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Date

Time

Session Type


                     Session Name
 
CHAIR

Speakers 
Tuesday
27 April
11:50am
– 
12:00pm



All-Actuaries Virtual Summit Open
Video
  Jefferson Gibbs,
President - Actuaries Institute
12:00pm

1:00pm
Plenary

Revolutionary actuaries? 
Video

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Naomi Edwards Adam Driussi,
Dee Madigan,
Queenie Chow
1:30pm
– 
2:30pm
Concurrent


Grasping at the Invisible – Bayesian Models for Estimating Latent Economic Variables
Presentation
Video

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Wayne Cannon Hugh Miller
Wednesday
28 April
9:00am

10:00am
Concurrent

QSuper Lifetime Pension 
Presentation
Video


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Nick Callil 

Brnic Van Wyk 

10:00am
-
10:30am
Video Chat Room QSuper Lifetime Pension 

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Nick Callil Brnic Van Wyk
10:30am 
–  
11:30am
Concurrent How Big Data and Machine Learning are changing Life Insurance Today
Presentation
Video

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Iris Lun
Marc Sofer
12:00pm
-
1:15pm
Plenary Disability, Support, Services and Income. "I wouldn’t start from here".
Presentation
Video

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Annette King

Jim Minto,
Nicolette Rubinsztein,
Estelle Pearson,
Ian Laughlin,
Niki Ellis

1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent Building a Blockchain in a Spreadsheet and Critically Evaluating Blockchain Opportunities
Video

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Amanda Aitken
Rob Deutsch
3:00pm 
–  
4:00pm 
Concurrent  A Mutual Renaissance
Presentation
Video

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Rick Shaw
Charles Pollack
Thursday
29 April


 
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Mental Health and COVID
Video

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Stephen Scott 

Kirsten Armstrong,
Matt Dabrowski


10:30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent Establishing Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement to Ensure Effective Insurance Solutions
Presentation
Video

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Win-Li Toh
Ian Laughlin,
Alexandra Kelly,
John Price,
Kate Lyons 
12:00pm
– 
1:00pm
Super Plenary

Super Plenary: Gender Inequality in the Retirement Savings Gap
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Elayne Grace

 
Michael Rice,
Richard Dunn,
David Knox
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Life and Health in Asia – Pricing Trends and Data Science Approaches
Presentation
Video

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Iris Lun
Louis Lee,
Nathan Thomas
Friday
30 April
9:00am
– 
10:00am
Concurrent
Framework for Determining Marketable Price of Retail Insurance
Presentation
Video

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Suzanne Patten

Mudit Gupta

 
12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Concurrent The Discriminating (Pricing) Actuary
Video

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Chris Dolman Fei Huang,
Edward (Jed) Frees
1:30pm
-
2:30pm

 Virtual Networking for those interested
in international networking

3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Claims Management and what Actuaries should know
Presentation
Video

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Colin Yellowlees
Alisha Jones FIAA,
Jacqui Goldfinch,
Matt Battersby

 WEEK 2
 Tuesday
4 May
9:00am
– 
10:00am
Concurrent


Deep Fried Bananas: From wholesome to gruesome (and back again?)
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Daniel Smith
Tim Spicer
10:30am

11:30am
Concurrent

Managing Investment Volatility: Crashes, Covid-19 and Leverage Constraints 
Video

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Andy Yang

Michael Sherris, Bao Doan, Jonathan Reeves

12:00pm
-
1:00pm 
Concurrent Excess Mortality in 2020
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Kirsten Armstrong Richard Lyon,
Karen Cutter,
Jennifer Lang

1:30pm
– 
2:30pm
Concurrent


Long-Term Risk Metric for Superannuation 
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Diane Somerville
Estelle Liu,
Ian Fryer,
David Carruthers,
Rein van Rooyen,
Young Tan
3:00pm 
–  
4:00pm
Concurrent What is Discrimination in Premium Rates?
(No Media Recorded)

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Stephen Dixon
Briallen Cummings
 
