Wed 22 Nov 2023, 15:00 - Join us at this year’s Life Conference, being held on 22 to 24 November at the ICC in Birmingham, UK.
We have invited some of the most dynamic figures from our domain to deliver presentations and we expect more than 700 of you to join us in-person.
As well as technical learning, the programme provides opportunities to learn soft skills for your personal development.
In addition to 3 plenary speakers from the life insurance sphere and 63 workshops to allow you to choose the learning most pertinent to your career needs and interests, we will also welcome as guest speaker Professor Lord Robert Winston, Professor of Science and Society at Imperial College and Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies.
Please see below the full in-person programme.
A group booking discount is available for companies who send 5 or more delegates to the full conference (from the same company). All bookings must be made at the same time online to receive the 10% discount off each delegate’s fee. This can be a combination of members and non-members but does not include any day tickets or any discounted places.
You can preview some of the sessions in blogs by the speakers. Read about the new regulations for pension providers and how the UK bulk annuity market has become almost unrecognisable.
Lord Professor Robert Winston is a doctor, scientist, politician, TV presenter and business speaker. Best known for his inspiring television medical documentaries based on fertility, reproduction and technological innovation is this practice, Robert’s pre-eminent expertise in the field makes him the ideal TV presenter and host.
Professor Robert Winston is a Professor of Science and Society along with an Emeritus Professor of Fertility Studies at Imperial College. Within his own research, Robert currently looks to improve the production of stem cells to reduce genetic abnormalities in embryos.
In 1995, Robert became Baron Winston, life peer of the London Borough of Hammersmith. Robert speaks frequently on medicine, education, science and the arts whilst also holding posts such as Chairman of the Science and Technology Select Committee. During after dinner speeches, Robert interacts with audiences and enlightens listeners about the complexities of human biology and science. Engaging and compelling, Robert can tailor his content as a technology speaker to make his talks specific to your brief.
Winston’s highly regarded documentary work includes Superhuman, The Secret Life Of Twins and Child of Our Time has received some of the highest accolades for television work, including a BAFTA for The Human Body.
He also sits on the Labour party benches in the House of Lords and speaks on a regular basis there on education, medicine and science. He was previously Chairman of the House of Lords Select Committee for Science and Technology and is now Vice-Chairman and a board member of the Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology. An ideal after dinner and keynote technology speaker, Robert’s knowledge of technology and its influence within his profession makes Robert an inspirational speaker.
One of the City’s best known and most respected economists, Roger Bootle is the founder of the influential consultancy Capital Economics. Renowned for his prediction and diagnosis of some of the most significant financial events of recent times, he also became recognised as one of the UK’s leading pro-Brexit economists bringing reasoned argument and experience to an often heated, emotional debate.
After lecturing at Oxford, Roger became a dealer at Citibank, one of the few economists to gain direct trading experience. He then switched to the role of Group Chief Economist at HSBC and Lloyds Merchant Bank, before establishing his own consultancy and becoming a senior advisor to the House of Commons Treasury Committee.
Under the previous Conservative government, Roger was appointed to the Chancellor’s panel of independent economic forecasters, known as ‘The Seven Wise Men’. He’s served as a Visiting Professor at Manchester Business School and is a regular media contributor and columnist, and has been named Economics Commentator of the Year. He is the author of Theory of Money and The Death of Inflation. He predicted the banking crisis in Money For Nothing – and later studied the causes, effects, and future threats in The Trouble with Markets. More recently he’s examined the next great challenge for businesses, policy makers, and society in The AI Economy: Work, Wealth and Welfare in the Robot Age.
After leading the team that won the prestigious Wolfson Prize (second only to the Nobel in the economics field) for their study on how a country would leave the Euro, he published The Trouble With Europe. The latest edition considers how to make a success of Brexit, as well as how to reform the EU.
Noted for his wry delivery of often uncomfortable truths, Roger has an impressive record of forecasting major market, economic, and monetary events. He foresaw the credit crunch, the collapse of the dotcom boom, the UK’s removal from the ERM, and the period of sustained low inflation in Europe and the US.
The purpose of PIC is to pay the pensions of its current and future policyholders. PIC provides secure retirement incomes through comprehensive risk management and excellence in asset and liability management, as well as exceptional customer service. At year-end 2022, PIC had insured 302,200 pension scheme members and had £41 billion in financial investments, accumulated through the provision of tailored pension insurance buyouts and buy-ins to the trustees and sponsors of UK defined benefit pension schemes. To date, PIC has made total pension payments of £10.6 billion to its policyholders. Clients include FTSE 100 companies, multinationals and the public sector.
Milliman is among the world's largest providers of actuarial, risk management and technology solutions. Our consulting and advanced analytics capabilities encompass healthcare, property & casualty insurance, life insurance and financial services, and employee benefits. Founded in 1947, Milliman is an independent firm with offices in major cities around the globe.
Ortec Finance is a leading provider of technology and solutions for risk and return management.
We enable people to manage the complexity of investment decisions, through delivering leading technologies and solutions for investment decision making to financial institutions around the world. Our strength lies in an effective combination of advanced models, innovative technology and in-depth market knowledge.
Founded in 2011, we are one of the UK’s largest actuarial and credit risk consultancies and are recognised as one of the most dynamic and successful risk consulting firms globally.
At APR, we aim to delight our clients by providing high-quality actuarial support. Our intellectually curious team of 80+ actuarial staff across the UK and Ireland ranges from students to deeply experienced actuaries. We tailor solutions to the specific needs of each client, whether through our consulting services or via secondment.
