Session 11B: The expanding footprint: Risk management challenges for Australian life sciences companies going global
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, October 23, 2026 |
| 1:10 PM - 1:55 PM |
| Investment & Global Growth Breakout Room |
Overview
Sponsored by: CHUBB
Details
Your clinical trial is running across five countries and your CRO is telling you the policy you arranged with worldwide cover won't be accepted by the local ethics committees. Your US distribution partner wants $10 million in product liability cover, admitted in California, before they'll sign. Your EU importer needs to be named on your policy. And your Australian insurer isn't sure your master policy covers any of it.
Sound familiar? For growing life sciences companies with global ambitions, insurance and risk management can feel like the fine print nobody warned you about until it threatens the next leap forward for your business.
This session cuts through the complexity. Hear directly from an underwriter who structures global programs, a broker who negotiates them, and a company that has lived through the process, and leave with a clear picture of what it takes to build a risk management framework that supports rather than slows your global growth.
Speaker
Mrs Kerry Calzado
Senior Underwriter, Life Sciences
Chubb Insurance Australia Limited
Panellist
Ms Antoinette Casado
Clinical Trials Manager
Avatar Brokers
Panellist