Description: Innovation can be a challenging goal to achieve for many organizations. Come explore how actuaries at any career stage can drive innovation in their organization and how innovation happens in companies. You'll also learn about what problems arise when organizations first start bringing an innovation mindset into play. Come discuss the practical aspects of making innovation happen for each person, whether they are an individual contributor, a team manager, personally responsible for organizational innovation, or ready to take the entrepreneurial leap.

Description: Come gain insights into the techniques used in Machine Learning and its applications. You'll discover the key technological advances in recent years which were behind and ultimately facilitated the breakthroughs including ChatGPT/GenAI. It's time to uncover real-world use cases where AI models and their transformative impact on our lives.

Description: This report discusses the use of federated learning in the insurance industry and explores the benefits and challenges of this approach.

Description: This article summarizes the new research paper of "InsurTech: A Guide for the Actuarial Community" by Carrie Kelley and Kiki Wang. It serves as a quick read for our members to learn the latest development in the InsurTech space and explore the opportunities for actuarial practitioners

Description: This session will include examples of healthcare claims and market data to be used for educational purposes to highlight trends in the insurance industry. It will also highlight opportunities to enforce existing laws around fraud and abuse, and areas for regulators and legislators to focus to address this growing problem. Finally, it will discuss recent law changes and highlight areas requiring additional regulatory intervention. Expect discussions of recent claim issues and laws in the healthcare market as well as emerging issues in healthcare. The presentation will be beneficial to healthcare professionals working for health insurers, healthcare providers, auditors, regulators and healthcare providers and will also cover professionalism related topics for actuaries.

Description: The InsurTech industry continues vibrant activity. Some areas of focus include transformation of the underwriting process, new data sources being used, focus on the consumer, automation and more. By the end of the session, attendees will understand some of the latest trends in InsurTech that are impacting the life insurance industry.

Description: This session will examine bias from a social science perspective. It will discuss the three types of systemic biases using the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) model. The NIST model details the three types as historical bias, societal bias, and institutionalbias. The session will also provide several examples of each type to provide a framework for identifying the social structure of bias.

Description: Over the past three years, we have seen technology take hold of consumerism, becoming the key operational component to remaining competitive in an increasingly digital marketplace. In the insurance sector, today's consumers want digital, personalized solutions for all of their needs, and they are willing to offer up personal information in exchange for more personalized coverage that is based on their behaviors and lifestyle choices. If insurers want their products to be recognized as an essential in the virtual 'wallet' of Millennial consumers, they must re-assess their digital service strategy with an emphasis on customer service and rewarding the consumer. Participate in this session to explore consumer trends in the life insurance industry. You can also join the discussion about the key facets of a successful digital solution, based on the digital service strategies of current market makers who have capitalized on the boom of custom apps, social media sites and other digital distribution channels to market their products to Millennials.

Description: Dive into the basics of Generative AI (including Large Language Models and ChatGPT), why it is important, and how might it potentially affect how people and actuaries perform their work. After a brief introduction, you'll walk through some live demonstrations of the technology followed by interactive breakout discussions on how the technology might impact each attendee's work. You will also culminate in a summarization of the breakouts, discussion of implications for the profession, as well as precautions to take when using the technology. Come discover the basics of the technology and its implications for the work performed by actuaries. They will also learn, via the live demonstration, how to access ChatGPT (or similar platform) and will follow along how to generate outputs from the application based on some example inputs provided. Take away some resources from which you can learn more about Generative AI, Large Language Models, ChatGPT, etc.

Description: This webinar is a panel discussion covering the technology behind blockchain and digital assets as well their uses, implications and risks. Investment considerations for both tokens and fund structures, along with a variety of other topics in the space will be addressed.