Moody’s Analytics provides financial intelligence and analytical tools to help business leaders make better, faster decisions. Our deep risk expertise, expansive information resources, and innovative application of technology help our clients confidently navigate an evolving marketplace. We are known for our industry-leading and award-winning solutions, made up of research, data, software, and professional services, assembled to deliver a seamless customer experience. We create confidence in thousands of organizations worldwide, with our commitment to excellence, open mindset approach, and focus on meeting customer needs.
Aon’s Strategy & Technology Group brings together insight and software solutions to help (re)insurers make better business decisions. We deliver highly customised solutions focused on exploring profitable opportunities, boosting enterprise efficiency and driving financial health to help clients build and manage more resilient companies across Property & Casualty and Life.
Barnett Waddingham (BW) is a leading independent UK professional services consultancy with expertise across risk, pensions, investment and insurance. With freedom to take a long-term view, BW builds strong, trusted relationships, including with almost 25% of FTSE 100 and over 15% of FTSE 350 companies.
Capita’s actuarial team provide cost-effective delivery capacity and agility across the insurance and pensions industries and beyond. We can resource your teams, deliver your projects or manage your actuarial function. You can rely on our extensive industry and actuarial expertise to ensure you have the support you need, when you need it.
www.capita.com/expertise/industry-specific-services/actuarial-services
Clarence George is a bespoke Insurance & Investment search firm. We have an enviable client base with access to the most highly sought-after roles within Life Insurance, Reinsurance, Consultancy, Investment Banking, Asset Management, Private Equity, Hedge Fund and InsurTech. We proactively source the very best talent across Actuarial, Investment and Risk, and we work with some of the most prestigious companies in the UK, Ireland, Hong Kong, Singapore and Bermuda.
Conning is a leading investment management firm with a long history of serving the insurance industry. Conning supports institutional investors, including insurers and pension plans, with investment solutions, risk modeling software, and industry research. Conning’s risk management software platform provides deeper insights for decision making, regulatory and rating agency compliance, and capital allocation. Founded in 1912, Conning has investment centers in Asia, Europe and North America.
Dataiku is the platform for Everyday AI, enabling data experts and domain experts to work together to build data into their daily operations, from advanced analytics to Generative AI. Together, they design, develop and deploy new AI capabilities at all scales and industries.
Eames Consulting is a contingent recruitment business with international reach, specialising at the mid-to-senior level of the insurance, financial services, and technology markets.
We’ve supported clients across the insurance sector for over 20 years, guiding their talent strategies and hiring talent. In this time, we've amassed a loyal, highly-skilled candidate network and partnered with companies across the world, from small start-ups to international organisations.
Our consultants are focused on specialist areas of their dedicated market spanning the Life and Non-Life markets.
Through deep and evolving sector knowledge, we embed ourselves as long-term strategic partners to our clients. Guiding people, shaping talent, building partnerships, and creating success is what we do.
The Emerald Group provide holistic recruitment solutions to firms seeking skilled candidates within the Actuarial, Insurance and Pensions markets, with services encompassing Diversity & Inclusion, Market Mapping, and Salary Surveys/Market Intelligence.
We build personal, lasting relationships by offering an independent and consultative approach from our highly trained and experienced consultants.
Financial Risk Solutions (FRS) is a trusted unit pricing technology partner to life assurance and asset owners. Clients rely on our Invest|Pro™ software to run their investment administration securely, efficiently and at scale to help navigate the ever-changing challenges of growth, regulatory pressures, and competition in the industry.
Goodman Masson’s specialist Actuarial Division is a true market leader in the Insurance and Pensions sectors, well known and respected for placing experienced Actuaries and Part-Qualified Actuaries into our extensive client base for over 16 years.
We have significant expertise in all of the key actuarial specialisms focusing on: General Insurance, Life insurance, Pensions Consulting and Investment Consulting. We provide actuarial candidates for permanent, day-rate and fixed-term contract assignments throughout the UK, France and New York.
HFG is a specialist Insurance recruitment consultancy working exclusively with talent throughout the General Insurance, Life Insurance, Re-Insurance, Broking and Lloyd’s markets.
We have over 20 years’ experience placing actuaries into a broad range of opportunities into the UK and international markets from our London, Singapore and Hong Kong offices.
We combine decades of experience with cutting-edge technology to help insurers and reinsurers embrace challenges and change.
Our team supports UK and international clients through a wide range of services including risk and capital management, investment and ALM, product design and longevity. Visit us at stand B6 to find out more.
At J.P. Morgan Asset Management, we believe investors deserve an expert global partner they can trust to step up and deliver strong outcomes. Our perspective draws on knowledge earned over a century of investing through every market cycle. From our vantage point, we strive to see correlations others miss and seize opportunities that our global, connected view can deliver. Our clients trust us to manage $2.5 trillion in assets to secure what matters most to who they serve.
am.jpmorgan.com/gb/en/asset-management/institutional/investment-strategies/insurance
As one of the world’s leading recruitment businesses that’s been specialising in the Actuarial profession since 2005, we have the experience, international network, and market knowledge to find your ideal job or hire. We’re here to provide support throughout your career across Life, General Insurance, Reinsurance, and Pensions and Investments.
We bring a fresh and dynamic approach to reinsurance in some of the world’s most important and rapidly growing markets.
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 152 countries with over 327,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory, and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.co.uk
Software Alliance Limited ("SAL") is a specialist software house that develops financial modelling software and services for the insurance industry. Over the last decade our primary product offering, Mo.net, has evolved significantly and is now relied upon by clients around the globe to provide mission-critical financial modelling, analysis and decision support.
The ICC
8 Centenary Square
Birmingham
B1 2EA