Third party events

On this page you can find upcoming events from selected third parties. We update this page regularly.

Navigating pension risk reporting transparency: In conversation with Professor James Baird

14 May 2025 
12:00 to 13:30 BST
Macadam Building, Strand Campus, London

Join us for an engaging conversation on navigating pension risk reporting transparency hosted by King’s Business School. This event will explore the evolving landscape of corporate pension risk disclosure and its implications on policymaking, capital markets, and stakeholder decisionmaking.

Dr Yong Li, pension accounting expert at King’s Business School, will be joined by Professor James Baird, Financial Reporting Council Advisory Panel and a former Big Four auditing partner with over 30 years of experience.

Key questions that will be considered include:

  • How is the role of auditors in pension risk reporting evolving?
  • What are the broader financial externalities of corporate pension risk disclosure?
  • What insights from research can UK firms leverage to improve risk transparency and communication with stakeholders?

This event offers a unique opportunity to participate in a thought-provoking dialogue to share insights and shape the future of pension risk reporting.

This session will be followed by seminar delivered by Professor Baird (13:45 – 14:45) on how audit partners make decisions.

Attendees are welcome to attend either or both sessions using the sign up link below. Lunch will be served from 12.00 providing an opportunity to network.

Register for this event

From numbers to novel ventures: an actuarial entrepreneurship panel discussion 

Tuesday 27 May 
17:30 to 19:00 (BST)
Lloyds Banking Group on the Mound (Bryce Room), Edinburgh
 
This is a Scottish Actuaries Club organised CPD event to which all are welcome, including non-club members. The event will be chaired by Iain McLellan. He will be discussing with actuaries Roger Austin, David Robinson and Douglas Anderson who have either set up or been closely involved in setting up new ventures. Some of the new ventures have been in financial services while others have been in completely different sectors.
 
A discussion and Q&A will seek to explore such aspects as:

  • what inspired the panel members to get involved in a start-up
  • which actuarial skills they found particularly useful
  • common ingredients for a successful start-up
  • where and how to get funding
  • the highs and lows of start-ups
  • what advice they have for actuaries considering a start-up, either as a ‘side hustle’ or a career change

After the CPD is the Scottish Actuaries Club dinner being held at 10 Hill Place. New members are welcome. The dinner will be 19:00 for 19:30.
 
If you are interested in either attending the CPD event or the dinner, please contact Eleanor Jeffrey (Eleanor.Jeffrey@royallondon.com

Insurance Data Science Conference

19 to 20 June 2025
Bayes Business School, City St George's, University of London.

The conference brings together academics and practitioners in areas including data science, analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence and InsurTech, as applied in the insurance industry.

Keynotes will be given by:

  • James David Long (CTO, Palomar)
  • Magdalena Ramada (Senior Director, WTW)
  • Johanna Ziegel (Department of Mathematics, ETH Zurich)

Booking

Please secure your ticket by registering here: https://insurancedatascience.org/#registration

Scientific committee

Academics: Katrien Antonio, Arthur Charpentier, Montserrat Guillen, Munir Hiabu, Ioannis Kyriakou, Mathias Millberg Lindholm, Filip Lindskog, Mike Ludkovski, Despoina Makariou, Pietro Millossovich, Silvana Pesenti, Salvatore Scognamiglio, Andreas Tsanakas, Stefan Weber, Bernard Wong, Mario Wüthrich, Rui Zhu

Industry: Luca Baldassarre, Can Baysal, Mick Cooney, Claudio Giorgio Giancaterino, Markus Gesmann, Marcela Granados Lavoie, Davide De March, Dylan Liew, Grainne McGuire, Wui Hua (John) Ng, Ronald Richman, Jürg Schelldorfer, Markus Senn, Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato

More information

Events on this page are hosted by selected third parties. As such the IFoA accepts no liability for the contents of these events. If you have any queries regarding these events, please visit the organiser’s booking page.