The International Actuarial Association (IAA) published a news brief covering the inaugural ASTIN Bulletin Conference at ETH Zurich, confirmed incoming and outgoing volunteer appointments across key IAA committees and forums for 2026, and posted updates on governance records and upcoming member webinars. The ETH Zurich conference brought together actuarial researchers and practitioners for two days of presentations and discussions, including keynote sessions on e-values in risk management, trusting machines with risk, representation learning, and optimal life-contingent payoffs without insurers. In total, 103 presentations spanned AI and data science, climate change and mortality modelling, risk measures, and insurance applications, and the IAA confirmed the second ASTIN Bulletin Conference will be held at the University of Naples Parthenope on 20–22 January 2027. Volunteer appointments for 2026 include Alexander Wong (Executive Committee), Yosuke Fujisawa and Kendra Felisky (Nominations Committee), Simon Curtis (Actuarial Standards Committee Co-Vice-Chair), Lisa Ullman and Nicola Barrett (Actuarial Standards Committee), Christiaan Ahlers (Insurance Regulation Co-Vice-Chair), Laurence Frappier (Pensions, Benefits and Social Security Forum Co-Vice-Chair), and Stephen Walker (IAA Section Delegate to IACA), alongside acknowledgements of outgoing volunteers whose terms ended in 2025. Minutes from the Executive Committee’s 20 and 23 November meetings were made available online. The brief also listed two AFIR-ERM webinars on 12 February 2026 (pluvial flood climate risk assessment for the United States and Canada) and 17 March 2026 (signature-based validation of real-world economic scenarios), and relayed an Institute and Faculty of Actuaries questionnaire request to member associations with a completion deadline of 15 February.

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