Wednesday
5 May
9:00am

10:00am
Concurrent

A Practical Guide to Pricing for Uncertainty in Disability Income Insurance 
Presentation
Video

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Adam Norman 

Dale Jackson,
Pallav Bajracharya,
Johan de la Rey

10.30am
-
11.30am
Concurrent Super Funds Investing in a Time of Climate Change 
Presentation
Video

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Sharanjit Paddam
Jillian Reid,
Naomi Edwards,
Graham Sinden 
12:00pm 
–  
1:00pm
GI Plenary GI Plenary: Recent developments in understanding natural climate variability
Video

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Ramona Meyricke

Tatiana Potemina,
Tim Andrews


1:30pm 
–  
2:30pm 
Concurrent  Adapting and fine-tuning pre-trained Language Models for Insurance Use Cases 
Presentation
Video

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Amanda Aitken
Michael Storozhev
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Butterfly Effects of COVID-19
Presentation
Video

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Robert Kerr Siu Yin Liu,
Sara Goldberg

 
Thursday
6 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Viewing on the Actuarial Talent Pool from the Insurance Industry CFO's - Featuring key points from in depth discussions with the CFO's on this topic
Presentation
Video

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Jessica Chen 
Jas Singh 
10:30am
– 
11:30am
Concurrent

Leveraging Technology, Data and Analytics to Transform an Actuarial Function
Presentation
Video

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Zeming Yu

 
Bartosz Piwcewicz,
Lawrence Ng
1:30pm 
–  
2:30pm
Concurrent Asia Update
Presentation
Video

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Robert Chen
Andy Yang
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent A Grand Proposal for Uninsurable Risks
Presentation
Video

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Simone Collins
Richard Hartigan
Friday
7 May
9:00am
– 
10:00am
Concurrent
Designing and Comparing Retirement Solutions in the Best Interest of Members
Presentation
Video

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Richard Boyfield 

Melanie Dunn

 
12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Plenary

Decarbonisation – what it means for the future of the Australian Economy
Presentation 1
Presentation 2
Video

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Nicolette Rubinsztein Kristian Kolding,
Jillian Broadbent AC,
Rade Musulin,
Geoff Summerhayes,

1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent Lack of affordability in Private Health Insurance – myth or reality?
Video

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Stuart Rodger 
Ignatius Li
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Deep Reinforcement Learning for Variable Annuities Hedging
Video

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Eric Ulm

Michael Sherris,
Xiao Xu,
Jonathan Ziveyi,
Jennifer Alonso-Garcia


 WEEK 3
Monday
10 May
 
9.00am
-
10.00am
Concurrent Modernising the Qualification Pathway
Video

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Amanda Aitken
Alissa Holz,
Mike Callan
12.00pm
-
1:00pm
Investment and Wealth Management Plenary

Investment and Wealth Management Plenary -Markets Panel: Where Next?
Presentation
Video


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Douglas Isles

Dom Giuliano,
Colin Grenfell,
David Lau,
Henry Lau,
Linda Cunningham

1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent
AASB17 Risk Adjustment
Presentation
Video


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  Antony Claughton
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent
Demystifying Trauma
Presentation
(No Video Recorded)

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Catherine-Robertson Hodder 

Sarah Hogekamp,
Liesje Van Rensburg

Tuesday
11 May
10.30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent

Evolution of Cyber Risks and Insurance
Video

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Sonia Tripolitano 

Win-Li Toh,
Ross Simmonds,
Michael Neary

12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Concurrent Superannuation Actuaries Non-Traditional Career Pathways
Presentation
Video

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Young Tan
Vivian Dang, Melanie Dunn, Tim Gorst,
Estelle Liu, Darren Stevens, Shang Wug

1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent
Customer Centric Product Development: Global insights and Design Distribution obligations
Presentation
Video


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Alissa Holz

Wilfred Tung,
Michael Richardson
 

5:30pm
-
7:30pm

Brisbane In-Person Networking
Hosted by President Jefferson Gibbs and
Senior Vice President Annette King

