Asia Life Insurance Summit 2026

Registration & Welcome Coffee

Chairperson’s Opening Remarks

Orchis Li

Council Member, The Actuarial Society of Hong Kong

The Life Insurer of 2030: Building Social Resilience Beyond Protection

Selina Lau

Chief Executive, The Hong Kong Federation of Insurers (HKFI)

Investing for Resilience: Capital Allocation Strategies in an Uncertain World

• Optimising investment portfolios amid interest rate volatility

• Strengthening asset-liability management for long-duration liabilities

• Deploying capital efficiently while safeguarding solvency and liquidity

William Chan

Global Chief Investment Officer and Head of Investment Hub, Insurance, HSBC

What Can Life Insurers Learn From Fintech Challengers? Rebuilding Insurance Around the Customer

• The customer is no longer comparing insurers with insurers: What life insurers can learn from fintechs that have reset expectations around simplicity, transparency, personalisation and customer control
   
• From products to financial journeys: How insurers can move beyond complex product structures to become more relevant across customers' long-term saving, investing, protection and retirement needs
   
• Challenging the incumbent mindset: What traditional life insurers can learn from building a financial-services business from scratch and where incumbents still have an unfair advantage

Tim Jones

CEO – Hong Kong, Chocolate Finance

Interactive Q&A

Morning Refreshments Break

Closing Asia's Legacy Gap: How Life Insurance Is Becoming the Wealth Transfer Tool of Choice for the Next Generation of HNW Families

• Discover why life insurance is fast becoming the wealth transfer tool of choice for Asia's HNW families
• Identifying where Asia's greatest untapped legacy planning gaps lie and how to turn intent into action 
• Reposition life insurance at the heart of multi-generational wealth plans and strategies to deepen your HNW client relationships 

Bonnie Qiu

CEO, Global High-Net-Worth and Chief Partnership Distribution Officer, Manulife Asia

The 2030 Life Insurer: How AI and Agentic Intelligence Will Redefine Insurance from Product to Platform

AI is moving beyond automation into agentic decision-making, fundamentally changing how life insurers design products, engage customers, empower distribution and manage risk. This session will explore what an AI-native life insurer could look like by 2030 and how insurers can balance speed, personalisation and productivity with trust, governance and regulatory responsibility.

Prof Andy Chun

Professor of Practice, Department of Computing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Reimagining Distribution for 2030 and Beyond: Hybrid Advice, Platforms, and Ecosystem Partnerships

• Combining digital platforms with human advisory to increase productivity 
• Expanding embedded insurance within financial and lifestyle ecosystems 
• Adapting distribution strategies to evolving consumer purchasing behaviour 

Networking Lunch

Capital Strength in an Uncertain World: Building Life Insurers That Can Withstand Global Shocks

• Preparing for geopolitical disruptions, economic volatility, and systemic risks 
• Ensuring capital resilience while continuing to invest in long-term growth 
• Strengthening enterprise risk and governance frameworks for the next decade

Operational Excellence for the Digital Life Insurer

• Streamlining operations through automation and intelligent workflow 
• Reducing cost ratios while improving customer experience 
• Reinvesting productivity gains into innovation and growth* 

Dustin Ball

Co-lead and Managing Director, Asia Financial Services Industry Group, Alvarez & Marsal

The Trusted Architect: How Specialist Advisers Are Redefining Wealth, Health and Legacy for Asia’s HNW and UHNW Families

A frank conversation from the deal table to the family boardroom. What specialist advisers are seeing, structuring and advising on as Asia’s wealth transfer, longevity and liquidity needs accelerate towards 2030.

• Go beyond traditional wealth transfer: Hear how specialist brokers and advisers are helping HNW families navigate the interconnected challenges of succession, liquidity, protection, health and longevity across generations
   
• Get inside the HNW deal table: Explore what Asia’s wealthiest families are asking for, which solutions are gaining traction, and how advisers are bringing together life insurance, premium financing, private banking, healthcare and family-office expertise to address increasingly complex needs
   
• Redefining the trusted adviser: Examine how the specialist model is evolving from product intermediary to strategic family partner, and what this means for life carriers, private banks, family offices and other advisers seeking deeper relationships with Asia’s HNW and UHNW families

Pulse of the Industry: Live Polling Session

Share your insights through our quick live polls and see how your thinking compares with your peers in the room. Designed to cut through the noise, this interactive session captures the unfiltered views of Asia’s Life insurance leaders on the key challenges, strategic priorities, and uncertainties shaping the industry today. Anonymous, instant, and genuinely revealing, the results will not only benchmark perspectives across the room but also help shape the conversations that matter most.

Chairperson’s Closing Remarks and Networking Tea

End of the Conference

*Topic to be confirmed

Note: Programme is subject to change.