Description: Look beyond traditional reinsurance arrangements. Strategically crafted reinsurance structures can support new business and achieve a wide range of risk management and financial objectives. Consider creative ways to look holistically at your business to develop the most effective solutions. Combine in-force and new business? Yes! Individual and group? Of course. Multiple product types? That can work! Whether you are trying to free up capital, address an underperforming block or venture into a new line of business, there are reinsurance structures that can help. Look at a virtual case study with a panel of experts and consider the options for selecting and structuring a reinsurance transaction. View key elements such as scale, composition and market appetites. Look at a variety of products including life, annuity, PRT and long-term care. The panel includes representation from a carrier, a reinsurer and a reinsurance broker. Get the opportunity to weigh in on decision points using online polling software, whether in person or virtual.

Description: Join us as some of the hottest topics are debated by a multi-discipline panel of industry experts focusing on potential impacts to key performance metrics. Will their arguments sway you? The final say is yours as audience polling decides which side wins the day. This fiery clash will include such topics as: what's really driving mortality?, can I really assume 'all else equal' when making underwriting changes?,I dare you to step over this line - is there an inflection point in fluidless underwriting as qualification rates increase with continued upward pressure?,how many years to credible mortality?, can I really tell if this is working anytime soon? and how effective are leading performance indicators? By attending the

Description: Emerging risks are new or evolving, so require novel treatment by risk teams. The results from the 15th annual survey of emerging risks, sponsored by the Canadian Institute of Actuaries (CIA), Society of Actuaries (SOA) and Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) will be shared. Long-term trends and highlights from open-ended questions will be shared, along with analysis of how the practitioner can use this information. While risk appetite statements profess a stable and consistent process, research shows that companies rotate through methodologies with management teams and that the most successful teams have the flexibility to adjust to current conditions.

Description: Pharmacy prices are top of mind for many consumers, policymakers, and payers. There are many proposals out there about ways to reduce pharmacy costs, almost all of which involve price controls. Is that the right move? What about the unintended consequences of such regulation? Will fewer life-saving drugs be developed including fewer drugs that improve the quality of life? Are better financing alternatives out there? Explore the concept of value-based reimbursement for pharmacy prices, including the lessons learned from applying value-based concepts to hospital and physician value-based financing.

Description: Research demonstrates that agile companies have outperformed others in adapting to COVID-19. This presentation will establish the need for organizational agility to keep pace with industry changes and share research and tools related to psychological safety to help create behaviors that lead to organization agility. Hear the importance of company purpose to motivate, engage and empower a workforce and discuss execution structures that can be put in place to create effective test and learn innovation teams that are creative, efficient and results-oriented.

Description: As accelerated underwriting continues to evolve, it is a delicate balance to ensure these programs are managed effectively for both short- and long-term results. And there's debate about whether these programs are getting too aggressive. Join panelists as they share their viewpoints on the state of accelerated underwriting, the data sources, models, tools and techniques commonly used, how the landscape is destined to change with more dynamic approaches in underwriting, and how best to monitor these programs, and the impacts of these programs to carriers and the industry as a whole.

Description: The impact of disability is felt throughout our communities, healthcare systems, corporations, and government programs. By Looking at recent trends in social security disability, the COVID-19 pandemic, remote work, and mental health, the presenters will comment on disability pressures and tailwinds experienced today in the US workforce

Description: Virtual - Session 5A: Leveraging Gamification and Personalized Wellness to Grow the Business

Description: Session 7B: Health AI in Practice - Lessons From Top U.S. Health Systems

Description: Session 8B: An Actuarial Perspective on GLP-1s - What Have We Learned and Where Are We Going?