Description: The Actuarial Innovation and Technology Steering Committee of the Society of Actuaries is sponsoring this competition to encourage contestants to find innovative usages for data visualization software. This contest seeks to give actuaries and non-actuaries the chance to showcase their ability to tell a story by creating data visualizations for one of two standard datasets that have been created for this purpose.

Description: This literature review provides insights on emerging technologies that interact with the actuarial profession within the space of microinsurance for the purpose of establishing a frame of reference for actuaries to use in their work. Furthermore, it intends to spark readers’ interest in, and create a vision for, how microinsurance and its associated technologies may impact the actuarial industry in the future.

Description: Winning essays form the Actuarial Practice Innovation Call for Essays.

Description: Winning essays form the Actuarial Practice Innovation Call for Essays.

Description: Actuarial modeling has gone through several distinct phases largely defined by the underlying technology platform. Today, cloud computing is again redefining the technology foundations of actuarial modeling and related processes.

Description: The COVID-19 pandemic initially caused some health care services to shift away from in-person transactions to a digital form, including telehealth, e-mails, remote patient monitoring and other forms of communication. If sustained, numerous effects and counter-effects both in the cost and quality of care as well as long-term outcomes for patient health may emerge.

Description: This report summarizes the results of a Delphi study to identify and debate possible new approaches or Blue Ocean Strategies to acquiring business by life insurers.

Description: Decentralized insurance alternatives is a rapidly expanding sector of Decentralized Finance (DeFi), an emerging and growing financial ecosystem powered by blockchain technologies. The purpose of this report is to review and discuss the business models and operating designs of decentralized insurance alternatives, which may have significant implications for traditional insurance businesses, as well as the actuarial profession.

Description: Despite the advent of COVID-19, autonomous vehicle (AV) market leaders continued to invest in technology and to establish partnerships with vehicle original equipment manufacturers (OEMs)

Description: This paper explores how molecular biology, specifically epigenetics, may impact the life insurance industry, and considers the effects of utilizing epigenetic biomarkers for underwriting.