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: This debate-style presentation focuses on metrics used to measure and manage insurance companies. Changes in accounting bases (LDTI, IFRS17, etc.) challenge historic metrics to be adjusted or replaced to accommodate new regimes. The long-duration nature of revenue recognition and profit emergence is unique to the insurance industry, and there is no debating the importance of accounting regimes to facilitate earnings recognition and comparability. However, insurers face challenges from the inherent mismatch between capital measures and accounting profits. This mismatch creates competing interest when it comes to both management decisions and executive compensation. To provide guidance, experts offer their unique perspectives and opinions to a debate of emerging best practices in accounting KPIs, cash-based metrics, and executive incentives. The discussion will be guided by probing questions, such as: - What challenges are faced by external users of financial statements? - Accounting changes did not impact business economics, so why discuss metrics? - What are examples of historic and emerging accounting and cash-based metrics? - How can insurers implement best practices in financial reporting? At the conclusion of the session, attendees will have an improved appreciation for actuarial valuation, specifically, the critical role that our interpretation of results plays in the broader financial system.

Description: Court is in session and you are the jury! Follow along as challenging aspects of actuarial professionalism are explored in a court-like setting, deliberately based on what you already know from your own experience, as well as what you learn in this session. Then, deliver your verdict accordingly. Who says learning about actuarial professionalism can't also be fun? If you attended in the past, plan on joining again as we will have new material and updates for discussion. At the conclusion of this session, attendees will be able to: - Apply actuarial professionalism concepts. - Identify key ASOPs, Professional Code of Code, and/or Qualification Standards for actuaries.

Description: In this session, industry leaders in both actuarial work and organization design/change management will focus on how the past three years have accelerated, changed, or slowed trends in the nature of actuarial work, particularly for larger-scale projects with a technology or development life-cycle component.

Description: Are your meetings notorious for running too long and achieving too little? In this presentation, we will unlock the secrets to running effective meetings together. Explore strategies to engage participants, keep discussions on track, and put an end to wasted time. Discover how to turn post-meeting frustrations into actionable outcomes. Join us and transform your meetings into dynamic, goal-driven sessions that leave everyone inspired and energized.

Description: Come check out a diverse panel of health actuaries available to help guide you around the track for any question you may have. An ACA question - we have it covered! A valuation question - we will find a solution. A professionalism issue - we will make a ruling! A regulatory concern - we will help guide the way! No question is off limits! There are no stupid questions!

Description: With more technology than ever to assist in communicating, the method of communication is only one hurdle to clear. Explore from various perspectives the changing dynamics of communications for actuaries. Hear from an actuary in a non-traditional role with remote team members on how to effectively (and ineffectively) create urgency and work toward a common goal. Listen to a consulting actuary discuss how to change communication style depending on the audience (external vs. internal, senior vs. junior, etc). Hear from an actuary navigating an insurance company in a remote environment where information can be disjointed between in office and remote employees. Uncover stories of what has gone well and what has not.

Description: The key to influencing others is cultivating strong relationships. While maintaining authenticity, mutual respect and integrity, it is worthwhile to develop contacts, associations and affiliations that benefit your work, organization and career growth. Explore how to create influential relationships with three different entities, including your direct reports, peer group and boss. Learn how other leaders have used influencing skills to gain success and improve their organizations.

Description: Artificial intelligence brings immense opportunities for productivity gains—and valid concerns. It can both support innovations in insurance products and in the customer experience as well as enhance our profession’s work. Actuaries share a responsibility for caution and professional judgment to use it without jeopardizing the fair and equitable treatment of individual consumers and the principals we serve.AI creates significant challenges for consumers: opacity, reliable accuracy, privacy, and verification of personal data. The Academy and its members have been working to educate and inform stakeholders, insurance commissioners, and regulators toward improving the transparency of algorithms that underlie the use of AI by insurers, to explain how the algorithms can be used to achieve equitable treatment, and to identify the issues and trade-offs related to ensuring consumer protections. We must amplify the actuarial perspective on how adequate disclosures, documentation, and governance of AI can help protect users. This session will examine how we can govern and support the evolution of better practices. We will discuss how AI is addressed via standards such as ASOP No. 56, Modeling, and other guardrails that are being developed to best utilize AI’s real-world potential and fulfill our professional responsibilities.

Description: Meet the authors of and learn about the contributors to the newly published e-book "Design Your Future with the Competency Framework." Presenters will share their personal reflections, stories and words of wisdom to bring to life the eight professional and personal competencies in the SOA Competency Framework.