Wed 18 Nov 2026, 13:00 - The UK’s premier conference for life, health and care actuaries returns at a pivotal moment for the profession. This year’s theme, ‘Beyond Precedent: Paving the way for what comes next’, reflects the reality facing actuaries today: navigating challenges and opportunities that cannot always be solved by looking to the past.
With the scale and breadth of change actuaries are navigating right now, this year’s event is designed to give delegates the clarity, tools and perspective needed to lead through uncertainty.
Beyond climate and AI, our industry is tackling ongoing regulatory transformation, major reporting shifts such as IFRS 17, rapid developments in healthcare and medicines, a growing recognition of mental health, and an increasingly complex political and geopolitical landscape. The expectations placed on actuaries have never been higher demanding not just technical excellence, but sound judgement, trust and empathy.
Last year, we explored the forces reshaping how our industry understands risk and anticipates customer needs:
This year, we’re carrying that energy forward with an agenda that delivers clarity, fresh insight and practical tools to help you thrive amid fast‑moving regulatory, technological and health‑related change.
The PRA’s 2026 priorities call for stronger, forward‑looking risk frameworks while emphasising competitiveness and growth. The FCA’s strategy is pushing for smarter regulation, technology integration and better consumer outcomes. This conference will help actuaries respond effectively and stay ahead of what’s coming.
Join hundreds of returning delegates who make this their must‑attend event each year. Enjoy three full days of CPD, exclusive 1‑2‑1 live Reflective Practice Discussion sessions, and unparalleled networking powered by our dedicated conference app, with access to speakers, peers, sessions and live interaction throughout the event.
A double Olympic gold medallist, Kelly Holmes became only the second woman in history to claim the 800m and 1500m titles in the same Games. She has gone on to be a mental and physical health advocate, broadcaster and award-winning writer. Over the course of her career Kelly amassed seven Gold, eight Silver and four Bronze medals at Olympic, Commonwealth and European levels. She earned the nation’s admiration with her remarkable achievements in 2004 in Athens, the first British athlete in over 80 years to win a double-gold on the track and which also saw her named BBC Sports Personality of the Year and European Athlete of the Year.
Despite achieving incredible things in her sport, privately Kelly suffered from serious mental health problems. Her frequent physical injuries also had a psychological effect culminating in a breakdown in the run up to the World Championships before her Olympic triumph. It was after retirement that she revealed the difficulties she experienced, becoming one of the first high-profile sports people to openly discuss her battle with depression, suicidal thoughts and self-harm. In an emotional and powerful TV documentary, Kelly Holmes: Being Me, she came out publicly as a gay woman, and reflected on the effects of trying to manage the personal and the public, and the value of authenticity.
Alongside a personal look at mental health, Kelly also looks at what individuals and organisations need to do to help themselves and each other in order to work effectively. She looks at the ups and downs of her career on and off the track, and with humour and insight considers what it takes to achieve your goals. Drawing on her time with the Army as well as her athletics career, she also explores team-building, planning and execution.
Kelly is a regular face on television, from sport to lifestyle programmes. After combining her athletics career with a successful military career, Kelly was an honorary colonel with the Royal Armoured Corps Training Regiment for six years. She founded the Dame Kelly Holmes Trust to support both retired athletes and disadvantaged young people, and works with promising young athletes. She is the author of books covering both autobiography and health and fitness, including Black, White & Gold, Just Go For It! and Running Life, with the latter being named a Telegraph Sports Book of the Year.
Paul has been director of the Institute for Fiscal Studies since 2011. He is a columnist for The Times and is a regular contributor to other broadcast and print media. He is a visiting professor in the UCL Policy Lab and at the UCL department of economics.
He was for 10 years a member of the UK Climate Change Committee and has served on the council of the ESRC and of the Royal Economic Society. Paul led reviews of pension auto-enrolment and of inflation measurement for the UK government, and of fiscal devolution for the Northern Ireland executive.
Previous roles have included time as chief economist at the Department for Education and as director of public spending at HM Treasury, where he also served as deputy head of the government economic service.
Paul published the Sunday Times bestseller “Follow the Money” in 2023.
He was appointed CBE in the 2018 birthday honours.
After turning to stand-up as a break from his studies whilst he was a junior doctor, Paul Sinha went on to become both a practising GP and an Edinburgh comedy award nominee. He continued to perform whilst working as a locum in the East End of London, at the same time his experiences on the NHS frontline became a great source of material.
Paul’s wonderfully relaxed, friendly story-telling style combines wry observations on life and the world with beautifully crafted one-liners, along with a fund of anecdotes from his experiences with patients and bureaucracy.
Having now forsaken doctoring, Paul is frequently heard on Radio 4 and 5Live displaying his knowledge, passion and wit on current affairs and sport - especially cricket and football - on everything from his own documentary features to The News Quiz, Just A Minute, The Now Show, Fighting Talk and Yes It’s The Ashes.
He wrote and hosted his own documentary for Radio 4, The Sinha Test in which he looked at the intertwining of sport and nationality, a theme he revisited for the Olympics with The Sinha Games. He also presented his History Revision series which took on the more unusual, yet telling aspects of history, and appeared on QI, Would I Lie to You?, and ITV4’s sporting quiz Football Genius.
A quiz obsessive (and a regular fixture in the UK’s top 20 best quizzers) Paul realised a life-long dream by appearing on special editions of both University Challenge and Mastermind. He appears as a ‘chaser’ on ITV’s popular quiz show The Chase (where Paul is known as ‘The Sinnerman’). As well as participating in televised and pub quizzes, he writes and hosts them. He’s also a published writer with his first book The Real British Citizenship Test: What You Really Need to Know to be a UK Citizen taking a comic look at British identity and stereotypes. Paul made headlines when he offered Gordon Brown some tips on how to keep his jokes fresh.