Description: This practical session would provide a technical overview about Generalized Linear Model (GLM) and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in life insurance. The session would also focus on case-studies sharing across different functional areas such as pricing, fraud detection, underwriting, product development and other real-world applications.

Description: This practical session would provide a technical overview about GLM techniques and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in solving business problems in life insurance. The session would also focus on recent real-world case-studies across different functional areas like pricing, fraud detection, underwriting and product development.

Description: The session will talk about the basic knowledge of GLM model that is relevant for insurance professionals. It will consist of explaining the concept, issues, tools and applications especially from insurance industry perspective. The session will also talk about how actuaries can benefit from predictive analytics. Advanced business analytics provides employers with insightful decision making and affords the opportunity to assess a marketplace from a totally new perspective. In this session, I will share some modelling techniques used in general insurance company for reference.

Description: The session will talk about the basic knowledge of GLM model that is relevant for insurance professionals. It will consist of explaining the concept, issues, tools and applications especially from insurance industry perspective. The session will also talk about how actuaries can benefit from predictive analytics. Advanced business analytics provides employers with insightful decision making and affords the opportunity to assess a marketplace from a totally new perspective. In this session, I will share some modelling techniques used in general insurance company for reference.

Description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to change the insurance industry more in the next 10 years than it has changed in the past 100 years. Rapid advancements in computing power and the exponential growth of Big Data are creating more opportunities to incorporate AI techniques and methodologies into actuarial work. This session is for the practicing actuary who would like to learn more about AI and how to use it to analyze insurance data. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to understand the fundamentals of AI, to build an AI model and to identify AI opportunities in their work.

Description: The session will talk about the basic knowledge of GLM model that is relevant for insurance professionals. It will consist of explaining the concept, issues, tools and applications especially from insurance industry perspective. The session will also talk about how actuaries can benefit from predictive analytics. Advanced business analytics provides employers with insightful decision making and affords the opportunity to assess a marketplace from a totally new perspective. In this session, I will share some modelling techniques used in general insurance company for reference.

Description: Starting with a review of recent VA and FIA industry policyholder behavior experience, this session will explore several critical elements in developing a sustainable and coherent framework to translate this complex experience data to assumption models, particularly for guarantee features such as GLWBs. The discussion will include the use of industry- and company-level data in building customized predictive models, and integrating models across behaviors such as income utilization and surrenders.

Description: Learn about key actuarial and analytic tools and methodologies used by commercial health insurance to identify and quantify drivers of healthcare cost and utilization (including wasteful and low-value ones) and risks. Use case scenarios in which these tools and methodologies apply, such as underwriting, reinsurance, medical management for population health and chronic diseases, managed care contracting, insurance market reform, provider payment reform, etc., will also be covered. Experience from the U.S., China and other parts of the world will be shared.

Description: This session provides actuaries who work with group life and disability products with the opportunity to participate in a moderated discussion with their colleagues. The specific topics will be those of interest to attendees, but are likely to include recent experience trends, product development, pricing and reserving.