NU Online News Service, May 17, 1:00 p.m. EDT–The Risk and Insurance Management Society Inc. announced it is accepting program suggestions until May 27 for its 2006 annual conference.
Next year's session will be held April 23-27, in Honolulu, Hawaii. RIMS said persons interested in submitting proposals for sessions can find a form online at http://www.rims.org/2006psf. RIMS will inform applicants of acceptance via e-mail in August.
RIMS said it is particularly interested in sessions that address goals important to the risk management community, such as: the evolving role of the risk manager; advancing risk management as a profession; and helping RIMS members meet new governance and compliance requirements.
It also listed as topics of interest: helping members use RIMS tools such as the QIP Partnership and the Benchmark Survey; providing a better understanding of insurance market developments, alternative risk management methods and the cost of risk; and improving understanding of risk management departments and functions.
RIMs said a topic should be pertinent, nontraditional and/or it should promote new ideas or interesting concepts. The panel should include a good mix of strong presenters from a variety of professions. New to the 2006 RIMS Conference are interactive workshop sessions and case study formats.
Being a session coordinator, RIMS said, is a high-profile opportunity for professionals to share expertise, gain visibility, network, promote their organization, and enhance professional growth.
Responsibilities for session coordinators include creating a session and defining its content; writing a description; selecting speakers and coordinating their presentations; ensuring that sessions focus on knowledge; and avoiding sales presentations of products, services or capabilities of the speaker's organization.
Ideas suggested by RIMS and its members include claims management, employee risks, risk financing insurance coverage and markets, captives, legal trends and principles, loss prevention, risk modeling, risk management best practices, establishing a risk management department, and CFO/CEO views on risk management and enterprise risk management.
Other suggestions include: creating an effective risk management report, Sarbanes-Oxley and beyond, current D&O market conditions, perspectives from senior executives on the insurance market, and new developments and best practices in workers' compensation.
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