Wednesday
12 May
 
9:00am
-
10:00am
 Concurrent Financial Impacts under AASB 17 - Practical Scenarios Explained Easily 
Video

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Brendan Counsell
Ramanuj Bhangdiya,
Alexander Aeberli,
Matthew Buckle 

10:30am
-
11:30am

This session has been rescheduled to 19 May
 Concurrent Predictive Total Loss: Using AI and automation to improve motor claims outcomes in a responsible way
Presentation
Video

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Kitty Ho 
Chris Dolman,
Hannah Sakai, William You
12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Leadership and Professionalism Plenary Leadership and Professionalism Plenary: Was the misconduct identified in the Banking Royal Commission enabled by directors who didn't understand the complexity of the businesses they directed?
Video

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Barry Rafe Ian Laughlin,
Louise Davidson,
Diana Eilert,
Trevor Matthews,
Graham Willis,
Peter Yates
1:30pm
-
2:30pm
 Concurrent Annual Outcomes Assessments – What did trustees tell their members?
Presentation
Video

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Tim Jenkins  Catherine Nance, Mark Samuels
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
 Concurrent Transforming the Reserving Process' 
Presentation
Video

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Yongjie Qi

Matthew Webster,
Michael Ramsay


Thursday
13 May
  
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Introduction to Formal Evaluation of Probabilistic Forecasts in Actuarial Practice
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Yang Cai 
Dimitri Semenovich
10:30am
-
11:30am 
Concurrent What’s Happening Across the Tasman? Local challenges through a New Zealand Lens 
Presentation
Video

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President Jefferson Gibbs
Shami Shearer,
Ross Simmonds,
John Smeed

12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Plenary

The lowdown – living in a long-term, low-rate world
Video

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John Trowbridge  Hugh Miller,
Nicki Hutley,
Greg Bird
1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent Will the World still Need Life-Insurers in 5 Years?
Video

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Bala Joshi Matt Noyce,
Joseph Chan,
Peter Godbolt
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent

Target Capital Practice Guide Session
Presentation
Video

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Mathew Ayoub 

Stephen Goh,
Ashutosh Bhalerao
(Target Capital Working Group)

4:30pm
-
5:30pm
Concurrent Contemporary Perspective on Applied Optimisation in Business Context
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Colin Priest
Dimitri Semenovich
Friday
14 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Impact of Climate Change and Exposure to Natural Perils on Property Prices
Presentation
Video

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Simone Collins
Kevin Gomes, Ramona Meyricke,
Tim Lawless,
Pierre Wishart
10:30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent Direct Life Insurance - does it have a future?
Presentation
Video

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Andy Siu Adrian Kerins,
Benita Pienaar,
David Shuvalov,
Shahzad Karamally
1:30pm
-
2:30pm 
Concurrent  What does COVID-19 mean for Motor Insurance in Asia – looking back and going forward
Presentation
Video

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Ash Evans

Dr Weihao Choo,
Dennis Tay


 WEEK 4
Monday
17 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Portfolio Choice for Retirement Savings: The impact of market volatility during the COVID-19 pandemic
Video

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David Carruthers
Shang Wu
10:30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent Mental Health in PHI
Presentation
Video

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Andrew Matthews

Sue Freeman,
Nick Stolk,
Linda Kemp,
Jasmine Spann,

12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Concurrent Future proofing the ERM framework
Video

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Simone Leas  Tim Gorst, Elizabeth Baker
1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent

Impact of Covid19 Defence Measures
Video

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Greg Bird

Iris Deng,
Michelle Dong,
Helena Hayes,
Abbey Huang,
Richard Lyon and
Colin Yellowlees

3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Multi-State Health Transition Modelling Using Neural Networks
Video

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Dominic Roe 

Qiqi Wang,
Katja Hanewald,
Xiaojun Wang

4:30pm
-
5:30pm
Concurrent Closing the Gaps in Financial Literacy
Presentation
Video

