About this workshop
In February 2026, techUK convened an expert panel on AI insurance, assurance and risk mitigation, surfacing a clear message: AI insurance is emerging from an immature market, where many risks remain difficult to quantify, and where the lessons of cyber insurance (both its successes and its failures) are directly relevant to how this market develops.
This workshop builds on that discussion, and on techUK's related work on AI procurement and Investors for AI Assurance, to move the conversation from diagnosis to practical detail. Rather than a panel discussion, this session is designed as an interactive workshop: small groups of practitioners, insurers, assurance providers and policymakers will work through real scenarios and open questions to generate the insights that will feed directly into a techU’s brief on AI insurance later this year.
Why this matters now
The AI insurance market is moving quickly, but foundational questions remain unresolved: how to price risk that is probabilistic rather than deterministic; how to handle correlated exposure when many organisations rely on the same foundation models; who is liable when an AI system causes harm; and how insurance, assurance and regulation can work together rather than at cross purposes. Getting this right matters not just for insurers and the assured, but for the wider AI ecosystem, informing everything from how organisations procure AI to how investors assess the risk profile of the companies they back.
What we'll cover
Participants will work through facilitated breakout sessions on:
- Quantifying the unquantifiable: what would workable underwriting criteria for AI systems actually look like, and what evidence should insurers ask for?
- Standards and evaluation: what would a common assessment framework for AI systems need to include to be credible for both assurance and underwriting purposes?
- Systemic and correlated risk: how should the market think about concentration risk from shared foundation models and third-party AI dependencies?
- Incident reporting: what would a workable AI incident reporting regime look like, and who should hold the data?
- Liability and causation: working through real-world scenarios to test where responsibility sits across the AI supply chain.
The session is structured to generate concrete, citable input for the whitepaper practitioners' views, points of consensus, and the genuine areas of disagreement that still need to be worked through.
Who should attend
This workshop is designed for a mixed room, including:
- Insurers and underwriters developing AI-specific products
- AI assurance and evaluation providers
- Legal, risk and compliance leads working on AI liability
- Investors assessing AI risk in portfolio companies
- Policymakers and regulators engaged in AI governance
- Organisations deploying AI at scale who want a voice in shaping this market
Outputs
Insights from this workshop will directly inform a brief paper on AI insurance.
Background reading
- AI Insurance, AI Assurance and Risk Mitigation: Key Insights from techUK's Expert Panel
- Understanding AI Insurance and the Role It Plays in AI Assurance
Tess Buckley
Tess Buckley
Tess is a digital ethicist and musician. After completing a MA in AI and Philosophy, with a focus on ableism in biotechnologies, she worked as an AI Ethics Analyst with a dataset on corporate digital responsibility (paid for by investors that wanted to understand their portfolio risks). Tess then supported the development of a specialised model for sustainability disclosure requests. Currently, at techUK, her north star as programme manager in digital ethics and AI safety is demystifying, and operationalising ethics through assurance mechanisms and standards. Outside of Tess's work, her primary research interests are in AI music systems, AI fluency and tech by/for differently abled folks.
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Kir Nuthi
Kir Nuthi
Kir Nuthi is the Head of AI and Data at techUK.
She holds over seven years of Government Affairs and Tech Policy experience in the US and UK. Kir previously headed up the regulatory portfolio at a UK advocacy group for tech startups and held various public affairs in US tech policy. All involved policy research and campaigns on competition, artificial intelligence, access to data, and pro-innovation regulation.
Kir has an MSc in International Public Policy from University College London and a BA in both Political Science (International Relations) and Economics from the University of California San Diego.
Outside of techUK, you are likely to find her attempting studies at art galleries, attempting an elusive headstand at yoga, mending and binding books, or chasing her dog Maya around South London's many parks.
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Usman Ikhlaq
Usman Ikhlaq
Usman joined techUK in January 2024 as Programme Manager for Artificial Intelligence.
He leads techUK’s AI Adoption programme, supporting members of all sizes and sectors in adopting AI at scale. His work involves identifying barriers to adoption, exploring solutions, and helping to unlock AI’s transformative potential, particularly its benefits for people, the economy, society, and the planet. He is also committed to advancing the UK’s AI sector and ensuring the UK remains a global leader in AI by working closely with techUK members, the UK Government, regulators, and devolved and local authorities.
Since joining techUK, Usman has delivered a regular drumbeat of activity to engage members and advance techUK's AI programme. This has included two campaign weeks, the creation of the AI Adoption Hub (now the AI Hub), the AI Leader's Event Series, the Putting AI into Action webinar series and the Industrial AI sprint campaign.
Before joining techUK, Usman worked as a policy, regulatory and government/public affairs professional in the advertising sector. He has also worked in sales, marketing, and FinTech.
Usman holds an MSc from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), a GDL and LLB from BPP Law School, and a BA from Queen Mary University of London.
When he isn’t working, Usman enjoys spending time with his family and friends. He also has a keen interest in running, reading and travelling.
Sue Daley OBE
Sue Daley OBE
Sue leads techUK's Technology and Innovation work. This includes work programmes on AI, Cloud, Data, Quantum, Semiconductors, Digital ID and Digital ethics as well as emerging and transformative technologies and innovation policy. In 2025, Sue was honoured with an Order of the British Empire (OBE) for services to the Technology Industry in the New Year Honours List. She has also been recognised as one of the most influential people in UK tech by Computer Weekly's UKtech50 Longlist and was inducted into the Computer Weekly Most Influential Women in UK Tech Hall of Fame.
A key influencer in driving forward the tech agenda in the UK, in December 2025 Sue was appointed to the UK Government’s Women in Tech Taskforce by the Technology Secretary of State. She also sits on the UK Government’s Smart Data Council, Satellite Applications Catapult Advisory Group, Bank of England’s AI Consortium and BSI’s Digital Strategic Advisory Group. Previously, Sue was a member of the Independent Future of Compute Review and co-chaired the National Data Strategy Forum. As well as being recognised in the UK's Big Data 100 and the Global Top 100 Data Visionaries in 2020, Sue has been shortlisted for the Milton Keynes Women Leaders Awards and has been a judge for the Loebner Prize in AI, the UK Tech 50 and annual UK Cloud Awards. She is a regular industry speaker on issues including AI ethics, data protection and cyber security.
Prior to joining techUK in January 2015, Sue was responsible for Symantec's Government Relations in the UK and Ireland. Before that, Sue was senior policy advisor at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI). Sue has an BA degree on History and American Studies from Leeds University and a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Diplomacy from the University of Birmingham. Sue is a keen sportswoman and in 2016 achieved a lifelong ambition to swim the English Channel.
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