Where Foresight Meets Insight
Join us at CERAVISION 2025 for a dynamic, free-entry online congress that brings the CERA community together to explore bold ideas, spark meaningful conversations, and shape what’s next. Don’t miss this opportunity to connect, learn, and be inspired—from wherever you are.
Date: 28 October 2025
Venue: Online
Free entry
More details coming soon – stay tuned!
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at [email protected].
Welcome to CERAVISION 2025 — the ERM event highlight for the CERA community
Join us for a day of inspiration, collaboration, and forward-thinking dialogue as we explore the future of our industry. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or new to the field, CERAVISION offers a unique opportunity to gain fresh insights and contribute to shaping what’s next.
To register, simply complete the MS form below. By submitting the form, you confirm your attendance and agree to the event’s Terms and Conditions. We look forward to welcoming you to an unforgettable experience at CERAVISION 2025!
10:30 CET
Welcome
10:30 – 11:00 CET
Anticipating Tomorrow – Industry Perspectives on Emerging Risks
Michaela Duricova, Munich Re
11:00 – 11:30 CET
Good (and not so Good) Capital Management – the Risks of a Poor Process
James Aclis, KPMG
11:30 – 12:00 CET
The AI Risks that No One Talks About
Pedro Serrano
12:00 – 13:00 CET
Panel on Risk Management in Times of AI
Panelists:
Yosuke Fujisawa, IAA
Bogdan Tautan, AAE
Yukki Yeung, SOA
Moderation: Fred Rowley
13:00 – 14:30 CET
Break
14:30 – 15:00 CET
The Drama and Chess of Insurance Risk Management
Sally Bridgeland, Pension Insurance Corporation
15:00 – 15:30 CET
The Rise and Fall: Climate Change and Inflation Modelling
Nick Spencer, Milliman
15:30 – 16:00 CET
Risk Management in Times of Global Uncertainty
Roger Spitz, Futurist
16:00 CET
Closing
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Roger Spitz
Roger Spitz is a leading authority on systemic disruption and strategic foresight. Before founding the influential Disruptive Futures Institute in San Francisco, he served as Global Head of Technology M&A at BNP Paribas, advising on over $25 billion in transactions. Spitz is an expert advisor to the World Economic Forum’s Global Foresight Network.
As President of Techistential, the preeminent foresight practice, Spitz advises CEOs, boards, and investors on strategy under uncertainty, anticipating disruptions, and sustainable value creation. A renowned expert on AI, Spitz coined the term ‘Techistentialism’ and is a sought-after thought leader on the future of strategic decision-making and artificial intelligence.
Spitz serves on multiple boards, and is a bestselling author of five books, including the award-winning Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World and acclaimed four-volume series The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption. Spitz’s frameworks are adopted globally and feature in leading publications. His recent paper challenges the legacy risk models: "The future of risk and insurability in the era of systemic disruption, unpredictability and artificial intelligence" Journal of Operational Risk (Risk.Net).
Sally Bridgeland
Hon Group Captain Sally Bridgeland BSc ARCS FIA FRSA FSIP
Sally is Chair of the Development Bank of Wales, Nest Invest Ltd and BelleVie Care. She is a non-executive director at insurers Pension Insurance Corporation (PIC) and Intact Insurance UK (formerly Royal & Sun Alliance). She chairs the risk committee at PIC.
She won the FTSE AIM NED Award in 2023 for her work as Chair at Impax Asset Management Group plc. Her non-executive portfolio has also included roles at the Nuclear Liabilities Fund, NEST Corporation and the Lloyds Bank pension schemes and as Chair of the first local government pensions pool, Local Pensions Partnership Investments (LPPI) Limited and more recently Brunel Pension Partnership. She was CEO of the BP Pension Scheme in the interesting years of 2007-14 after twenty years with Aon Hewitt working as a pensions consultant and in investment research and innovation.
She is an actuary and a mother and passionate about responsible investment, cycling and inclusion and creativity. Sally is currently writing a book on the value of getting the club mix right between the drama club and chess club in businesses.
Michaela Duricova
Michaela Duricova is a risk management professional at Munich Re, where she leads a team within the Integrated Risk Management division. Her responsibilities include emerging risk management, strategic risk steering, and group-level risk aggregation and reporting. She joined Munich Re in 2012 and held prior roles in actuarial consulting and portfolio analysis in the Life & Health segment, serving clients in the DACH region. She holds a diploma in mathematics from TU Dresden and is a certified actuary (DAV), and a Certified Enterprise Risk Actuary (CERA). Michaela currently chairs the CRO Forum’s Emerging Risk Initiative Working Group on behalf of Munich Re, contributing to industry-wide dialogue on risk foresight and mitigation.
Pedro Serrano
Pedro Ecija is an actuary with more than 25 years of experience in insurance, working in industry and consultancy. He has served in a wide range of roles including pricing, reserving, solvency, and risk management. His main focus for the last ten years has been machine learning and AI, including ethics, governance, and risk management. He is currently based in Ireland where he works as an independent consultant, helping clients with actuarial and AI topics.
Nick Spencer
Nick Spencer is at the forefront of sustainability, boldly championing climate
resilience through a blend of risk and opportunity thinking and cutting-edge
research. His innovative mindset extends well beyond technical expertise: he
brings 30 years’ industry and consulting experience to translate complex
environmental and social challenges into pragmatic, actionable solutions for
forward-thinking organisations.
An award-winning thought leader, Nick is a regular contributor to The
Actuary, the
IFoA Blog as well as writing for Milliman.
He is a former Institute and Faculty of Actuaries’ (IFoA) Council
Member, a past Chair of its Sustainability Board and is a member of both the
Climate Change Inequality Working Party and the Biodiversity Working Party.
