Speakers
Adam Bayliss
Session
The pressure on public services remains as high as ever, with organisations having to make difficult choices surrounding funding and service delivery. The role and voice of the Insurance Officer and Risk Manager has never been so important, yet they're often the last to be consulted and find themselves as a lone voice and beating their head against a wall, so to speak. In this session Adam and Steve will draw on more than 20 years each of experience in the public sector insurance and risk arena. They will explore innovative approaches and challenge the norms in the way we can 'get the message across', through wider internal and stakeholder engagement, leaning on your various partners and member associations.
Adam and Steve hope to spark new thoughts and ideas in the way you can amplify your voice amongst the against the general clamour and re-ignite and widen the conversations around risk, both positive and negative.
Adam has over 22 years of insurance experience, primarily supporting the delivery of a wide range of public sector insurance programmes. Since joining Maven Public Sector in 2018, Adam became Managing Director in January 2025. With his sector experience spanning key areas such as technical underwriting, risk control, and claims management, Adam is well-positioned to oversee the delivery of services to the public sector. Through understanding the unique needs of public sector organisations, Maven has the capability to offer bespoke, flexible, and tailor-made solutions.
Steve is a Chartered Safety Practitioner with 25 years’ experience delivering health & safety, risk and insurance advice and support in the commercial, public and not-for-profit sectors. Steve has a particular interest in employers' and public liability claims and claim defensibility; assisting clients minimise and mitigate their exposures to these risks. Based on the Wales/England border just north of Abergavenny in South Wales, Steve travels extensively throughout the UK providing clients with support and guidance in the development of risk management systems, operational risk planning and evidence based risk mitigation.