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General Insurance Spring Webinar Series 2026: call for speakers

This series of webinars will be held online from 20 to 27 April 2026 and 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 would be delighted to hear from you. 

The series is led by the IFoA’s General Insurance Lifelong Learning Committee (GILL).

Submit your proposal by 2 January.

Topic ideas

We would love to have content across all the key general insurance areas. If you are 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 that you intend to cover
  • Key outcomes or knowledge that attendees will take away 
  • Target audience and assumed knowledge level
  • 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. 

All webinars will be recorded and made available on demand on the IFoA video archive and e-shop.

Deadline: Friday 2 January 2026 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 online 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

All submissions will be considered independently by the GILL Committee and we will get back to you shortly after the deadline. We look forward to your contributions.

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

Submit proposal