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The AIO conference, pencilled in for the Elephant Hills Hotel from May 21 to 26, is one of the biggest international conferences to be hosted by Zimbabwe this year.
More than 600 insurance practitioners and observers across 54 countries around the world are expected to participate at the conference.
The theme of the conference is “In Pursuit of the Uninsured African”.
The conference organiser in Zimbabwe, Mr Mike Chiurunga, yesterday said the response had been overwhelming.
“We are no longer taking any new registrations as the conference has been fully subscribed,” he said.
The number of delegates that have registered so far has already exceeded the target of 500 delegates that the organisers were working with.
Minister of Finance Tendai Biti is one of the keynote speakers and will discuss “Insurance in Africa: Issues and Opportunities”.
Other topics to be discussed include Reaching the untapped markets: Risk perception in Africa, insurance model, the insurance product and insurance marketing in Africa; Increasing the Insurance Penetration Index in Africa: The case for Micro-Insurance and unlocking growth through strengthening the insurance regulatory framework.
The event will also feature a series of meetings such as Association of African Insurance Supervisory Authorities (AAISA), Association of African Insurance Brokers (AIBA), African Life Insurers Meeting and networking on business ideas.
AIO is a non-governmental organisation recognised by a majority of African governments, including Cameroon, which has signed a headquarters agreement with it and where it has set up its permanent secretariat.
Established in 1972, AIO is the umbrella under which all the insurance operators on the African continent fall and its membership includes insurers and reinsurers, brokers and all intermediaries, insurance institutions and trade associations, as well as supervisory authorities.
The primary objective of the association is to promote inter-African co-operation and to develop a healthy insurance and reinsurance industry in Africa.