URMIA offers affiliate membership to those who work for companies or organizations serving the needs of higher education risk management. Amy Daley, FM Global’s health care and education practice leader, chats with host Jenny Whittington about the value of URMIA's unique engagement opportunities for insurance companies, brokerages, law firms, and consultants from the perspective her own experience on the URMIA Board of Directors and Affiliates Committee, as well as being an educational presenter and conference sponsor.
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URMIA offers affiliate membership to those who work for companies or organizations serving the needs of higher education risk management. Amy Daley, FM Global’s health care and education practice leader, chats with host Jenny Whittington about the value of URMIA's unique engagement opportunities for insurance companies, brokerages, law firms, and consultants from the perspective her own experience on the URMIA Board of Directors and Affiliates Committee, as well as being an educational presenter and conference sponsor.
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Jenny: Hello everyone and welcome to URMIAmatters. It's Jenny Whittington, URMIA’s Executive Director and today we have a special guest. We actually are on site at our Eastern Regional Conference and Amy Daley is my special guest today. She's with FM Global, and she’s a current board member. So, Amy, why don’t you introduce yourself and tell a little bit about your background with FM Global and URMIA.
Amy: Hi Jenny, thanks for having me. So, yes I work for FM Global and I'm the Health Care and Education Practice Leader. So, my focus is a lot on all of the universities that are part of URMIA, so great to be here with everybody and, you know, sharing all the educational learnings that we get at these regionals.
Jenny: Awesome. How long have you been with FM Global?
Amy: I’ve been with FM Global 10 years and in the insurance industry about 30 years.
Jenny: Awesome. Well, Amy, you’ve been a wonderful addition to the board so I'm really pleased to have you here today. So, today our focus is going to be talking about kind of the affiliate membership in general, their influence on urmia in general and specifically like how they're involved in the regional conferences, but before we get to that I do want to just point out to everybody who's listening to URMIAmatters that URMIA is a really unique organization because our board actually has a spot for an affiliate, for a for-profit member, which out of all the higher-ed association's it's very unique. So, Amy has the unique role of kind of representing the affiliates in general. Could you speak to that just a tiny bit?
Amy: Yeah, it's been really great. Very thankful to have the opportunity to serve on the board. It’s really, you know, an action-oriented group. We're, really, have a great strategic plan and it's great to be able to represent the affiliates and have a voice in what URMIA is doing, because you know as we see you at the educational goals and other goals throughout the strategic plan, I love being there to try to tie in how we can help with that, you know the fulfillment of those action items. So I really appreciate it.
Jenny: That's awesome. So, Amy also sits on our Affiliates Committee, which has really been very active and engaged lately. So, as the board member Amy has a spot at the Affiliates Committee, which has been going really, really well too. So, if anybody out there is interested in becoming involved in the Affiliates Committee, they should reach out to you or I and we’d love to talk to them about that because the more involvement we have in the committee, the better.
Amy: Yep, the more the merrier on the Affiliates Committee and, you know, we’ve got a few key strategies that we're working on but to spread that out on different subcommittees, we would love the expertise and the energy to be there so if anybody is interested just give me a call.
Jenny: Great. Okay, well let's switch the focus and start talking about the regionals. So, we actually just wrapped up day one of the first 2020 Regional Conference here in Raleigh, North Carolina and we're just going to give a little highlight of some of the sessions and some of the affiliates who are involved here. Where do you want to start, Amy?
Amy: Well, I guess high-level I'm really excited to see the sessions cover a real broad range of topics, you know, from really high level ERM and, you know, talking about the Hard Market to specifics like on coronavirus and business continuity planning and actual tabletop exercises. So, it really kind of spans over a wide scope so that everybody gets a little bit of something.
Jenny: Yeah, I totally agree. I mean today went very well and we were just having a sidebar conversation about… we had a session that was titled Viruses, Vaccines and Mold- Stopping the Spread and Managing Legal Risks, but why don't you tell us what happened in that session, Amy?
