Description: What relevance does ESG and Sustainability have for actuaries? In the Life and Health space, we know that large protection gaps persist, reminding us of the challenges reinsurers and insurers face in reaching underserved customers who are often lower-income, less healthy, and more likely to suffer impacts of climate change. The Sustainable Actuary is focused on solving these challenges to make life and health insurance more inclusive. This ImpACTful panel will dive into these challenges and provide practical case studies of more inclusive insurance products that balance considerations for people, the planet, and profit. Listeners will walk away with ideas for how to use their actuarial expertise to enable greater social impact and sustainable business value.

Description: Develop a better understanding of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) across the financial services and risk management industry, with a focus on actuaries. Panelists will address topics such as industry-wide diversity efforts, as well as current challenges facing diverse groups. Come listen to these panelists share perspectives on attracting, fostering, retaining and increasing diverse actuarial talent, in addition to the SOA’s DEI goals in the coming years.

Description: Learn from panelists from different companies as they come together to discuss their experiences.

Description: Learn how to incorporate specific principles of inclusive leadership and how to adjust to the current change occurring in the actuarial science profession.

Description: How do Professionalism and the Actuarial Standards of Practice apply as the way we work and tools we use continue to change? Business is conducted via social media and messaging and Generative AI allows for additional scenarios, analysis and oversight. Join us for an interactive session to go deeper into these topics including case studies, polls and a panel discussion.

Description: The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented significant changes to the Medicare Star Ratings that are expected to result in cost savings to CMS. The 2024 Star Ratings were recently released in October 2023 which was the beginning of these changes where future changes will impact 2026 and 2027 Star Ratings.

Description: Meet the authors and contributors of the newly published e-book Design Your Future with the Competency Framework. Hear presenters share their personal reflections, stories and words of wisdom to bring to life the eight professional and personal competencies in the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Competency Framework. Join this interactive session to awaken your 'inner actuary' and identify new state-of-the-art resources and perspectives. Discover purpose, direction and value in embracing and growing the competencies for career and life.

Description: Dr. Kimberly Harden helps organizations shift from a traditional diversity model to one that emphasizes diversity, interpersonal communication, and talent management. She will discuss topics on bias and how to be your authentic self in the workplace.

Description: Focus on the importance of achieving complete and accurate technical reviews of work products that contribute to decision making. As actuaries, we often face tight deadlines and the demand is high for our team members to provide results in a timely manner. Through investing upfront time into a quality review of our work product, with an added focus on professional excellence and ethics, overall time savings can be gained and an overall higher quality work product can be achieved, not only of the technical work being performed, but of the decision making that is influenced by the result of the work. At the conclusion of this session, you will be able to understand the value of technical reviews and the methods of preparing for and implementing technical reviews across a team.

Description: Learn from experts how to manage large projects, from managerial and technical perspectives, and drive teams to success. Actuaries are taking on more central roles over their career development, creating a need for skills to coordinate across large groups to deliver results. In this session, you will learn about the key elements within the lifecycle of a project plan that is applicable to any project, and hear from experts and your peers about examples that led to success. This is an interactive session where you will have a chance to discuss the topic with the presenters and other attendees.