Insurance producers, adjusters, claims managers and surveyors: Learn how evolving boats and technologies are changing marine risk, claims and coverage at IBEX.
For marine insurance professionals, continuing education is a requirement. But where you earn those hours can make a significant difference in how useful they are when you get back to work.
At IBEX 2026, Florida licensed insurance professionals can earn up to 16 Continuing Education hours while gaining something considerably more valuable: a front-row seat to the technologies, construction methods and design decisions that are changing recreational boats—and the risks that come with them.
IBEX brings together the people who design, build, equip, repair, survey, regulate and insure boats. For insurance producers, claims adjusters and surveyors, that creates an opportunity to learn about risk at its source. Instead of discussing boats solely from an insurance perspective, you can hear directly from the professionals making decisions about how the next generation of boats will be built and how they will perform.
For the first time, IBEX is an approved Continuing Education training provider through the Florida Department of Financial Services, offering eight state-approved seminars during IBEX, October 6–8 in Tampa. Licensed insurance professionals can attend a single approved seminar or complete all eight for up to 16 CE hours.
The subjects are anything but generic. They address some of the issues already complicating underwriting, claims and loss investigation: high-speed boats, advanced composites, organized theft, fuel systems, regulatory compliance and accident investigation.
Learn the Risks Before They Become Claims
Consider On the Edge: Safety, Standards, and Liability in High-Speed Boats. Today’s boats are getting faster, while hull design, propulsion and onboard technology continue to push performance into territory that raises difficult questions about operator responsibility, manufacturer liability, safety standards and insurability. Understanding those risks requires more than reviewing a claim after something goes wrong. It requires understanding how these boats are designed, built and operated—and hearing from professionals who understand high-performance boating firsthand.
Or look at When Carbon Conducts: Electrical Risks in High-Performance Boatbuilding. Carbon fiber offers tremendous advantages in modern boat construction, but its electrical conductivity can introduce risks that may not be immediately obvious. As advanced composites become more prevalent, insurance and claims professionals benefit from understanding not simply that a boat contains carbon fiber, but how the material is being incorporated into increasingly sophisticated vessels and what that can mean when systems fail.
When Tragedy Strikes: Case Studies in Marine Accident Investigation and Liability brings another critical perspective. Marine casualties rarely fit neatly into a single category. Design, construction, maintenance, operation and human behavior can all become pieces of the same investigation. Learning how experienced professionals examine those pieces can help insurers and adjusters ask better questions, evaluate evidence and understand where responsibility may lie.
Depth of expertise is what makes earning CE hours at IBEX different.
IBEX’s education conference is developed with leading marine organizations and Professional BoatBuilder, bringing some of the industry’s most experienced engineers, builders, technicians, regulators, investigators and specialists into the classroom. Sessions are designed around real-world problems, not just theory.
And the education doesn’t end when the seminar does.
Step onto the IBEX exhibit floor and you can see the technologies being discussed in those classrooms. More than 700 exhibitors are expected at the 2026 event, representing the materials, equipment, systems and technologies shaping the next generation of boats.
For anyone assessing marine risk, that matters. The boats being insured five or ten years from now will not necessarily be built, powered, controlled or operated like the boats in today’s portfolios. Understanding what is coming—and meeting the people developing it—can help insurance professionals anticipate emerging risks rather than simply respond to them.
