Description: Sarah Rockhill, MPH, Geospatial Epidemiologist at CDC will discuss the latest in the Public Health 3.0 model in which leaders serve as Chief Health Strategists, partnering across multiple sectors and leveraging data and resources to address social, environmental, and economic conditions that affect health and health equity.

Description: We will share the latest research from the Actuarial Innovation and Technology Strategic Research Program, with a focus on research relevant to health actuaries. Attendees will learn about leading-edge technology that has impacts on actuarial functions, both broad and specific innovations and breakthrough technology, and the resulting impacts.

Description: Value-based care (VBC) arrangements have grown exponentially in recent years with an expectation that this shift will only continue across the health care industry. CMS has set the goal of having 100% of traditional Medicare and the vast majority of Medicaid beneficiaries in accountable care relationships by 2030.

Description: Court is in session and you are the jury! Follow along as challenging aspects of actuarial professionalism are explored in a court-like setting. Deliberate among your peers based on what you already know from your own experience as well as what you learn in this session, and then deliver your verdict accordingly.

Description: Explore the dynamic intersection of health insurance data and diverse industries beyond traditional health insurance providers. This session will delve into how life science companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, device manufacturers, and others leverage health insurance data to drive innovation and decision-making.

Description: The presenters will discuss market impacts of Affordable Care Act (ACA) risk adjustment results with a focus on recently released 2024 results. Their discussion will include the challenges of a single risk adjustment model and the growing state variations that impact risk dynamics.

Description: Fairness in life insurance isn’t a checkbox—it’s a set of choices, trade-offs, and consequences. In this webcast, the report’s author will walk through a practical framework for defining and measuring fairness in life insurance workflows, showing why “fair” can mean very different things depending on whether you’re focusing on individuals or groups—and why you often can’t optimize both at once. You’ll get a clear tour of the major fairness criteria used in today’s literature—what they measure, where they fit in insurance, and what can break when you adopt them . Expect straight talk, concrete insurance-oriented examples, and guidance on selecting metrics that align with business objectives, regulatory expectations, and stakeholder priorities—without pretending there’s a one-size-fits-all answer.

Description: For decades, drug overdose deaths have been increasing within the U.S., with opioid-related mortality driving this increase. The Society of Actuaries Research Institute (SOA) sponsored this research to investigate the trends and drivers behind drug overdose mortality and substance-related deaths as a whole. Findings provided a range of insights surrounding substance use disorder, drug overdose and alcohol-induced mortality, and considerations for insurers.

Description: "Focuses on innovations in financial reporting processes that connect actuarial results with finance in a clear, efficient way. The session covers tools and techniques for automating data flows from actuarial models to financial statements, reducing manual work at quarter-end. It also highlights the use of visualization and business intelligence (BI) tools to communicate valuation results (e.g., interactive dashboards for reserve roll-forwards or attribution analysis). By sharing success stories of automating FP&A workflows and adopting self-service analytics, presenters will show how actuaries can provide more timely insights to management. Attendees will take away ideas for improving reporting accuracy, audit trail, and the strategic value of actuarial information in decision-making."

Description: On an annual basis, the Retirement Plan Experience Committee (RPEC) uses national-level data sources to study recent U.S. general population mortality trends. RPEC summarizes this data in an annual report, and, when appropriate, uses the data to develop a new mortality projection (MP) scale. The webcast will present RPEC’s most recent analysis, covering data from 2019 through June 2025, and will explain RPEC’s decision in recent years not to issue a new mortality projection scale. In addition, the webcast will provide a demonstration of the calculation tool that RPEC uses to analyze recent mortality data. This tool can be downloaded from the SOA’s website.