PLATINUM SPONSOR
SA3 has established themselves as one of the leading ACTUARIAL RECRUITMENT firms in South Africa. They have built RELATIONSHIPS of TRUST with all the major employers in South Africa and have been the recruiter of choice for many satisfied candidates. They believe their HONEST APPROACH and genuinely wanting to have a positive impact on the lives of others have set them apart from their competitors.
The fact that Wilhelm, Henda and Jurie are qualified actuaries have often helped the process along and have proven to be beneficial to both the candidates and employers. They know the South African market inside out and have many established contacts throughout the industry. Whether you are looking to fill a strategic position or looking for a new challenge, they would love to help. They know that you will find their SERVICE excellent and the whole process to be QUICK, EFFICIENT, and PROFESSIONAL from start to finish.
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Website: www.sa3.co.za
GOLD SPONSOR
Discovery Limited is a South African-founded financial services organisation that operates in the healthcare, life assurance, short-term insurance, banking, savings and investment and wellness markets. Since inception in 1992, Discovery has been guided by a clear core purpose – to make people healthier and to enhance and protect their lives. This has manifested in its globally recognised Vitality Shared-Value insurance model, active in over 40 markets with over 40 million members. The model is exported and scaled through the Global Vitality Network, an alliance of some of the largest insurers across key markets including AIA (Asia), Ping An (China), Sumitomo (Japan), John Hancock (US), Manulife (Canada) and Vitality Life & Health (UK, wholly owned). Discovery trades on the Johannesburg Securities Exchange as DSY.
Website: www.discovery.co.za
GOLD SPONSOR
Sapiens International Corporation (NASDAQ and TASE: SPNS) is a global leader in intelligent insurance SaaS-based software solutions. With Sapiens’ robust platform, customer-driven partnerships, and rich ecosystem, insurers are empowered to future-proof their organizations with operational excellence in a rapidly changing marketplace. Our SaaS-based solutions help insurers harness the power of AI and advanced automation to support core solutions for property and casualty, workers’ compensation, and life insurance, including reinsurance, financial & compliance, data & analytics, digital, and decision management. Sapiens boasts a longtime global presence, serving over 600 customers in more than 30 countries with its innovative SaaS offerings. Recognized by industry experts and selected for the Microsoft Top 100 Partner program, Sapiens is committed to partnering with our customers for their entire transformation journey and is continuously innovating to ensure their success.
Website: www.sapiens.com
GOLD SPONSOR
At WTW (NASDAQ: WTW), we provide data-driven, insight-led solutions in the areas of people, risk and capital. WTW’s Insurance Consulting and Technology business is one of the world’s leading providers of insurance software and consulting services, delivering state-of-the-art solutions in pricing and underwriting, reserving, financial modelling, regulatory reporting and business process excellence.
Our comprehensive suite of innovative insurance software for short term insurers and life insurers has been created from the ground up, by insurance experts, to meet the specific needs of the insurance industry. Our technology has been driving innovation and change in the insurance industry for more than 30 years, remaining at the leading edge through constant investment, research and development.
The result? Today our software is licensed in 83 countries, across 6 continents, by more than 1,000 companies – including 23 of the world’s 25 largest insurance groups, and more than 20 insurers in South Africa.
SILVER SPONSOR
Earnix is the premier provider of mission-critical, cloud-based intelligent solutions across pricing, rating, underwriting, and product personalisation.
These fully integrated solutions provide ultra-fast ROI and are designed to transform how global insurers and banks are run by unlocking value across all facets of the business.
Earnix has been innovating for insurers and banks since 2001, with customers in over 35 countries across six continents and offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia Pacific, and Israel.
Website: www.earnix.com
SILVER SPONSOR
RNA Analytics, recently honoured with InsuranceERM’s ‘IFRS 17 Consultancy of the Year’ Award, stands at the pinnacle of excellence in actuarial and accounting solutions. Acknowledged for its innovation and proven track record in implementing regulatory standards, RNA Analytics delivers unparalleled end-to-end solutions. RNA’s latest enhancements underscore its commitment to adaptability, modernization, scalability, and modularity, ensuring bespoke solutions tailored to each client’s unique requirements.
