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IFoA India Conference 2025: call for speakers

We are looking for speakers for our IFoA India Conference 2025. It is scheduled to take place on 8 to 9 December, in-person, at the Andaz Hotel, New Delhi.

If you are keen to share your research, knowledge, or thought leadership with the Indian and South Asia community, we would be delighted to hear from you.

Please submit your proposal by 13 July. Add a reminder to your calendar.

Why speak at IFoA India Conference 2025?

This flagship hybrid event brings together actuaries, data scientists, and professionals across sectors to explore the evolving role of the actuarial profession. The 2025 theme – Weaving the Actuarial Tapestry – highlights the interconnected threads of traditional actuarial skills with emerging domains like AI, ESG, and public policy.

By speaking, you’ll:

  • present your insights to a diverse and influential audience
  • be recognised on an international platform as a subject-matter expert
  • influence dialogue that shapes the future of the profession in India and the wider region
  • build new networks and elevate your professional profile

Categories

We are keen to ensure the conference appeals to a wide audience, covering all key actuarial areas. As we aim to ensure a diverse range of talks, you can boost your chances of selection by being unique, while still topical and relevant.

We are aiming to select talks across the following topics.

  1. Actuaries in a data-driven world: Showcasing case studies how AI and machine learning based models are incorporated in risk assessment, pricing, advanced analytics, fraud detection and decision-making.
  2. Weaving interdisciplinary collaboration: actuaries beyond insurance: Highlighting actuarial contributions in healthcare, banking, public policy, geopolitics and technology.
  3. Sustainability and climate risk: the actuary’s expanding responsibility: Discussing the actuarial role in modelling climate risk and supporting ESG (environmental, social, governance) frameworks.
  4. Weaving the design: product innovation: Showcasing how actuaries are designing new insurance products in digital ecosystems and the gig economy.
  5. Regulatory threads: the changing global compliance landscape: Sharing how changes in global regulations (ORSA, cyber risk, IFRS) are shaping actuarial work across markets.
  6. The art and science of communication: Ways on how actuaries communicate complex models and risk insights to stakeholders and the public.

Proposal details

In your proposal, we would be grateful if you could include:

  • summary of about 250 words on your chosen subject (which may or may not be from the list above)
  • format of your session (for example, interactive live presentation, debate, panel session)
  • job title, company name and contact details of all speakers presenting

The summary should cover:*

  • target audience and assumed knowledge level
  • key outcomes and knowledge that attendees will take away (elevator pitch: what are the key areas you will cover and what is the benefit to the attendees)
  • other useful background information (for example, working party submission, uses results from a new survey)

*Target audience supports us in marketing your talk to the right audience to strengthen engagement. Key outcomes and knowledge are key for committee decision making as we can only base our selection decision on what is in the submission. You can increase your chances of selection and a larger audience by being as clear and specific as possible. Other useful information can encourage additional audience sign-ups. For example, members working in a particular area interested in the outcome of work done by a particular working party.

Submission deadline: Sunday 13 July 2025

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

Please submit your proposal by Sunday 13 July.

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

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