Description: The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), the Society of Actuaries (SOA) and the Society of Insurance Research (SIR) started developing research addressing diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) topics. Join panelists as they briefly present an overview of their organization's DEI research and share their perspectives on common challenges facing all the stages of this research: - Planning relevant and timely research with a long timeline. - Getting appropriate data and resources to support your research. - Communicating research on topics that may be controversial.

Description: Gene therapy is a quickly evolving field and will continue to grow as a risk concern for many health plans, stop loss insurers and reinsurers. Currently, there are only two approved gene therapies in the U.S., but that number is expected to escalate starting in the fall of 2022. Revisit the experience plans have had with the first two gene therapies, discuss plan design and network considerations in light of gene therapy, and discuss the actual composition of the near-term pipeline along with a range of modeled financial impacts and considerations for payers.

Description: Discover how to reacquaint professionalism with the actuarial science profession in this 75-minute webcast focused on the provision of dynamic standards that evolve with products and regulations. Listeners will learn about the future challenges in their ongoing work that professionalism skills will assist with. For actuaries in the US and Canada, come define ASOPS and professionalism entering 2023. This webcast will be interactive, providing several case studies with real life ethical issues where the audience will vote and discuss the appropriate course of action.

Description: ClubVita Session Series Longevity trend risk still exists even for the largest portfolios. Explore the differences in longevity improvements between different populations, how to categorize subpopulations with different trend risk characteristics, and how to use this categorization to reduce longevity trend basis risk.

Description: EY Session Series Analyzing and understanding emerging LDTI and IFRS results. Industry disclosures to date of the key financial and business impacts. Initial reactions from analysts, investors, and rating agencies. Countdown to go live and current change management and readiness priorities.

Description: As actuaries, we're trained to see patterns in numbers and to design solutions that mitigate risk. While quantitative analysis and modeling are critical actuarial tools, looking at the numbers alone can lead to insurance products that don't succeed in the real world the way math says they should. With new digital technologies surfacing in the insurance space, we have more data at our fingertips than ever before, leading to a higher focus on doing quantitative research within insurance product design. Take back a step from quantitative research and discover qualitative research methodologies into your product development process to design solutions that meet real needs in the market. In a nutshell, qualitative research can surface issues early and help you answer questions such as: Can we really sell this product in the market? Why would someone buy this? How widespread is the need? How could your product be a solution you didn't intend?

Description: As the speed of technological innovation increases, actuarial leaders are trying to determine how to use emerging technologies to unlock more business value and improve competitive positioning. This includes enabling new capabilities, improving process efficiency, and increasing the effectiveness of human capital. The session will discuss what we are hearing from clients who are in the process of transforming their business, how they are approaching these transformations, and what they are focusing on. This will include different aspects of transformation, including visualization dashboards, data science applications, no-code platforms, automation, data, and the cloud. Find out how organizations are thinking of human capital and collaboration between actuaries, IT, and other professionals.

Description: At this panel discussion with the SOA Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Taskforce members, you will learn about the SOA's plans to partner with key local and global organizations to address societal issues such as health and well-being; decent work and economic growth; reduced inequalities; and climate action. Hear more about thetaskforce's action plan and the next phase of the engagement, which is centered on volunteer activities, namely moving forward with the SOA Innovation Team to launch the SOA SDG Incubator. Lastly, look at creating tangible opportunities for members to apply their current skills, transpose their experiences and add new skills contributing to solving for these critical issues.

Description: By attending this session, you will be able to: Learn why now’s the time to modernize your actual platform which will allow you to automate and control the actual processes and achieve compliance cost effectively with a valuation solution that stays up to date with changing regulations. Find out why a single enterprise reporting platform is key to modernization as it allows for transparency and governance, flexibility and precision and speed and scalability.