The latest addition to our portfolio, the RNA Analytics R3S AI Agent, further strengthens our leadership in the market by delivering advanced AI-powered workflow acceleration within actuarial and risk processes. Designed to seamlessly integrate with existing RNA platforms, R3S empowers clients with intelligent automation and increased operational efficiency, supporting regulatory compliance while unlocking deeper business value.
RNA Analytics’ software solutions for financial, risk, and actuarial analysis are designed and delivered to help companies meet their need for more realistic and granular modelling in financial analysis and regulatory compliance.
Headquartered in Reigate, United Kingdom, RNA Analytics has offices across 8 countries, dedicated to working closely with our clients, providing cutting-edge innovation from both the technology and consulting elements, serving a customer base of life, non-life, reinsurance, and pension fund companies in over 44 countries.
Our key focus is on the clients and their requirements, enabling businesses to respond to external regulatory pressures and internal analytical demands.
Website: www.rnaanalytics.com
SILVER SPONSOR
Sanlam is the largest non-banking pan-African financial services group headquartered in South Africa, focused on emerging markets economies, covering 31 countries in Africa, Asia and the UK. The company is present in eight of the top 10 largest economies in Africa. It is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, Namibian Stock Exchange, and the A2X.
Sanlam’s purpose is to empower generations to be financially confident, secure and prosperous. This guides the group’s strategies, operations, and culture and to think for the long term, creating solutions for clients and opportunities for diverse stakeholders today, that will unlock potential and create value across societies for generations. Committed to meaningful social impact and financial inclusion, Sanlam touches over 92 million lives across Africa and Asia.
The group operates through its five business clusters: Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group; the financial services joint venture with Allianz in Africa, the Asia operations, as well as Santam. It is a market leader in life insurance, general insurance, asset and wealth management, wills and trusts administration, healthcare, retail credit and financial planning. With a history spanning over 100 years, Sanlam has a trusted brand and leading industry expertise.
Website: www.sanlam.com
CHESS TOURNAMENT PARTNER
Insight is a unique firm of hand-picked actuaries, clinicians, engineers, developers, and data scientists with a passion for problem-solving. Supported by world-class technology and expertise, we serve a local and international client base from our offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Sydney and Hong Kong.
Our Life Solutions team provides actuarial consulting services to Life Insurers. We offer both advisory services and backfill resourcing, providing a full range of actuarial services from first- and second-line outsourcing and IFRS 17 implementation to model migration and product development. The diversity in professional backgrounds of our team members, from lifelong consultants to former employees of direct writers and reinsurers, enables us to bring a thorough technical and practical understanding to each project.
Our Health and Actuarial Solutions team is the leading provider of independent clinical, actuarial and analytics services in the healthcare market. Our consultants provide support to our clients in over 30 countries on the African continent, Australia and the UK. From large open schemes to small single employer restricted schemes, administrators and healthcare providers, our consultants are accustomed to tailoring their advice to take account of each client’s unique context.
Our Data Solutions team provides end-to-end support across the data lifecycle, from engineering, orchestration and quality assurance to advanced analytics, business intelligence and advisory. We manage more than 500 million data lines each month, ensuring that our clients’ information is secure, compliant and actionable. With a team of actuaries, engineers, data scientists and developers, we bring both technical depth and practical industry knowledge, tailoring solutions that turn data into a trusted foundation for decision-making and growth.
Insight’s consultants thrive on resolving complexities and enjoy building tools to enable action. Our passion for what we do translates into a strong work ethic and commitment to becoming and remaining trusted partners to our clients.
Website: www.insight.co.za
BRONZE SPONSOR
Akur8 is transforming the non-life insurance industry with its innovative suite of pricing and reserving solutions.
