Conference Begins May 31, 2026

Innovating Risk
Building Resilience

Explore groundbreaking insights and solutions that are redefining the reinsurance landscape

Preliminary Sessions

This is a preliminary list of topics for the 2026 Seminar on Reinsurance. Please note that all sessions are subject to change. 

  • Strategies for Mitigating Cognitive Bias
  • Professionalism
  • Ceded Re
  • Rating Agencies
  • Reinsurance Pricing by Frequency and Severity
  • Casualty CAT Modeling
  • Leadership Soft skills
  • Mutual LDF Analysis
  • Cyber Modeling
  • AI and Reinsurance
  • Social Inflation and Liability Insurance
  • Litigation Financing
  • Structuring/Pricing a Reinsurance Program
  • Systemically Important Flaws in Econometric Models
  • ILS – Company Valuation
  • Umbrella Pricing
  • Tokenization
  • Program Aggregators
  • Transactional Liability
  • Renewable Energy and Data Centers
  • CAT Bonds Replacing Reinsurance
  • Workers' Compensation
  • Property, Cyber, and Casualty States of the Market
  • Reinsurance Startups Portfolio Management
  • Financial Lines State of the Market
  • Adverse loss development
  • InsureTech
  • Why is Exposure Rating Always Wrong?
  • Construction Insurance
  • Practitioner's Guide to US Casualty Trending
  • Research Topics

2026 Reinsurance Seminar Working Group

Chairs

Zilan Shen

Volunteer Chair

Tracy Valentine

Volunteer Vice-Chair

Josie Harler

Staff Chair

Leanne Wieczorek

Staff Chair

Working Group Members

Timothy Aman
Raju Bohra
Lon Chang
Isaac Espinoza
Yinglu Fan
Yu Shi (Andy) Feng
John Ferrara
Charles Gegax
Julie Halper-Wilson
Andrew Hancock
Christian Hauprich
Yi Jing
Brian Johnson
Derek Jones
Kathleen Knudson
Trevor Leitch
Shushangxuan Li
Jonathan Lim
Li Li Lin
Dustin Loeffler
Brian Mullen
Marni Novack
Hyun Jin Park
Stephanie Rabin
Neil Schwarzenberger
Rui Tang
Lisa Walsh
HongTao (Heidi) Wang
Qiong Wei
Xuan You
Wenyi Zhang