We are looking for speakers for the IFoA’s Middle East Conference 2025.
If you are keen to share your research, knowledge or thought leadership with the Middle Eastern insurance and actuarial community, we would be delighted to hear from you.
Conference dates: 3 to 5 May 2025
Submission deadline: Friday 14 February
It should be a length of about 250 words summarising your talk and cover:
Please submit your proposal in English.
We can only base our decision on your submission (which will be anonymised so that your name, organisation, country or contact details will not be included).
The plenary/keynote sessions are one hour and breakout workshops are 50 minutes, which includes at least 10 minutes for Q&A. Please take this into consideration prior to your submission.
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:
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.
Please submit your proposal by Friday 14 February.
If you have queries, please contact eventmanagement@actuaries.org.uk.