The 10th Edition (Virtual) General Insurance and Takaful Actuarial Seminar (GITAS) 2021 “Actuary Re-Modeled”
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The 10th Edition (Virtual) General Insurance and Takaful Actuarial Seminar (GITAS) 2021 “Actuary Re-Modeled”

By July 26, 2021 August 19th, 2021 No Comments

Start Date: 17/08/2021 @ 9.00 a.m.
End Date: 18/08/2021 @ 12.30 p.m.
Venue: Microsoft Teams Webinar
CPD Hours: 9.0
Member Charge: RM 0
Non-Member Charge: –
Max No. Attendees: –
Invitation Type: Members Only
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Sign Up Start Date: 23/07/2021
Sign Up End Date: 15/08/2021
Write-Up File Download: GITAS 2021 Brochure
Presentation Slides: Not available.
Synopsis: As technology accelerates into the future, the insurance industry is rapidly moving into a more data driven landscape. Insurance providers with the best computing advantage and data analytics capabilities would have the best leverage in meeting the needs of consumers.

Technological advancements are redefining jobs, the role of the actuary included. The actuary of the future is expected to do more than mere traditional actuarial reserving and pricing roles – possessing the sophistication to analyse and interpret the wealth of available enterprise data into meaningful and actionable solutions for the organization.

As such, topics throughout this webinar seeks to provide insights from practitioners across borders in re-modeling the actuary into higher-value and strategic roles by technological leverage and business finesse.

Featured Speakers

Jessica Leong

Lead Data Scientist, Zurich North America

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Geoffrey Werner

Managing Member, Werner Advisory LLC

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Vandana Toshniwal

Actuarial Consulting Manager, Deloitte Consulting SEA

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Kuek Yeong Chian

Actuarial Consulting Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting SEA

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Loh Sheng Chieh

Actuarial Consulting Manager, Deloitte Consulting SEA

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Thomas Lallement

Manager, IA, Expert ERM/CERA, addactis®

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Bryan Gautier

Consultant, IA, addactis®

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Thomas Bastard

Manager, IA, addactis®

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Geoffrey Bard

Consultant, IA, addactis®

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Brent Rossman

Leadership Development Coach, Technically Leading

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Anthony Atkins

Associate Partner, Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd.

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Harun Kannan Rajagopal

Partner, Financial Services, Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd.

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  • Jessica Leong

    The President of the Casualty Actuarial Society

    Lead Data Scientist, Zurich North America

    Jessica Leong is the Lead Data Scientist at Zurich North America. In this role she leads the data scientist at Zurich to solve business challenges across underwriting claims, and for the customer. Prior to Zurich Jessica was the Lead Casualty Specialty Actuary at Guy Carpenter, and a consultant at Milliman and Willis Towers Watson in London.

    Jessica was born in Kuala Lumpur. Jessica is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society and a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia. She currently is the President of the Casualty Actuarial Society.

  • Geoffrey Werner

    Managing Member, Werner Advisory LLC

    Geoff Werner, a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society, has been an actuary for over 30 years and is currently the Managing Member of Werner Advisory LLC. Prior to that, Geoff worked for two top-10 insurers, two well-known global consulting firms and the leading telematics service provider in the world. Geoff is a recognized expert in insurance pricing as evidenced by being co-author of the text used by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) to teach ratemaking to all actuarial candidates. Geoff is a member of the CAS Board of Directors.

  • Vandana Toshniwal

    Actuarial Consulting Manager, Deloitte Consulting SEA

    Vandana has over 10 years of actuarial experience and in her current role with Deloitte she has been helping clients with the required technical decision-making on IFRS 17 and understanding the corresponding financial impact. Her experience includes consulting insurers in the general insurance market of SEA, helping them with reserving, solvency projection and business planning.

  • Kuek Yeong Chian

    Actuarial Consulting Senior Manager, Deloitte Consulting SEA

    Kuek has a variety of working experience in Life and Non-Life insurance in both conventional and takaful industry across Malaysia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China. He has involved in many actuarial technical projects, risk and capital management, and company business strategic initiatives, including operational and distribution transformation activities.

