Description: Hot topics for Medicare, including enrollment trends, enticing benefits, risk score projections, market strategy trends, formulary considerations, STAR rating changes, and COVID implications including vaccine/testing requirements Proposed/enacted changes to Part D from the Build Back Better (BBB) Act-CMS’s commitment to advancing equity in health and health care for all individuals Discussion of removing barriers to equal opportunity, health disparities, and closing health equity gaps, including collecting more and improved data on beneficiaries’ race, ethnicity and social determinants of health By attending this session, you will be further prepared for current and future changes in the Medicare Advantage program. Gather additional insight into future trends in policy changes and cost spending and to be more equipped to adapt to changes in the marketplace.

Description: Following her first 100 days as the CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure released her six strategic pillars for the agency. The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) followed these pillars and laid out their priorities for states under the Biden-Harris administration. With these priorities established, recent 1115 submissions from several large states, including California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, may give insight to how CMS will operationalize their vision under this program authority. This session will include presentation from state policy staff who have led recent 1115 waiver proposals. By attending the session, you will be able to: • Demonstrate understanding of the current administration’s strategic priorities for State Medicaid & CHIP programs. • Identify trends in recent 1115 waiver submissions.

Description: "Stories have the power to change minds, and leading with facts and figures only hardens pre-existing opinions. Learn to leverage the power of story to effectively communicate with and enroll your stakeholders. Andrew Sykes, CEO, Habits at WorkAndrew Sykes is the founder and CEO of Habits at Work, an experiential sales training company on a mission to make sales the most trustworthy profession on the planet by empowering sellers to practice and embody the mindsets, skills, and habits that build and maintain customer trust. Sykes is a Lecturer of Entrepreneurship at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and part of the Kellogg Sales Institute Executive Education Team where he teaches the award-winning course “Entrepreneurial Selling.”"

Description: The frequent use and complexity of today's actuarial projection models has increased the importance of having efficient models. Model optimization can reduce both cloud costs and overall end-to-end clock times, thereby allowing companies to do more with less such as reducing close times, increasing controls, enhancing analysis, doing more complicated calculations, and/or improving employee workloads during the close. From design and data to execution and audit, come explore techniques that can be applied throughout the actuarial modeling process to optimize actuarial models for improved run-time, accuracy, and reliability. There will be a focus on techniques that don't rely on model compression. Topics covered include model design pitfalls, data handling, improving convergence on asset-liability projections, strategies for interacting with the cloud, and other tips for optimizing actuarial models.

Description: All you wanted to know about InsurTech but were too afraid to ask! This one-day event will feature four webcasts that will unlock and enhance the world of InsurTech. By attending this webs series, you will find answers on what InsurTech is about and what it’s trying to solve. Dive deeper into the successes of InsurTech and find out how to join this established organization. Session 1 – Introduction to InsurTech Set the stage for the day, defining the main types of InsurTech companies and where these companies fit in the insurance value chain. Come discover where actuaries could play a role and the importance of the profession within this space. Technology driven innovation is multifaceted and could take place within an established carrier or a start-up.

Description: All you wanted to know about InsurTech but were too afraid to ask! This one-day event will feature four webcasts that will unlock and enhance the world of InsurTech. By attending this webs series, you will find answers on what InsurTech is about and what it’s trying to solve. Dive deeper into the successes of InsurTech and find out how to join this established organization. Session 1 – Introduction to InsurTech Set the stage for the day, defining the main types of InsurTech companies and where these companies fit in the insurance value chain. Come discover where actuaries could play a role and the importance of the profession within this space. Technology driven innovation is multifaceted and could take place within an established carrier or a start-up.

Description: All you wanted to know about InsurTech but were too afraid to ask! This one-day event will feature four webcasts that will unlock and enhance the world of InsurTech. By attending this webs series, you will find answers on what InsurTech is about and what it’s trying to solve. Dive deeper into the successes of InsurTech and find out how to join this established organization. Session 1 – Introduction to InsurTech Set the stage for the day, defining the main types of InsurTech companies and where these companies fit in the insurance value chain. Come discover where actuaries could play a role and the importance of the profession within this space. Technology driven innovation is multifaceted and could take place within an established carrier or a start-up.

Description: Creating an effective team is core to actuarial transformation. This involves establishing teams with jobs that line up to achieve the company's goals, with clear roles that engage people and enable them to develop. Coupled with this, effective teams need to harness the benefits of diversity. This is done both directly and through sponsorship and allyship to ensure that the full benefit of diverse teams can be realized with multiple viewpoints and perspectives strengthening teams. During the sessions, the speakers will draw on their experiences from around the world on, building global and diverse teams. By attending this session, you will:•Be able to gain insight on the benefits of embracing diversity when creating an actuarial team across the globe, and how sponsorship and allyship in workplace foster an inclusive environment.

Description: As technology continues to improve, the actuarial profession is challenged by the tremendous potential benefits of new technology and the concurrent creation of new risks that accompany it. Technology should enable good work products that meet strict deadlines, deliver meaningful information to regulators and shareholders, and inform management teams about opportunities to develop our businesses. Answering questions about what technology we might use and how it can aid in making the best investment in our operations is key to making value proposition arguments to support the adoption of new technology in the workplace. Learn practical examples of automation as it's applied in actuarial practice, a potential composition of the actuarial toolkit and the business of managing the use of automation. Advance the state of your workplace art through several angles of this topic as: - Categories and purposes of several kinds of automation and supporting tools that might be used in actuarial practice - How management messaging and culture affects the way automation tools are used and how technical risks are managed - Implementing automation based on the presented case studies

Description: Almost every actuary will, at some point in their career, be called upon to perform work described as business as usual (BAU). BAU work takes on many forms, ranging from daily pricing or hedging exercises to annual valuation or audit support and nearly everything in between, however, a common thread among most BAU activities is that unusual issues have a tendency to arise, resulting in inefficiencies, long hours, and sometimes missed deadlines. Learn from a panel of actuaries that will relate tales of unusual issues that derailed BAU routines. Examine how these issues arose, the impact they had on the actuary's work and life, and steps that could prevent similar issues from occurring in the future, with a focus on governance, controls, and analytics. By attending the session, you will: Understand some of the common pitfalls that can interfere with smooth BAU operations, as well as some strategies that can be employed to mitigate or prevent issues in their own BAU work.