Life Conference 2024
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The premier conference for life actuaries is here.
Join us for the Life Conference 2024 in Manchester from 14 to 16 October.
The annual event brings together professionals of all levels, from CEOs to new graduates, and thought leaders from across the world. And this year promises to be better than ever, with over 150 expert speakers exploring innovative solutions, best practices, and case studies on hot topics including AI and climate change.
The conference is the ideal platform to expand your professional network through multiple planned networking sessions over the three days. Plus, it’s the perfect opportunity to meet your professional development requirements for the year.
Featured speakers
A financial access, inclusion, and resilience advocate with lived experience of disability, Johnny Timpson OBE has extensive insurance and banking sector leadership and influencer experience and has worked extensively with academic institutions, charities, thinktanks plus professional and trade bodies. The principal of Johnny Timpson Consulting, he is currently non-executive chair of both specialist military insurance brokerage Absolute Military, and cross sector vulnerability tech Morgan Ash. Additionally, Johnny is a Financial Inclusion Commissioner, plus a member of the Financial Services Consumer Panel, the BIBA Access To Insurance Committee, the Building Resilient Households Group, Hargreaves Lansdown Savings & Resilience Barometer Sounding Board, and GAIN (the Group for Autism, Insurance, Investment and Neurodiversity) where he is a founding member.
A former Cabinet Office Financial Services sector Ambassador and Prime Minister Advisory Group member, he currently has ambassador roles with the Surviving Economic Abuse Charity and Age Irrelevance foundation. Johnny is also a Trustee of the Caudwell Children’s Charity and holds advisory roles with the Vocational Rehabilitation Association UK, the University of Edinburgh Business School Supporting Healthy Ageing at Work Programme, the GriefChat Counselling Service, the Women In Protection Network, and the Protection Distributors Group.
Timandra Harkness is a writer, broadcaster, and presenter.
Timandra is a regular on BBC Radio, writing and presenting BBC Radio 4’s FutureProofing and other series including How To Disagree, Steelmanning and Political School. BBC Radio documentaries include Data, Data Everywhere, Divided Nation, What Has Sat-Nav Done To Our Brains, and Five Knots. She was resident reporter on all 8 seasons of social psychology series The Human Zoo and is now the spare presenter for Radio 4’s Profile.
Her book Big Data: does size matter? published by Bloomsbury Sigma in 2016, came out in an updated paperback edition in June 2017. Her second non-fiction book, Technology is Not the Problem, will be published on 23 May 2024 by Harper Collins.
Since winning the Independent newspaper’s column-writing competition, she has written for many publications including the Telegraph, Guardian, Sunday Times, Unherd, BBC Focus magazine, WIRED, Unherd, the New Statesman, Men’s Health, and Significance (the journal of the Royal Statistical Society).
Timandra chairs and speaks at public events for clients including Cheltenham Science Festival, the Royal Society, the British Council, the Royal Geographical Society, the RSA, the Institute of Ideas, the British Library, Wellcome Collection, the Alan Turing Institute, the Royal Academy of Engineering, and many others.
After performing improvised and stand-up comedy, and touring with a tented circus, she formed the first comedy science double-act in the UK with neuroscientist Dr Helen Pilcher. Since then she has written and performed scientific and mathematical comedy from Adelaide (Australia) to Pittsburgh PA.
In 2010 she co-wrote and performed Your Days Are Numbered: The Maths of Death, with stand-up mathematician Matt Parker. They performed the show to average audiences of 100.3 and 4 star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe, then toured it in the UK and Australia. Timandra’s science comedy since then includes cabaret, gameshows, and solo live show Brainsex (with Socrates the rat).
Timandra has a BA in Film and Drama with Art and Art History, a BSc in Mathematics and Statistics, and an MA in Philosophy from Birkbeck College, where she is now researching for an MRes in Philosophy. She is a member of the Royal Statistical Society Council of Trustees, and Chair of the editorial board of their journal Significance.
Conference dinner
We are pleased to invite you to the conference dinner on 14 October. This exclusive event offers a valuable opportunity to continue conversations with industry professionals in a more informal setting at the Kimpton Clockhouse Tower.
If you are purchasing a Tuesday or Wednesday ticket and would like to attend the conference dinner on Monday 14 October, conference dinner tickets can be purchased at £100. Please be aware that spaces are limited and are allocated on a first come, first served basis.
Please also note that this year the dinner is on the first night instead of the second, and features a seating plan to enhance your networking experience. It promises an evening of both insightful discussions and delightful enjoyment. On the second evening, we plan a less formal dinner alongside the exhibition.
Thank you to our sponsors
FIS Insurance Risk Suite is a highly automated platform for actuarial modelling and risk management with integrated capabilities for pricing, valuation, and projection. Our scalable, secure technology enables you to model and analyse complex risks across your enterprise, in a tightly governed, high-performance environment – on-premise or through the cloud.
www.fisglobal.com/en-gb/products/fis-insurance-risk-suite
The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. is a leading global financial institution that delivers a broad range of financial services to a large and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals. Founded in 1869, the firm is headquartered in New York and maintains offices in all major financial centres around the word.
Founded in 2011, we are one of the UK’s largest actuarial and credit risk consultancies and are recognised as one of the most dynamic and successful risk consulting firms globally.
At APR, we provide high-quality actuarial support through our consulting services and via secondment. With our team of 80+ actuarial staff across the UK and Ireland, ranging from students to highly experienced actuaries, we deliver tailored and flexible solutions that meet the specific needs of our clients.
