Education


Attend the PRIMA Annual Conference education sessions to gain critical insight and learn best practices from subject matter experts. PRIMA’s comprehensive education content covers risk management fundamentals, advanced concepts, and emerging trends impacting today’s public risk management professionals. Sessions are delivered in flexible formats, including 30-minute, 60-minute, and 1.25-hour sessions.


Checkout PRIMA26 educational tracks offered in Fort Lauderdale: 


 

Advanced Risk Management Adminstration 

  • A Practical Way to Communicate Risk Across Departments
  • Are You Leaving Money on the Table?
  • Building a Risk Profile to Inform Decision-Making
  • ERM Roundtable
  • Implementing AI in Public Risk Management: From Concept to Practice
  • PFAS: Beyond the Surface: Employee Safety, Mitigating Exposures and Compliance Strategies
  • Strengthening Your Sexual Abuse Risk Management Strategy
  • The Future of Public Safety Risk Mitigation

Basic Risk Management Adminstration 

  • AI-Powered Risk Management: Practical Applications
  • Award-Winning Ideas and Lessons from PRMYs
  • Behind the Walls: Confronting Liability Challenges in Detention Facilities
  • Building Your Professional Community
  • From Risk to Resilience: Municipal Leaders in Conversation
  • Lions, Tigers & Bears — Oh My! Tackling Liability, Training & Background Checks in Youth Sports
  • Nuts or Bolts? First Things First?
  • Risk Management: What I Wish I Knew on Day 1
  • State of the Market for Public Entities
  • Technology, Toxins and Tort Caps: An Emerging Issues Update
  • Understanding Actuarial Reports - As Easy As 3.14159265...
  • Using Data Analytics to Influence Behavior and Improve Results

Employee Benefits/Human Resources 

  • Stronger Together: Building Strategic Alliances Between Human Resources and Risk Management
  • Accountability Should Be a Tool, Not a Weapon
  • Building the Right Risk-Minimized Workplace Culture Through Trust, Safety, Engagement and Emotional Intelligence Lenses
  • Hire Right to Avoid Managing Tough: Recruitment Strategies for the Risk Manager
  • Safety & Risk Committee 2.0
  • Straight Talk: Creating a Culture of Honest and Candid Conversations
  • The People Problem: How Workforce Shortages Threaten Public Services – and How to Respond
  • When Tweets Meet Policy: Managing Social Media in the Public Sector

General Liability/Auto 

  • Fleet Telematics: Maximizing Fleet Safety and Operational Efficiency
  • Leveraging Technology to Resolve Auto Claims
  • Negotiating with Purpose: Techniques for Risk Professionals and Claims Managers

Insurance 

  • Changing the Narrative: PTSD Support for First Responders
  • Effective Claims Communication
  • Help! What Do All These Insurance Terms Mean?
  • Lifting the Veil on Third-Party Litigation Funding
  • Outgrowing Your Insurance: Is Your Entity Ready for More Control?
  • Pooling Update, Trends and Insights
  • Reinsurance Insights for Risk Managers: Managing High-Severity Claim Exposures
  • You Be the Judge!! A Public Entity Risk Manager’s Game Show of Real Claims & Wild Outcomes

Risk Control

  • Authority Clash: Protecting Cities Amidst Unprecedented Risk
  • Bridging the Gaps: Contract Analysis and Risk Management for Public Entities
  • Cyber Basics: What Does All This Mean?
  • First Amendment Auditors: Minimizing Risk in Public Encounters
  • Fleet Risk Management for Government Entities
  • Liability for Police Encounters with Citizens with Physical and Mental Disabilities
  • Police Simulation: More Than a Game
  • Premises Liability: Tips for Slips & Trips
  • Prevent Equipment Failure Through Smart Maintenance
  • Proactive Risk Management for Sexual Misconduct in Schools
  • Seeing Around Corners: Behavior Threat Assessment for Schools

Workers' Compensation 

  • Beyond the Crossroads of FMLA, ADA and WC
  • Building Resilience Through Total Worker Health
  • How to Control Medical Inflation
  • Optimizing Your WC Program: Risk Manager Secrets to Impactful Cost-Savings & Control for Self-Insureds
  • Rebuilding the RTW Blueprint for the Modern Public Workforce
  • Recognizing Bias in Claims Handling
  • Smart Claims Defense: Innovative AI Tools for Public Entity Claims
  • Staying Ahead of the Curve: Medicare Secondary Payer Compliance Updates for 2026
  • The Blueprint for Catastrophic Workers' Compensation Claims
 

 


For further assistance regarding sessions contact our education department at education@primacentral.org 

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