Welcome
5:30 PM
Conference Registration & Badge Collection
Beat the Day 1 rush — collect your badge this evening, and walk straight in on Day 1.
6:00 PM
Welcome Reception
An informal evening to reconnect with colleagues and meet delegates from across Asia and beyond — a relaxed, fun-filled start to the conference. Dress code: Smart casual.
Morning Plenary Sessions
8:00 AM
Registration & Badge Collection
Sands Expo and Convention Centre, Level 4 Foyer
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Dress code: Business Attire (all days).
Tea, coffee and light refreshments will be served.
Dress code: Business Attire (all days).
9:15 AM
Opening Address Plenary
Akash Gupta
Managing Director and Head of Life and Health, Southeast Asia and High Net Worth, Munich RE
Council Member, Conference Chair AAC26, Singapore Actuarial Society
9:30 AM
Guest of Honour Address Plenary
AT
Mr Alvin Tan
Minister of State, Ministry of National Development & Ministry of Trade and Industry
Board Member, Monetary Authority of Singapore
10:00 AM
MAS: Regulatory Update Plenary
LY
Lee Wai Yi
Director & Head of Supervisory Analytics Division
Insurance Department, MAS
10:30 AM
Tea Break
10:50 AM
Panel Discussion: Growth Against The Odds — Winning in Uncertainty Panel
TC
Moderator
Tan Suee Chieh
Past President
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
KK
Panellist
Kah Siang Khoo
Senior Vice President, CEO Emerging Markets
Manulife
AT
Panellist
Anusha Thavarajah
Regional Chief Executive Officer
Allianz Asia Pacific
CP
Panellist
Clemens Philippi
Chief Executive Officer
MSIG Asia
GM
Panellist
Gavin Maistry
Global Chief Actuary (Life & Health)
Munich Re
12:00 PM
Predictive Resilience: Leveraging Hyperscale Data and Contextual AI to Redefine Complex Risk Landscapes Plenary
Andreas Neidhart
Head of Strategic Industry & Partnerships Practice
Google
12:30 PM
Lunch
Breakout 1 | Life Insurance
2:00 PM
Capital as a Strategic Lever: Orchestrating Products, Reinsurance, and Balance Sheets in Asia Panel
Moderator
Alex Wong
Group Chief Actuary & Group Executive Committee Member
FWD Insurance
Panellist
Gaston Nossiter
Senior Vice President, Japan, Asia Pacific Financial Solutions
Reinsurance Group of America
Panellist
Gautam Shah
VP, Strategic Finance, Asia
Sun Life
Panellist
Lee Wen Yee
Principal & Consulting Actuary
Milliman
PM
Panellist
Pranshu Maheshwari
Group Director, Risk Management
Prudential
2:45 PM
Wealth Products under Pressure: Behavior, Hedging and Capital Strain in IUL and Index-Linked Designs Panel
Moderator
Neha Dutt
Managing Director, Product and Strategy for Greater Asia
Milliman
Panellist
Ouling Lu
Chief Product Propositions Officer
HSBC Life
Panellist
Ben Root
Chief Financial Officer, High Net Worth
Sun Life
Panellist
Sebastien Voon
Head of Structured Solutions
Munich Re
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Black Box to Boardroom: Governing Actuarial Models Under Real-World Pressure
Anjali Kuperan
Group Head of Actuarial and Financial Risk, Internal Audit
AIA
4:30 PM
Critical Illness: Designing Protection that Lasts Panel
KW
Moderator
Kitty Wang
Munich Re
Panellist
Dr Heather Lund
Vice President and Regional Chief Medical Officer, Asia
RGA
Panellist
Samuel Lim
Head of CI Analytics
Gen Re
ER
Panellist
Etienne Rossouw
Chief Pricing Actuary, L&H APAC, Middle East, Africa
Munich Re
EQ
Panellist
Elena Quek
Group Head of Product and Proposition
Great Eastern
5:00 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 2 | General Insurance
2:00 PM
Resilient City Development: Risk Prevention and Financial Empowerment
Prof. Shaun S. Wang
Member of the Board of Directors
Casualty Actuarial Society
2:30 PM
CEO Panel Discussion Panel
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
EV Insurance: Navigating Without a Clear End State
Ken Lim
Senior Consultant
Milliman Advisors Sdn Bhd
4:30 PM
Past Patterns, Future Resilience: A Data-Driven Framework for NatCat Exposure Management
Dennis Tay
Principal, P&C Actuarial Consulting
Oliver Wyman
5:00 PM
Redefining Agricultural Risk at Scale: Actuarial Lessons from India's PMFBY
Aishwarya Agarwal
Non-Life Actuarial Analyst
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 3 | Health Insurance
2:00 PM
Breaking the Health Model: Fault Lines Across Asia's Health Systems Panel
JW
Moderator
Jiralda Wee
Singlife
SK
Panellist
Dr Sidharth Kachroo
Chief Health Officer
Prudential
Panellist
Vivian Wei
Head of Life Reinsurance, SEA Market
China Reinsurance (Group) Corporation
Panellist
Piet Maree
Co-Founder
Insight Actuarial Solutions
2:45 PM
Prevention: Can It Really Bend the Cost Curve in the Outpatient Setting?
