Description: Session 2E: Testify! The Actuary as Expert Witness

Description: Session 9H: Executive Presence - Evolving Standards in Senior Leadership

Description: VIRTUAL - Actuarial Professionalism: Judge and Jury

Description: Learn to build an element of international exposure into your career. International assignments are incredibly varied, some of which include covering international issues from a home-country post, to short-term assignments abroad, longer postings abroad, or building a lengthy career in your country or country different from your home. Our panelists are from a variety of countries of origin, career stages, and practice areas and will share their experiences and field questions.

Description: Explore concepts related to self-awareness, social awareness, self-management and relationship management. Go beyond understanding what emotional intelligence (EQ) is to discover how to use it to build skills that enhance intelligence, education and experience to more quickly and consistently reach personal and professional goals.

Description: 2026 SOA Professional Development Preview Webcast

Description: Over the past several years, actuaries have been increasingly expanding their career horizon to non-traditional fields such as technology, data analytics, and investment banking, to name a few. A panel of actuaries in leadership roles at various industries will discuss several topics, which include: - What career path lead to their current roles? - How did their actuarial training and working experience prepare them for their current role? - What are the key differences in their current positions vs. past traditional actuarial roles? - Whatchallenges they have to overcome to thrive in the new roles? - What lessons learned would they share with the next generation of actuarial leaders?

Description: Explore the key concepts actuaries need to know in relation to climate change and detail areas of practice where actuaries have a crucial role to play, both within insurers and at other business. Specifically the session will cover:-tkey risks from climate change insurers need to be considering, climate change insurance regulatory considerations (including SEC and DOI specific developments) and stakeholder overview (e.g. investor preferences), relevant climate change reporting standards, including TCFD, climate change risk assessments and integration into risk management frameworks, climate change scenario testing, data and methodologies , net Zero in insurance, greenhouse gas quantification across investments and underwriting portfolios, and business integration and what does this mean for actuaries and what is our role?

Description: You have important information to convey…do you ever get the sense that your audience doesn’t understand why it’s important? Do you feel like your news is getting “swept under the rug”? In this session, explore how to bridge the gap between the information you need to share and how it's received by your audience. The first half of this session will contain a lecture focused on how to reduce the cognitive load of your information--that is the key to making your message easy to understand, internalize, and useful for making decisions. The second half of this session will allow participants to work in small groups to complete 1 or 2 case studies aimed at practicing the skill of reducing the cognitive load of their message.

Description: The Smaller Insurance Company Section Buzz Groups at the Valuation Actuary Meetings and the SOA Annual Meetings have always generated great discussions, ideas, and opportunities to hear about topics that affect the actuarial work of small companies. Join us for the Smaller Insurance Company Section Buzz Group to discuss the issues affecting Smaller (and larger) Insurance Company actuaries during these emerging changes. Bring your thoughts, opinions, ideas, and participation to discuss our special concerns.