This year's Singapore International Reinsurance Conference (SIRC) showed how critical informed discussion is in advancing the role of reinsurance as an enabler of a sustainable future for mankind. This can be considered to be the direct result of the years of extensive curation and endeavour that the Singapore Reinsurers' Association (SRA) - and in particular its chair Marc Haushofer and outgoing executive director Jeffrey Yeo - put into making the SIRC a preeminent reinsurance event globally.