19th Asia Insurance CFO Summit 2026

19-20 May 2026, PARKROYAL COLLECTION Marina Bay, Singapore

Theme: "From Stewardship to Strategy: The CFO as Architect of Resilient Growth"

Programme

Day One: 19 May 2026, Tuesday
8:00am
Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00am
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks & Introduction to the Conference Theme

John Spence, Managing Director, Asian Capital Advisors Limited

9:15am
The CFO as Chief Value Architect: From Financial Steward to Strategic Co-Pilot 

  • Redefining the CFO mandate in an era of disruption and uncertainty  

  • Partnering the CEO and Board on long-term value creation  

  • Balancing performance, resilience and transformation agendas 

Vojtěch Pivný, Regional Chief Financial Officer, Allianz Asia Pacific

Power Talk
9:40am
Leading Through Disruption: A Leadership Dialogue on Strategy, Resilience and the Future of Insurance in Asia

  • Discussing the biggest financial and strategic risks facing Asia's insurance industry over the next three years, from macroeconomic headwinds and geopolitical disruption to talent scarcity, cyber exposure, and the accelerating pressure of climate-related losses, and how insurers are building organisational resilience to navigate them 

  • The human capital dimension of financial leadership: how organisations are building, developing and retaining the finance, actuarial and risk management talent that their organisations need to execute their strategies and why investing in financial leadership capability is as important as investing in capital and technology 

  • Looking ahead to 2030: what Asia's insurance industry will look like at the end of the decade, which markets will have grown, which business models will have been disrupted, which risks will have emerged, and the financial strategies that today's CFOs must begin building now to ensure their organisations are positioned to lead rather than follow 

Moderator:
Dustin Ball

Managing Director – Asia Financial Services, Alvarez & Marsal

Panellists:
Stephen Geisler

CEO - South Asia, QBE Insurance

Ury Gan

Chief Financial Officer, Prudential Assurance Company Singapore

10:20am
More Portfolio Optimization Examples for Insurance Company CFOs

Vinaya Sharma, Actuary & Managing Director, Quantitative Risk Management

10:45am
Interactive Q&A Session

11:00am
Morning Refreshments Break

11:30am
Asset Liability Management Considerations for Asian Insurers

Benjamin Yeo, Managing Director, Financial Institutions Group, DBS Bank

11:55am
Sustainable Growth in Life & Health: Aligning Product Strategy with Capital, Risk and Profitability

  • Aligning product design and pricing with capital efficiency and risk management to drive sustainable profitability 

  • Strengthening collaboration between business and finance to optimise growth, returns, and balance sheet resilience*

Akash Gupta, Managing Director and Head of Life and Health, Southeast Asia, Munich Re

12:20pm
From Capital Adequacy to Capital Advantage: Rethinking Capital Management in a Volatile Asia

  • Shifting from regulatory capital compliance to strategically deploying capital as a driver of competitive advantage and growth 

  • Leveraging diversification, reinsurance, and innovative capital solutions to optimise returns in an increasingly volatile environment 

  • Integrating real-time data, analytics, and scenario planning to enable agile and forward-looking capital decision-making 

Pranshu Maheshwari, Group Director, Capital Management, Prudential plc

12:45pm
Interactive Q&A Session

1:00pm
Networking Lunch

2:15pm
The Future Insurance CFO: What Will Define Success in the Next Decade?

  • How AI tools can/will change the way we work over the next few years 

  • Challenges the industry will need to navigate to realise the potential 

  • What successful insurers of the future will expect of their CFOs 

Andrew McGrath, Chief Financial Officer, Singapore, QBE Asia

2:55pm
The Two-Speed CFO: Governing the Present While Designing the Future

  • Balancing Stewardship with Strategic Influence 
    How CFOs can uphold financial discipline, regulatory integrity, and stakeholder credibility while simultaneously shaping enterprise strategy as trusted advisors and constructive challengers to the business 

  • Moving from Cost Control to Capital Optimisation 
    Shifting beyond traditional budget tightening toward intentional capital allocation, scenario planning, and investment prioritisation that supports transformation, AI adoption, and sustainable growth 

  • Balancing Discipline and Ambition 
    Navigating legacy systems, regulatory constraints, and automation initiatives while architecting resilient, future-ready finance functions that enable innovation without compromising governance 

Chock Ker Ching, SVP, Chief Financial Officer, MSIG Singapore

3:20pm
Building the Analytics-Driven Finance Function: Upskilling Talent for Data-Led Decision Making

