Description: Join us in Chicago for an essential session designed to teach the fundamentals for a health appointed actuary. Gain a solid understanding of core responsibilities, key regulations, and ASOPs. This session will provide the foundational knowledge you need to navigate the complexities of the health valuation landscape. Whether you're starting your actuarial career or seeking to enhance your skills, this session offers valuable insights in the heart of the Windy City.

Description: Actuarial Asset-Liability models are indispensable for asset adequacy analysis, ERM, and economic capital. Actuaries often excel in modeling liabilities but tend to rely on Externally Projected Asset (EPA) cash flows from third-party sources for assets.

Description: Actuarial models increasingly drive critical decisions, yet traditional governance - shared drives, file names, and Excel changelog tabs - create confusion and weak auditability. Version control systems, especially Git, offer a proven alternative by recording every change with author, time, and rationale, enabling reproducibility, collaboration, rollback, and transparent peer review. Git’s ecosystem (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket) adds pull requests, issue tracking, and centralized documentation, supporting auditors and regulators with a single source of truth. Actuarial use cases can include code and spreadsheet models, assumption management, and even monthly SQL queries. Adoption requires tooling, standards, and security discipline, but overall strengthens integrity and readiness for data-driven work.

Description: To better understand and support the future of the actuarial profession, the Society of Actuaries (SOA) has asked its members to participate in a job analysis survey. This information will help to ensure the Associate of the SOA (ASA) meets evolving market needs.

Description: In this video, Lisa Schilling from the Society of Actuaries Research Institute presents the challenges of estimating mortality improvement rates, emphasizing their importance in actuarial modeling for life insurance and pensions.

Description: Opening/welcome - Callum Williams, Senior Economics Writer, The Economist