The program will include industry-relevant topics and updates, thought-provoking presentations as well as interactive sessions in the form of workshops, which proved quite popular at the previous Convention.

A diverse range of topics will be presented by experts from the Actuarial industry as well as wider fields, covering not only what is relevant in South Africa currently, but also stretching out to the rest of the globe. The topics were carefully selected with an aim to inspire, educate and entertain the mind while addressing practical problems faced by actuaries and potential solutions to these problems. To highlight but a few:

— Driverless cars: how they work and how they will be priced

— Augmented Reality Insurance: view of a working prototype

— Slaying the dragon: improving individual and company returns on investment in actuarial education

— The Life Esidimeni arbitration and the actuarial quantification of constitutional damages

— Default regulation and investment strategies in retirement

— AI in actuarial science, leadership in the era of InsureTech

— IFRS 17 and SAM implementation learnings

— A formulation of ecological value added

 

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Wednesday, 24 Oct 2018
08:00 AM 09:00 AM Registration and refreshments | Exhibition Halls 1 and 2
09:00 AM 10:00 AM OPENING PLENARY | Auditorium 1

Alain Peddle, Deputy CEO, Ping An Health
10:00 AM 10:10 AM Transfer time
10:10 AM 11:25 AM Concurrent sessions

Auditorium 1

Data Analytics

 Ballroom East

Life Assurance

 Ballroom West
Healthcare		 Meeting Room 1.4
Retirement Matters		 Meeting Room 1.6
Banking
The bots are here! Analytics and automation in life insurance pricing
Louis Rossouw
AND
Augmented reality insurance
Adriaan Rowan, Alex ConwayChair – Anton Gerber
Sponsors – Anton Gerber, Matt Zylstra		 IFRS 17: Getting to grips with profit and revenue
Jacques Kritzinger, Christiaan Nel, Carolyn Clarke, Emce van Zyl
AND
Reinsurance in the IFRS 17 operating environment
Michael Meerkotter, Theuns BothaChair – Sinenhlahla Nzama
Sponsors – Jason Cooper-Williams, Deon Booysen		 How much is enough: Bringing actuarial modelling to bear on medical specialist planning in a changing world
Shivani Ranchod, Dave StrugnellChair – Thandi McizanaSponsor – Barry Childs		 In fund living annuities: Issues to consider when retirement funds implement in fund annuity strategies and the experience and learnings to date
David Gluckman, Danie van ZylChair – Malusi NdlovuSponsor – Grant Base		 Cloud-based managed services in banking and an IFRS 9 case study
Matthew WalkerChair and Sponsor – Motlatsi Mutlanyane
Workshops

Exhibition Hall
Short-term Insurance		 Meeting Room 2.4
Transformation
FULLY BOOKED

Open source geocoding tools and datasets
Clive Hogarth
Sponsor – Carolyn Thompson

 Diversity and inclusion workshop: Rank, power and privilege
Nene Molefi
11:25 AM 12:40 PM Lunch and exhibition | Exhibition Hall
12:40 PM 01:40 PM Concurrent sessions

Auditorium 1

All

 Ballroom East

Life Assurance

 Ballroom West

Education

 Meeting Room 1.4
Investments		 Meeting Room 1.6
Short-term Insurance
Entrepreneurial session
Schalk Malan (CEO of BrightRock), Shivani Ranchod (CEO of Percept), Mbulelo Mpofana (co-founder of InvestSure)
Chair – Marcé Marx		 EV is dead, long live EV? Gert van den Berg, Riaan van Reenen, Musa Malwandla

Chair: Peter Tripe

Sponsor – Peter Withey

 Slaying the dragon: improving company and individual returns on investments in actuarial education
Mike McDougall ℗
Chair: Roseanne Harris		 A formulation of ecological value added
Rob Thomson
Chair and Sponsor – Louis an As		 Growing insurance and challenges in emerging markets
Jaco van der Merwe, Jean Gerin
Chair – Hantie van Heerden
Workshops

Exhibition Hall
Retirement Matters		 Meeting Room 2.4
Transformation
FULLY BOOKED

A projection of the SA government’s social security obligations: 2017-2037
Natalie van Zyl, William Melville, Dewald Muller
Chair and
Sponsor – Stephen Walker

 Diversity and inclusion workshop: Managing gender dynamics 
Nene Molefi
01:40 PM 02:15 PM Refreshment break and exhibition | Exhibition Hall
02:15 PM 03:15 PM Concurrent sessions

Auditorium 1

Life Assurance

 Ballroom East

All

 Ballroom West

Short-term Insurance

 Meeting Room 1.4
Healthcare		 Meeting Room 1.6
Professional Matters
An investigation of the hierarchy of simplifications for risk margins in the solvency assessment and management framework
Peter Carswell, Ross Farnaby, Nikhara Nirghin ℗
Chair – Fhatuwani NemakhavhaniSponsor – Andy Rayner		 An overview of demography in the business sector in the pursuit of improved national interests
Diego Iturralde		 Machine learning and artificial intelligence: tips and traps for insurance pricing and beyond
Lukas Ehlers, Karl Meissner-Roloff
Chair and
Sponsor – Louis Rossouw		 Testing mean reversion characteristics of doctor efficiency measurement
Matan Abraham
Chair – Matt ZylstraSponsor – Warren Daly		 Is there room for actuaries in public policy?
Lusani Mulaudzi
Chair: Sinethemba MbanaSponsor – Mickey Lowther
Workshops