Identifying the critical skills finance teams need to transition from traditional reporting to advanced analytics and strategic insight generation*

Mark Hart, Chief Actuary and Head of Finance Transformation, APAC, Zurich Insurance

3:45pm
Interactive Q&A Session

4:00pm
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks and Networking Tea

5:00pm
End of Day One

 
*Topic to be confirmed

 
Note: Programme is subject to change.
Day Two: 20 May 2026, Wednesday
8:00am
Registration & Welcome Coffee

9:00am
Chairperson’s Opening Remarks & Introduction to the Conference Theme

John Spence, Managing Director, Asian Capital Advisors Limited

9:15am
Resilience in a Polycrisis World: Managing Risks Across Asia Pacific

  • Assessing the impact of interconnected risks to strengthen financial, operational and business resilience.  

  • Strengthening company resilience through forward-looking stress testing and scenario planning beyond regulatory requirements 

  • Redefining the CFO–CRO partnership to enable faster, integrated responses to systemic and emerging risks

Olga Petrenko, Regional CRO, Allianz Asia Pacific

9:40am
Finance at the Frontier — Leading a High-Performance Finance Function Across Asia's Most Complex Specialty Insurance Markets

  • Managing a multi-market finance function across Asia's vastly different regulatory, reporting and capital environments demands a finance leadership philosophy built on adaptability, local intelligence and an unwavering commitment to consistent standards 

  • The most effective finance leaders in specialty insurance are those who have successfully made the transition from financial controller to genuine business partner — sitting at the strategy table, not just reporting on it 

  • Building a finance team that is simultaneously technically rigorous, commercially astute, and resilient enough to perform under the pressure of market volatility, regulatory change, and organisational transformation is the defining leadership challenge for every senior finance executive in Asia's insurance industry today*

Mayuri Singhal, Head of Finance, Asia, AXA XL

10:15am
Harness AI and New Tech to Transform Actuarial Modelling*

Kate Porter, Head of Solutioning, Treasury & Risk, APAC, FIS Global

10:40am
Interactive Q&A Session

10:55am
Morning Refreshments Break

11:25am
Reimagining Capital Management in a Climate-Risk World 

Hannelli J. Oasan, Chief Financial Officer, KRM Reinsurance Brokers Phils., Inc.

11:50am
From Ledger to Leader: How Finance Chiefs Are Driving Transformation, Sustainability and Strategic Value in a Decade of Disruption

A CFO's perspective on why critical thinking, sustainability integration and finance transformation are no longer optional capabilities, they are the defining characteristics of financial leadership that will separate tomorrow's industry leaders from today's financial managers.

Dr Vincent Lim, Chief Financial Officer, Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR)

12:20pm
AI, Analytics, and the Intelligent Finance Function 

  • Moving from backward-looking reporting to predictive finance  

  • AI use cases and what Insurance CFOs can learn from them 

  • Governance, controls, and ethics in AI-enabled finance  

Dr Ashish Chandra, Partner & Global Head of AI, KPMG

12:45pm
Interactive Q&A Session

1:00pm
Networking Lunch

Power Talk
2:15pm
Winning in Asia: Value Creation, Market Opportunity and the Strategic Choices That Will Define the Next Decade

A leadership dialogue on where the real opportunities lie, which markets deserve bold investment, and how insurance leaders are making the high-stakes decisions that will separate the region's winners from its also-rans by 2035

Moderator:
John Spence

Managing Director, Asian Capital Advisors Limited

Panellists:
Christopher Albrecht

Chief Executive Officer, Sun Life Singapore

Harpreet Bindra

Chief Executive Officer, HSBC Life Singapore

2:55pm
The Data-Driven CFO: From Numbers to Actionable Insight 

  • Breaking data silos across actuarial, finance and risk  

  • Building real-time dashboards for faster decision-making  

  • Upskilling finance teams for advanced analytics*

Sourabh Chitrachar, Chief Technology Officer, MS First Capital Insurance

3:35pm
M&A, Partnerships and Inorganic Growth: A CFO’s Playbook 

  • Valuation discipline in uncertain markets  

  • Post-merger integration and value realisation  

  • Strategic alliances vs outright acquisitions  

4:05pm
Interactive Q&A Session

4:15pm
Chairperson’s Closing Remarks and Networking Drinks

4:30pm
End of the Conference

 
*Topic to be confirmed

 
Note: Programme is subject to change.

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