7th International Microinsurance Conference 2011Agenda - 8-10 November 2011 - Hotel Sheraton, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil| Field trip | 7/11 November 2011 | Host organisation: SINAF Seguros, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | | |
| Day 1 | 8 November 2011
| | Download PDF – Presentations | Download PDF – Papers | | | | | | | 08.30 | Pre-conference seminars
| | | | | 08.30 - 12.00 | Seminar 1 Regulation, supervision and policy Hosted by IAIS, MiN, Access to Insurance Initiative | Seminar agenda > more | Presentation Nag > more Presentation Wiedmayer-Pfister > more | | | 08.30 - 12.00 | Seminar 2 Academic track Hosted by Georgia State University/CEAR | Seminar agenda > more | Presentation Harrison - Introduction > more Presentation Harrison - Behavioral Econometrics > more Presentation Harrison - Deconstructing Field Experiments > more Presentation Martínez-Correa > more | | | 12.00 | Registration | The registration desk is open during the entire conference | | | | 14.00 | Opening of the conference | Welcome addresses Craig Churchill Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland Thomas Loster Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany Jorge Hilário Gouvêa Vieira President , CNseg, Brazil Ricardo Paes de Barros Secretary of Strategic Actions, Government of Brazil Julio Cesar Carmo Bueno Secretary of Economic Development, Energy, Industry and Services, State of Rio de Janeiro Keynote speech Stefan Dercon University of Oxford, UK | Presentation Dercon > more | | | 15.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.00 - 18.30 | Plenary 1 Is microinsurance different in Latin America? | Recaredo Arias General Secretary, FIDES, Mexico
María del Carmen Díaz Amador General Coordinator, PRONAFIM, Ministry of Economy, Mexico
Nancy Lee General Manager, Multilateral Investment Fund, IADB Roberto Junguito Bonnet Executive President, Fasecolda, Colombia Facilitator Doubell Chamberlain Cenfri, South Africa | Presentation Arias > more Presentation Díaz Amador > more Presentation Lee > more Presentation Junguito > more | | | 19.00 - 21.00 | Meet and greet reception | | | |
| Day 2 | 9 November 2011 | Speakers | Download PDF – Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 08.30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 1 | Case studies from Latin America | Isabel Cruz CEO, AMUCSS, Mexico RedSol - Mexico. Innovative business model in remote rural areas: Integrating the value chain for the distribution of microinsurance. Barbara Magnoni President, EA Consultants, USA Healthcare made to order – The case for women's health insurance at Aseguradora Rural José Luis Contreras CEO, Aon, Bolivia Microinsurance: The case for new underwriting DNA Facilitator Miguel Solana Microinsurance Officer, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland | Presentation Cruz > more
Presentation Magnoni > more Presentation Contreras > more Presentation Solana > more | | | Session 2 | Case studies in health microinsurance | Elizabeth McGuinness Director - Consumer research, Microfinance Opportunities, USA Community management of risk pool spreads benefits of microinsurance Rick Koven Project Director Business Case - MicroInsurance Centre, LLC, USA Good Business Practices Anabelle Sulmont Assessor - research and market studies, REDSOL, Mexico Understand health protection necessities of people affiliated to Seguro Popular in Mexico Facilitator Peter Wrede Microinsurance Officer, ILO, Switzerland | Presentation McGuinness > more Presentation Koven > more Presentation Sulmont > more | | | Session 3 | Expanding distribution | Introduction Brandon Mathews Head of Microinsurance, Zurich, Switzerland João Joaquim de Melo Neto Segundo Coordinator, Palmas Institute, Brazil Experience with bancassurance Anja Smith Director, Cenfri, South Africa Ensuring value to clients through collective industry products: the story of the South African insurance industry's Mzansi and Zimele products | Presentation Mathews > more Presentation de Melo > more Presentation Smith > more | | | Session 4 | Academic track: Product design and demand for microinsurance | Karlijn Morsink Researcher, University of Twente, Netherlands Informal local trust and micro insurance demand: Testing a comprehensive model in the rural Philippines Daniel Clarke Researcher, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Microinsurance decisions: evidence from Ethiopia Andreas Landmann PhD Student, University of Mannheim, Germany Saving microinsurance: Why you should do both or nothing. A behavioral experiment on the Philippines Facilitator Richard Phillips Chairman, Risk management and insurance department, Georgia State University, USA | Presentation Morsink > more
Presentation Clarke > more Presentation Landmann > more | Paper Morsink > more Paper Clarke > more Paper Landmann > more | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 11.00 | Plenary 2 Academic track: Is low takeup a rational choice? | George Zanjani AAMGA, Associate Professor, Department of risk managment and insurance, Georgia State University, USA Richard Phillips Chairman - Risk management and insurance department, Georgia State University, USA Discussant Craig Churchill Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland Facilitator Glenn Harrison Director CEAR/Georgia State University, USA | Presentation Zanjani > more
