Call for Abstracts Details

Call for Abstracts Now Open

The actuarial profession is coming together again 2 – 4 May 2022 at the 2022 All-Actuaries Summit. 

We’ve designed the 2022 All-Actuaries Summit as a festival of reconnection – there will be more relaxed meals, longer breaks, welcome drinks and a Gala Dinner – all designed to make connecting with your peers and friends easier than even before.
 

Become part of the conversation

We know conversations among actuaries are even more stimulating when the agenda is packed full of big, daring, powerful ideas about the future of the profession, the future of our economy and how we’re going to help restart Australia.

That’s where you come in.
 

We need your best ideas – we need your best presentations and papers

If you’ve got big bold ideas and want to present them, this is your chance. Submission of abstracts for Summit presentations and papers, open today. The deadline for submitting your abstract online is Friday 3 December 2021.

There’s lot’s more detail about the process below, including guidelines for submitting your abstract and suggested topics by the Curators to get you thinking. What’s most important to remember is that we’re looking for sessions that advance the knowledge, skills and thinking within the profession and beyond – and do it by encouraging cross-practice relationships, discussion and debate. The Curators will be looking for abstracts that span practices and promote interaction and engagement.
 

Bring us back together

There’s already real excitement about the 2022 Summit and what it will mean to have Australia’s actuaries back in one place, sharing experiences and ideas and plotting the shape of the future. Your deepest thinking on the issues, opportunities and ideas that will shape the next few years will ensure the 2022 Summit is remembered for the joy of reconnecting and the thrill of new thinking.

We look forward to seeing your abstracts.

Regards,
Naomi Edwards,
Convenor of the Organising Committee,
All-Actuaries Summit 2022

Submit your abtracts online by Friday 3 December 2021, for the Organising Committee to review.

Submit your Abstract

How to submit your abstract

Before submitting you will need to create an account

• Click the ‘Submit your Abstract’ button above to go to the Call for Abstracts portal
• Once on the Call for Abstracts portal, click the 'Submit Abstract’ button or click Log in (top right hand corner)
• Click 'Need to create an account'
• Fill in your name, email and password.
  • If you are submitting an abstract on behalf of the presenter, please log in and submit using their name. If you’d like to be cc’d in their emails, please notify the Events Team.
• You can use these log in details to come back to your submission at a later date or to submit multiple abstracts

Once you have created your account, click 'Submit Abstract'

• Complete the 3 step submission process
• You will receive a confirmation email once you have completed your submission
• To make another submission click the 'Home' button in the top right hand corner
• To view all your submissions or to make edits click the 'My Submissions' button in the top right hand corner

Guidelines

• We recommend submitting a synopsis of 3 – 4 paragraphs with a brief title.
• Please remember that the Committee will look at the topic and quality of synopsis when determining whether you are accepted into the program.
• Due to the capacity of the program, we regret that not all synopses will be accepted.
• Late submissions will not be accepted.
• To submit a synopsis please follow the link below.
• You will need to create an account; you can use this account to submit multiple synopses or to review your submission.
• We recommend submitting as a PDF or Word document and saving a copy.

The Committee encourage submissions which:

• Encourage cross-practice relationships.
• Are designed to engage the profession through interaction – such as discussion, workshops, etc.
• Concurrent sessions will be allocated 45 minutes’ total, including Q&A. Concurrent presenters will not receive a complimentary registration to the Summit, but do not need to register to present.

Suggested Topics

The Summit Curators have suggested topics below, to get you thinking. Of course all ideas will be considered.

Data Analytics

• Using Natural Language Processing and Augmented Analytics for automation of actionable insights around management questions;
  
  • e.g. how to present the most profitable customer segments or greatest growth opportunities – from the very specific to the more general;
  • Adequately addressing explainability and interpretability of the insights produced;
  • Consideration of context and environment in an ever-changing world of paradigm shift;
  • What are the inherent limitations and risks here?; and 
  • Noteworthy considerations around professionalism and ethics.

• Continuous, real-time intelligence and anomaly detection;
  • With 5G coming online, greater prevalence of IoT, a faster and more interconnected world is evolving;
  • Demand for more outcome-focussed, automated and real-time analytics will only increase;
  • Non-structured data such as video & audio processing will become an increasingly important feature of real-time streaming; and
  • What are the various applications in risk management and optimisation across various industries.

• Decision Intelligence and Automated Decision Systems;
  • Data Analytics Practice Committee recently issued an Information Note on Automated Decision-Making Systems covering many aspects and considerations in building and implementing these systems, including fairness, accountability and transparency amongst others; and
  • Whilst some examples of failures in this space are well known (e.g. Robo-Debt, Google’s 2015 image recognition), we invite the presentation of case studies for successful practical solved business problems.

Health

• Health impacts from COVID-19;
• What is good healthcare?;
• Private health insurance;
• Mental Health;
• Planning for resilience;
• Health Practice Committee Updates;
• The Future of Health; and
• Advancing sustainable solutions.

Superannuation

• Member outcomes;
• Reserving within superannuation;
• Implications of potential changes to the default superannuation system;
• Insurance in super;
• Retirement products;
• Benefit adequacy; or
• Actuarial involvement in the management of superannuation funds.

With a preference for a focus on client outcomes, and/or reference to international best practice, we are seeking papers in the area of Wealth/ Investment around;