Meeting Room 2.4

Transformation
Diversity and inclusion workshop: Multi-generational
Nene Molefi
03:15 PM 03:25 PM Transfer time
03:25 PM 04:25 PM CLOSING PLENARY | Auditorium 1

Jeremy Gardiner, Director, Investec
04:25 PM 04:25 PM CLOSE
04:25 PM 06:30 PM At leisure and travel to venue
07:00 PM 11:00 PM Social: Cocktails & Dinner | Shimmy Beach Club
Thursday 25 Oct 2018
08:00 AM 09:00 AM Registration and refreshments | Exhibition Halls 1 and 2
09:00 AM 09:50 AM President’s address | Auditorium 1

Peter Withey, President, Actuarial Society of South Africa
09:50 AM 10:00 AM Transfer time
10:00 AM 11:15 AM Concurrent sessions

Auditorium 1
Life Assurance		 Ballroom East
Short-term Insurance		 Ballroom West
Retirement Matters and Investments		 Meeting Room 1.4
Microinsurance		 Meeting Room 1.6
Damages
The ripple effect of Solvency II: two years in
Colin Dutkiewicz
AND
Capital management for shareholder value
Idelia Hoberg
Chair – Morne de Vos
Sponsors – Nicolette Patchett, Wikus Luus		 Power, incentives, and ignorance: the three horsemen of the insurance apocalypse?
Sumarie Greybe, Alex Thomson
AND
Driverless vehicles: how they work and how they will be priced
Sarvesh Maharaj, Lukas Ehlers
Chair – Karl Meissner-Roloff
Sponsors – Karl Meissner-Roloff, Ronald Richman		 Constructing optimal investment strategies for retirement income by comparing the blending of deferred and immediate annuities with traditional asset classes
John Anderson ℗
AND
What do you want? Managing risks for better outcomes when you retire
Warren Matthysen ℗
Chair – Twané Wessels
Sponsors – Shaun Levitan, Twané Wessels		 Actuaries and microinsurance: professionalsm, financial soundness and value to customers
Janice Angove, William Melville, Seth Eshun
Chair – David KirkSponsor – Stephen Burgess		 The Life Esidimeni arbitration and the actuarial quantification of constitutional damages
Gregory Whittaker ℗
Chair andSponsor – Wim Loots
Workshops

Exhibition Hall
Data Analytics		 Meeting Room 2.4
Transformation
FULLY BOOKED

Machine learning actuaries
Louis Rossouw
Chair – Adriaan Rowan

 Diversity and inclusion workshop: Rank, power and privilege
Nene Molefi
11:15 AM 11:45 AM Refreshment break and exhibition | Exhibition Hall
11:45 AM 12:45 PM Concurrent sessions

Auditorium 1
All		 Ballroom East
Wider Fields		 Ballroom West

ERM

 Meeting Room 1.4
Professional Matters		 Meeting Room 1.6
Short-term Insurance
ASABA Actuaries in Dialogue:  Solutions for Municipality Crisis Minister Zwelini Mkhize, Shivani Ranchod, Themba Gamedze

Chair and Facilitator – Karabo Morule

 Insurtech hype: technology is not threatening your workforce. Poor leadership is
Dimitri Anagnostopoulos
Chair and
Sponsor – Evelyn Olwagen		 Beyond the hype: a risk management framework for insurance firms in the era of grand technological promises
Shasmi Choudree, Ope Bobade
Chair – Sure Mataramvura		 What is fair and who gets to decide?
David Kirk
Chair – Tanya van Niekerk		 Artificial intelligence in Actuarial Science
Ronald Richman ℗
Chair – Catherine Wroblewski
Workshops

Exhibition Hall
Retirement Matters		 Meeting Room 2.4
Transformation
FULLY BOOKED

A projection of the SA government’s social security obligations: 2017-2037
Natalie van Zyl, William Melville, Dewald Muller
Chair – Guy ChennellsSponsor – Stephen Walker

 Diversity and inclusion workshop: Managing gender dynamics
Nene Molefi
12:45 PM 01:45 PM Lunch and exhibition | Exhibition Hall
01:45 PM 02:45 PM Concurrent sessions

Auditorium 1
Life Assurance		 Ballroom East
Data Analytics		 Ballroom West
All		 Meeting Room 1.4
Wider Fields		 Meeting Room 1.6
Investments
How to talk about target capital levels
David Kirk
Chair: Nicolette Patchett		 Practical data science use cases in the 4th Industrial Revolution
Stefan Steffen
Chair and
Sponsor – Ashleigh Theophanides		 FinTech Spotlight featuring Startupbootcamp AfriTech

Chair – Anton Kleingeld

Facilitators – Philip Kiracofe and Zachariah George

 Bitcoin decrypted: what does it mean for financial services?
Imran LorgatSponsor – Michael Jordan		 Mezzanine debt: is this sandwich really a free lunch?
Chris Siriram
Chair and
Sponsor – Darryl Moodley
Workshops

Exhibition Hall
Short-term Insurance		 Meeting Room 2.4
Transformation
FULLY BOOKED

Open source geocoding tools and datasets
Clive HogarthSponsor – Carolyn Thompson

 Diversity and inclusion workshop: Multi-generational
Nene Molefi
02:45 PM 02:55 PM Transfer time
02:55 PM 03:55 PM CLOSING PLENARY | Auditorium 1

Professor Thuli Madonsela,

Chair in Social Justice, Law Faculty, Stellenbosch University
04:00 PM 06:00 PM Social: Linger Longer | Auditorium 1 Foyer