Presentation Phillips > more | | | 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break | | | |
| Day 2 | 9 November 2011 | Speakers | Download PDF – Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 14.00 - 18:30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 5 | Technology in microinsurance | Wladimir Chinchio COO, Vayon Insurance Providers, Brazil How the cellphone and PoS can help the insurers in the obtainment of efficiency and scale in microinsurance operations Martin Fuller Chief Technology Officer, MicroEnsure, UK Utilising technology to improve customer service and efficiency in microinsurance programmes Sunil Bhatla Programme Director, CIRM, India Integrated livestock risk management solution Peter Gross General Manager, MicroEnsure, Ghana Reaching the poor at scale through mobile phones Facilitator Michael McCord President, Microinsurance Centre, USA | Presentation Chinchio > more Presentation Fuller > more Presentation Bhatla > more Presentation Gross > more Presentation McCord > more | | | Session 6 | Workshop on success factors for PPP in Microinsurance | Part 1: The privat sector perspective Brandon Mathews Head of Microinsurance, Zurich, Switzerland Lambert Muhr Agricultural Insurance Expert, Munich Re, Germany Part 2: The public sector perspective María Victoria Sáenz Lead Project Specialist, IDB, USA Antonis Malagardis Project Manager, GIZ-MIPSS, Philippines
Part 3: Managing microinsurance partnerships Kelly Rendek Consultant, Canada Managing microinsurance partnerships Facilitators Gaby Ramm Consultant Microinsurance/Social Protection, Germany Dirk Reinhard Vice Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany | Presentation Mathews > more Presentation Muhr > more Presentation Sáenz > more Presentation Malagardis > more Presentation Rendek > more Presentation Ramm/Reinhard > more | | | Session 7 | Impact assessment: Methodologies, case studies and trends | Daniel Stein PhD Student, London School of Economics, United Kingdom Impact evaluation and product design of weather insurance What can we learn from evaluations? Experience from the field: Daniel Clarke Researcher, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Sarah Janzen PhD student, University of California - Davis, USA Facilitator Stefan Dercon University of Oxford, United Kingdom | Presentation Stein I > more Presentation Stein II > more
Presentation Clarke > more Presentation Janzen > more
Presentation Dercon > more | | | Session 8 | Protecting the poor against natural disaster - case studies | Karlijn Morsink Researcher at University of Twente, The Netherlands Value for farmers from meso-level index insurance!? Lourdes del Carpio Sub-Director - Agricultural Insurance, La Positiva Seguros, Peru Agricultural catastrophic insurance for poor farmers in Perú Rupalee Ruchismita Executive Director, CIRM, India Defining the steps in building ownership in designing a sustainable meso-level flood insurance product for Bangladesh Anuj Tyagi Head - Corporate & Rural Agri Business, HDFC ERGO, India Bundle insurance products to meet the needs of low income households Facilitator Thomas Loster Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, Germany | Presentation Morsink > more Presentation del Carpio > more
Presentation Tyagi > more |
| | 19.30 - 22.30 | Dinner | | | |
| Day 3 | 10 November 2011 | Speakers | Download PDF – Presentations | Download PDF - Papers | | 08.30 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 9 | How to assess client value? | Barbara Magnoni President, EA Consultants, USA Michal Matul Research Officer, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland Bert Opdebeeck Microinsurance Programme Co-ordinator, BRS, Belgium How to measure client value with social performance indicators? Facilitator Alexia Latortue Deputy CEO, CGAP, USA | Presentation Magnoni > more Presentation Matul > more Presentation Opdebeeck > more
Presentation Latortue > more | | | Session 10 | Distribution and value chain case studies | Preeti Mishra Associate VP - Rural business, ICICI Prudential Life, India Demand for micro insurance in India and its distribution through different intermediaries to low income households Ryan Lynch General Manager, MicroEnsure, Tanzania Choices in distribution: MicroEnsure case studies Evandro Baptistini Vice President of AON Affinity Latin America, Brazil Utility company distribution Facilitator Craig Churchill Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland | Presentation Mishra > more Presentation Lynch > more Presentation Baptistini > more
| | | Session 11 | Consumer education: How to make mass media work for insurance education | Sarah Bel Information Officer, ILO's Microinsurance Innovation Facility How to design successful marketing messages? Lessons from a recent study on behavioral economics Elizabeth McGuinness Director - Consumer research, Microfinance Opportunities, USA Lessons learned about how to make effective use of radio to present insurance education on a mass scale Maria Elena Bidino Advisor- Institutional and Consumer Affairs, CNseg, Brazil Experiences with a multimedia mass media campaign in Brazil Facilitator Jasmin Suministrado Knowledge Officer, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland | Presentation McGuinness > more Integrated Presentation > more | | | Session 12 | National strategies to increase access: a joint country process | Lemmy Manje Country Coordinator, ILO/FinMark Trust, Zambia Toolkit for assessing capacities of insurers: firm and country level application
