19th Global Conference of Actuaries

19th GCA Program Schedule 19th GCA Photos Photos

• Pre GCA Dinner
• 2018 AGFA
• Day 1
• Day 2

Plenary Sessions Day 1 (30-Jan-2018)

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P1: Digital transformation of insurance experienceChairperson:Marjorie NgwenyaPresident IFoA, UK

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P2: Becoming relevant in public interests!

Chairperson:Pournima Gupte,Member (Actuary), IRDAI, India

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• Inaugural session & Opening Ceremony
• Presented by:
• Georgio Mosis,Head of Innovation Management – Asia RGAx, Honk Kong
• Topic:Can health micro-insurance be financially sustainable?
• Presented by: David Dror,Chairman & Managing Director, Micro Insurance Academy, Switzerland.
• Topic:Environmental & Climate Changes – Role of Actuaries
• Presented by: Louise Pryor,Director, Callund Consulting, UK

Concurrent Session Day 1 (30-Jan-2018)

Risk Management	Data-driven decision frontiers	Technology: Creation and disruptions
Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--No Presentation Click here for Video C1: Risk-aware, outcome-based investments for insurers Chairperson:Bikash Choudhary, Appointed Actuary & CRO, Future Generali India Life Insurance Co, India Presented by: Bruce Porteous,Investment Director - Global Insurance Solutions, Aberdeen Standard Investments, UK C4: Risk Management for steering business Chairperson:Dr. K. Sriram, Consulting Actuary, India Presented by: Tushar Chatterjee,Senior Risk Officer - VP, Swiss Re C7: RBC and Role of CRO in a VUCA world! Moderator:,B N Rangarajan, CRO Exide Life Ins. Co, India Panellists: Pankaj Kumar Tewari,DGM, IRDAI, India Sunder Krishnan, CRO, Reliance Nippon Life Ins. Co, India Sharad Ramnarayanan, Appointed Actuary, New India Assurance company Ltd, India	Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--No Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video C2: Credit-based behavioural index Chairperson:Satyan Jambunathan, CFO ICICI Prudential, India Presented by: Brad Lipic,VP, Data Strategy, Global Research & Data Analytics, RGA, Greater St Louis C5: Artificial intelligence – Insights with case studies! Moderator:Srinivasa Rao, MD (Life & Health), Munich Re India Discussed By : Kaushik Mitra,SVP, AXA Business Services, India Debashish Banerjee,Partner, Deloitte, India C8: Strategy and analytics in Insurance Chairperson:G N Agarwal, Past President, IAI, India Strategic approach on pricing and marketing for Insurance Presented by: Archna Wadhwa,MD, Analytics Saves at Work, India Topic :Social Media Analytics for stock market – Actuary’s Perspective Presented by : Mahidhara Davangere VMD, Pramartha Investment Partners, India	Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--No Presentation Click here for Video C3: Leading in the Vortex of change Chairperson:R Arunachalam, Vice President, IAI Presented by: Tan Suee Chieh,, Council member, IFoA, Singapore C6: Shaping future with digitisation! Chairperson:Varun Gupta, Senior VP & Chief Actuary, DHFL Pramerica Life Insurance Co. Presented by: Jiong Du,, Chief Pricing Actuary,SCOR Global Life Asia Pacific, Hong Kong C9: Online insurance – opportunities and challenges Chairperson & Moderator:Nilesh Sathe, Member (Life), IRDAI, India Panellists: K. S. Gopalakrishnan,, CEO, RGA India Vishal Sabharwal,Head – Online & e-commerce, HDFC Life Insurance Co. Ltd, India Santosh Agarwal,Business Head-Life Insurance, Policybazaar.com, India
IAI Student Event - The IFoA examination framework – setting you up for success in your career of choice! Presented by:Derek Cribb- CEO, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK Clifford Friend, Director of Engagement and Learning, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK Click here for Video
Curriculum 2019 – Nick Foster, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Leicester, UK Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video
2018 AGFA by K A Pandit & Edelweiss Tokio Life Ins Co Click here for Video

Plenary Sessions Day 2 (31-Jan-2018)

• P3: IFRS17 – Implementation and challengesChairperson: Nishit Majmudar,CEO, Aviva, Singapore
• Presented By : Andrew Rallis, MetLife Global Chief Actuary (Life side), GOSC MetLife, US
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• P4: General Insurance - Tool for social securityModerator: Anurag Rastogi,Chief Actuary & Head of Retail underwriting & claims, crop, Marine & MSME, HDFC ERGO
• Panellists :

