Description: 2021 ImpACT Conference -Session 10A: Building Academic-Industry Research Partnerships 10.28.21 Recording

Description: InsurTech continues to significantly influence the insurance industry even though there is an economic downturn. For insurtechs focused on profitability and efficiency, the landscape of opportunity looks more favorable. By attending this session, attendees will learn the current trends in InsurTech in a variety of lines of insurance.

Description: As the healthcare industry becomes increasingly complex, actuaries are under pressure to analyze vast amounts of data and make informed decisions quickly. Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies like ChatGPT offer a promising solution, providing powerful tools for data analysis and natural language processing. Come explore the use of ChatGPT in actuarial analysis, focusing on healthcare applications. Begin with an introduction to ChatGPT and how it works, including its ability to understand and generate natural language responses. Then expect a discussion on the potential benefits of using ChatGPT in healthcare actuarial analysis, including improved accuracy, efficiency, and scalability. Through case studies and examples, we will demonstrate how ChatGPT can be used to analyze complex healthcare data sets, including electronic health records (EHRs), claims data, and patient surveys. We will also discuss how ChatGPT can be integrated with other AI tools, such as predictive modeling and machine learning, to enhance actuarial analysis. Finally, learn about some of the potential challenges and limitations of using ChatGPT in actuarial analysis, such as data privacy concerns and the need for human oversight. There will also be guidance on best practices for using ChatGPT in a healthcare actuarial context, including data preparation, model training, and interpretability.

Description: Innovation can be a challenging goal to achieve for many organizations. Come explore how actuaries at any career stage can drive innovation in their organization and how innovation happens in companies. You'll also learn about what problems arise when organizations first start bringing an innovation mindset into play. Come discuss the practical aspects of making innovation happen for each person, whether they are an individual contributor, a team manager, personally responsible for organizational innovation, or ready to take the entrepreneurial leap.

Description: Data science, predictive analytics and AI are certainly the buzzwords these days. They are heavily used and developed in underwriting and marketing but for most actuaries, they might/may as well be science fiction. The presenters will demonstrate how a normal actuary can utilize data science techniques in their daily job function without forming an official data science team within a company. It can be done in a gradual fashion so that normal business is not disrupted and improvements are made over time. The usage of data science techniques will include demonstrations of the following areas: - Regression analysis - Economic scenario generator - Experience study - Data quality checks - Inforce compression for explicit hedging

Description: Discover the rapidly developing health and wellness industry during the Use of Health and Wellness Data in L&H Risk Assessment webcast. Our discussion includes the maximization of data usage through several different means, including current risk selection, creation of a dynamic ongoing assessment offering or substitution of traditional underwriting information to shorten the underwriting process. Come explore these different approaches as they affect the health and wellness industry. We will express the importance of a constantly changing data usage environment in order to better prepare insurers to maximize their data and drive health and wellness forward.

Description: Welcome to the future of insurance, for actuaries and non-actuaries! Discover how cutting-edge AI models are revolutionizing underwriting, risk assessment, and customer experience for the insurance industry. Experts in management consulting and actuarial consulting firms will provide valuable insights into the consideration and challenges surrounding the adoption of Generative AI.

Description: Blockchain and cryptography have seen significant adoption around the world. While still in early stages, it has started to make an impact in finance, gaming, and metaverses industries. Organizations have even began to provide insurance services on blockchain. Although insurance is limited to protection against financial losses in markets, the sheer adoption has sparked interest for other insurance use cases and some startups have already started experimenting in the space.

Description: Help consumers understand their rights in health care and understand how technology is embedded into the health care industry. On top of that, you will also hear about topics related to professionalism. During this webcast, you will learn about: ▪ An overview of the health insurance market ▪ Health care provider billing and contracting ▪ Recent trends with insurers and health care providers ▪ Identify areas of excessive billing and fraud ▪ The impacts of technology on billing practices ▪ An understanding pharmacy benefits, including discounts and rebates

Description: Learn how modernization of data, models, and technology are influencing workflows. This webcast will address how workflows are changing in response to new regulatory requirements and the impacts the changes have on modeling and end-to-end future state operating models. Industry leading actuaries will discuss: How team collaboration can increase quality and speed of reporting to internal and external stakeholders How to strengthen controls and compliance frameworks across finance and actuarial departments How to modernize actuarial input/output for strategic analysis and insights How to attract and retain top talent by improving opportunities for actuaries There will also be dedicated time to ask questions of those who have made the transition.