Growth with resilience: How Middle East insurers can pursue profitable growth while navigating geopolitical, economic and emerging risks
Technology as a strategic enabler: Moving beyond AI experimentation to leverage data and technology to strengthen underwriting, customer propositions and operational performance
The CEO–CFO agenda: Aligning financial discipline, risk appetite and strategic investment to build more resilient and future-ready insurers
Strengthening the Financial Foundation: Balancing profitability, capital adequacy, liquidity and investment performance in a changing risk environment
From Finance to Strategic Decision-Making: How CFOs can influence underwriting discipline, portfolio optimisation and sustainable growth
Building Resilience for the Future: Using data, technology and forward-looking financial insights to navigate volatility and create long-term value
From Finance Steward to Strategic Business Partner: Navigating regulatory change, evolving customer needs and geopolitical uncertainty while supporting business resilience
Putting Risk at the Heart of the CFO Agenda: Integrating ORSA, risk appetite and enterprise-wide risk oversight across underwriting, claims, reinsurance, treasury and operations
Enabling Sustainable Growth: Leveraging automation and data to drive efficiency while supporting organic expansion and identifying strategic M&A and portfolio opportunities
Moving from traditional financial reporting to real-time, data-driven decision-making
Identifying high-value AI and automation use cases and measuring their return on investment
Strengthening financial controls, data governance and accountability as AI adoption accelerates
Using predictive analytics and scenario planning to anticipate financial risks and improve business resilience
Building future-ready finance teams with the digital skills and strategic influence needed to lead transformation
Turning risk insights into financial performance: How CFOs can work more closely with actuarial and underwriting teams to improve portfolio profitability and pricing discipline
Capital and solvency optimisation: Using reinsurance, risk modelling and capital allocation to strengthen financial resilience while supporting sustainable growth
Beyond IFRS 17 reporting: Translating financial and actuarial insights into better strategic decisions, performance measurement and forward-looking business planning
Balancing growth with profitability: Aligning underwriting performance, cost discipline and capital allocation to deliver sustainable returns
Turning technology into business value: Leveraging AI, automation and data-driven insights to strengthen risk management, operational efficiency and decision-making
Building resilience for the future: Integrating governance, risk oversight and strategic agility to navigate regulatory changes and market uncertainty
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 MENA’s insurance finance 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.
As economic uncertainty, evolving customer expectations, technological disruption and changing risk landscapes reshape the insurance industry, leaders must rethink the foundations of growth. How can insurers align corporate strategy, capital allocation and risk appetite to build stronger balance sheets, unlock new market opportunities and deliver sustainable value over the next decade?
Profitability vs Growth: Can Middle East insurers grow aggressively while maintaining underwriting discipline and healthy returns?
Capital Under Pressure: Navigating catastrophe risk, inflation, geopolitical uncertainty and changing reinsurance dynamics
The CFO’s Strategic Scorecard: What ratings, capital strength and financial performance reveal about an insurer’s ability to compete and grow
From the Global Financial Crisis and COVID-19 to regional conflicts, finance leaders have played a pivotal role in steering organisations through uncertainty. Crises demand more than financial oversight- they call for agile leadership, proactive risk management, sound decision-making and strategic resource allocation to safeguard resilience, navigate disruption, and position organisations for recovery and future growth.
Moving beyond premium growth to focus on underwriting profitability, disciplined pricing and sustainable returns
Strengthening capital allocation and financial control to balance growth ambitions with solvency and resilience
Using financial insights and performance metrics to improve management decisions and business performance
Navigating market volatility, regulatory change and investment uncertainty while protecting the insurer’s bottom line
Balancing Stewardship with Strategic Influence How CFOs can uphold financial discipline, regulatory integrity, and stakeholder credibility while simultaneously shaping enterprise strategy as trusted advisors and constructive challengers to the business
Moving from Cost Control to Capital Optimisation Shifting beyond traditional budget tightening toward intentional capital allocation, scenario planning, and investment prioritisation that supports transformation, AI adoption, and sustainable growth
Balancing Discipline and Ambition Navigating legacy systems, regulatory constraints, and automation initiatives while architecting resilient, future-ready finance functions that enable innovation without compromising governance
Moving from backward-looking reporting to predictive finance
AI use cases and what Insurance CFOs can learn from them
Governance, controls, and ethics in AI-enabled finance
From AI and automation to real-time data and next-generation digital infrastructure, technology is reshaping how finance functions operate across insurance, banking and other industries.
How can CFOs and technology leaders work together to modernise finance, improve productivity, strengthen financial control and turn technology investments into measurable business value?
Beyond Automation: Redesigning insurance processes to deliver measurable efficiency, productivity and customer value
AI, Data & Digital Transformation: Moving from technology pilots to scalable solutions that improve underwriting, claims and customer experience
The CFO–Operations Partnership: Aligning investment, transformation priorities and business outcomes to deliver sustainable growth
The Gulf insurance industry's chronic shortage of qualified actuarial, finance, and risk management talent has become a critical strategic vulnerability in an environment where the complexity and speed of financial decision-making have never been greater
The most effective Gulf insurance CFOs are reimagining their talent strategies, moving beyond salary competition to build genuine development ecosystems, leadership cultures, and career propositions that attract and retain the calibre of financial talent their organisations need to navigate the current crisis
This session delivers the talent acquisition frameworks, development programme designs, and retention strategies that are enabling the most successful Gulf insurance finance functions to build the human capital they need to lead their organisations through the most demanding operating environment in the region's insurance history
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 MENA’s insurance finance 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.
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