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IASA Annual Educational Conference and Business Show Daily News
June 10, 2010
Welcome to the latest news and information from inside 2010 IASA Annual Educational Conference and Business Show, currently being held in Grapevine, TX. Here you'll find highlights from the conference, including recaps of sessions and featured articles.

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DAILY HIGHLIGHTS
Lowenthal Heads New Slate of IASA Officers, Board Members
Craig Lowenthal has a few goals in place as he begins his 12-month term as president of IASA, but it's a second title—specifically, volunteer evangelist—that he plans to present to the membership when he addresses it this morning. Read More

IASA Volunteers Gain More for Themselves and Their Companies
Volunteerism always is critical to IASA, stresses Joe Pomilia, executive director. "While we work on events, infrastructure, governance, and all kinds of things every other organization or association cares about, volunteerism always is at the forefront because we continue to remain a small-staffed organization," says Pomilia. "We want to stay close to our customer, and the only way to do that is have volunteers tightly integrate with everything we do." Read More

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Town Hall Looks for a Silver Lining in Among Dark Clouds of Budget Season
Lean budgets are now the new reality, according to Rod Travers, and that's the biggest challenge for insurers in today's environment. "The old cliche of 'do more with less' has leveled out to become 'do more with what you have,'" says Travers, who is senior vice president of technology at Robert E. Nolan Company. "Although the worst of the budget pressures have passed and every company's situation is different, IT departments still are pressured to do more within budget constraints." Read More

Career Skills Session Focuses on Similar Characteristics of Champions
How much thought did you give to putting on your shoes and socks today? Chances are, not much. However, paying attention to every detail, including the most seemingly mundane, can make the difference between being great—and everything else. That's the lesson attendees will learn in Wednesday's Career Skills Development Super Session at 9:15 a.m. with motivational speaker Don Yaeger. Read More

Achieving Balance in Enterprise Risk Management Proves Good for Business
For insurers, enterprise risk management (ERM) often starts as a compliance-driven initiative. However, as companies put ERM processes in place that provide deeper insight into operations and allow organizations to improve their decision-making, they learn the best reason to implement ERM is it is good for business. Read More

Accounting Session Provides Clarity Around Reinsurance Risk Transfer
Combine complex regulations, competing objectives, and a new political climate with insurers' need to create new and innovative products to stay competitive, and the result is an environment that raises many questions for how risk transfer is assessed. Read More

Become a Volunteer, and Energize Your Career
These days, in spite of technological gadgets and advancements that are supposed to save us time, it is hard to find even a moment to reflect on your own career. That's why I am asking everyone to take a step back from the day-to-day duties and responsibilities facing you for a few minutes and reflect on how you can energize your career! Read More

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