CURRENTLY ACCEPTING PROPOSALS FOR ANY AND ALL TOPICS
NAMIC is always on the lookout for speakers and topic ideas that will deliver insightful, practical, and education-focused content to industry professionals.
NAMIC offers a variety of in-person and virtual educational events that are designed for property/casualty insurance industry professionals. Event dates and locations are still being determined for 2021. Final details will be listed on the education calendar as they become available.
Proposal Submission
To submit a session for consideration, you must complete the speaker proposal form. Proposals for 2021 events are due by February 1, 2021.
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
A committee of representatives from NAMIC member companies works to identify topics of interest each year, but proposals are welcomed for any relevant topics.
- Enhancing customer experience in this new world
- Implications on corporate culture with everyone working from home
- How long-lasting will our fear of COVID be? How will it affect our behavior from a year or two from now?
- Future of agency mergers and acquisitions
- Risk-based underwriting
- Coaching in remote environments
- Dealing with the fundamental changes caused by COVID
- Artificial intelligence and machine learning
- Director education
- Developing diversity and inclusion programs
- Working from anywhere - do's and don’ts
- Recruiting and onboarding employees during/after COVID
- How to conduct successful virtual education seminars beyond just a webinar
- Engaging your distribution force during COVID
- Employee wellness and mental health
- Project management
- How should board governance evolve as companies grow?
- Best practices in board evaluation
- Impacts of COVID-19
- Managing in a virtual office environment
- Social inflation
- Use of drones in claims adjusting/loss control
- Creating better partnerships with panel counsel
- Preparing a file for litigation
- Class action trends and legal developments
- Customer service and the use of texting in claims handling
- Impacts of COVID-19 (business interruption)
- Emerging issues
- Data analytics
- Plaintiff attorney panel discussion
- Leadership development targeting up-and-coming leaders
- Creating a culture of continuous improvement/virtual professional development
- COVID-19 Lessons Learned & Impact to the Industry
- Developing a Sales and Production Mindset as an Underwriter
- Reinsurance Market Hot Topics Panel Discussion
- Social Inflation
- Insuring Wineries and Breweries
- Construction Defects
- Cannabis – Trends in Underwriting
- Storytelling and How to Maximize the Effectiveness of Your Story
- Artificial Intelligence – Efficiency Gains for the Desk Underwriter
- How to be a Successful Working Manager
- Lessons Learned – Claims and Underwriting Perspectives
- Teleconferences and Remote Work
- War Stories from Forensic Accounting in a Claims Scenario
- Liquor Liability
- Managing your Organization’s Reputational Risks
- Commercial Auto and Trucking
- Workers Compensation
- Presentation Techniques
- Cyber Risk Management
- When a homeowner is no longer a homeowner
- Fire safety
- Agency panel discussion
- Lessons learned from COVID-19
- Integrating technology into the underwriting process
- Farm inspections and inspection best practices
- Protecting the claim file
- Multiple entities, LLCs, trusts, DBAs, and live ins
- How to prepare for a deposition
- How to conduct a rate analysis
- B&Bs, VRBO, and other rentals
- Shift in weather patterns and how it affects farm mutuals
- Fraud – detection and prevention
- Renewal best practices
- Social inflation and its impact on liability claim results
- Managing a remote workforce
- Workforce and Workplace of the Now & the Future
- Leadership
- Economics and risk
- Financial health of the industry
- Renewal cycle
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Innovation & Innovation Teams
- Mutuality
- Weather/Derecho
- Agent Panel Discussion on New Challenges and Opportunities
- Customer Experience to Create Loyalty
- Developing Critical Thinking Skills for the Jobs of Tomorrow
- Developments in Virtual Risk Assessment
- Measuring Distracted Driving
- Recruiting Strategies to Increase Diversity in the Workplace
- Future of Underwriting
- Home Survey
- Leadership/Professional Development
- Natural Catastrophe and Wildfire Trends
- Personal Lines Pricing Factors Around Auto
- Political Update
- Quoting and Online Platforms
- Remote Workforce
- Sharing Economy and the Gig Economy
- Smart-Home Fastpitches
- Social Media and Digital: Influencing a Customers Journey
- Time Management
- Voice of the Personal Lines Customer
- Insurance Company Innovation Success Stories
- Cultivating a Culture of Innovation
- Implementing Innovative Ideas on a Budget
- Diversity and Inclusion
- Engaging the Next Generation of Workers
- Personal and Professional Development
- Presentation Skills
- Working from Home
- Returning to the Office After the Pandemic
- Succession Planning
- Risk Asset Allocation
- Company Investment Strategy
- Ratemaking Basics to Monitor Profitability
- Agent/Agency Relationship Management
- Digital Transformation
- Customer Buying Experience
- Changing Distribution Models
