Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. In this teaching session, techniques were presented to get the optimal result with the least effort. Techniques discussed: 1. Look at the whole process, working backwards from the result. 2. Look at all of the pieces of the job and redesign. 3. Bring technological tools into the process.

Description: LDTI’s introduction has forced many insurers to examine their existing operations and technologies. They must determine how to optimize compliance efforts while balancing data, analytics and system modernization considerations to achieve maximum value. This article will examine the four key facets—the data, technology, processes, and people—essential to any successful LDTI exercise. It will also touch on the various approaches for tackling LDTI and how a modernization mindset can help insurers realize much greater transformation for the business.

Description: This is a discussion of miscellaneous topics. From the Transactions of Society of Actuaries 1962, Vol. 12 Pt. 2 Includes discussion of automation opportunities, persistency studies, and stop-loss and catastrophe reinsurance

Description: 1994 SOA Spring Meeting, Orlando. This session is about experiences, benefits, problems, and pitfalls associated with advances in technology.

Description: Panelists at this session of the SOA 1997 Palm Desert Spring Meeting discuss Internet resources that may be useful to health actuaries and hints on how to best access data.

Description: The Actuarial Innovation and Technology Steering Committee of the Society of Actuaries is sponsoring this competition to encourage contestants to find innovative usages for data visualization software. This contest seeks to give actuaries and non-actuaries the chance to showcase their ability to tell a story by creating data visualizations for one of two standard datasets that have been created for this purpose.

Description: This is a discussion on computer systems. Specifically it highlights new computer applications in: insurance administration, both personal and group sales illustrations and information to field offices, corporate modeling and use of time-sharing and mini-computers by actuaries. From Record of the Society of Actuaries 1979, Volume 5, No. 1.

Description: This session from the 2003 SOA Spring Meeting is intended to improve your understanding of the history, current status and future of Internet security and increase your awareness of encryption, viruses and solutions and countermeasures for internet security. Session 37OF

Description: Letter from the new chairman of the Technology Section Council introducing the new council members.

Description: The Society of Actuaries (SOA) Research Institute hosted a virtual Open House on Wednesday, April 19, 2023, from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Central. The topic of this virtual Open House was the Institute’s Actuarial Innovation & Technology Strategic Research Program. There was a presentation and a question-and-answer session.