Speakers
Rébiah Bardot-Girard leads AXA XL’s cyber risk consulting activities, helping organisations strengthen resilience against evolving digital threats. In her current role at AXA XL, she works with clients to assess cyber exposures, improve preparedness, and develop practical strategies to prevent, respond to, and recover from cyber incidents.
With more than two decades of experience spanning information technology, security, and risk management, Rébiah brings deep operational expertise to the field of cyber resilience. Prior to joining AXA XL, she served as Chief Security Officer at AXA headquarters, where she advised senior leadership on information security, physical security, business continuity, and crisis management.
An economist by training, Darren is the Geneva Association’s Director of Research. Alongside managing the think tank’s overall research programme, he leads and undertakes research on cyber and evolving liability topics. His recent studies include reports on cyber risk accumulation, the drivers and implications of social inflation for liability claims and the role insurers can play in supporting digital entrepreneurship. Prior to joining The Geneva Association, Darren worked at the Swiss Re Institute, researching and writing about strategic issues facing the re/insurance sector, both life and non-life. This work regularly featured as standalone articles in Swiss Re’s flagship sigma publication series, covering a variety of topics such as product innovation in insurance, changing mortality/longevity trends and understanding cyber risk. Before Swiss Re, Darren had a career in central banking, working for both the Bank of England and the European Central Bank. Starting out in macroeconomic forecasting, he progressed through various analyst and managerial roles spanning the core analytical functions: monetary policy, financial stability and financial market operations.
Shawn is Chief Revenue Officer at Coalition, where he oversees underwriting, claims, distribution, customer success and strategic partnerships. Prior to joining Coalition’s founding team, he was Managing Director, Technology Practice Leader at Aon, responsible for growth, brokerage, product development and client service for the firm’s technology customers. Before Aon, Shawn served as Executive Managing Director and Western Regional Manager at Crystal & Company, while also leading the company’s Technology Industry Practice nationally. He has managed client relationships for Fortune 100 and middle-market companies for more than a decade and has been quoted in publications including The Wall Street Journal, Business Insurance and Property Casualty 360. Shawn was named one of Business Insurance magazine’s 2013 40 Under 40 Broker Leaders and was a finalist for Risk & Insurance magazine’s Power Broker award. He holds a bachelor of arts from Brigham Young University.
Jonas Schwade has been working in the cyber insurance sector since 2016. In addition to advising insurance companies on risk assessment of corporate clients and accompanying risk dialogues, he is responsible for the outside-in scanner “cysmo” as Chief Executive Officer of cysmo Cyber Risk. He is a speaker at numerous international events on the topic of risk assessment, boosting cyber sales and exposure management in cyber insurance.
