Schedule
The ARIA 2026 Annual Meeting featured a robust schedule with education breakout sessions, general sessions and networking opportunities.
* All times listed in Eastern Time
View ARIA Program - PLEASE NOTE: The Annual Meeting program was finalized for print on 7/24/2026.
President's Luncheon Speaker
In her presentation, "Insurance in a World of Growing Risk," Carolyn will examine how insurance markets are increasingly serving as early indicators of climate-related risks and the economic challenges those risks pose to communities. She will share insights on what it will take to create more resilient, insurable communities through innovative approaches to loss reduction and risk management.
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General Sessions
Besides sunshine, Florida is known for its concentration of catastrophic risk exposure, insurance market disruptions, regulatory challenges, and operational difficulties. It also is known for managing and modeling catastrophic risk, insurance market innovations, a dynamic excess and surplus lines industry, and operational resilience. Shaped by hurricane exposure, litigation pressures, changing market capacity, and evolving risk landscapes, the state offers valuable lessons for academics seeking to better understand insurance markets, public policy, and risk management.
This moderated panel brings together thought leaders from academia, industry, and consulting to examine how artificial intelligence is reshaping the insurance landscape. The discussion will focus on the ways AI is transforming core tasks, organizational structures, and decision-making roles across the industry.
Panelists will also explore the broader implications of these changes, highlighting both the threats and opportunities they present for higher education and the insurance ecosystem. The session will provide actionable insights for academics, including strategies for producing relevant, translational research on AI adoption, adapting curriculum within rapidly evolving and institutionally constrained environments, and responding to shifting demand for entry-level talent.
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RITS General Session
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This panel session is intended to promote conversation about how generative AI is impacting teaching-learning directly, how it is changing employer expectations, and what this means for the future of RMI education and work. The early portion of the session is a panel discussion -- to open the conversation with general thoughts from both the professional and academic perspectives. Later in the session, the conversation becomes audience interactive and is intended to be an open discussion among all attending.
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