Forthcoming events
All forthcoming events
Webinar - Understanding the basics of UK General insurance regulation.
This webinar looks to provide an overview of the history of regulation within the UK insurance industry, who are the main regulators, how do they regulate and why regulation is so essential. The presentation will examine the principle-based approach to regulation put in place by the UK regulators and how this differs from rules based regulation in many other countries. it will also look at the main aspects of regulation including fair treatment for customer, ICOBS, training and competence requirements and solvency margins.
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Online Event - Extended Cognition: an essential skill to improve your productivity and creativity in work and/or study
Thinking doesn´t just happen within the mind. There are various other tools that can help us to store and retrieve information. The principle of extended cognition helps to “supersize the mind”, and so we can improve our productivity and creativity whether for work or study. This webinar will examine the principle of extended cognition and provide you with insights to help you free your mind to be as creative and productive as possible.
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Online event - The Broker Landscape – understanding our brokers’ needs and challenges
This session originally designed for underwriters provides an understanding of the broker market, the specific and general challenges that Brokers face, and how this drives behaviours. This understanding is of great value to Insurers when engaging with Brokers and is applicable to Brokers too in understanding the competitor landscape.
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Novus x SEWCASS Event- Cheese, Wine, and Results - ICAEW South & East Wales
🧀🍷 Cheese & Wine Evening – Hosted by SEWCASS & Novus 📅 Date: Thursday, 23 January 2025 📍 Venue: The Sir Gareth Edwards Lounge, Cardiff Arms Park Join us for an unforgettable evening celebrating results, enjoying fine wines, and mingling with fellow professionals in the exclusive Sir Gareth Edwards Lounge, offering stunning views of Cardiff Arms Park.
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Online Event - Supporting Early Career Colleagues
Retention of early careers is currently facing some significant challenges. In this workshop we will explore some of the challenges faced by young people as they enter the workplace and explore some strategies you can use to help support and empower your early career colleagues.
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Webinar - Memorabilia Valuations Training
Collecting things is something humans have always done – from interesting pebbles to glamorous diamonds! It’s a natural urge that many of us experience. Collecting memorabilia has become very fashionable, and can be very lucrative. But what is valuable, and what advice and guidance should a client be oered?
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Online Event - The Power of Kindness
In this workshop we will learn about the positive impact of kindness in both working and personal lives. Kindness has been shown to reduce loneliness, depression and improve mental wellbeing. We will explore how you can promote and share more kindness within your workplace, and leave with a kindness action plan to help embed kindness.
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Online Event: Drone Insurance
This is an emerging class of insurance driven by the increasing use of drones by businesses. The session provides a comprehensive exploration into the safe operation of drones and the relevant insurance, risk and regulatory issues.
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Online Event - Neurodiversity in the Workplace
In this one-hour webinar, we explore the significance of understanding and embracing neurodiversity within the workplace. We begin by defining neurodiversity and highlighting its importance in creating an inclusive work environment. We discuss legal and ethical considerations, such as the Equality Act 2010 and the duty to make reasonable adjustments, to ensure compliance and support for neurodivergent individuals.
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Online Event - Building Confidence in Your Colleagues
In this workshop we will explore what confidence is, and work through practical exercises that you can use with yourself and your colleagues to help build confidence. You will leave our confidence session feeling more capable and confident, with a clear understanding of how to increase confidence in others.
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Webinar - Managing the Market Cycle
Hard markets usually last around a maximum of three years and this latest one started in 2020. This presentation, delivered by Alan Chandler one of the UK’s most popular presenters, looks at what causes market cycles in the insurance industry and what is likely to occur in 2025.
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The Insurance Institute of Cardiff Annual Dinner 2025
Lewys Richards, President of the Insurance Institute of Cardiff, and the Institute Council are delighted to announce details of our 2025 Annual Dinner. Our showcase event will once again take place at The Mercure Cardiff Holland House Hotel & Spa on Friday 4th April 2025, and we’re sure it will again prove to be the highlight of this year’s Institute calendar with our 2024 dinner being a sell out!
View event detailsOnline Event - ESG - Challenges and Opportunities
Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) regulation is on the rise globally with many new requirements for companies to report on how they are managing ESG risks, and what actions they are taking to prevent negative impacts on the environment, improve Social Responsibility and operate ethically. The insurance industry finds itself in a unique position as it already has the ESG fundamentals of managing risks and robust governance at its core, but in many ways the sector (along with others) is having to play catch up to ESG expectations.
View event detailsOnline Event: 10 Years of the Insurance Act 2025 - Has it Made a Difference?
The Insurance Act 2015 was the biggest overhaul of insurance law for over 100 years but what has been its impact on the industry and our clients? What are likely to be the future trends in terms of how it is applied? In this webinar we will examine whether the Act has achieved its aims and, by looking at some of the landmark judgments over the past ten years, how the courts have been interpreting the Act. We will also look at what trends we can expect over the next decade.
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Online Event: Sustainable Compassion: how to effectively support clients without impacting your own mental health
In insurance and financial services, we are so often called upon to demonstrate high levels of compassion in a whole range of different scenarios. If not dealt with properly, this can lead to fatigue that is bad for our mental and physical health and which in turn begins to significantly impact our performance and at worst lead to burnout. In this webinar, we will examine how compassion fatigue can manifest itself and then learn a strategy to ensure that we and our colleagues do not become a victim to this silent, but very serious, risk to our health.
View event detailsOnline Event - Understanding Mental Health
In the fast-paced insurance world, mental health is gaining increased recognition as an essential factor of overall well-being. Promoting mental health wellbeing is a collaborative effort that involves both employers and employees. Proactively managing your own mental well-being contributes to a more positive work experience and an enhanced overall quality of life.
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Online Event - Uncommon Sense for Health and Performance
This session delivered by Ollie Martin, author of ‘Uncommon Sense’, introduces you to six simple daily actions that will make you fitter and healthier than the majority of the population, and help ignite your performance and productivity. This myth-busting presentation will give you the latest hacks on what works and what does not, interspersed with short practices and tests to support engagement, and illustrate and support learning
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Online Event: Group Think: what is it and why is it so high on the FCA´s agenda?
In their consultation relating to diversity and inclusion, the FCA highlighted “group think” as an issue to be addressed in the industry. Their aim is to see better decision-making, risk management and more effective change. But what exactly is “group think”? How does it manifest itself in an organisation? What are the internal and external risks? What do we need to be doing now? These are the questions that will be addressed in this one hour webinar that is of relevance and importance to anyone working within insurance and financial services, whatever their role.
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Online Event - Social Mobility in the Workplace
The UK has one of the lowest rates of social mobility of any high-income country. In this workshop we will be exploring what social mobility is, what the barriers to social mobility are, and how this relates to the workplace. We will also explore what steps your organisation can take to support social mobility
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Webinar - EL,PL and Products Liability insurance overview.
This webinar looks at providing an overview of the essential insurance covers of employers liability, public liability and products liability, what these policies cover and how a client could become legally liable.
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