Description: How do you go about designing a new product? Behavioral Science is an often overlooked tool in enhancing product design and using a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) can give you insights to customer preferences and their willingness to pay for features. The result of this work is a product explicitly designed with your customers and market in mind.

Description: Leadership is not confined to managerial roles. It can be manifested and nurtured even as an individual contributor. In this session, we will delve into the concept of Growth from three distinct yet interconnected perspectives.

Description: Review the passing candidate list by number for SOA’s January 2024 administration of exam P.

Description: Review the passing candidate list by name for SOA’s January 2024 administration of exam P.

Description: Every year an AI topic goes through a hype cycle. Since 2022 and now in 2023 we continue to hear more about the ChatGPT models and how an everyday person is able to interact with AI. As more startups and applications are riding the hype, what does it all mean for our industry? Is this just a buzz or real? This talk intends to cover at a high level what are large language models, what does it mean for audit or regulatory space, and what might be some pitfalls or tolerance of error when it comes to selecting a right application for such models in insurance use cases.

Description: There is increasing industry interest in applying behavioral science to optimize product design decisions and improve outcomes for both insurers and their customers. With a growing set of options within product designs, predicting consumer behavior continues to get increasingly complex. Join this webcast for an overview of key behavioral economic concepts. Key insights will be shared from two SOA projects that explore how behavioral economic techniques can be used in various parts of the life insurance new business process and inforce management.

Description: Download and fill out the questionnaire for the 2024 SOA elections.

Description: View and download the report "Predictive Analytics and Machine Learning – Practical Applications for Actuarial Modeling (Nested Stochastic)" in Simplified Chinese.

Description: Come learn about the Product Development section and chat to the Council members! Whether you’re a new member, or an existing one, we’d love to answer your questions, gather any feedback or comments you want to share or take in ideas for making the section even better going forward!