IA|BE Annual Actuarial Day 2026 'Connected Thinking'
This year's IA|BE Annual Actuarial Day is fully dedicated to the theme Connected Thinking: how different perspectives, risks, and innovations come together in actuarial practice.
Fairness, AI, climate risk, capital and reinsurance, regulation, value for money these are no longer separate conversations. Connected Thinking is about seeing the links, and the value that emerges when we bring them together.
Join us for a full day of inspiring sessions, from a regulatory update on value for money to parallel break-out sessions on fairness, agentic AI, climate risk and reinsurance, plus deep-dives into asset-intensive life reinsurance and the future of cooperative insurers. We'll also honour a valued contribution to the profession with the annual IABE Prize.
Put Connected Thinking into practice
As a playful finale, sign up to be connected during the networking cocktail. Register in advance and we'll match you with two or three people you might not otherwise meet. A new perspective, a new contact, maybe your next collaboration.
Curious what the day has in store? Discover the full programme below.
Schedule of IA|BE Annual Actuarial Day 2026
| On Wednesday 14 October: | |
| 9:30 - 9:45 | Welcome and opening |
| 9:45 - 10:15 | Presentation |
| 10:15 - 11:00 | Value for money & Regulatory view by Henk Becquaert (FSMA) By BECQUAERT Henk |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Break |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Break-out session A 'Innovation and Responsible Insurance' By NYSSEN Guy |
| 12:00 - 12:30 | Break-out session B 'Emerging Risks & New Protection Solutions' By LAFORET Annie, VAN BEERS Rik |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Networking Lunch |
| 13:30 - 14:00 | Asset intensive life reinsurance transaction by Wim Kinnet (Baloise) By KENNET Wim |
| 14:00 - 15:15 | IA|BE Prize 2026 |
| 15:15 - 15:45 | Break |
| 15:45 - 16:15 | Cooperative Insurers in Today’s Rapidly Changing Technological Landscape by Jeroen Spinoy (P&V Group) By SPINOY Jeroen |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Closing |
| 16:30 - 17:30 | Networking cocktail |