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Longevity 19 Conference Programme

Plenary Sessions/Presentations

Monday 16th September 2024

Chair of morning session: David Blake
Chair of afternoon session: Avery Michaelson (Founding Partner, Longitude Solutions)

Time	Topic
08:00 - 08:45	Registration and Refreshments
08:45 - 09:00	Opening Remarks - David Blake (Bayes Business School and Pensions Institute) and Torsten Kleinow (Research Centre Longevity Risk)
09:00 - 11:00	Plenary Session 1 - Hot topics in Longevity "Living longer, planning smarter: Harnessing longevity Indices" Guy Coughlan (Chief Operating Officer at Clota Varde and member of Advisory Board at Longevity Solutions) The new actuarial challenges when setting mortality/longevity assumptions: from leveraging on Artificial Intelligence… to managing the IFRS17 new accounting framework Marine Habart (AXA) and Alexandre Boumezoued (Milliman) Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark and Center for Social Data Science) Quantifying the unseen: dissecting the effects of air pollution on mortality Tinhinane Talbi (Milliman)
11:00 - 11:30	C O F F E E B R E A K - Sponsored by Club Vita
11:30 - 13:00	Parallel Session I
13:00 - 14:30	L U N C H - Sponsored by Pacific Life Re and NN
14:30 - 16:00	Parallel Session II
16:00 - 16:30	T E A B R E A K - Sponsored by EY
16:30 - 18:00	Plenary Session 2 - Advances in the longevity risk transfer market The state of the market for longevity risk transfer Douglas Anderson (Club Vita) Using longevity risk hedging techniques to enhance retirement outcomes for members of Defined Contribution (DC) pension plans Paul Kitson (EY) Regulatory insights Leendert van Gastel (EIOPA)
18:00	Drinks Reception and Gala Dinner - Sponsored by Prudential Financial

Longevity 19 Conference Programme

Tuesday 17th September 2024

Chair of morning session: Kevin Dowd
Chair of afternoon session: David Blake

Time	Topic
08:00 - 09:00	Tea and Coffee on arrival
09:00 - 11:00	Parallel Session III
11:00 - 11:30	C O F F E E B R E A K - Sponsored by Hannover Re
11:30 - 13:00	Plenary Session 3 – Longevity issues in the Netherlands, the US, the UK and Australia Location and longevity: Deciphering mortality through the lens of US and Dutch postcodes Cara Dowell (RGA) Post-pandemic mortality in the Netherlands and the UK Andrew Hunt (Pacific Life Re) Creating awareness for an ignored risk – The Australian journey (or longevity risks in the Australian retirement market) Andrea Staehr (Hannover Re)
13:00 - 14:30	L U N C H - Sponsored by RGA and Willkie
14:30 - 16:00	Parallel Session IV
16-00 - 16:30	T E A B R E A K - Sponsored by Milliman
16:30 - 18:00	Plenary Session 4 - The Netherlands, pension reforms, and opportunities for buy-out Views from a re-insurer Rohit Mathur (Prudential Financial) Views from a legal/regulatory perspective Eilidh Brown (Willkie) Views from a consultant Wichert Hoekert (WTW) Views from an insurer Marc Meertens (Head of Balance Sheet Management at NN Leven) Panel
18:00	Closing remarks from David Blake, Torsten Kleinow, and Wenjun Zhu