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Mark Berry Oscar Chen,
Melanie Dunn,
Kieran Walsh,
Jean Nette Koay

Virtual Networking
Hosted by Steve Hui and Greg Bird

Tuesday
18 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent The Hidden Risks of Data Science and Machine Learning
Video

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Craig Price 
Michael Storozhev
10:30am
-
11:30am 
Concurrent Data Driven Framework to Tackle Regulatory Compliance: An IDII case study
Video

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Dale Jackson 

Victor Caballero,
Pallav Bajracharya


1:30pm
-
2:30pm 
Concurrent Will ‘Your Future’ Really be Super for Customer Outcomes?
Video

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David Millar  Customer Outcomes Working Group – Tony Diep, Philip Chu, Vivian Yu
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Neural Networks in Reserving: how and why are they worth considering?
Paper
Presentation
Video

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Peter Mulquiney

Muhammed Al-Mudafer,
Benjamin Avanzi,
Greg Taylor,
Bernard Wong

6:30pm
-
8:30pm

 Hong Kong In-Person Networking
Hosted by Steve Hui and Councillor Iris Lun

Wednesday
19 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Optimal Use of Housing Wealth in Retirement
Video

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Hazel Bateman

Tin Long Ho,
Katja Hanewald

Concurrent Using Property to Create Retirement Incomes
Presentation
(No Video Recorded)

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  Eric Ranson
10:30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Mental Health
Presentation
Video

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Lucy Hartley 

Matt Noyce,
Dr Brendan Loo Gee,
Joseph Chan


12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Concurrent Code Guidance Group Case Study Session(s)
Presentation
Video

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Jeff Humphreys David Minty,
William Liu,
Anita Mansbridge
1:00pm
-
2:00pm
Concurrent Predictive Total LossAI and automation to improve motor claims outcomes in a responsible way 
Presentation
Video

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Dominic Roe

Chris Dolman,
Hannah Sakai,
William You

1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Life Plenary Life Plenary: Disability Insurance Task Force. The hard part: making it happen
Video

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Kate Lyons

Hoa Bui,
Ian Laughlin


3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Plenary The needle and the damage done – life post pandemic
Presentation
Video

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Jennifer Lang  Tan Suee Chieh,
Professor Russell Gruen,
Thayendran Naidoo
4:30pm
-
5:30pm 
Concurrent PHI AASB17 Issues - update from the AASB TRG
Presentation
Video

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Francis Beens Antony Claughton,
Marion Smith
5:30pm
-
7:30pm

Sydney In-Person Networking

Thursday
20 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent Don't Panic! Fair Reserving Amidst the Chaos!
Presentation
Video

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Hoa Bui
Colette Reid,
Matthew Wood

10:30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent

AASB 17 – What Will Happen When the Rubber Hits the Road?
Video

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Briallen Cummings Kaise Stephan
12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Data Plenary Data Plenary: Future of Actuaries in Data Analytics
Presentation
Video

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  Bartosz Piwcewicz,
Ean Chan,
Chris Dolman,
Victor Bajanov

1:30pm
-
2:30pm
Concurrent Critical Illness in Asia: Success Factors, Challenges & Future Direction
Presentation
Video

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Iris Lun
Wendy Wang
3:00pm
-
4:00pm
Concurrent Wide-Ranging Regulatory Reforms for insurers in the Fast Lane
Video

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Alan Merten
Brendan Fehon,
Kalaiya Bhrajna
Friday
21 May
9:00am
-
10:00am
Concurrent  Identity in Actuarial Careers
Presentation
Video

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Barry Rafe  Lesley Traverso
10:30am
-
11:30am
Concurrent PYSP/PMIF - Implications on TPD Notifications
Presentation
Video

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Jeff Humphreys Phin Wern Ting,
John Walters

12:00pm
-
1:00pm
Plenary
Whichtech? The technology trends that really matter
Video

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Annette King Walter de Oude 
1:30pm   All-Actuaries Virtual Summit Closing
Video

  Jefferson Gibbs,
President - Actuaries Institute