Alejandra Díaz Director - Social responsibility and microinsurance, Fasecolda, Colombia The role of the Colombian insurance association for promoting microinsurance Solange Beatriz Palheiro Mendes Executive Director, CNseg, Brazil National strategy for low income insurance and microinsurance - the view of the industry Facilitator Brigitte Klein Head of Sector Project, Financial System Approaches to Insurance – Access to Insurance Initiative, GIZ, Germany | Presentation Manje > more Presentation Díaz > more | Paper Manje > more | | 10.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 11.00 | Plenary 3 Roundtable on microinsurance in Brazil | Introduction Herman Smit Senior Researcher, Cenfri, South Africa Golden bullets? Innovation lessons from Brazil Hernán Poblete Miranda Director of the IMR Program - International, LIMRA, USA Microinsurance on demand: Innovative strategies for establishing distribution and communication channels Eugênio Velasques Executive Director and Head of Microinsurance, Bradesco Seguros, Brazil Bradesco Seguros - A case study in insurance for low income people Regina Giordano Simões Technical analyst, SUSEP, Brazil The regulators perspective on microinsurance in Brazil
Facilitator María Victoria Sáenz Lead Project Specialist, IDB, USA | Presentation Smit > more Presentation Poblete > more Presentation Velasques > more Presentation Simões > more | | | 12.30-14.00 | Lunch break | | | |
Day 3
| 10 November 2011 | Speakers | Download PDF – Presentations | Download PDF –Papers | | 14.00 | Parallel sessions | | | | | Session 13 | Developing microinsurance agents | Serena Guarnaschelli Partner, Dalberg Global Development Advisors, Switzerland Successes and challenges in microinsurance salesforce development Ruth Aseron Microinsurance Coordinator, USAID-supported RBAP-MABS Program Industry association of rural banks: strategic partners for developing access to microinsurance Pedro Bulcão CEO, SINAF, Brazil Agent-based microinsurance - experience from Brazil Facilitator Craig Churchill Chairman of the Microinsurance Network, ILO/Microinsurance Innovation Facility, Switzerland | Presentation Guarnaschelli > more Presentation Aseron > more Presentation Bulcão > more | | | Session 14 | Academic track: Impact and demand | Sarah Janzen PhD student, University of California - Davis, USA Dynamic demand for index-based asset insurance in the presence of poverty traps Markus Olapade PhD Student, University of Mannheim, Germany The impact of insurance literacy education on knowledge, attitude and behavior – A randomized controlled trial Berber Kramer PhD Candidate, VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Individual or group insurance? Microinsurance games with credit groups in Tanzania Facilitator George Zanjani AAMGA, Associate Professor, Department of risk managment and insurance, Georgia State University, USA | Presentation Janzen > more Presentation Opalade > more Presentation Kramer > more | Paper Janzen > more | | Session 15 | Case studies in pricing microinsurance products Hosted by the IAA Microinsurance Working Group | Daniel Clarke Researcher, University of Oxford, United Kingdom Pricing indexed agricultural insurance: Lessons from India Peter Wrede Microinsurance Officer, ILO, Switzerland How to determine the premium of microinsurancein theabsence of data Kelly Rendek Consultant, Canada Pricing of credit life Facilitator Howard J. Bolnick Chair, IAA Microinsurance working group, USA | Presentation Clarke > more Presentation Wrede > more Presentation Rendek > more
| | | Session 16 | National strategies - regulatory approaches | Martina Wiedmaier-Pfister Consultant to GIZ, Germany Introduction to the A2II toolkit 1 country diagnostic Carla Chiappe SBS, Peru Impact of microinsurance regulation Facilitator Doubell Chamberlain Managing Director, Cenfri, South Africa | Presentation Wiedmaier-Pfister > more Presentation Chiappe > more | | | 15.30 | Coffee break | | | | | 16.00 | Plenary 4 Roundtable - challenges for policymakers and supervisors to ensure consumer value | Sammy Makove Insurance Supervisor, Kenya Luciano Portal Santanna Superintendent, SUSEP, Brazil Joselito Almario Director, National Credit Council, Philippines Facilitator Michael McCord President, Microinsurance Centre, USA |
| | | 18.00 | Closing of the conference | Jorge Hilário Gouvêa Vieira President , CNseg, Brazil Dirk Reinhard Vice Chairman, Munich Re Foundation, German Chairman of the Conference Steering Committe and Member of the Executive Committe of the Microinsurance Network |
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| AGM | 11 November 2011 | Annual General Meeting Members of the Microinsurance Network only | | |
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