Welcome to RIMScast. Your host is Justin Smulison, Business Content Manager at RIMS, the Risk and Insurance Management Society.   Sinead will be the RIMS Canada plenary speaker She will kick things off on September 12 with “A Future with Artificial Intelligence.” Sinead tells about her career and how an MBA, studied under a futurist, inspired her to create a career as a futurist focusing on AI. She explains how risk-averse risk managers will have to accept some level of risk to work with AI technology. She explains the inherent risks of the technology, as well as the expected benefits it provides. Then she and Justin talk about the upcoming RIMS Canada Conference 2023, the focus of her Plenary Address, and what to do in beautiful downtown Ottawa in September.   Key Takeaways: [:01] About RIMScast and the RIMS App, an exclusive benefit for RIMS members. [:32] About today’s episode, where we will joined by futurist and RIMS Canada Conference 2023 Plenary Speaker, Sinead Bovell. [:55] All about exciting, upcoming RIMS events! Registration is open for the RIMS Canada Conference 2023, which will be held September 11th–14th in Ottawa! Visit RIMSCanadaConference.ca for more information. [1:16] For those of you based in Canada, Justin wants to hear from you about a game show he will be hosting on September 13th. A link to a 15-question survey is in this episode’s notes. Justin needs your honest feedback, so he can say, “Survey says: …” Please check out the links in this episode’s notes! [1:40] On September 14th, the Spencer Educational Foundation returns to New York City for its Annual Funding Their Future Gala. The event will be held at the Cipriani on 42nd Street. A link is on this episode’s notes. You can also visit SpencerEd.org. [1:57] The RIMS Western Regional Conference will be held October 4th–6th in Vail, Colorado. Visit RIMSWesternRegional.com for more information and to register. [2:09] Head to the RIMS.org/Advocacy page to find information about The RIMS Legislative Summit, which is returning to Washington, D.C. on October 25th and 26th. [2:23] We are very excited about the RIMS ERM Conference 2023, which will be held November 2nd and 3rd in Denver, Colorado! The theme is Elevate and Evolve. Registration is open, as is a call for nominations for the ERM Award of Distinction. Those submissions are due September 1st. [2:44] The RIMS ERM Conference 2023 will be different than years past. We’ve got some great changes, so book your travel plans now! [2:52] The guest today is Sinead Bovell. She is a futurist and the Founder of WAYE, an organization that helps prepare the next generation of business leaders for a world radically transformed by technology. She is an eight-time United Nations speaker and certified in AI Ethics from MIT. [3:11] Sinead is here to provide a preview of her upcoming RIMS Canada Conference 2023 appearance on September 12th when she will discuss AI’s role in the future of work. [3:22] Justin welcomes Sinead Bovell to RIMScast! [3:46] Sinead studied finance, and chemistry, and was working on an MBA, studying under a futurist. She learned that all the tools she was using in finance, statistics, and forecasting could be applied to emerging technologies and more quality information and start to build forecasts about the future. [4:12] That’s when Sinead started to zoom in on how technology is going to disrupt how we live and how companies work and operate. That was a light-bulb moment for Sinead. However, she continued down the MBA path and became a management consultant before making a quick turn, moving to New York and starting a different life. [4:36] Since then, Sinead is an active, practicing futurist. She gives talks, she consults, she guides public-sector and private-sector organizations, on how the future could be evolving, relating to the data, so we can have a little more control in moving toward the futures we want. [5:09] Sinead’s aha moment happened after all the sacrificing. She knew she had to