Shreya Rakesh
Senior Vice President
Marsh
Amir Kamal
Actuarial Function Officer, Reinsurance
Ageas
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Evolving Provider Networks: From Cost Control to Value-Based Healthcare
Pang Hsiang Chye
Principal and Consulting Actuary
Milliman
Cheng Xin
Consulting Actuary
Milliman
4:00 PM
Medical Concierge
JL
Jayme Leong
General Manager of Care Experience and the Data Intelligence Hub
Doctor Anywhere
4:45 PM
Risk Adjustment Without Illusion: Can We Truly Price for Fairness?
Prof Francesco Paolucci
Professor of Economics and Associate Dean International
University of Newcastle & University of Bologna
Ankit Nanda
Manager, Actuarial Advisory Services
Optum India
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 4 | DA & Tech
2:00 PM
Survey Findings on AI Adoption in Actuarial Work, and Demos on Augmenting Actuarial Work with AI
Bob Charles
Head of Actuarial
Coherent
Chelsea Zhao
Senior Actuarial Manager
Coherent
Grace Li
Director
Ernst & Young (Singapore)
2:45 PM
Can an AI Agent Conduct an Experience Study? Redefining the Actuary's Role Through Harness Engineering
Hyun Su Kim
Senior Actuarial Consultant
Munich Re
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Uplift Governance and Controls around Financial and Regulatory Close Processes
Alex Aeberli
Associate Partner
Ernst & Young (Singapore)
Chee Heng Luen
Partner
Ernst & Young Solutions LLP
4:45 PM
Power Automate for Actuaries: From Manual Processes to Automated Workflows
Tan Wei Chyin
Head of Innovation & Analytics, Actuarial
Income Insurance Ltd
5:30 PM
Cutting Through the Buzz: The Real Economics of AI in Insurance Distribution
Na Jia
Chief Executive Officer
ReMark Solutions Asia
6:15 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 5 | Retirement
2:00 PM
Actuarial Hiring Trends in APAC
Hamza Mush
Managing Director, Insurance
Ethos BeathChapman
2:45 PM
Super-Aged Society Panel
Moderator
Marcus Kok
PwC
Panellist
Chris Tan
Founder & CEO
Providend Pte Ltd
Panellist
Helen Shen
Group Head of Products
SingLife
Panellist
Assoc Prof Jeremy Lim
CEO
Amili
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Aging with Assurance: Understanding Elderly Insurance Needs in the Asia Pacific
4:30 PM
Post-Retirement 2.0: Beating the Longevity and Care Odds — “Redefining Post-Retirement Solutions for Asian Insurers”
George Leung
Director and Consulting Actuary
Milliman
Neha Deva Dutt
Managing Director, Product and Strategy for Greater Asia
Milliman
5:00 PM
Optimized Decumulation Strategy
Laurent Caudamine
Senior Portfolio Manager
Amundi
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Morning Plenary Sessions
8:40 AM
SAS Presidential Address Ceremony
Alex Lee
President
Singapore Actuarial Society
9:00 AM
Asian Macroeconomic Outlook: Cyclical Shocks and Emerging Trends Plenary
Prof Jamus Lim
Associate Professor
ESSEC Business School
9:45 AM
Scaling AI in Insurance: Turning Innovation into Enterprise Value Plenary
NJ
Namrata Jolly
Managing Director & Head of Asia Financial Services
Microsoft
10:30 AM
Tea Break
11:00 AM
AI Adoption in Insurance: From Experimentation to Enterprise Scale Plenary
YY
Panellist
Dr Yuhui Yao
Group Chief Data Officer
FWD
CW
Panellist
Chen Wei
Head, Group Data & AI Centre of Excellence
Great Eastern
GW
Panellist
Guan Wang
Principal Data Scientist, Asia Regional AI
