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General Insurance Spring Webinar Series 2025: call for speakers

The General Insurance Lifelong Learning Committee has opened the call for speakers for its 2025 General Insurance Spring Webinar Series.

This series of webinars will be held online between 22 April and 2 May 2025. It will be available to watch globally, covering a wide range of current issues across the insurance industry.

If you are keen to share your research, knowledge or thought leadership with the general insurance actuarial community, we’d be delighted to hear from you.

Please submit your proposal by 31 January.

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Topic ideas

We’d love to have content across all key general insurance areas. If you're keen to talk and looking for some topic inspiration, here are a few ideas to get you started:

  • Insurance market environment and trends
  • Economic issues (for example inflation, global economic outlook, social fairness, behavioural economics)
  • Technology in insurance (for example data science, AI, machine learning, coding)
  • Emerging and evolving risks (for example ESG, climate change, geopolitics, cyber, digital currency, driverless cars)
  • Regulatory environment (for example regulator views, Solvency II reform, IFRS17, personal injury discount rates)
  • Pricing
  • Reserving
  • Capital modelling
  • Non-traditional roles (for example risk, exposure management)
  • Actuaries in the workplace (for example communication, professionalism, DEI, agile, professional excellence)
  • Any other ideas you have

 

Proposal details

If you are interested in submitting a proposal, we recommend an approximately 200-word summary of your chosen subject including:

  • an overview of the material you intend to cover
  • key outcomes/knowledge that attendees will take away
  • target audience and assumed knowledge level
  • the format of your session (for example interactive live presentation, debate, panel session, pre-recorded presentation)
  • any other relevant information

An example of a good submission is shown below.

We encourage submissions to clearly demonstrate how they will engage with their online audience, to make their sessions as interactive as possible. Please note that all webinars will be recorded and made available on demand on the IFoA video archive and e-shop.

Deadline: Friday 31 January at 17.00 GMT

 

An example of a good submission:

Why isn’t machine learning (ML) used routinely in reserving as it is in personal lines pricing?

Although there is widespread interest in ML, we see the same questions come up time and time again on difficulties and obstacles to incorporating ML into reserving. These are topics of substance with no single, easy answer and include questions such as:

  • why use ML for reserving in the first place?
  • how do you get your stakeholders (including auditors) on board with using ML?
  • how can we research and apply ML techniques if we don’t have access to granular transactional data?
  • how do you incorporate judgement or external information into an ML-based reserving process
  • are actuaries going to be replaced by data scientists?

In this session we will have a panel discussion featuring various members of the Machine Learning in Reserving Working Party (MLRWP) and we will discuss these points and others. The MLRWP has shared many of our findings and material in talks and on our blog.

This will be delivered virtually and will be a high-level session rather than a technical one. It should be of interest to actuaries at all levels with an interest in ML including senior actuaries and team leaders who are interested in using ML in the reserving process and may be asking many of these same questions.

Submit your proposal

If you have queries, please contact eventmanagement@actuaries.org.uk.

 

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