Description: How diverse and inclusive (D&I) are we as pedagogical practitioners in the ever-changing student and actuarial science industry landscape? Given that our in-class experience impacts many populations, how successful are we dealing with conflicting belief structures and creating a welcoming and productive environment for members of the underrepresented (LGBTQIA+) and minority groups in our actuarial science classes? This interactive session will aim to provide a working knowledge of issues that arise and how to successfully address them.

Description: This session took place at the Society of Actuaries Spring 1975 Meeting in New York. The presenters discussed actuarial reports to management, including those chronicling past experience, forecasts of the future, including recommendations for change in response to future influences, and reports acting as alerts or warning basis to emerging trends.

Description: Actuaries play pivotal roles in insurance companies, consulting firms, and throughout the industry. With the ongoing accounting and regulatory changes, process and system modernization, and the rapidly changing environment, actuaries frequently find themselves working in multidisciplinary projects with non-actuarial teams. In order to take on broader leadership roles, actuaries are often times expected to partner with and/or lead non-actuarial personnel. How can actuaries work most effectively with non-actuaries? A panel of industry leaders across different disciplines will share their perspectives on actuaries working with and building effective relationships with non-actuarial colleagues. The panelists will cover how actuaries add value in a non-actuarial world, what aspects actuaries can focus on to be more effective across disciplines, and incorporate success stories as well as lessons learned.

Description: Data analytics is changing insurance industry and will fundamentally change how we run insurance business. Actuaries could and should be on top of it and lead the change. This practical session would provide a technical overview about GLM and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in life insurance. The session would also focus on case-studies across different functional areas like pricing, fraud detection, underwriting and product development.

Description: Presented at October 1996 Annual Meeting. This panel presents an overview of current and future employment trends in each area of the actuarial profession. Topics include: skill development, marketability and future opportunity positioning.

Description: Presented at May 2000 Spring Meeting. Discusses common problems in creating a successful merger - such as not incorporating community support, and not achieving economies of scale - and how to avoid them.

Description: 1999 SOA Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Presenters addressed the skills needed by actuaries to compete for business opportunities leading to advancement, and describe one company's approach to the issue. Skills discussed: 1. Communication. 2· Management. 3· Crossover . 4· General insurance knowledge. 5· Leadership.

Description: With the rapid development of the Insurance market, insurance technology—including online insurance--continues to mature. Zhongan Online invests heavily in fintechand Zhongan Answer, an insurance robo-advisor, launched in 2018, could improve transaction efficiency by using artificial intelligence to communicate in a timely manner and solve the pain point of the perplexed insurance clause. Under a different consumption scenario, Zhongan Answer could reply to users in a timely manner, while also implementing private customized products and services by providing users with personal risk management and insurance assessment solutions so that users could easily and conveniently select the most suitable insurance plan. The intelligent shopping guide system of Zhongan Answer could improve transaction efficiency by analyzing the personal insurance intention and providing the humanized interpretation of insurance clause. Zhongan Answer has served millions of users and supported more than 100,000 insurance-related knowledge points with an accuracy rate over 90%. Zhongan Answer has provided more than four million Q&A services, and its intelligent shopping guide system covers more than 90% of insurance products.

Description: The panel discussed actuarial opportunities in the 1980's and 1990's. Questions discussed included: 1. Will traditional opportunities be reduced? 2. What nontraditional opportunities are available? 3. What changes are needed in our educational process? 4. How do we make nontraditional employers aware of actuarial skills and their value? 5. What will actuarial work be like? From Record of Society of Actuaries Vol. 8, No. 3.

Description: This presentation is a general session from the 1991 Meeting of the Society of Actuaries, held June 3-5 in Colorado Springs. The speaker addresses the art of taking criticism and offers specific strategies that enable one to use criticism to his/her own advantage, including how to appraise the validity of criticism, dealing with the destructive critic, handling critical customers and clients, how to keep from becoming defensive, how to change your own behavior, and getting the critical edge. From the Record of Society of Actuaries, Volume 17, No. 3A.