For the last five years, in March and October, I have found myself standing in the conference room of a Stellenbosch wine farm or a Sandton hotel, looking out at 20 to 24 bright, young and expectant faces. I say expectant, but perhaps many of them are thinking “Really! Two days on Professionalism”. You see, the Actuarial Society of South Africa—that is you—have placed into these hands, and the six hands of my co-coordinators, and the ten hands of our guest presenters, the responsibility of turning these individuals into professionals.