Agenda - Price Writers Conference
Insurance pricing models can be powerful but too often, they operate like black holes: data goes in, but wisdom doesn’t come back out.
In this session, Tim Stout explores how explainable AI helps insurers escape the “black box” trap - making models more transparent, decisions more trustworthy, and insights more exciting. You’ll see how leading teams are using explainability to uncover pricing opportunities.
This talk is for pricing professionals who want to combine high performance with high clarity to gain wisdom.
This session is for anyone who has worked in pricing and is curious about the impact of reserving on their role in pricing. Isabelle will start off with development factors – is what you see really what you get? How could a deeper understanding of reserving’s goals lead you to make more accurate assumptions? Could we learn something from the way that reserving approach uncertainty in their analytics, and how could we better integrate a more long-term, holistic approach into our analysis? We have such a lot to learn from the way reserving thinks – so why not come along and find out more!
A one-to-one fireside chat between Catrin Townsend and James Daley, founder of Fairer Finance. This session explores the story behind Fairer Finance, its mission to improve outcomes for consumers, and James’s perspective on how fairness and inclusion must shape the future of insurance pricing.
Get hands-on with the Price Writers 9-Step System in this fast-paced group activity. Designed to deliver quick wins and spark big shifts in thinking, this workshop gives you a practical framework to assess where you are, identify what’s holding you back, and find the next step to accelerate your growth as a pricing professional.
A panel discussion with three trailblazers doing pricing their own way. From MGA innovation to startup grit to international markets, this session spotlights the unexpected, fascinating paths pricing careers can take. Hear from Pauline Barthelemy, Alan Strange, and Michael Antoniou as they share what they’re working on, how they got there, and what they’ve learned along the way.
Insurance is uncertain by nature, and the reality is that any model we implement will lead to a range of possible outcomes. So why treat all impact analysis as if it were purely deterministic? This session explores how stochastic methods can reveal richer insights into pricing, capture real-world volatility, and support stronger decision-making. We’ll explore practical applications, demonstrate how to frame the distribution of outcomes, and show how to communicate stochastic thinking with clarity and impact to business leaders.
Why does smart pricing work so often get ignored, diluted, or delayed? In this session, you'll discover the hidden mistakes that quietly kill great recommendations and what to do instead. If you want your pricing insights to drive real change, this session will show you how to get traction when it counts.