Description: ReMark's Global Consumer Study delivers 10 key insights to empower customers. Insurers can design products that meet customers' needs and enhance client experiences and add significant value to their business. At the same time with new products being launched seemingly continuously, it is important to take a step back and assess risk throughout the product management cycle.

Description: In discussing the contemporary reactions to this regulation, as well as how EU-based insurance firms adapted to the shift, this segment will invite us to question our assumptions on the role of gender-based pricing in the future of the industry. In the latter half of the presentation, we will delve into the challenges faced by LGBTQ+ individuals when accessing life, health, and auto insurance.

Description: This session will delve into the results of a recent industry study exploring dynamic lapse behavior over the past five years in U.S. insurance products with general account credited rate-type features.

Description: Explore the findings from the research paper recently released by Milliman and the SOA, highlighting the growing need for support of informal/family caregivers. We will discuss both quantitative and qualitative data that illustrates not only the cost and burgeoning need, but the mental/emotional stressors that come along with this work.

Description: Take part in a practical and forward-looking discussion for long duration targeted improvements (LDTI) implications on financial planning and analysis (FP&A). This session will provide an update on emerging industry practices and considerations for reflecting LDTI in FP&A, including operational headwinds and new opportunities.

Description: Assumptions have been a critical component of actuarial work since the rise of the profession hundreds of years ago. Without well-developed, credible assumptions, reliable financial projections are an impossibility. Yet in 2023, there is still a wide range of assumption processes and governance practices in place throughout the life industry. Follow assumption and governance experts from Oliver Wyman to dig deep into results from our 2023 assumption process and governance survey. Examine what we're seeing currently practiced throughout the industry and offer insights into what we're doing well, as well as where we have opportunities to improve. Explore topics, such as assumption governance frameworks, governance costs, development and review, approval processes, implementation and usage, monitoring, and challenges.Gain a better understanding of how your own assumption processes compare against others in the industry, and learn best practices that can be implemented to improve assumption processes.

Description: Every year an AI topic goes through a hype cycle. Since 2022 and now in 2023 we continue to hear more about the ChatGPT models and how an everyday person is able to interact with AI. As more startups and applications are riding the hype, what does it all mean for our industry? Is this just a buzz or real? This talk intends to cover at a high level what are large language models, what does it mean for audit or regulatory space, and what might be some pitfalls or tolerance of error when it comes to selecting a right application for such models in insurance use cases.

Description: Insurers are now in a better position than ever to both understand and enhance their customers' health and well-being. A key avenue for this is through developing health and wellness offerings for clients—for mutual benefit. Around the world, the proliferation of lifestyle and health data continues to gather pace.

Description: Learn more about the predictive modeling that was applied to industry data for the lapse and mortality experience in the post-level term period. Novel approaches were taken to model the shock lapse, subsequent lapse, and mortality experience. Observe a demonstration of the Tableau tool, which was built to allow users to analyze data on their own.

Description: Following her first 100 days as the CMS Administrator, Chiquita Brooks-LaSure released her six strategic pillars for the agency. The Center for Medicaid and CHIP Services (CMCS) followed these pillars and laid out their priorities for states under the Biden-Harris administration. With these priorities established, recent 1115 submissions from several large states, including California, Massachusetts and New Jersey, may give insight to how CMS will operationalize their vision under this program authority. This session will include presentation from state policy staff who have led recent 1115 waiver proposals.