Heading a section of the Education Committee that designs sessions for the Insurance Accounting and Systems Association (IASA) Education Conference sometimes feels a bit like running a company: You must stay abreast of current issues and interests, lead a group of professionals, delegate work and ultimately answer for the outcome of the sessions.
No one knows this better than Dotti Augustine, director of fiduciary cash at Aon Benfield in Minneapolis, who has chaired the Insurance Accounting, Risk Management and Finance (ARF) committee for four years, overseeing selection and often creation of a broad range of sessions. Next year, the number of ARF sessions at the annual IASA event is scheduled to jump from 40 to 45.
This year, the committee accepted 30 of the 40 session proposals it received and lined up topics and speakers for the rest. Attendees rely on these sessions to keep abreast of regulatory changes and for continuing education credits, so the committee must assure a good balance of topics, she says. “We always have tax updates from the bigger CPA (certified public accountant) firms and we usually offer the statutory reporting and statutory accounting updates twice to assure everyone at the conference can attend.”
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