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In this special mini-series, Jess and Charl are recording from the annual GIRO conference 2025 in Liverpool. The interview a range of special guests from around the insurance industry and conference speakers.

Insurance Uncut at GIRO 2025 - day 1

Capital modelling and validation market review

We caught up with Cat Drummond and Tom Durkin about their presentations on capital modelling and validation market review: Industry trends and best practices.

IFoA Climate Sensitivity Working Party

Next, we speak to James Orr and Oliver Bettis from the IFoA Climate Sensitivity Working Party to discuss there latest research on climate sensitivity, which looks at why we should we care and what can we do if it’s more than we thought?

More data or more model

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Gwen Chan on: “more data or more model? - a framework for achieving predictive analytics objectives in specialty insurance”. Gwen’s and Priyank’s research is looking to measure the predictiveness of different datasets.

Insurance Uncut at GIRO 2025 - day 2

Electric vehicles

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Amit Parmar about electric vehicles. We discuss the research Amit and Conor Woods have done on whether electric vehicles crash more or less than petrol cars.

Autonomous vehicles

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Chris Jones, Doug Woodley and Yousif Al-Ani about the latest on Autonomous Vehicles (AVs). We cover: when will we see AVs on UK streets, how will insurance work and who are the key players in development of AVs?

Its all about pricing actuaries

As part of the GIRO 2025 mini-series, we speak to Catrin Townsend about Price Writers, Catrin’s book “A Risky Business” and how we need smarter governance for smarter pricing models.

President of the IFoA

We speak to Paul Sweeting about what his aims are for his presidency and what he sees as the future for the insurance profession.

Emerging risks, linking up Capital and Pricing

Isabelle Williams and Richard Holloway from LCP walk us through their session on how pricing and capital teams can work better together to stay ahead of emerging risks.

UK Flood Insurance

Richard Stock and Tom Saliba from the Flood Working Party share their view on how to work with government and stakeholders to build a more sustainable approach to UK flood risk. 

Interpretable Boosted GLM

We speak to Karol Gawlowski and Patricia Wang from the IFoA Actuarial Data Science Working Party talk us through their Brian Hay Prize winning research on Interpretable Boosted GLM.

Insurance Uncut at GIRO 2025 - day 3

Claims inflation

On day 3 we hear from Cian Creedon and Marcus Schofield from the Claims Inflation Working Party. We discuss the results from their inflation survey and how expectations for future inflation will vary by line business going forward. 

Foundational machine learning climate models

Debashish Dey joins us to share research that blends climate change and AI. He talks through his latest work and his career path.

Fighting for Python

George Wright talks about the tools and support actuaries need for modern modelling. 

Actuaries at an AI crossroads: Is your AI policy leading you in the right direction?

Geraldine Finucane and Hazel Davis from the Professionalism, Regulation and Ethics working party explain what good governance looks like in practice and how to judge whether your firm has the right oversight in place.

Martin Assmann

Martin Assmann from Insurance ERM joins us to share the stories they are covering right now. 

A new approach to reserve risk

Ahead of GIRO 2025, we talk to Lara Palmer and Jade Lagrue from LCP about their new research on modelling reserve risk, exploring the limitations of current approaches, their analysis, and the potential applications and next steps.

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