Description: How are regulation and innovation intertwined? How to regulate artificial intelligence/machine learning in the insurance industry? We will cover how regulators are striking the balance between protection of their constituents and supporting innovation. We will zoom into the case of predictive analytics and the regulatory attempt at avoiding undue discrimination. Let's discuss what this really mean.

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: 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: Have you ever wondered why some people are the focus of everyone's attention the moment they walk into a room? Executive Presence is the set of qualities that enables an individual to command respect, inspire confidence, and influence others. In fact, Executive Presence sets successful leaders apart from others. It includes a range of skills and behaviors including effective communication, leadership, vision, and managing your emotions.

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.

Description: 2024 is the 50th anniversary of ERISA and enough time has passed since the enactment of Secure 2.0. The U.S. Retirement system is mostly defined contribution. Gaps remain in U.S. Retirement Security and there are very different perspectives on how the system is doing. What is going well and what is not? Have plan sponsors capitalized on the opportunities in Secure 2.0?

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: Discover how to reacquaint professionalism with the actuarial science profession in this 75-minute webcast focused on the provision of dynamic standards that evolve with products and regulations. Listeners will learn about the future challenges in their ongoing work that professionalism skills will assist with. For actuaries in the US and Canada, come define ASOPS and professionalism entering 2023. This webcast will be interactive, providing several case studies with real life ethical issues where the audience will vote and discuss the appropriate course of action.

Description: This training session will include lessons learned in 2021 and revisit a presentation given last year, discussing the new Actuarial Standard of Practice (ASOP56), which fills in the gap for guidance on Actuarial Modeling. Prior to ASOP 56, actuarial judgement reigned where standards and guidance lacked. Learn the foundation for designing, developing, modifying and validating a model according to SOA guidelines. By attending this session, you will: • Learn how to identify model’s intended purpose. • Strategically extract input data and assumptions. • Use the level of detail required in output data as a consideration for model design. • Choose from SOA recommended validation techniques.

Description: "Enhance your understanding of tactics that will set first time managers up for success. You will learn: How to apply technical skills from a different perspective to effectively manage a team How to effectively delegate and ensure quality work products How to manage performance feedback/difficult conversations Come learn about key lessons to transition into a managerial role."