Amy: Well what happened was that session was immediately hijacked by the current and very timely topic of coronavirus and everybody was just on the edge of their seats talking about the implications on study abroad programs, you know, Evanston's going on spring break and where they're going and where they're coming back from to how do you invite parents from overseas to commencements in May, which is just around the corner. So, it really, even the downstream effect of business interruption from all of this and even employees being out. So, it was very exciting and it was nice that they could kind of turn on a dime and bring that to us.
Jenny: Yeah, I mean URMIA is such a unique organization, I've always thought that. I've been with URMIA for a long time but a lot of associations have different kinds of members or business partners and they might have an exhibit hall. URMIA is unique; so everybody listening out there, we have members and non-members who listen to the podcast. So, why don’t we speak about that just for a second. So, at the Regional Conferences, we have a mixture. We have about 85 people registered here in Raleigh and I believe it's about 50-55 institutional members and about 30 in our business partner affiliate category and that's a wonderful ratio and that we like to have; enough of the institutional members and enough of the business partner so that it's it's a very two sided conversation. Why don’t you talk about how to make up, how we design the sessions to have both input.
Amy: I think that's one of the best things URMIA does that I haven't seen at other industry associations, where if you're going to present as an affiliate you need to have an Institutional member with you and it just brings a really high level of credibility in real life case study and real life lessons learned to the table. So, it's a great balance. I think it shows that we can all work together that you can't do it alone, you know, so use your external partners, you know, we really appreciate getting to really dig in deep and understand your business or organization more and how they operate. So, it's just a win-win. I really love the balance of it all.
Jenny: Terrific. Okay, so on day 2 at the Raleigh conference we have several breakout sessions that we're doing but we're actually starting out the day with two different kind of round tables. So, the first session during breakfast time they're going to specifically be talking about Enterprise Risk Management, which is a go to in the URMIA world. Everybody really always likes to talk about Enterprise Risk Management, almost everybody has a piece of that pie, so that'll be a great way to start the day and then second up on the agenda we’re going to do reflections from day one so what the planning committee is going to do, is we are going to take the four topics that we presented today we're going to do kind of informal round tables on the four key topics and then Amy and I are going to give a little update on our partnership with RIMS. So, Amy is a proud judge of the Spencer challenge. So, Amy, why don’t you tell us about the good work going on with our partners at RIMS.
Amy: Sure. So, this year at RIMS, the Spencer Risk Management Challenge Case Study is a higher educational institution. It's the University of Dayton and we're so excited to have, you know, an institution of higher ed to be the case study for this year. It's just such a neat, neat opportunity for the students in risk management and insurance around the world to learn more about the opportunities within the higher education sector and so I have 22 papers to read along with the other judges.
Jenny: She has a busy night tonight.
Amy: I’ll be doing that tonight, very exciting. But anyway, it's just really interesting to read these articles and Robin Oldfield will have some really great information to digest. So, we're very lucky and hopefully get some nice exposure to the students.
Jenny: So, yeah I’ve been with URMIA a long time, 15 years now and I've been to RIMS, I don't know probably at least five or six years and I've heard about the Spencer challenge a long time ago and you've told me about it for many a year, but I finally went to the session last year and saw this the student competition and it is so amazing. I mean it's just it's such a great connection to see the students you know talk about risk management and their presentation skills and so anybody out there that’s listening to the podcast and you're going to RIMS, I mean it's definitely worth going to that session and because it’s higher education, because the case study is actually in our scope, I mean it's such a great year.
Amy: Yeah, and it'll be the Monday afternoon during RIMS is when the final three presentations are open to the public for people to watch, so I would highly recommend anybody that's what room is to come watch those students present and then that's where we'll choose the you know the winner for the scholarships for the risk management and insurance students, yep. So hopefully we’ll see some of the folks here there.