  B N Narasimhan, General Manager, GIC Re, India

  Bhargav Dasgupta, MD & CEO, ICICI Lombard General Insurance Co. Ltd, India

  Kalpana Sampat, CEO, Swiss Re India

  Krishnamoorthy Rao, MD & CEO, Future Generali India Life Insurance Co, India

  R Chandrasekaran, Secretary General, General Insurance Council, India

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• P5: M&A and IPOs in the Indian insuranceModerator: Heerak Basu,Chief Actuary, Tata AIA Life Insurance Co. Ltd., India
• Panel members :

  Sandeep Bakshi, MD & CEO, ICICI Prudential Life Ins. Co., India

  Deepak Mittal, MD & CEO, Edelweiss Tokio Life Ins. Co, India

  Gopal Balachandran, CFO, ICICI Lombard General Ins. Co. Ltd., India

  Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Chief & Appointed Actuary, HDFC Life, India

  Sachin Wagle, Managing Director, Head of India Financials and India Capital markets, Morgan Stanley, India

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• P6: Thoughts by Mr. Hemant G Contractor, PFRDA Chairman
• Chairperson: Mr. Sanjeeb Kumar,President, IAI
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Concurrent Session Day 2 (31-Jan-2018)

Life Insurance	Health Insurance & General Insurance	New professional areas
Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--No Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video C10: Exponential Actuary Chairperson:N M Govardhan,Former Chairman, LIC, India Presented by: Darryl Wagner,FSA MAAA Deloitte Consulting LLP, USA Presented by : Mahasen Kunapuli,Managing Director, Deloitte Consulting LLP, India C13: Role of Actuaries in Investments - Life Insurance Moderator:Kailash Mittal, SVP- Actuarial, HDFC Life Insurance Co. Ltd, India Panellists: Sunil Sharma,Senior Risk Officer - VP, Swiss ReAppointed Actuary, Kotak, India Dinesh Pant,Appointed Actuary, LICI, India Abhay Tewari,Appointed Actuary, SUD Life, India Prashant Sharma,CIO, Aviva Life, India C16: Review of recent insurance IPOs and role of actuaries Chairperson:Pradeep Thapliyal, Vice president & Actuary, Prudential Financial Inc., USA Presented by: Sanket Kawatkar,Principal and Consulting Actuary,Milliman, India	Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video C11: Product Development Trends In Asia Chairperson:GLN Sarma,CEO Hannover Re, India Presented by: John Ferguson,Regional Actuary, Gen Re, China C14: A Method Of Calculating The Implied No-recovery Three State Transition Matrix Using Observable Population Mortality And Disability Prevalence Rates Chairperson:Mudit Kumar,Appointed Actuary, Bharti AXA Life Ins. Co ltd, India Presented by : Gaurav Khemka,Senior Lecturer, Australian National University, India C17: Developing the Indian Actuarial climate index Chairperson:C S Kumar, DGM – Actuarial, IRDAI Presented by: Shilpi Jain,Actuarial Manager, ICICI Prudential Life Insurance, India	Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video Current Topics--Click here for Presentation Click here for Video C12: How robo-advice is changing behaviour of pension savers & disrupting long established models: a case study Chairperson:D. K. Pandit, Partner, K. A. Pandit, India Presented by: John Taylor,Partner, Hymans Robertson, UK C15: Lessons from Takaful and Discretionary Mutuals for traditional insurance model Chairperson:Mehul Shah, Appointed Actuary and CRO, Kotak, India Presented by: Zainal Kassim,Senior Partner, Actuarial Partners Consulting Pte. Ltd., Malaysia C18: Changing Landscape of Employee Benefits post APS27- A practitioner’s view Chairperson & Moderator:K. Subrahmanyam,Consulting Actuary, India Presented by: Khushwant Pahwa,, Founder and Principal Consultant, KPAC(Actuaries and Consultants), India
IAI Student Event- Careers for actuarial professionals – where are the new opportunities? Presented by:Clifford Friend, Director of Engagement and Learning, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK Sarah Sim, Head of Global Markets Development, Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, UK Click here for Video
Insights through data visualizations by M. Karunanidhi, Past President, IAI Click here for Video