MONDAY 12 november 2018
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7.00am |
Registration Opens |
8.00am |
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8.20am |
Opening Keynote address
Ross Dawson
Facilitator: David Whittle
Audio - David Whittle
Audio - Ross Dawson
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9.00am |
Plenary 1: Trust and the Consumer - Power to the People
Michelle Innis, Ian Laughlin, Vaughan Chandler, Bettina Pidcock
Facilitator: Jefferson Gibbs
Presentation 1
Presentation 2
Presentation 3
Audio - Michelle Innis
Audio - Ian Laughlin
Audio - Bettina Pidcock
Audio - Q&A
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10.20am |
Morning Tea
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10.40am |
Session Block 1
A. MENTAL HEALTH PLENARY - Mental Health and Insurance – Helping Other Possibilities Emerge
Nick Glozier, Michael Allwright, Dana Bradford
Facilitator: Geoff Atkins
Presentation
Audio
B. DIGITAL/DATA ANALYTICS PLENARY: Democratizing Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence with the Cloud
Andy Huang
Presentation
Audio
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11.35am |
Session Block 2
A. CLIMATE CHANGE PLENARY: An introduction to the Australian Actuaries Climate Index (AACI)
Tim Andrews
Presentation
Audio
B. Marked for life? Should people who have experienced a ‘rough patch’ pay the price forever?’
Sue Freeman, Nick Glozier
C. Adapting to an Expanding Digital Threat Surface to Deliver Business Cyber Resilience
Darren Argyle
Presentation
Audio
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12.15pm |
Lunch
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1.15pm |
Session Block 3
A. Model Explainability
Ian Hansel
Presentation
Audio
B. D - (&O) Day: Directors & Officers Insurance – A Class in Crisis
Win-Li Toh, David North
Presentation
Audio
C. The role of the Appointed Actuary, other actuaries and actuarial advice framework
Tim Clark
Presentation
Audio
D. New Zealand’s Children’s Lifetime Wellbeing Model
Daniel Marlay, Abigail Marwick
Presentation
Audio
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2.00pm |
Session Block 4
A. Claims Triage
Andrew Currie, Dannie Zarate, Ben Saunders
Presentation
Audio
B. Recent Trends in Capital Management and Learnings from Other Industries
Chao Qiao, Huda Ansari
Paper
Presentation
Audio
C. Beyond Nudging, Deconstructing the Mental Health Crisis from a Behavioural Perspective
Doron Samuell
Presentation
Audio
D. Mental Health in the Digital Age: The dark and bright side of technology
Anthea Hickey
Presentation
Audio
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2.45pm |
Session Block 5
A. The missing link: squeezing extra performance out of predictive models
Hugh Miller, Tom Moulder
Paper
Presentation
Audio
B. Customer-Centered Design Maturity in Australian Insurers
Mathew Ayoub, Gavin Pearce and Kaise Stephan
Presentation
Audio
C. Mental Health - a Case Study with Lessons for Travel and Life Insurance
Bill Konstantinidis, Michael Storozhev
Paper
Presentation
Audio
D. Resinsurance Awakens
Jeremy Waite, Guy Carpenter
Presentation
Audio
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3.25pm |
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4.00pm |
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5.30pm |
End of Conference Sessions Day 1
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6.30pm |
Gala Dinner |
Tuesday 13 November 2018
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8.30am |
Registration Opens |
8.45am
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Express Plenary - Talking about Death Won’t Kill You
Michelle Knox
Audio
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9.00am |
Plenary 3 - The Financial Services Royal Commission
The Hon Neville Owen, Estelle Pearson, Kate Harrison, Tony Coleman
Facilitator: Barry Rafe
Audio - Neville Owen
Audio - Barry Rafe
Audio - All
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10.30am |
Morning Tea
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10.50am |
Session Block 6
A. Making yourself useful. Business tips for actuaries from a cultural researcher.
Willem Paling
Presentation
Audio
B. Royal Commissions - What Have We Learnt
Scott Duncan, David Whittle
Presentation
Audio
C. Marketing are from Mars, Actuarial are from Venus: How Actuarial and Marketing Teams can Work Together
Ashish Ahluwalia, Luke Cassar
Presentation
Audio
D. Changing Role of the CRO
Corinne Glasby
Presentation
Audio
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11.35am |
Session Block 7
A. Climate Change: Transition and Liability Risk Scenario Analyses for General Insurers
Sharanjit Paddam, Stephanie Wong, Michelle Dong
Paper
Presentation
Audio
B. How to Proxy the Unmodellable: Analysing Granular Insurance Claims Data in the Presence of Unobservable or Complex Drivers
Alan Liang Xian
Paper
Presentation
Audio
C. What are your models worth? The economic value of risk cost models
Dimitri Semenovich, Chris Dolman
Paper
Presentation
Audio
D. GDPR: What is it, and will it apply to you?
Lisa Vanderwal
Presentation
Audio
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12.20pm |
Plenary 4 - Ethics and Leadership
Helen Rowell, Anthony Asher, Attracta Lagan
Facilitator: Daniel Smith
Presentation 1
Presentation 2
Audio - Daniel Smith
Audio - Helen Rowell
Audio - Anthony Asher
Audio - Attracta Lagan
Audio - Q&A
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1.45pm |
Lunch
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2.45pm |
Session Block 8
A. DIGITAL/DATA ANALYTICS PLENARY: The Opportunity to Transform General Insurance through Automating Intelligently
Andy Gillard
Facilitator: Vincent Chen
Presentation
Audio
B. Reinsurance: What Could Possibly go Wrong?
Ty Birkett
Presentation
Audio
C. Superimposed inflation, or, actuaries searching for Brigadoon
Estelle Pearson, Francis Beens
Paper
Presentation
Audio
D. Diversity and Inclusion Working Group - Gender Diversity - Closing the Gap
Lesley Traverso
Presentation
Audio
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3.30pm |
Session Block 9
A. Cyber Risk – A General Insurance Perspective
Actuaries Institute Cyber Working - Peter Yeates, Susie Amos, Kitty Ho
Presentation
Audio
B. The AI GI Actuary
Jacky Poon
Paper
Presentation
Audio
C. AASB 17: An Update from the Actuaries Institute Taskforce
Antony Claughton, Francis Beens, and Richard Yee
Presentation
Audio
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4.10pm |
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4.30pm |
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5.10pm |
Closing Remarks
Hoa Bui
Vice President, Actuaries Institute
Audio
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5.15pm |
Closing Cocktail Party
Sponsored by Taylor Fry

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7.15pm |
End of Conference |
Program is subject to change
Capability Framework Functions
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Contribution to Business Strategy |
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Leadership |
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Actuarial Approach to Problem Solving |
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Valuing Uncertain Future Cash Flow |
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Risk Management |
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Professional Governance |
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Product Development, Management and Pricing |
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Investment Advice and Governance |