Description: The presenters will describe how the new IFRS 17 requirements will impact the profitability of ULSG products. This could have a significant impact for companies who will be reporting financials based on IFRS 17. The shift from US GAAP to IFRS 17 will likely increase the volatility in IFRS earnings, which may prompt companies to explore potential product changes.

Description: Creating the complete view and management of the complex interactions between care providers, medicines and behavior.

Description: Principal Analyst Laurie M. Orlov of the Aging in Place Technology Watch will present a roadmap for the technology and ITSS marketplace. She will explore where it has been, what it does best, where it is going, and the challenges it faces. She has been a leading researcher and independent analyst in this field for more than 20 years.

Description: The U.S. health care industry has gone through a dramatic change during the past several years. The business model has moved from a risk selection model to a risk management model. People can shop online for their health care coverage. Everyone is welcome! Annual and lifetime dollar limits, underwriting and the pre-existing conditions exclusion are all in the history book now. Facing the challenges of the post-reform era, many health insurance carriers began using big data analytics on all aspects of their decision-making processes. The goal is to be able to compete on analytics in this quickly changing environment. However, becoming an analytics competitor is not easy. It requires the belief from the leadership and a group of dedicated analytical professionals to solve emergent business problems that existing strategies cannot address in an evolving market. These problems include marketing for acquisition and retention, coding accuracy, revenue growth, health care disparity, payment integrity, quality of care, health care cost reduction and, ultimately, personalized care management. In this section, audience will learn a basic understanding of the role of predictive analytics in US Healthcare marketplace.

Description: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is expected to change the insurance industry more in the next 10 years than it has changed in the past 100 years. Rapid advancements in computing power and the exponential growth of Big Data are creating more opportunities to incorporate AI techniques and methodologies into actuarial work. This session is for the practicing actuary who would like to learn more about AI and how to use it to analyze insurance data. At the conclusion of the session, attendees will be able to understand the fundamentals of AI, to build an AI model and to identify AI opportunities in their work.

Description: The implementation and execution of IFRS17 requires the insurance industry to re-define the skill set matrix of Actuary, Accountant and IT practitioner. Professionals with the ability to, 1. understand the business context of IFRS17, 2. gain insight from complex actuarial & accounting & data system 3. communicate technical content in a compelling way, will be the key players of the future Finance function of the insurance industry. They will also become the foundation of the new formations of IFRS17 delivery team containing hybrid or cross functional capabilities. This presentation will discuss: 1. the new skills, ranging from account posting to data governing, required by actuaries to stay relevant in a digitalized Finance function under the IFRS17 world 2. the actuarial related roles available within an E2E IFRS17 reporting process 3. the potential formation of the IFRS17 reporting team

Description: Basic feature engineering uses input data to create dummy variables, log transforms, and other single-value transformations. This talk builds upon these univariate transformations and presents several strategies for creating complex multivariate features that can enhance your model's lift. Topics such as target encoding, dimension reduction/projection, row/column, and other feature engineering topics will be covered.

Description: Accelerated Underwriting – Two Studies (Delphi and SOA Survey)

Description: Presentations from members of: Haven Life; Ladder Life; Life by Spot

Description: Welcome and Introduction