evolving global risks and cutting-edge technological developments, offering insights into the geopolitical landscape and how emerging tools, such as AI, quantum computing and fusion, are shaping new frontiers for risk assessment and underwriting practices.

Programme:

16.30: Welcome | Elizabeth Jenkin, LMA

16.35: Scene-setting: geopolitical events and conflict | General Sir Patrick Sanders

16.50: Emerging technologies: fusion, AI, quantum computing and beyond | Alex Creswell OBE

17.05: Q&A with speakers

18.00: Networking drinks and canapés

Speakers:

• General Sir Patrick Sanders KCB CBE DSO ADC Gen: Born in Tidworth Garrison military hospital and raised in Norway, Gibraltar and Iraq, General Sir Patrick Sanders was commissioned in 1986 and spent his early service as an Infantry Officer in The Royal Green Jackets in Germany, Norway and the UK. He has commanded on operations in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan. His staff appointments have been in operational and strategic roles. He has been a member of the Directing Staff at the Joint Staff College, Pol/Mil adviser for the Commander of Coalition Forces in Iraq in 2003-4, Colonel Army Strategy, Chief of Defence Staff’s Liaison Officer to the US Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Assistant Chief of Defence Staff (Operations) in the MOD. His higher command appointments were 20 Armoured Brigade, the 3rd (UK) Division and the Field Army. He was promoted to General in May 2019 and commanded UK Strategic Command until May 2022. He became Chief of the General Staff in June 2022. He is Colonel Commandant of The Rifles and the Honourable Artillery Company, and President of the Armed Forces Winter Sports Association. He speaks French and Norwegian, colloquial Spanish and can tell when he is being insulted in Arabic, Pashtun, Dari, Albanian and Serbo-Croat.
• Alex Creswell OBE: Alex left UK government service at the end of 2020 having served in a number of national security roles often including a technology angle. He led a division of GCHQ and was the Director of the 70-strong team of analysts (JIO) which provides the Prime Minister’s daily intelligence briefing and writes strategic assessment papers for the National Security Council. In addition to advising Beazley, Alex is co-Chair of the Turing Innovation Catalyst, an AI accelerator in Manchester which secured funding in the Spring 2023 Budget.
  We look forward to your participation in what promises to be a timely and thought-provoking discussion.

Due to restricted numbers, if you register and subsequently are unable to attend, please email jackie.clark@lmalloyds.com.