Description: This practical session would provide a technical overview about GLM techniques and describe how GLM can be applied as a business tool in solving business problems in life insurance. The session would also focus on recent real-world case-studies across different functional areas like pricing, fraud detection, underwriting and product development.

Description: Reflection on three years on the PAF section council and where we're headed next.

Description: The author presents autoencoders in a clear manner and then goes on to show an intriguing application where an autoencoder can alert us to events out of the ordinary.

Description: The article warns actuaries that using predictive models in the underwriting process has a strong potential of inadvertently using variables that are prohibited by law.

Description: Crop insurance plays an important role in mitigating food production disasters and keeping a robust food production system in the United States. Crop insurance increases stability in food and fiber production, smoothing variability which would otherwise occur because of weather patterns and changes in international trade regulations and markets. Stability increases the ability of farmers to make long-term investments that increase production efficiency and keep productive land in agriculture.

Description: Toward a Predictive Analytics Framework files

Description: An attorney and a statistician will discuss the latest on GenAI, the AI regulation and litigation affecting the use of AI in insurance.

Description: This report proposes a methodology to isolate crop yield improvement due to technological change and favorable and unfavorable weather.

Description: This survey tracks the relative rankings of risk managers about emerging risks across time. It is the 17th survey of emerging risks sponsored by the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), administered by the Joint Risk Management Section.

Description: The rapid advancement of technology today will revolutionize how humans interact with their vehicles in the near future. Vehicle manufacturer initiatives to incorporate new technology into their products should usher in societal benefits such as improved driving safety, enhanced fuel efficiency and potentially lower costs for insurance.