James Aclis
James Aclis is a qualified FIAA and CERA with over 12 years of experience in general insurance. He has worked in NZ, the UK, and Saudi Arabia, with experience in valuations, modelling, analytics, and risk. With decades of public speaking and communication experience, he believes that communication is the neglected key to success.
James has performed Triennial Reviews of Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) & Own Risk & Solvency Assessment (ORSA) for over a dozen general insurers under the GPS 110 Capital Adequacy standard, and has also recently been performing ICAAP Readiness Reviews and Triennial ICAAP Reviews for many private health insurers under the relatively new HPS 110 Capital Adequacy. He is the co-author of the 2023 KPMG General Insurance Industry ICAAP survey, co-author of the 2024 KPMG General Insurance Industry Recovery Plan survey, and the 2025 KPMG Private Health Insurance ICAAP & Recovery Plan survey. James has also advised numerous non-insurers on their risk management, approach to and management of insurance, and consideration of mutual, captive, and other alternative risk solutions.
Augustine Sidik
Augustine is a Qualified Actuary and CERA with over 14 years of experience in general insurance. Based in Sydney, Augustine is a manager within KPMG Australia’s General Insurance Actuarial practice. Augustine has been extensively involved in various reviews and development of general insurer’s Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process (ICAAP) since the requirement was first introduced by APRA in 2013. She has also supported similar review of ORSA for general insurance clients across Asia.
She is the co-author of the triennial KPMG General Insurance Industry ICAAP survey since 2014, with the 2023 survey seeing a participation rate of over 75% of the Australian general insurance industry. She is also the co-author of the 2024 KPMG General Insurance Industry Recovery Plan survey. Augustine also advises clients on a broad range of other areas including IFRS 17 support and implementation, reserving, actuarial peer reviews, regulatory compliance, risk management, and data analytics.
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Terms and Conditions for CERAVISION, taking place on 28 October 2025 | 10.30 – 16.00 CET
§ 1 Scope of application
1. The present General Terms and Conditions of Business of the
CERA Global Association
c/o IFoA, First Floor Belsyre Court
57 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HJ
(hereinafter referred to as “the CGA”)
shall apply to all services within the framework of the event “CERAVISION” (hereinafter “event”) that the CGA is organising.
2. In addition to these Terms and Conditions, event-specific terms of use may apply (information texts within the events’ booking tool).
§ 2 Registration and conclusion of contract
1. Registration for CERAVISION as an attendee can only be made bindingly via the internet registration tool at www.cera-vision.com and MS Form https://forms.office.com/e/HmAGEmF3Zz until 27 October 2025 (16:00 CET).
2. The registration process is handled by Microsoft Forms (“Forms”, https://forms.office.com)
3. Acceptance of the registration of an attendee by the CGA shall only be binding when a written confirmation of the registration has been given by the CGA or its service provider, actuview. Confirmation will be given by email.
4. The CGA shall decide on acceptance of attendees’ registrations. No claim to attending shall accrue.
5. For conducting the event, the CGA is allowed to share the provided participant data with third party service providers that technically organize the event. By registering, participants agree to be contacted by those third-party service providers for the purpose of the event.
§ 3 Prices
1. The registration for CERAVISION is free of charge.
§ 4 Cancellation by the CGA
1. The CGA shall be entitled to terminate the contract if the minimum number of 50 participants is not reached for the event. The right to extraordinary termination for other reasons shall remain unaffected.
2. Claims of the attendee against the CGA shall be ruled out, in particular there shall be no claim to reimbursement of any expenditure and loss of work unless the expenditure originates due to grossly negligent or deliberate conduct on the part of the CGA.
§ 5 Force Majeure
1. Force majeure is an external event that cannot be averted even by the utmost reasonably expected care, which neither belongs to the operational sphere of the organizer or the personal sphere of the participant.
2. If an event does not take place due to force majeure, both the organizer as well as the participants shall be released from the obligation of their performance. If an event ends due to force majeure, both the organizer as well as the participants shall be released from the obligation of their performance from the time of termination.
3. In addition, the assertion of claims of the parties due to force majeure is excluded.
§ 6 Deviations in performance
1. The contents of the program can deviate from the announcements. The CGA shall be entitled to replace announced speakers by others and to make other necessary changes, maintaining the overall character of the partner event.
§ 7 Event material and copyrights
1. The CGA grants the attendee a non-exclusive, non-assignable right of use to the event documents provided to an attendee in electronic form within the framework of the event for the purpose of learning. All rights, also those of reproduction and copying of the event documents or of parts thereof and of making them publicly accessible shall be reserved for the CGA. The log in details to the material shall not be distributed.
2. The attendee list will be published on the CERAVISION event platform. By registering, attendees agree that their name, position, company, city and country appear on the attendee list.
§ 8 Image and sound recordings
1. The CGA shall be entitled to have audio and video recordings of the event and the attendees produced and to publish it online using also third-party channels (e.g. actuview). To the extent necessary, the attendee hereby declares his or her agreement.
2. The log in details to access the event and material shall not be sold, traded or shared.
3. Attendees shall not be entitled to make sound or video recordings of the presentations or other attendees.
§ 9 Certificate of attendance and CPD points
1. Attendees shall contact their local actuarial association for further details concerning CPD points if required.
2. A certificate of attendance will be issued within seven days after the event.
§ 10 Liability and damages
1. CERAVISION shall be prepared and held with the greatest possible care. However, The CGA shall not be liable for damage caused by third parties (e.g. sponsors, attendees, software providers or media platforms).
§ 11 Miscellaneous
1. The contract shall be governed by the law of England and Wales, ruling out recommittal.
2. The exclusive place of jurisdiction for all disputes from and in connection with the contract to which the present general terms and conditions of business apply shall be London, UK.
