Description: Electronic health records (EHRs) are one of the fastest-growing digital health data categories, with over 90% of carriers using or evaluating EHRs for underwriting, according to a recent Munich Re survey. This session brings you up to speed on the current (and future) state of EHRs.

Description: This webcast will walk through several statistical methods for imputing race and ethnicity from U.S. datasets, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses, talking about how to use them and evaluating their accuracy, and telling you where you can get code packages as well as a free dataset to try the methods out.

Description: This webcast offers “must know” information and differing perspectives on key IRS procedures that can be utilized by insurance companies to address complex tax issues and situations.

Description: Kick off with key National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) activities, with a primary focus on updates to principle-based reserve valuations and appointed actuary topics. The presenters will provide insights into the current set of activities and initiatives being considered and/or adopted by the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) and the NAIC Risk Based Capital Working Group as well as Actuarial Standards Board. In addition, other Actuarial Practice Issues and other Appointed Actuary and Opinion topics relevant to Life Insurance, Variable Annuities and Fixed Annuities will be discussed.

Description: Investigate the importance of collaboration with accounting, underwriting, sales, marketing and other professions as an actuary when you attend this webcast. Cross-functional positions can cause unique challenges to arise, like various experts attempting to balance growth and profitability. Discover an opportunity to learn about relevant ASOPs and dive deeper into contemporary examples that highlight specific professionalism issues that can develop.

Description: There are a number of ways insurers can deploy their capital. Lately the chase for yield, the need for long-tailed risk optimization, and a refocusing on core competencies have driven recent capital trends in the industry. M&A activity has been hot lately, private equity firms have grown their involvement in the industry, and insurers have continued to innovate in their funding of new business strain and investment into customer experience. In this session we will discuss these trends as we study insurer capital optimization through M&A, offshore, and structured reinsurance.

Description: Expect to learn how recent advances in AI and Generative text technology can help unlock data from medical records to solve many key underwriting and actuarial challenges. Specific topics include the following: - What is NLP/AI/machine learning and how is it currently being used in underwriting? - What technological advancements have Insure Techs made in the use of AI and GPT, and how are carriers/reinsurers utilizing these enhancements? - How can you avoid some of the challenges with GPT such as Hallucinations and 'black box' outputs? - How can extraction of data from medical records assist actuaries with various pricing and analysis challenges? - What legal/compliance challenges should users be aware of and how to manage those risks?

Description: What if a blood test can detect more than 50 types of cancer, including those in early stages? A biotech company, GRAIL, has developed the first-to-market Multi-Cancer Early Detection test and launched it for commercial use in 2021. Join us to learn how Munich Re and GRAIL are partnering to bring its Galleri test to the life insurance industry. You will also explore how we as an industry can help save lives by detecting cancer earlier and share perspectives on some early findings and cost-benefit analysis

Description: This session will summarize the key National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) activities with a primary focus on updates to principle-based reserve valuations and appointed actuary topics. Hear insights into the current set of activities and initiatives being considered and/or adopted by the NAIC Life Actuarial Task Force (LATF) and the NAIC Risk Based Capital Working Group.

Description: The industry sees extreme value in predictive modeling and its ability to help us meet customer demands and remain profitable, but do customers and regulators look at this as a favorable addition to our process? Hear from a dynamic panel of industry experts who will tackle a variety of issues and questions from the state of the regulatory environment to the responsibilities of the carrier.