  • Loh Sheng Chieh

    Actuarial Consulting Manager, Deloitte Consulting SEA

    Sheng Chieh has over 12 years of actuarial and risk management experiences in the non-life insurance for conventional and takaful industry in South East Asia. Her experience includes IFRS 17 implementation, reserving, predictive modelling, risk and capital management, and reinsurance optimization.

  • Thomas Lallement

    Manager, IA, Expert ERM/CERA, addactis®

    A manager at addactis® France, Thomas is a Fellow actuary of the French Institut des Actuaires (IA) and an Expert ERM/CERA. He helps addactis® clients around the world on non-life reserving, solvency modelling and IFRS17 topics. As an expert on this subject, he leads our R&D on innovative reserving methodologies.

  • Bryan Gautier

    Consultant, IA, addactis®

    A manager at addactis® France, Thomas is a Fellow actuary of the French Institut des Actuaires (IA) and an Expert ERM/CERA. He helps addactis® clients around the world on non-life reserving, solvency modelling and IFRS17 topics. As an expert on this subject, he leads our R&D on innovative reserving methodologies.

  • Thomas Bastard

    Manager, IA, addactis®

    A manager at addactis® France and a Fellow actuary of the French Institut des Actuaires (IA), Thomas chose Cyber risk modelling as his actuarial thesis topic. He studied several public Cyber incident databases and the modelling of the cost of losing personal records. He also developed other expertise areas such as reserving, reinsurance, and Solvency II (European directive).

  • Geoffrey Bard

    Consultant, IA, addactis®

    A consultant at addactis® France, Geoffrey started his career working in innovative data science and IT projects. He is also a modeller studying the spread of ransomware and insurance applications for his actuarial thesis.

  • Brent Rossman

    Leadership Development Coach, Technically Leading

    Brent Rossman has over 15 years’ experience as an actuary in the insurance industry. At the same time, he has spent the last few years pursuing his passion for leadership development by becoming a certified executive coach. Brent is also a certified Genos International Practitioner. Genos is a global leader in Emotional Intelligence assessments and programs. Brent is passionate about helping professionals with technical backgrounds develop the personal skills that allow them to become even better leaders and increase their impact. Brent has helped professionals navigate the transition to new roles/careers, assisted leaders in improving their connection with team members, and develop emotional intelligence to help bridge the gap to their next career goal. More information about Brent and his company, Technically Leading, can be found at TechnicallyLeading.com.

  • Anthony Atkins

    Associate Partner, Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd.

    Tony joined EY in the UK in 2010 and has 15 years of actuarial experience. He is now based in Singapore and leads the non-life actuarial team across the South East region overseeing our non-life actuarial engagements across the South East Asia region including but not limited to Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia and Thailand.

    His team assist both non-life (re)insurers and regulators in understanding risk and optimising approaches to meet the rapidly changing regulations and market best practices within the region. Tony has assisted companies with IFRS17, mergers and acquisitions, business planning, liability valuation, enterprise risk management, pricing and capital modelling. He is also the Certifying Actuary for a number of (re)insurers in Singapore and Labuan.

    Tony holds a Mathematics and Astronomy Masters Degree from University College London in the UK and is a Fellow of both the Institute of Actuaries and the Singapore Actuarial Society.

  • Harun Kannan Rajagopal

    Partner, Financial Services, Ernst & Young Advisory Pte. Ltd.

    Harun is a partner in the financial services sector within EY. He has over 18 years of experience in the local insurance and takaful sector.

    Currently, he is a member of MASB’s Insurance Working Group and MFRS 17 Task Force. He is also a Project Manager of MASB’s MFRS 17 Task Force for Takaful.

    Harun also playing a leading role as technical advisor of LIAM and MTA for the implementation of MFRS 17.

    Currently, he is a member of the EY Global Insurance Technical Panel, discussing insurance-related matters especially on IFRS 17 arises globally.