Description: The COVID-19 pandemic has been an acute reminder of the material impacts that pandemics can have on Life (re)insurance and society at large. Learn to describe the journey of a Life reinsurance practitioner to model and operationalize pandemic and infectious disease risk, why this is of importance to actuaries, and their risk management. It will consider how such models have been used, developments over time, and challenges in using and calibrating these models. The session will also provide perspectives from a pandemic model provider who will describe the fundamental metrics for pandemic loss distributions and how learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic can be used to quantify the potential impact of the next pandemic. Finally, dive into an outline of how biological principles can be applied to anticipating plausible pathogens causing the next pandemic.

Description: Driver-based forecasting is a powerful tool to predict and estimate future outcomes. In recent years, driver-based forecasting has gained significant attention as a technique for actuaries to forecast the financial performance of insurance companies. Often there can be frustration around the ability to use forecasts to manage the business. However the objective of a driver-based forecast is to break down historic and projected movement based on the key drivers which impact the results. The key is to understand what the key drivers are on forecasts and what is the relative level of impact and influence we have on the drivers. Listen in on a discussion on the core principles of driver-based forecasting, including how to identify key drivers, collect accurate data, and leverage the latest technology to generate forecasts that traditional models can't match. Explore with us the various driver-based models and how actuaries can leverage them to enhance their decision-making capabilities. Then join the conversation about the challenges actuaries face when implementing this technique and how to mitigate these problems.

Description: Smaller carriers often think reinsurance is out of reach, while reinsurers may dismiss them as not worth the effort. But that is not necessarily the case. In this interactive session, help us challenge our panel to dispel the myths around small carriers and reinsurance. The panel of representatives from small carriers, reinsurers and other experts will be peppered with questions from the moderator as well as from you and others in the audience. We'll ask them to share their insight and experiences about building partnerships, setting up successful reinsurance programs, and identifying and avoiding potential pitfalls.

Description: Dive into an integrative approach to Precision Medicine - how our modern capacity to interrogate a disease heterogeneity (from omics and phenotyping) and parallel advances in 'big data' together are driving to transform the practice of traditional medicine to precision medicine. After defining the relevant terminologies and the components of precision medicine, the speaker will walk through the spectrum in precision medicine and how it leads to personalized management of disease, which can impact underwriting approaches, product development and pricing. Diabetes will be used as a specific example.

Description: Pandemic modeling and its impact on the insurance and reinsurance business have been the subject of scrutiny during the COVID-19 pandemic. As the World Health Organization (WHO) has declared its end as a global health emergency, the focus of insurers and reinsurers turns to the possibility of future pandemics. Key to considering possible future pandemics is assessing what is needed to model pandemic risks. Our presentation will focus on providing you with the following: - The main principles around creating a well-established pandemic risk modeling framework, what they are and how you should build them into your model (As a reinsurer, this is core to our business, and we have unique global insights into performing it.) - A review of pandemic risk modeling strategies as well as an understanding of the inherent uncertainties of pandemic events - Lessons learned from COVID-19 and how we can apply them in assessing the possibility of future pandemics - An understanding of the link between future pandemic risk and the capital requirements

Description: Electronic health records continue to evolve and gain traction in the life insurance industry. But what exactly are EHRs and what are the impacts for actuaries? How they are being used today and what are the benefits and challenges of implementing EHRs in life insurance underwriting?

Description: Join us to explore a variety of ways that COVID-19 has impacted retirement and how those impacts may extend into the future. Material from a series of research reports published through the SOA's Aging and Retirement Strategic Research Program will be presented as well as other relevant work. This content was originally presented at the 2021 SOA ImpACT Conference.

Description: Award-winning keynote speaker Rachel Sheerin will discuss burnout, harnessing her signature blend of positive energy and authentic engagement. With her viral TEDx Talk on burnout, Rachel delivers audiences from fatigued to FIRED UP with truth and humor.

Description: The past couple years during the pandemic have had a tremendous and costly impact on society’s collective mental health. What’s next? Examine patterns of MH/SA needs identified from living with COVID-19 for two years and discuss what MH/SA needs to expect in the future. Across society, mental health has been one of the most impacted areas of total health and wellness and has been highly publicized. What’s here to stay, and how does that impact how we think about mental health going forward? With increased publicity and campaigns to normalize MH/SA needs, what are the supply-side and demand-side limits? By attending this session, you will be able to: • Identify drivers of MH/SA services in the pandemic. • Understand future expectations of MH/SA needs, with population specific considerations (ex. gender, business type, etc.). • Analyze impact of increased awareness of MH/SA needs and reduced stigma.

Description: This session series is sponsored by Hannover Re Session 1 - COVID-19: Past, Present and Future and Its Impact on Health Products COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on the health industry, forcing insurance companies and other risk-sharing entities to re-assess how to write and manage its business going forward. This first of two sessions in the special COVID-19 series will review the impact the pandemic has had on the development, pricing and risk management of health products. The speakers will review COVID-19 mortality and morbidity trends, share possible outlooks for the future of the virus, and analyze how COVID-19 has impacted the pricing strategies and risk management of health business across various markets (e.g., the ACA marketplace, Group Commercial and Medicare). By attending this session, you will be able to explain the latest COVID-19 trends in the US and globally and the resulting impact on mortality and morbidity experience. Attendees will develop a clearer understanding of how the pandemic has impacted the pricing and risk management of health products.