Monday, October 10
Leadership Workshop: Develop your Leadership Style
Sessions at 2:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
Betsy A 2nd Level
Hosted by Emily Huling, Selling Strategies (Limited Seats, Pre-Registration Required)

Tuesday, October 11
Panel Discussion: Developing The Future Leaders of Our Industry
3:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Manchester Foyer 2nd Level

Featuring:
Letha Heaton, Vice President-Marketing, Admiral Insurance
Michael Miller, President & COO, Scottsdale Insurance
Patrick Ryan, Chairman & CEO, Ryan Specialty Group
Steven Gross, President & CEO, Metro Insurance
Hosted by Next Generation President: Kristen Skender, National Marketing Director, USG Insurance Services

Next Generation Cocktail Reception
4:00 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Gallery Ground Level
Stop by the Next Generation Desk outsidethe brokers lounge to sign-up or for more information about NAPSLO Next Generation membership.

Wednesday, October 12
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.             Derek Hughes/NAPSLO Educational Foundation Lecture Series – Presenter: Michael Lewis
2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.      ..........Current Technology Issues in the U.S. & U.K.

MIchael Lewis
Journalist & Best-Selling Author of Liar's Poker, The Blind Side and The Big Short

A shrewd observer of politics, finance and the American scene, Michael Lewis combines keen insight with his signature wit, making him
one of today’s leading socialcommentators. A renowned best-selling author, Lewis is also a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, Slate and Bloomberg. Lewis’ most recent book, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (2010), is a darkly humorous account of how the event that was considered impossible—the free fall of the American economy—finally occurred. He proves that truth really is stranger than fiction with a razor-sharp analysis of the heroes and villains that drove America’s economy overboard.

Lewis first made a name for himself in 1989 with the chart-topping Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage of Wall Street, an inside look at his career as a bond trader that best-selling author Tom Wolfe called “the funniest book on Wall Street I’ve ever read,” and earned Lewis the label of “America’s poet laureate of capital” from The Los Angeles Times. Liar’s Poker spent 62 weeks on The New York Times Best-Seller List and remains one of the signature books of the 1980s. Lewis traversed the 1980s’ get-rich-quick jungle with The Money Culture (1992); chronicled the 1996 presidential campaign in Losers: The Road to Everyplace but the White House; crafted a 20-week New York Times Best-Seller in 2001 with The New, New Thing (“The book that does for Silicon Valley what Liar’s Poker did for Wall Street.”); explored the internet boom in Next: The Future Just Happened (2002).

Lewis’ 2003 release Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game offers an unprecedented look behind the scenes of a Major League Baseball franchise. This New York Times best-seller details the effect that an innovative personnel approach has had in allowing the small-budget Oakland Athletics to consistently rank among baseball’s best.

In 2006, Lewis took his second dive into the world of professional sports with The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game. He delves into the substructure of football and tells the inspirational true story of Baltimore Raven Michael Oher. The 2009 film adaptation of The Blind Side, starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw and Kathy Bates, broke the box office record for the biggest opening weekend of a sports film in history.

Lewis’ 2009 release Home Game: An Accidental Guide to Fatherhood (May 2009), is a compilation of stories he wrote for his column “Dad Again” in Slate, detailing the parenting realities thrust upon him—not always happily, but often hilariously—by the births of his three children.

A native of New Orleans, Michael Lewis graduated from Princeton University with a degree in art history and earned a master’s at The London School of Economics. Prior to his career as an author, he worked with The Salomon Brothers on Wall Street and in London. He lives in Berkeley with his wife Tabitha Soren and their three children.
On the stage, Lewis examines the era that was just brought to a crashing halt by the subprime and worldwide credit crisis. Starting with the years he chronicled in Liar’s Poker, he touches on the major economic events of the last twenty years, exploring what this period was all about, how it began and how it’s likely to end. He masterfully transforms complex issues into accessible scenarios through clever and amusing observations and continues to call it as he sees it in recounting Wall Street’s excesses.

Current Technology Issues in the U.S. and U.K.
NAPSLO has added a program reviewing current issues on technology in the U.S. and U.K. to the agenda of the 2011 annual convention in San Diego.
 
The technology program, Current Technology Issues in the U.S. and U.K., will review efforts, and future direction of the E&S Joint Working Group. It will take place on Wednesday, October 13, from 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. The program will feature Mike Roy, CIO of Risk Placement Services and incoming chair of the working group; Frank Neugebauer, CTO of Burns & Wilcox; and Adam Stafford, Programme Manager within Market Development at Lloyd's.
 
The program will discuss the direction of the working group, which is led by AAMGA, NAPSLO, ACORD and ACT, and the status of industry efforts to demonstrate the transfer of data between retailers, brokers/MGAs, and carriers; the use of standards in this changing environment; and recent actions by London and the Lloyds.