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September 18 @ 11:30 am - 12:30 pm
Risks, real losses and global insurance implications for agritech businesses
- Discover the top 5 key risks facing agritech today
- Explore real-world losses and lessons from around the globe
- Understand insurance implications beyond NZ borders
Wednesday 18 September 2025 | 11:30 am – 12:30 pm | REGISTER NOW
Damian is a Client Director with Lockton and has over 20 years’ experience negotiating and placing liability programmes for large and complex clients, including global companies. In recent years he has focused on technology and cyber liability and provides advice to agricultural, food and fibre sector and tech clients on all areas of risk. He has a strong technical knowledge of liability policy coverage, regularly undertakes contract reviews and leads market placements, negotiations and claims management. Damian has held senior leadership positions in both a broking and underwriting capacity so is ideally positioned to provide insights from different perspectives.
- Marks & Spencer (M&S) were victims of a Cyber attached which wiped over 1 Billion dollars wiped off their value. It disrupted their online sales, in store payments and supply changes with significant financial and reputational fallout.
- Dole (Pineapples) suffered a Cyber event last year where a single employee opened a malicious email which ended up costing them $10m !
- A global survey of business leaders, found that 30% of executives consider Cyber risk their biggest concern……
- Cyber incidents, including data breaches and system outages, were ranked as the most significant risk facing businesses globally for the fourth year in a row.
- Many New Zealand businesses may be misjudging and overconfident in their ability to handle cyber threats, leaving them exposed to increasingly complex digital risks, according to new industry data.
- Last quarter $7.8m of financial losses were reported to the National Cyber Security Centre’s in New Zealand, noting that only a small portion of events are reported