Judgment in the Cloud: The Future of Risk and Regulation with James Lord, Google Cloud

Judgment in the Cloud: The Future of Risk and Regulation with James Lord, Google Cloud

Author: Hogan Lovells June 25, 2025 Duration: 17:30
In this third episode wrapping up our insurance-focused miniseries of The Influencers, Hogan Lovells host Karishma Paroha and Tom Hughes of the International Underwriting Association dive into the business-critical role of cloud technology with James Lord, Head of Insurance, Legal and Financial Services at Google Cloud UK & Ireland. Together, they explore how the cloud is reshaping the insurance and legal sectors by enabling hyper-personalized services, faster claims and legal processes, and stronger security and resilience. They also discuss the ethical and regulatory challenges of AI in the cloud as Lord explains how companies can drive meaningful innovation by embracing a “CAARMA” mindset: Change agents, Appetite, Ambition, Risk, Mindset, and Action.   About Google Cloud:  Google Cloud is the new way to the cloud, providing AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools built for today and tomorrow. Google Cloud offers a powerful, fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications, to help organizations transform. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted technology partner.   About the International Underwriting Association of London: The International Underwriting Association of London is the representative body for companies in London providing international and wholesale insurance and reinsurance coverage, whose mission is to secure an optimal trading environment for insurance companies.   About Hogan Lovells: Our Digital Transformation offering helps clients navigate the full breadth and depth of the seismic forces impacting their organizations – and today’s society. Leveraging team members across our 2800 lawyers on six continents, we provide integrated advice on the multifaceted regulatory, governance and enforcement issues and risks that arise across the many technologies and trends that comprise the new digital future.   If you enjoyed today's episode, we'd love for you to rate and review us. Your feedback helps us reach more listeners and continue bringing insightful conversations on digital transformation and law. Thank you for your support!

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