This year's Asian Actuarial Conference (AAC), to be held in Hong Kong from 22 to 25 October, will have the theme of 'Innovation, International Hubs and Hong Kong'. As always, the AAC will attempt to explore the issues that affect actuaries across Asia, looking into their future, their potential evolution and how the landscape of the actuarial profession might change. We speak to AAC's programme chairperson Orchis Li about the conference.