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4th University of California Santa Barbara InsurTech Summit 2023

April 14, 2023

Location: UC Santa Barbara

Duration: 90 minutes for the panel discussion

Attendees: ~80

Audience: 75% Academics, 15% Startup roles, 5% Actuaries, 5% Other

  • 3 panelists engaged the audience along the following themes
    • New career paths available to actuarial students thanks to the InsurTech Wave?
    • Most useful skills new college graduates can acquire in order to get an “edge” in actuarial/InsurTech. Also, is Excel finally going to die out?
    • Expected impact of ChatGPT and similar technologies. Impact to the insurance industry. Impact on actuaries.
    • Most interesting trends in InsurTech and predictive analytics
    • Other questions:
      • credentials are needed/will be needed to enter the actuarial job market
      • influence of “Big Data”; simply a fad, or something more significant
      • sources for the latest trends in the actuarial profession