Description: The Great Resignation of the Post-COVID-19 era has affected nearly every major industry and profession over the past year. The actuarial profession, which has historically been a beacon of stability,is also impacted. Actuaries are leaving their positions at higher rates than ever before, demanding increased pay and benefits, more flexible hours, and the ability to work remotely. Ever-increasing demand for actuaries due to constantly evolving regulatory and business needs has widened the gap between the demand for and supply of actuarial work. What innovations are available for actuarial employers looking to bridge this gap? Get ready to listen to a panel of specialists on actuarial staffing models. The panel will discuss direct hiring, staff augmentation with consultants, independent contracting, and offshoring / outsourcing. The panel will explain how employers might pursue these options as well as the costs and benefits of each. Learn more about how current employees can benefit from various staffing models while avoiding common pitfalls; for example, how to engage and work effectively with offshore resources.

Description: "In this video titled Balancing Act: Managing Work and Life as an Actuary, Dave Dillon emphasizes the importance of time management, stress management, and work-life balance. He shares his strategies for prioritizing tasks, carving out dedicated time for personal activities, and embracing physical fitness to enhance mental clarity and creativity. Dave highlights the significance of balancing intense work periods with essential downtime to maintain long-term mental health and overall well-being. He encourages others to find their own balance for long-term success and happiness.

Description: With actuarial tools and practices rapidly emerging through artificial intelligence, it’s key to keep an eye on professionalism in actuarial work and in consideration of regulations, Standards of Practice, and the SOA Code of Conduct. This session will discuss a variety of emerging topics, highlight growing AI regulations, and have you interacting with other attendees to share your perspectives on maintaining a professional approach to using AI. Come join us for this upbeat conversation about the future of the actuarial profession increasingly working responsibly with evolving AI tools.

Description: What is bias? How do you recognize it? What to do if you see it? This webcast will help respond to these questions and provide initial guidance on how to deal with these thorny issues. Please join us with your questions and we will have a nice conversation.

Description: Most people will now have had some exposure to Large Language Model tools such as ChatGPT and will have been impressed by their ability to write essays or generate computer code. However, fewer people will be aware of the next phase of AI, which will turn AI chat assistants into more fully fledged AI colleagues. These emerging set of tools come under the broad term of “AI agents”, which are AI-based systems which have capabilities beyond a simple chat interface and are able to interact with external tools, access data, and most importantly have the capability to plan and perform arbitrarily complex tasks. In this talk we will explore the emerging field of AI agents and discuss our experiences using such frameworks to build end-to-end actuarial modelling solutions and demo some POCs we have been working on for the audience. We will also cover topics related to building such complex AI systems including: prompt-engineering fine-tuning retrieval augmented generation function calling specific AI agent frameworks and how they will allow AI to participate in all the different stages of the actuarial modelling process from coding and testing to documentation and analysis.

Description: Throughout the past three years, the insurance talent landscape has experienced extreme shifts. Remote and hybrid work has become the norm, individuals have adjusted their personal and professional priorities, and a sense of empathy and emotional intelligence has become key to successful leadership. As the industry experienced “the Great Resignation,” followed by “the Great Reshuffle” and “the Great Realignment,” it was a time of evolution and ongoing learning for actuarial leaders.

Description: Learn through examples how actuaries working in traditional and nontraditional actuarial roles should apply ASOPs when navigating through situational challenges when collaborating with other professionals. Examples of these professionals include regulators, accounting, management, marketing, underwriting as well as when providing advisory services to external clients.

Description: Come learn about leveraging the research report on fostering innovation. You will have the opportunity to debate various techniques fostering innovation.

Description: This webinar will discuss and illustrate professionalism standards in an interactive case study format. The session will begin with a lightning round discussion with audience polling on professionalism topics and standards of investment practice. Participants will then work through several case studies in an investment context, each of which will have its own specific professionalism considerations. Audience polling and discussion will be included as part of each case study.

Description: Discover a comparison of U.S. and international mandated leave programs which mandate employers to provide a minimum level of benefits to employees for qualifying leaves of absence, such as parental leave or medical leave.