Manulife
EG
Panellist
Eugene Goh
Deputy Director of Financial Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence
Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
CS
Moderator
Choo Oi San
APAC ICT Regional Sales & Practice Leader
WTW
12:15 PM
International Congress of Actuaries 2026 Ceremony
12:30 PM
Lunch
Breakout 1 | AI
2:00 PM
AI Implementation Experiences: Challenges, Insights and Success Stories Panel
Moderator
Grace Li
Director
Ernst & Young Singapore
Panellist
Rajnish Pal
Senior Vice President and Head of Transformation
MSIG Asia
Panellist
Lim Shie Meng
Chief Technical Officer
Allianz Insurance Singapore
Panellist
Lauren Liang
Global Head of Contracts for Life & Health (L&H)
Swiss Re
2:45 PM
The Amplified Actuary
Jared Spowart
Actuarial AI Lead
Zurich Australia
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
A Bayesian Hybrid Pricing Framework for Autonomous Private Hire Vehicle Fleets: Integrating ADAS Proxies with Dynamic Disengagement Rates
Ivy Liang Xuan
Regional Business Actuary
Grab
Daniel Tham
Head of Commercial, Actuarial and Strategy
GrabInsure
4:45 PM
Advancing Aging Societies and Insurance Claims with AI Innovation At Scale
Matthew Chen
CEO
OneConnect Financial Technology (International)
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 2 | Life Insurance
2:00 PM
The New Capital Playbook: Innovations in Investing, AIR, Sidecars and Strategic Partnerships Panel
IB
Moderator
Ivo Bloodworth
Head of Solutions, Hong Kong & Singapore
RGA Singapore Branch
VL
Panellist
Vincent Lien
SVP Corporate Development
RGA APAC
Panellist
Helbert Tsang
Capital Solutions Leader, APAC Life & Health Reinsurance
Aon
Panellist
Takahiro Kobayashi
Senior Actuary
Dai-ichi Life
3:00 PM
Trend Risk and Post-Pandemic Mortality across the Asia-Pacific Region
Derek Ryan
Head of International Markets Business Development
Canada Life Re
NQ
Niall Quinn
Senior Longevity Risk Solutions Actuary
Canada Life Reinsurance
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Managing Guarantees through the Cycle — ALM Strategies for Volatile Rates and Markets Panel
YS
Moderator
Yan Sun
Head of Life and Health, Greater China
RC
Panellist
Richard Chan
Chief Investment Officer
Prudential Bermuda
KD
Panellist
Kapil Dalal
Head of South, East Asia Solutions Sales
HSBC
JO
Panellist
Jerome Ogrodzki
Principal
Oliver Wyman
4:45 PM
Beyond Traditional Assets: Private Credit, Liquidity Risk and Capital Trade-offs for Life Insurers
HY
Haining Yin
Managing Director, Global Client Solutions
KKR
Chin Yu Oh
Director, Credit
KKR
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 3 | Health Insurance
2:00 PM
Genetic Testing: Should Insurers Know More Than They Use? Panel
Moderator
Konrad Kuc
Health Actuary and Founder
InHealthSights
IK
Panellist
Ivan Koh
Director (Regulatory Policy and Legislation)
Ministry of Health
HL
Panellist
Dr Hui Lin
Senior Consultant
National University of Singapore
Panellist
Dr Carol Tan
Geriatric Medicine
The Good Life Medical Centre
2:45 PM
Precision Medicine: Should Insurance Pay to Prevent Disease? Panel
Moderator
Tan Wai Yan
Senior Consultant, FSA, FCIA
Marsh
Panellist
Dr Tan Min Han
Founding Chief Executive and Medical Director
Lucence
Panellist
Dr Shivani Sarwal
Senior Director, Underwriting and Claims Risk, Group Risk and Compliance
Prudential Plc.
