We are delighted to announce that the Guy Carpenter Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium will return on Sunday, 18 October 2026, at the Kongresshaus, Baden-Baden.
This highly anticipated event, which welcomed over 700 senior executives last year, continues to set the tone for the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting. Designed to distil key trends and analyse the forces shaping the global P&C reinsurance markets, the symposium is a cornerstone of the industry calendar.
The Guy Carpenter Baden-Baden Reinsurance Symposium will be followed by a cocktail reception to mark the start of the Baden-Baden Reinsurance Meeting, offering attendees the opportunity to network with senior European and international industry professionals.
We hope you are able to join us!
Risks and insureds: larger economic values, mega projects and greater needs for protection
• What kind of advanced risk management techniques does the industry need to utilise when assessing larger projects and economic values?
• Is this an instance where recruiting people with different skillsets, perhaps even from different industries, is necessary to address these issues?
• What other criteria will need to be considered that perhaps hasn’t been considered before?
• With the cat bond market not yet developed to provide capacity for key data center risks, is acceleration possible, particularly given the need for greater protection?
Brokers and MGAs: how to access risks and bring value to clients. Retail and Wholesale broking landscape is deeply evolving.
• In the current marketplace, how will these parties reposition themselves?
• As (re)insurance industry brokers have only recently looked to harness technology, what impact will this have on broker operations?
• What will clients begin to demand of these parties? How will this differ from their previous demands?
In a softening market, is the industry getting the risk-sharing balance right? Are reinsurers providing the right value, alongside the right price?
• In a perfect world, what does the industry want in a more softening and therefore demanding market?
• Alternatively, will the softening market create any beneficiaries?
• What does the right value look like for insurers when dealing with reinsurers? Will they demand any additional services?
Expanding the risk-bearing universe: what will be the role for capital markets, alternative asset managers, and retrocession?
• Is the attractive nature of capital markets only temporary or will this have longevity?
• How important are cultural factors in the expanded role of these parties? Can cultural differences cause friction? What do these differences look like in practice? Can convergence, or at least a middle ground, be achieved?
• With larger alternative asset managers allocating significant capital in the form of sidecars and instead of investing in equities, deploying their insurance float in fixed-income instruments and charging their limited partners for asset management fees, will these trends continue or are they cyclical?
• How will these parties promote themselves, particularly in an era of volatility and other challenges?
How are all players of the value chain (from brokers and MGAs to reinsurers) using technology and AI to develop solutions that bring value to clients?
• Has AI developed to the point where all members of the value chain are able to utilise it or are other factors, time, understanding etc, still restricting their ability?
• What trust issues surrounding innovation and AI are value chain members still grappling with? How can these be resolved?
• In light of JP Morgan’s predictions that the buildout of AI and digital infrastructure will require $5.5 trillion in capital, how can members of the value chain capitalise on this to help bring value to clients?
