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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 listed on the event calendar.
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To submit a session for consideration, you must complete the speaker proposal form below.
SUBMIT A PROPOSALTOPICS 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.
- Evaluating Building Structures
- Confinements
- LP Gas
- Electrical - Basic
- Electrical - Advanced
- Principles of Liability
- Solid Fuel Heat
- Loss Control Basics - Farm Surveys/Virtual Surveys + New Loss Control Technology
- Anaerobic Digesters/Methane Digesters (Equipment Related to Digesting Operations)
- Growing/Processing Cannabis
- Farm Storage of Flammable Liquids (NFPA 395) + Flammable Liquids: Gasoline, Diesel Fuel, Liquid Fuels, Transportation, Quantities, Distances
- Commercial Auto/Farm Vehicles
- Renewable Energy (Solar + Wind Mills)
- Non-Traditional Ag (Vertical Farms, Urban Farms)
- Employee Safety/Work Comp
- Grain Bins/Farm Equipment
- 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
- Agent Panel Discussion
- Sales and Marketing Alignment
- Business and Insurance Climate Post COVID–19
- Customer Segmentation and Personalization
- Social Media Marketing – Practical Applications Across Various Platforms
- Changes in Distribution – Agency Mergers and Acquisitions
- Marketing Metrics – Determining KPIs and Explaining the ROI of Marketing
- Case Study: Successful Campaign Deep Dive
- Meeting Rising Customer Expectations
- Insurance Company Marketing Post-Pandemic
- Design Tips and Utilization
- Peer–Led Roundtable Discussions
- 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
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317.875.5250 20 F Street NW
Suite 510
Washington, DC 20001
202.628.1558
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