IT
Panellist
Ivan Tan
APAC Market Access Lead, Oncology (Lung / H&N / CRC)
Johnson & Johnson
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Employee Benefits — Can Insurers Improve Workforce Health? Panel
Moderator
Tan Wai Yan
Senior Consultant, FSA, FCIA
Marsh
Panellist
Lim Wai Mun
CEO & Founder
Doctor Anywhere
RC
Panellist
Richard Cooper
CEO
MERCER Health & Benefits (Singapore)
Panellist
Keerti Sethia
Head, Health Propositions
HSBC Life
4:45 PM
AI in Medical UW
Raymond Cheung
CEO
CER Consultancy
5:05 PM
Cancer Across the Protection Lifecycle: Where CI, Health and LTC Fall Short
AC
Albert Chu
Head Pricing Office, Asia excluding China
Swiss Re
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 4 | ERM
2:00 PM
L&H Emerging Risk Panel Panel
Moderator
Joey Zhou
Associate Professor
Nanyang Technological University
Panellist
Yvonne Tay
Head of South East Asia
SCOR Life and Health
LJ
Panellist
Low Zee Jiun
Head L&H Client Markets SEA
Swiss Re
Panellist
Jimmy Wang
Chief Actuary
Prudential
Panellist
Spenser Chen
Head of SEA, Protection, Asia
Pacific Life Re
2:45 PM
Cyber Insurance Market — Global Reality & Strategic Implications for APAC
Lau Sie Liang
Head of Cyber & Casualty
Samsung Re
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
CRO Panel: Risk and Capital in a Volatile Geopolitical World Panel
Moderator
Thibault Imbert
Principal
Munich Re
Panellist
Adrian Goh
Regional CRO APAC-MEA
Munich Re
Panellist
Allen Juang
Chief Technical Officer
Tokio Marine Asia
Panellist
Tushar Chatterjee
Head L&H Operational RM and CRO, SR Nexus
Swiss Re
4:45 PM
Navigating Emerging Risks and New Growth Frontiers in Asia Pacific
Dr. Bharath Raja
Nat Cat Expert
Munich Re
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 5 | General Insurance
2:00 PM
UW / Portfolio Management Sophistication
Mehul Dave
APAC P&C Leader
WTW
Wong Jing Yean
Senior Director
WTW
2:45 PM
Disaster Risk Modeling and Financing in Asia: Practical Tools and Cross-Country Insights
Dr Xiao Xu
Research Manager
Society of Actuaries
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Climate Risk and Insurance Affordability
Scott Reeves
President
Actuaries Institute, Australia
EG
Elayne Grace
CEO
Actuaries Institute Australia
4:30 PM
Professionalism in a Dynamic Environment: The Challenge of AI
Barry Franklin
President
Casualty Actuarial Society
5:00 PM
From Checklists to Conversations: Agentic AI in Actuarial Work
Daniel Tham
Head of Commercial, Actuarial and Strategy
GrabInsure
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Morning Plenary Sessions
8:45 AM
Opening Address Ceremony
Bozenna Hinton
Past President, FIAA, GAICD
International Actuaries Association
9:00 AM
Redefining the Future Actuary — Professionalism, Upskilling and Adaptability in a Changing Risk Landscape Panel
Moderator
Wil Chong
Singapore Actuarial Society
Panellist
Bozenna Hinton
Past President, FIAA, GAICD
International Actuaries Association
Panellist
Dave Dillon
President
Society of Actuaries
Panellist
Paul Sweeting
President
Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
Panellist
Scott Reeves
President
Actuaries Institute, Australia
10:00 AM
Tea Break
10:30 AM
Life Insurance is Sold, not Bought Panel
Moderator
Kay Shong
Senior Director, Group Partnership Distribution
Prudential
Panellist
Alvin Fu
Chief Distribution Officer
AIA
Panellist
Lee Yen Ho
Group Chief Business and Operations Officer
FWD
Panellist
Patrick Van Heerde
Chief Partnership Distribution Officer
Prudential
Panellist
Justin Man
Group CEO
APEIRON
11:30 AM
Climate Driven Mortality, Morbidity and Disability in Australia: Implications for Life and Disability Insurance
AL
Andrew Linfoot
Regional Head Individual Life, Asia Pacific
Munich Re
12:00 PM
Closing Ceremony Ceremony
12:30 PM
Lunch
Rest & Relax Activities
2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
Optional Afternoon Activities Activity
- Singapore Heritage Tour
- Gardens by the Bay
- Singapore Oceanarium
- Rainforest Wild Asia
- GRAB Office Visit
- Leisure / Own Arrangements
This programme is indicative and may be subject to change. Please check back for the latest updates.