The Life Committee is in the planning stages for the 2024 Life Forum and is inviting expressions of interest from members who would like to deliver a session at this event.
We are holding the Life Forum 2024 on the Tuesday, 28th of May 2024, as an in-person event and the venue will be announced shortly!
We also plan on recording the presentations for uploading to a secure platform, which will be made available after the event has taken place.
We conducted a survey among our members regarding the topics they are most interested in discussing at the life forum. Here is a summary of the most frequently mentioned responses:
| Climate Change: | Climate change, sustainability, climate change impacts on Life Insurance, climate scenarios |
| Data Analysis & Modelling: | Big data insights, data and systems, data analysis workflows, new modelling techniques |
| Industry updates: | Issues, developments, Life Insurance hot topics |
| Product design: | Product design, Product governance/Product development, Product innovation, considerations and risk mitigation for long duration life products, new products being offered in the market, product related items such as design, product development, product learnings from outside Ireland |
| IFRS17: | Impacts and developments |
| Mortality: | Post covid expectations for mortality/morbidity, mortality and persistency investigations, mortality improvements, emerging trends in mortality experience |
| Risk: | Risk management, cyber risk, risk modelling, emerging risks, sustainability risk |
| Pricing: | Pricing in Life Assurance, data analysis & modelling topics to enhance pricing capabilities, pricing and any new tech in that space, macroeconomic considerations, new products being offered in the market, impacts on Sol UK on IRL; Macroeconomic factors (e.g., interest rates, political instability in Europe) and how these should be reflected in pricing; the skillset of the 'modern' L&H actuary |
| Regulation: | Regulatory matters, emerging topics, regulations in the consumer space, future regulatory changes, regulatory update, regulatory developments, SEAR |
| Life Insurance Market update: | Current outlook, developments, market updates (interest rates volatility, inflation etc.) |
| Solvency II Review: | Update, recent developments |
| Sustainability: | Emerging sustainability regulation, sustainability risk in reserving |
Expressions of interest:
If you are interested in participating at this year’s SAI Life Forum, please email events@actuaries.ie by Thursday, 28th March 2024 to express your interest.
Please provide a short outline of your proposal, covering the following:
- Topic and format of session (e.g., presentation followed by Q&A, Panel Discussion etc.)
- The technical level of knowledge that the audience would need in order to understand the topic (beginner / intermediate / advanced)
- If the speakers are decided: the employer and contact details for each speaker
- Whether the session has been (or will/might be) delivered elsewhere and if so, where and when
- If the session includes Professionalism
- The speaker’s consent to record their presentation (excl. the Q&A segment)
- The proposed length for each session is approx. 45 mins and this will include approximately 10 mins for Q&A.
We are looking forward to hearing from you!