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial, risk management and technology solutions. Our consulting and advanced analytics capabilities encompass healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe.
Aptuary is an actuarial recruitment agency established by a qualified actuary. The actuarial background enables the company to establish credibility with candidates, gaining a thorough understanding of their experience and skill set, allowing to better filter and present the most suitable candidates.
Barnett Waddingham (BW) is a leading independent UK professional services consultancy with expertise across risk, pensions, investment and insurance. With freedom to take a long-term view, BW builds strong, trusted relationships, including with almost 25% of FTSE 100 and over 15% of FTSE 350 companies.
Capita’s Actuarial team provides cost-effective delivery capacity and agility across the insurance and pensions industries and beyond. We can resource your teams, deliver your projects, or manage your actuarial function. You can rely on our extensive industry and actuarial expertise to ensure you have the support you need when you need it.
www.capita.com/expertise/industry-specific-services/actuarial-services
Clarence George is a bespoke Insurance & Investment search firm. We have an enviable client base with access to the most highly sought-after roles within Life Insurance, Reinsurance, Consultancy, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Hedge Fund and InsurTech. We proactively source the very best talent across Actuarial, Investment and Risk, and we work with some of the most prestigious companies in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bermuda.
Eames Consulting is a contingent recruitment business with international reach, specialising at the mid-to-senior level of the insurance, financial services, and technology markets. We’ve supported clients across the insurance sector for over 20 years, guiding their talent strategies and hiring talent. In this time, we've amassed a loyal, highly-skilled candidate network and partnered with companies across the world, from small start-ups to international organisations.
The Emerald Group delivers a holistic consultative approach to recruitment for clients and candidates across the global actuarial, insurance and pensions market. Our experienced, trained consultants build lasting relationships tailoring solutions to each requirement. Through varied techniques, including D&I, market mapping, salary surveys and market intelligence, we provide a holistic approach to our clients’ permanent and interim recruitment needs.
Financial Risk Solutions (FRS) is a trusted unit pricing technology partner to life assurance and asset owners. Clients rely on our Invest|Pro™ software to run their investment administration securely, efficiently and at scale to help navigate the ever-changing challenges of growth, regulatory pressures, and competition in the industry.
Goodman Masson’s specialist Actuarial Division is a true market leader in the Insurance and Pensions sectors, well known and respected for placing experienced Actuaries and Part-Qualified Actuaries into our extensive client base for over 16 years. We have significant expertise in all of the key actuarial specialisms focusing on: General Insurance, Life insurance, Pensions Consulting and Investment Consulting. We provide actuarial candidates for permanent, day-rate and fixed-term contract assignments throughout the UK, France and New York.
HFG is a specialist Insurance recruitment consultancy working exclusively with talent throughout the General Insurance, Life Insurance, Re-Insurance, Broking and Lloyd’s markets. We have over 20 years’ experience placing actuaries into a broad range of opportunities into the UK and international markets from our London, Singapore and Hong Kong offices.
We're an independent partnership helping to build better financial futures for millions of people across the UK. With over a century of history, we provide services to organisations and individuals across pensions, investments and insurance.
At J.P. Morgan Asset Management, we believe investors deserve an expert global partner they can trust to step up and deliver strong outcomes. Our perspective draws on knowledge earned over a century of investing through every market cycle. From our vantage point, we strive to see correlations others miss and seize opportunities that our global, connected view can deliver. Our clients trust us to manage $2.5 trillion in assets to secure what matters most to who they serve.
am.jpmorgan.com/gb/en/asset-management/institutional
As one of the world’s leading recruitment businesses that’s been specialising in the Actuarial profession since 2005, we have the experience, international network, and market knowledge to find your ideal job or hire. We’re here to provide support throughout your career across Life, General Insurance, Reinsurance, and Pensions and Investments.
PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited is a multinational professional services brand of firms, operating as partnerships under the PwC brand. It is the second-largest professional services network in the world.
Reitigh is a team of actuaries and software professionals that enable leading global financial services organisations to meet complex administrative, regulatory, and transformational processing challenges. Reitigh has developed an evolutionary technology called IntegraLynx that translates between Business and IT Functions - liberating actuaries and operations teams from mundane manual tasks, gifting them the time and opportunity to focus on adding value to their organisation.
Software Alliance Limited ("SAL") is a specialist software house that develops financial modelling software and services for the insurance industry. Over the last decade our primary product offering, Mo.net, has evolved significantly and is now relied upon by clients around the globe to provide mission-critical financial modelling, analysis and decision support.
Established in 2002, Sellick Partnership has built up an enviable reputation in the actuarial market as a leading provider of expert recruitment services across the UK. We are specialists within the actuarial recruitment market and specialise in connecting talented actuarial professionals with top employers across various industries.
SS&C is a global provider of investment and financial software-enabled services, specialising in a comprehensive range of solutions tailored to meet the diverse needs of clients within the global financial services industry. With a distinguished track record spanning over 35 years, we are a leader in delivering innovative and technology-driven solutions that empower organizations to thrive in today's dynamic marketplace.
Our extensive client base comprises over 20,000 organizations worldwide, representing a wide spectrum of entities including traditional asset managers, hedge funds, private equity firms, wealth managers, life companies, and pension funds. Operating in more than 100 cities across 35 countries, SS&C is committed to providing exceptional service and support on a global scale while maintaining a localised approach to meet the unique requirements of each region.
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