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 3, Cassia Ballroom
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 and Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Board Member of the Monetary Authority of Singapore
10:00 AM
MAS: Regulatory Update Plenary
Lee Wai Yi
Director & Head of Supervisory Analytics Division
Insurance Department, Monetary Authority of Singapore
10:30 AM
Tea Break
10:50 AM
Panel Discussion: Growth Against The Odds — Winning in Uncertainty Panel
Panellist
Anusha Thavarajah
Regional Chief Executive Officer
Allianz Asia Pacific
12:00 PM
Predictive Resilience: Leveraging Hyperscale Data and Contextual AI to Redefine Complex Risk Landscapes Plenary
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
2:45 PM
Wealth Products under Pressure: Behavior, Hedging and Capital Strain in IUL and Index-Linked Designs Panel
Moderator
Moderator Neha Dutt
Managing Director, Product and Strategy for Greater Asia
Milliman
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Black Box to Boardroom: Governing Actuarial Models Under Real-World Pressure
4:30 PM
Critical Illness: Designing Protection that Lasts Panel
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
2:30 PM
CEO Panel Discussion Panel
Panellist
Nicolas Faquet
Founder
Roojai
Panellist
Hiten KOTHARI
Senior Actuarial Director
WTW
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
EV Insurance: Navigating Without a Clear End State
4:45 PM
Past Patterns, Future Resilience: A Data-Driven Framework for NatCat Exposure Management
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
Moderator
Jiralda Wee
Health Actuary
Singlife
2:45 PM
Prevention: Can It Really Bend the Cost Curve in the Outpatient Setting?
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Evolving Provider Networks: From Cost Control to Value-Based Healthcare
4:25 PM
Medical Concierge
4:45 PM
Risk Adjustment Without Illusion: Can We Truly Price for Fairness?
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
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
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Uplift Governance and Controls around Financial and Regulatory Close Processes
Kar Hoe Au
Director
EY Business Consulting, Finance
4:45 PM
Power Automate for Actuaries: From Manual Processes to Automated Workflows
5:30 PM
Cutting Through the Buzz: The Real Economics of AI in Insurance Distribution
6:15 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 5 | Retirement
2:00 PM
APAC Actuarial Hiring Trends
2:45 PM
Super-Aged Society Panel
Moderator
Marcus Kok
Principal Pension Consultant
PwC
Panellist
Assoc Prof Jeremy Lim
CEO
Amili
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
How medical breakthrough affects dementia staging and insurance product design
Hengchang Pan
Chief Underwriting Officer, Life & Health APAC
PartnerRe
4:30 PM
Post-Retirement 2.0: Beating the Longevity and Care Odds — “Redefining Post-Retirement Solutions for Asian Insurers”
5:00 PM
Optimized Decumulation Strategy
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
9:45 AM
Scaling AI in Insurance: Turning Innovation into Enterprise Value Plenary
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
Panellist
Dr Yuhui Yao
Group Chief Data Officer
FWD
Panellist
Chen Wei
Head, Group Data & AI Centre of Excellence
Great Eastern
Panellist
Eugene Goh
Deputy Director of Financial Infrastructure and Artificial Intelligence
Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS)
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
2:45 PM
The Amplified Actuary
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
4:45 PM
Top Tier Players Various Approaches on AI Agent Application in L&H (China markets and beyond)
Hannah Ping Zhu
Overseas L&H InsurTech VP
Ping An OneConnect
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
Moderator
Ivo Bloodworth
Head of Solutions, Hong Kong & Singapore
RGA Singapore Branch
Panellist
Vincent Lien
SVP Corporate Development
RGA APAC
3:00 PM
Trend Risk and Post-Pandemic Mortality across the Asia-Pacific Region
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
Moderator
Yan Sun
Head of Life and Health, Greater China
Hannover Re
4:45 PM
Beyond Traditional Assets: Private Credit, Liquidity Risk and Capital Trade-offs for Life Insurers
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
Panellist
Dr Chin Hui Lin
Senior Consultant
National University of Singapore
2:45 PM
Precision Medicine: Balancing Innovation, Value and Access in Asia Panel
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Panel Discussion: Employee Benefits — Building a Healthier Workforce Sustainably Panel
Panellist
Keerti Sethia
Head, Health Propositions
HSBC Life
4:45 PM
AI in Medical UW
5:05 PM
Cancer Across the Protection Lifecycle: Where CI, Health and LTC Fall Short
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Breakout 4 | ERM
1:40 PM
Safe Data Shield — The First Insurance Product for Modern Dating Risks
Tanush Garg
Student
Winners of GAIP NTU Innovation Challenge
Anya Malik
Student
Winners of GAIP NTU Innovation Challenge
Alicia Lim
Student
Winners of GAIP NTU Innovation Challenge
2:00 PM
Not in the Basis Yet: Life & Health Risks Moving Faster Than Our Models Panel
2:45 PM
Navigating Emerging Risks and New Growth Frontiers in Asia Pacific
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
4:45 PM
Cyber Insurance Market — Global Reality & Strategic Implications for APAC
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
2:45 PM
Disaster Risk Modeling and Financing in Asia: Practical Tools and Cross-Country Insights
3:30 PM
Tea Break
4:00 PM
Climate Risk and Insurance Affordability
4:30 PM
Professionalism in a Dynamic Environment: The Challenge of AI
5:00 PM
From Checklists to Conversations: Agentic AI in Actuarial Work
5:30 PM
End
End of scientific programme for the day. Free and easy evening.
Gala Dinner | Roselle Ballroom, Level 4
5:30 PM
Arrival of Guests
Registration opens. Instant-print photo booth and roving caricaturists on hand while you settle in.
6:30 PM
Official Event Opening Ceremony
Welcome address, followed by service of the first and second courses.
7:30 PM
Speeches & Book Launch Ceremony
Founder speeches, the official book launch and a group photo.
7:45 PM
Main Course Served
8:10 PM
Countries Show
Japan Cultural Dance.
8:20 PM
Special Performance by Host
8:30 PM
Emcee Game
Table wefie and Guess the Tune — get your table ready.
8:50 PM
Toasting
Thank-you speech, mass dance and the lucky draw.
9:15 PM
Dessert Served
Morning Plenary Sessions
8:45 AM
Opening Address Ceremony
9:00 AM
Redefining the Future Actuary — Professionalism, Upskilling and Adaptability in a Changing Risk Landscape Panel
10:00 AM
Tea Break
10:30 AM
Winning Together: Creating value for Customers, Insurers and Distributors Panel
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
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.