Conference Days

• Day 1 - Wednesday, Mar 18, 2020
• Day 2 - Thursday, March 19, 2020
• Day 3 - Friday, March 20, 2020
• Day 4 - Saturday, March 21, 2020

• Day 1 - Wednesday, March 18, 2020
  8:00 - 12:00 Registration
  13:00 - 15:00 African Mortality (Life & Pensions) Session
  15:00 - 15:15 Coffee Break
  15:15 - 17:00 African Mortality (Life & Pensions) Session Cont.
  19:00 - 22:00 WELCOME RECEPTION – Gold Coast Cocktail Bar
• Day 2 - Thursday, March 19, 2020
  7:00 - 8:45 Registration
  8:45 - 9:45 Welcome & Opening Ceremony

  Neil Tagoe, ASG President
  Mohamed Amrani, IAA African Subcommittee.

  9:45 - 10:00 Sponsors Remark
  10:00 - 11:00 Keynote Addresses & Official Opening

  Tonya Manning, IAA President.
  Justice Ofori, National Insurance Commissioner
  Hayford Attah Krufi, National Pensions Regulatory Authority
  William Ampah, Federal Reserve Board, US.

  11:00 - 11:25 Group Photo & Networking Break
  11:25 - 12:25 The Actuary and Regulatory Reporting in RBC Environment (Plenary)
  12:25 - 13:15 Microinsurance Trends in Africa – The Future Actuary’s Role

  Francis Gota, aYo Ghana.

  13:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
  14:00 - 14:45 Application of Machine Learning in Fraud Detection Models

  Caesar Balona, QED

  14:45 - 15:30 Risk Based Capital & Solvency: A Zimbabwean Experience vs Theory

  Insurance & Pensions Commission, Zimbabwe.

  15:30 - 15:45 NETWORKING BREAK
  15:45 - 16:30 IFRS17 in Africa

  Maximilian Popescu
  

  16:30 - 17:00 Award Nominees Presentation Briefs
• Day 3 - Friday, March 20, 2020
  7:00 - 8:45 Registration
  8:45 - 9:45 Actuarial Education in Africa & AWB Development Report*

  Lusani Malaudzi, African Subcommittee.
  Renata De Leers, AWB.

  9:45 - 10:00 Sponsors Remark
  10:00 - 11:00 National Health Insurance Schemes in Africa – Technical
  Challenges and Sustainability Issues (Plenary 2)
  11:00 - 11:25 Networking Break
  11:25 - 12:25 Informal Sector Pensions – A Regulatory or Technical Challenge for Africa. (Plenary 3)

  Francis Nketia, Rocky Hill Group
  Sundeep Raichura, Zamara Actuaries & Consultants.
  Frank Odoom, Actuarial Society of Ghana

  12:25 - 13:15 Professionalism

  Mohamed Amrani, AMA.
  Peter Royek, Casualty Actuarial Society.

  13:15 - 14:00 LUNCH BREAK
  14:00 - 14:45 [ Parallel Session 1 ] Ratemaking Reformed: GLMs' Inevitability in a Big Data Era

  Gyasi Dapaa, Indeed Inc.
  

  Analysis of Age Misrepresentation of Life Insurance & Pensions Activities in Sub-Saharan Africa Using Probability Tools

  Louis Aime Fono, University of Douala
  

  14:45 - 15:30 [ Parallel Session 2 ] Liquidity Management for Insurers – Opportunity, Risk and Appetite

  Pieter Fouche, QED.
  

  The Actuary of the Future and the rise of IA from African Perspective

  Tim Muepu, MTN
  

  15:30 - 15:45 NETWORKING BREAK
  15:45 - 16:30 ASSA Systems and Technology Committee Feedback

  Mia Geringer, ASSA.
  

  16:30 - 16:45 Closing Session

  Neil Tagoe, ASG President
  

  19:00 - 21:00 Award & Recognition Dinner
• Day 2 - Saturday, March 21, 2020
  07:0 Departure from Accra to Cape Coast Cape Coast Castle

  A visit to UNESCO World Heritage Site, the largest of the buildings which contains the legacy of the trans -Atlantic slave trade.

  Kakum National Park

  Ghana’s most visited National Park that affords visitors a wide range of tourist activities include canopy walkway and bird watching, hiking and waterfall visit, animal viewing and camping among others .

  Hans Cottage Botel

  A visit to Botel offers sailing, fishing, boat riding and astounding and fascinating are wildlife of friendly crocodiles, ostriches and many more

  Departure