Our Next Gen Pricing and Reserving Platform combines cutting-edge technology with actuarial excellence to drive business value, bringing speed, performance, transparency, and reliability to insurers of all sizes.
Akur8 serves 300+ customers across 40+ countries, including AXA, Generali, Munich Re, and in particular Old Mutual, Hollard, King Price, Alpha Insure in South Africa. Over 3,000 actuaries use Akur8 daily to build their pricing models and reserving projections across all lines of business in short term insurance.
Website: www.akur8.com
BRONZE SPONSOR
An expert technical risk ability, combined with capital of the highest rating is a compelling combination for clients, making Gen Re a formidable and courageous partner who once in partnership does not have an exit strategy. We have proved our willingness to take large risks and meet large claims obligations, and to carry on meeting them long into the future. Gen Re’s ability to leverage our international network for complex technical and strategic input in a very short time span is proving significant to our clients in this epoch shifting world.
We are so grateful for the client, partner and stakeholder relationships that have always been at the forefront of Gen Re’s business model – such as the one we enjoy with the Actuarial Society of South Africa.
We know that confidence and trust do not come in a contract – they’re earned by keeping promises again and again. So this year then is about saying thanks to those who have contributed to our success – our people, clients, and partners – and to the communities that support us.
Website: www.genre.com
BRONZE SPONSOR
Since our founding in 2008, MBE Consulting has remained committed to advancing actuarial excellence. More than just consultants, we are a dynamic team of actuaries, problem-solvers and technologists who thrive on delivering meaningful, measurable impact for our clients.
What sets us apart is the way we seamlessly integrate three core capabilities: Process Improvement, Actuarial Expertise and Actuarial Technology. By combining these strengths, we develop tailored solutions that simplify complexity, streamline actuarial operations, and unlock strategic value. The result? A more agile, insightful and high-performing actuarial function.
We specialise in helping insurers modernise the way their actuarial teams operate — and our proven Actuarial Performance Management (APM) Framework lies at the heart of this. Built around six strategic enablers, the APM Framework equips actuarial teams to balance priorities, respond to change and consistently deliver high-quality outcomes.
We’re here to support your organisation in getting the most from its actuarial capability — helping you identify what’s working, where the gaps are and how to move forward. Contact us at info@mbeconsulting.com to schedule a complimentary APM Assessment or to discuss how we can support your modernisation journey with practical, strategic guidance.
Website: www.mbeconsulting.com
BRONZE SPONSOR
Psicle, the award-winning technology platform from Dynamo that sets the standard for process transformation across short-term insurance, life insurance, healthcare and banking.
Passionate about pioneering the future state of modelling, we have extensive international experience transforming technical actuarial and financial processes with Psicle, from providing out-of-the-box templates to the delivery of highly bespoke and flexible solutions by our collaborative advisory team.
Psicle has been implemented across an ever-expanding range of uses cases including Reserving, IFRS 17, Prudential Reporting, Pricing, Capital Modelling, Life Cashflow Modelling, Business Planning and more.
Our global Psicle-led advisory team offers our clients the opportunity to augment their teams with our actuarial and data engineering consultants’ deep subject matter expertise, leveraging Psicle to provide insightful advice.
Visit our website to learn more about our business or to book a Psicle demo.
Website: www.dyna-mo.com
WORKING LOUNGE
Liberty is a subsidiary of The Standard Bank Group and currently the largest provider of long-term insurance solutions to South Africa’s retail affluent market. With a strong and relevant brand of more than 60 years Liberty offers an extensive, market-leading range of products and services to help clients build and protect their wealth and lifestyle. This is enabled by Liberty’s 3,000 strong tied distribution force that expertly equips customers with knowledge to make financial decisions that add value throughout their various life stages. Liberty’s incorporation into Standard Bank provides synergies and advantages not only in South Africa but across the African continent, positioning Liberty as an integral part of a universal financial services organisation focused on delivering exceptional customer experiences and superior value. Liberty’s wholly owned asset manager STANLIB is one of the biggest retail unit trust managers (including money market) in South Africa, with award winning capabilities in property and fixed income, who together with their market-leading offshore partners are able to provide unique investment opportunities for clients.