Jenny: Yeah, and URMIA always aspires to work with RIMS and do a higher education industry session. I believe that session is Tuesday morning. I will put it in the show notes of when exactly it is and we’ll link you straight to that session from the show notes for the podcast, but we're, we've also just been invited to participate a scooter session so URMIA members will be involved in that session and I know scooters have been a hot topic we just, Lou just posted a survey on the urmia community with the results from the survey. So, anybody that wants to learn more about scooters and they're going to RIMS, you should look into that as well. Okay, so back to the regional conferences- let's switch gears and move on to the Western Regional in Sacramento and kind of in Rapid succession the Western regionals only in a couple weeks from now it's March 12th and 13th and that's always a little bit different. We are repeating a couple sessions at that conference any that you want to highlight, Amy?
Amy: Yes, the repeat is going to be the hard market again, which I think is really important to get perspectives from all around the country too because sometimes things are regional and so I don't think so much this time but I'll be nice to kind of hear the differences, you know, with earthquake exposures in that territory. I know that there was one about sexual predators, which I thought looked really interesting, cyber is always a hot topic, and then study abroad, you’re right, continues on too. So, yeah and then business continuity, you’re right, the themes are running through.
Jenny: And sometimes the regionals, URMIA does do a formal call for presentations for our regional conferences, so sometimes, although they're they're all they have separate committees by the different regions sometimes there is a theme and sometimes they all picked up the same sessions and sometimes they don't and sometimes it's a really depends on what's going on in that region of the country and at that time, I mean obviously we're here in Raleigh and the coronavirus is on everybody's mind. Hopefully by the time we get to this conference there’ll be some good progress, so yeah there's some great sessions in Sacramento, so everybody should check that out, and let's switch gears and go to the other two regionals.
Amy: Philly, yeah so Philly, what I like Philly is there’s a lot about captives, which looks really interesting iann the other thing I really like is they have a couple of 30-minute flash sessions.
Jenny: How awesome.
Amy: I love the quick hitters, the TED Talks, so that I'm excited about those.
Jenny: Yeah, that's great. A little plug about that we're actually, URMIA, the 2020, the annual conference 2020 team is meeting in Indianapolis on Sunday and Monday, this coming Sunday Monday, to look at all the sessions and our flash sessions are open to affiliate members to present solo, so it's definitely a big plug, so if anybody out there has been considering doing a session for URMIA and you didn't have an institution, you should consider doing a flash session. So, like Amy said, we are offering those in Philadelphia. The last Regional Conference of the year is happening in Cincinnati, Ohio and it's chaired by both Anita Ingram from University of Cincinnati and Robin Oldfield from University of Dayton so we're going to have a strong finish going to Cincinnati and when you looked at those sessions did you see anything that was a little unique?
Amy: Hard market again, top of mind. And I like, there's one about you have a risk profile but what's next- looked intriguing.
Jenny: Yeah, I agree. There's definitely a theme here: cyber, international.
Amy: Title 9, sexual abuse again.
Jenny: Definitely. Well, to the podcast world out there, the regional conferences are a great way to check out urmia. We always Target in between 75 and 200 people depending on the location and it's a great, it's a more informal way to get to know members. Anything else you want to add about the conferences?
Amy: I would just put a plug in for the conferences, to get out of your office. I know everybody's busy, but I'll guarantee that you'll definitely learn something new and make some really invaluable connections, I do every single time I come.
Jenny: That's terrific, and this year we are bringing back, we haven't done meet and greet dinner's at the Regionals in a long time, but we are doing that they’re kind of a dutch treat informal thing where you can get together with 6 to 10 people that maybe you didn't know very well and I know I've had a lot of fun at the meet-and-greet dinners at URMIA over time. So, Amy, thanks so much for being my guest today on URMIAmatters, thanks for serving our URMIA as a board member, you're terrific. And thanks for FM Global for all the support you guys give us and to actually all of our affiliate members for not only being members, but being sponsors of URMIA; we could not do it without you and we are so, so fortunate to have you all.
Amy: You’re very welcome, and thank you for letting us work together so closely.
Jenny: Awesome. That’ll be a wrap for URMIAmatters this time.