Call for Presentations

Conference attendees connect with talented, diverse, and engaged presenters and colleagues who share their experience and expertise generously. We are seeking your creative participation in designing sessions that optimize learning by providing the very best, relevant, and thought-provoking ideas pertinent to the captive insurance industry.

CICA’s Program Committee seek sessions that include the following:

• A confirmed risk manager or captive owner whose primary job function is operating or managing a captive. This individual is a direct employee of the captive’s parent company or affiliated company. This category is not for captive managers or service providers whose company has a captive.
• Future-focused, original content. Give us your perspective on what lies ahead and why.
• Depth and specificity. Attendees want advanced, in-depth information, so be sure to delve into the particulars of a topic. The more specific a proposal is, the better. Drill down to what really matters.
• A succinct, accurate title. Your title is going to be fighting for attention with dozens of other titles so it’s important for your title to be direct, explanatory and reflect the session description. The committee should be able to understand what the proposal will cover without reading your description.
• A diverse panel of presenters. CICA is particularly interested in creative, innovative, and forward-thinking proposals that enhance captive insurance strategies and create an open and supportive dialogue on making captive insurance an industry where everyone is welcome and included. All panels are highly recommended to include speakers diverse in age, gender, race/ethnicity, location and employment, as well as diversity in thought and opinion. Your submission should include no more than one panelist representative per company or related entity. Note that speakers confirmed in advance will strengthen your proposal and reinforce that it is well-developed and carefully thought out.
• Consider alternate formats. Think about fresh topics and new ways to present your information. Perhaps a talk show format, a TED talk, or an interactive case study would engage your audience and boost their learning. CICA plans to have different room setups to allow for smaller, interactive discussions and dialogue. Consider this option when creating your submission.
• Presentations from CICA members are desired, but not required.

1. Overall quality, with well-defined focus and timeliness of the topic.
2. Relevance to the captive and/or risk retention industries and their associated businesses.
3. Interactive or creative formats that include attendee participation are highly encouraged.
4. Introduction of emerging subjects or topics which appeal to varying experience levels.
5. An intriguing and concise title that conveys the importance and relevance of the subject.
6. Each session must include at least one captive owner or risk manager.
7. We require 3 to 4 speakers from different companies with varying perspectives on the topic per session. A moderator is considered a speaker.
8. Sessions that include more than one speaker from the same company will not be considered.
9. We will only accept a maximum of 5 session submissions per company, so please coordinate with your colleagues. All companies are limited to a maximum of 3 speakers at the conference and a speaker can only speak on a single session.
10. Original topics (not repeated from other conferences) are strongly encouraged.
11. Session submissions without proposed or confirmed speakers will be considered incomplete.
12. CICA programs are not an opportunity to “pitch” a product or a service provider.
13. CICA will weigh more heavily sessions that support our professional development initiatives.