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Risk is as much about prep as it is response In the world of physical risk, AI is becoming increasingly useful in many areas helping support your efforts in intel and response. However, if your only interest in AI is to expand or filter your situational awareness, let's think further outside of the box ... or indeed cage! Risk sits throughout your business, in as much as what you take on as what hinders you. We all talk about resilience and continuity, but that is as much abo

ITIJ July 2026 Its a huge pleasure to be alongside fellow Travel Risk Academy mentors Bruce McIndoe and Martijn van der Voort and of course founder Bex Deadman - AKA Travel Risk Bex to be in July's ITIJ: International Travel & Health Insurance Journal article ... "AI and the new travel risk intelligence cycle" by Chloé Fox. Additional contributions from Graeme Dean from Hotspot Cover and Gulnaz Ukassova from International SOS. Full article on the ITIJ website ... or the digit

How do you prioritise people with disparte risk tech ?This is a deeper question than you might at first think. And it is a question around your risk technology, not so much your processes ... though your tech models your process, so still highly important. If your risk tech does not articulate or highlight your workforce safety and security as a priority (as in People Risk Management or PRM) ... does your cross-business approach to risk even register when or if that has even

Can we over-automate risk management? As we look to include AI more and more in our travel risk solutions, are we adding 'Cognitive Erosion' as a new risk? Essentially, this means that the more we lean on AI to fulfil jobs and areas we would normally do ourselves today, do we start to lose our collective skills and expertise? These are core to how critical decisions are made and these skills and expertise are usually passed onto those that follow. It is something that needs t

Do you have a risk management system in place? I bring this up, mainly as it is an article (read more at https://artificialintelligenceact.eu/article/9/ ) within the EU AI Act that critical providers who use AI need to maintain a risk management system to assess, test and mitigate for issues raised through usage of AI ... but are any platform or service vendors actually doing this? I suspect most or all of the people/travel risk software vendors are hosting, operating and/or