Website: www.liberty.co.za
WORKING LOUNGE
“Milliman is among the world’s largest providers of actuarial and related products and services. Our team in South Africa provides coverage across sub-Saharan Africa, focusing on Life, Non-life and Microinsurance. We provide actuarial consulting and risk management services to a wide range of insurance and financial services companies. As part of the Milliman group, we combine the expertise of our local office with that of our colleagues across the world to provide truly global consulting solutions for our clients.
Our South African practice supports clients through projects and secondments in financial reporting, capital management, regulatory change and advice, M&A and market entry, risk frameworks and complex risk management, climate and sustainability challenges, process improvement and optimisation, and advanced financial modelling.”
Website: www.milliman.com
BARISTA BAR
Old Mutual employs over 27 000 people in 12 countries across Africa (South Africa, Botswana, Eswatini, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Namibia, Rwanda, South Sudan, Uganda and Zimbabwe) and Asia (China). In South Africa we have over 580 locations and ATMs, making us accessible to customers across the country.
Established in Cape Town in 1845 as South Africa’s first mutual life assurance society, we provide a variety of products and services to our customers. We respond to our customers’ needs by evolving and enhancing our long-term savings, protection, investment and lending products.
As a responsible business, enabler of economic activity, custodian of people’s savings and a large employer, we have a significant role to play in our society, and we do so by striving for the following:
– Develop and support diversified and transformed talent
– Grow Black ownership of our business
– Support previously disadvantaged communities.
Website: www.oldmutual.co.za
BARISTA BAR
RGA is the only dedicated life reinsurer in the South African market and supports all lines of individual and group life reinsurance, as well as a range of financial solutions.
Founded in 1973, Reinsurance Group of America, Incorporated is today one of the world’s largest and most respected reinsurers and remains guided by a powerful purpose: to make financial protection accessible to all. As a global capabilities and solutions leader, RGA empowers partners through bold innovation, relentless execution, and dedicated client focus — all directed toward creating sustainable long-term value. RGA entered the South African life reinsurance market in 1997 and today is a full-services reinsurer that can meet a wide range of life and health needs. Operating out of Johannesburg and Cape Town, more than 130 full-time employees in South Africa provide support across the entire business lifecycle.
Our reputation for quality service and client support is reflected in our industry recognition. In 2024, ceding companies ranked RGA #1 on NMG Consulting’s All Respondent Business Capability Index in South Africa for the 15th consecutive year. We have treaties in place with all the major life insurance companies in South Africa and have partnered with many start-ups and Insurtech players.
Website: www.rgare.com
BARISTA BAR
“The Swiss Re Group is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. Founded in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1863, Swiss Re serves its clients through a network of around 70 offices globally. This year, Swiss Re celebrates 75 years of presence in Africa and of unwavering commitment to the African continent, providing life and health and property and casualty reinsurance through its offices in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Swiss Re Africa combines local and international expertise, blending in-depth market-specific knowledge with a global perspective. “
Website: www.swissre.com
HYDRATION STATION
Hannover Re South Africa is a leading, forward-thinking, professional reinsurer, with the financial security that comes from being an integral part of the international Hannover Re Group. Our local office is based in Johannesburg, from where we provide services to our African clients on both Property & Casualty and Life & Health insurances.
We take pride in our ability to tap into ideas and resources from our global network to add further value to our service proposition. Our business approach is to partner with clients by contributing complementary skills and resources, cooperating in the process of creating value and sharing in the benefits of the value created.
Our aim is to support the shaping of future markets and we achieve this through our flexible and innovative approach. Adapting successful strategies and propositions to the evolving risk market, we can help our clients succeed in the future.
Website: www.hannover-re.com
