NextBillion - An Initiative of the William Davidson Institute at the University of Michigan

Whether you are insurance or Reinsurance Company executive, a broker, a regulator, a risk-manager or an industry partner, AIRC is designed to address the many diverse and complex issues facing leaders in the sector.

Learn how your peers are responding to today’s challenges. Find out firsthand what’s working, and what’s not. Gain fresh perspectives on long-standing challenges you’ve struggled to resolve. You’ll be inspired by the innovative ideas and new thinking our panelists will share.

The Future of Insurance
Hear about the disruptive forces and tech-driven consumer behavior that’s shaping the future of insurance. This plenary session will give an overview of the regulatory changes needed to deliver more value to consumers and to ensure today’s insurers succeed tomorrow.

Global Insights
Global developments in the insurance arena always have a direct and immediate impact in the Africa market, both on the primary and reinsurance side. M&A, technology, global regulatory developments and emerging risks will be among the crucial topics discussed under this session

Distribution
How disruptive are the emerging distribution models? Where is value being added? And how are they seeking to reconcile the aspiration for direct-to-customer sales with the complexity of our insurance products? Finally, what will personal lines distribution look like in the coming years?

• Banc assurance –is this an opportunity for increasing penetration
• Micro Insurance

WHY ATTEND

This annual Summit brings together executives, governments, and investors to share practical tools and approaches to addressing some of the world’s most pressing needs, sustainably and profitably.

At our 2018 Summit, we unveiled a roadmap for bringing together these players, featured in our seminal Harvard Business Review article, Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality.

This year, we’re taking those principles and getting practical about implementation, sharing tools, approaches, and case studies that truly move the needle toward sustainable, inclusive growth. We’ll explore the challenges are facing and how to overcome them, moving large-scale projects from strategy to pilot to execution at scale.

WHO WILL BE THERE?

• Corporate and governmental leaders responsible for the overall well-being of their organizations’ strategies in the Impact Economy.
• CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CIOs, Presidents, Managing Directors, and Executive Leadership Teams
• Government Officials and Donor Heads
• Impact Investors, Capital Advisors, Fund Managers
• Vice Presidents, Directors of Strategy Management, and Line of Business Leaders
• Change Management, Sustainability, Operational, and Corporate Social Responsibility Stakeholders

This annual Summit brings together executives, governments, and investors to share practical tools and approaches to addressing some of the world’s most pressing needs, sustainably and profitably.

Organisations of all types are faced with many of the same, global challenges. From supply chains to workforce development, we can no longer afford to ignore the role we play in a complex social and economic ecosystem. Businesses need bold thinking, partnerships, access to finance, and governance models to drive sustainable growth. Meanwhile, achievement of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals is dependent on private capital, while investors are looking increasingly for opportunities that deliver both social and financial returns.

At our 2018 Summit, we unveiled a roadmap for bringing together these players, featured in our seminal Harvard Business Review article, Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality.

This year, we’re taking those principles and getting practical about implementation, sharing tools, approaches, and case studies that truly move the needle toward sustainable, inclusive growth. We’ll explore the challenges organisations are facing and how to overcome them, moving large-scale projects from strategy to pilot to execution at scale.