Description: This article explains the importance of centralizing modeling departments. It goes further and explains the importance of making all aspects of modeling reusable. It explains the consequences of decentralization.

Description: This article introduces IT DevOps to actuaries and how it is applicable to them to improve their modeling efforts and make them more efficient.

Description: 1993 SOA Spring Meeting, Boston. This session presented ways of using technology of 1993 in order to further actuarial applications and actuarial projects. The speakers related recent personal experiences in which emerging trends in hardware, software, and methodologies have been utilized.

Description: Machine learning models have many practical applications in the world of insurance. These applications are well documented and most actuaries, at least at a high level, are familiar with these concepts. The presenters will take this one step further and provide an introduction to the theoretical formulas and real-world considerations that make machine learning models possible.