1,300 participants from 175 companies across 27 countries gathered at the Grand InterContinental Seoul Parnas in Gangnam, Seoul from June 10 to 11 to discuss how artificial intelligence, cyber risk, and mobility innovation are reshaping the future of insurance. Participants assessed how the insurance sector must adapt to rapidly evolving technologies and interconnected risks that are redefining traditional underwriting and claims approaches.
Allianz Asia Pacific Regional CFO Vojtech Pivny opened the 19th Asia CFO Summit with a candid, wide-ranging address on what it truly means for a finance leader to be a strategic co-pilot - and how far the industry still has to go to get there.
The 19th Asia Insurance CFO Summit 2026 has kicked off, with the theme 'From Stewardship to Strategy: The CFO as Architect of Resilient Growth'.
A rapidly evolving geopolitical landscape and advances in AI are reshaping the global order and creating greater complexities for businesses in Singapore and across the region. These were the opening remarks from Singapore's Former Minister for Foreign Affairs and Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy Visiting Scholar George Yeo, during his keynote speech at MSIG Singapore's Partners' Day on 15 April.
Asian insurers have been urged to sustain equitable access to coverage to deal with the challenges of ageing populations and escalating care costs amid rapid growth. This call was made by Hong Kong's Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau Under Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury Chan Ho Lim, Joseph, at the 21st Asia Conference on Healthcare and Health Insurance in Hong Kong.
With the theme 'Unlocking Reinsurance', and titled 'Opportunities in a Changing Climate: Building Catastrophe Resilience in Thailand', the Thailand Reinsurance Conference 2025 opened with welcome remarks from Thai General Insurance Association president Somporn Suebthawilkul.
Singapore's Marina Bay Sands recently welcomed scholars, practitioners, and policymakers from around the world for the 20th Conference on International Longevity Risk and Capital Market Solutions (L20). The milestone event, hosted by Nanyang Business School (NBS) at Nanyang Technological University, brought together global experts to address one of the most pressing challenges facing societies worldwide: managing longevity risk in an aging world.
Technology is changing everything, and insurance is no exception, Open and Embedded Insurance Observatory founder and director Yuri Poletto told the audience at InsurTech Connect Asia (ITC Asia) 2025.
Themed 'Brokers 4.0: Getting Future Ready for the Next Decade', the 13th Asia Insurance Brokers' Summit kicked off in Jakarta, Indonesia, on 24 April 2025.
In his welcome address at the 2nd IFSCA-IRDAI GIFT IFSC Global Reinsurance Summit, International Financial Services Centres Authority (IFSCA) executive director Praveen Trivedi, said that setting up businesses in India has been gaining notable traction in the past period thanks to the regulatory effort which focused more on enhancing ease of doing business. Mr Trivedi said that it is a positive sign that the 2nd edition of the Summit is attracting guests from all around the world representing various insurance, reinsurance and insurance-related entities as well as regulators and other industry professionals.