Media Advisory: CAS Annual Meeting
WHAT: Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) Annual Meeting & Live Stream Sessions
WHO: Insurance professionals of all levels, including actuaries, predictive modelers, product managers and underwriters. Members of the press are welcome to attend sessions both in-person and via live stream and are asked to register in advance with Kate Niswander, CAS marketing and communications manager, at 703-276-3100 or kniswander@casact.org.
WHERE: Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, Honolulu, Hawaii, or remotely via the internet live stream on November 12.
WHEN: November 10-13, 2019. Please note that all times are Hawaii Standard Time (HST).
WHY: To discuss industry trends and emerging issues in property and casualty insurance, predictive analytics and risk management.
The meeting will consist of four general sessions as well as concurrent sessions. Five sessions will be made available for remote viewing via live stream on Tuesday, November 12. Topics to be addressed at the meeting include predictive analytics and data science, cyber security, emerging claims issues, captive insurance, climate change risk and more.
General Sessions
Actuarial Challenges Around the World
[Monday, November 11 – 11:30 AM to 12:45 PM HST]
This session will explore the effects of development of the actuarial profession, data availability and quality, competitive dynamics, market size, catastrophe exposure and more on the property and casualty industry around the world.
Panelists:
Dehong Xu, FCAS, President, Liberty China<
Marc Tardif, President, Canadian Institute of Actuaries
Jefferson Gibbs, Vice-President, The Actuaries Institute
Ana Maria Ramirez Lozano, President, Colegio Nacional de Actuarios
Actuarial Judgement: Drawing the Line
[Tuesday, November 12 – 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM HST]
Panelists in this session will draw on their decades of actuarial experience to consider the extent to which actuaries are required to consider client feedback and/or qualitative or anecdotal information in their assumptions and judgements.
Panelists:
Joseph Herbers, ACAS, Managing Principal, Pinnacle Actuarial Resources
Scott Weinstein, Principal, KPMG
Deborah Rosenberg, FCAS, Consulting Actuary, Risk & Regulatory Counseling
Innovation’s Contribution to Financial Strength
[Tuesday, November 12 – 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM HST]
The speakers will comment on innovations in the actuarial field and innovation trends.
Panelists:
James Gillard, Executive Vice President & Chief Operating Officer, AM Best
Greg Heerde, Head of Americas Analytics, Aon
Hawaiian Insurer Panel
[Wednesday, November 13 – 10:30 AM to 11:45 AM HST]
This session will explore some of the challenges faced by workers compensation carriers as well as two insurance companies writing diversified books of personal and commercial lines.
Panelists:
Jeffrey Grimmer, VP & Treasurer, First Insurance Co of Hawaii
Michael Onofrietti, SVP, Actuarial, Product Management & Development, Island Insurance Company, Ltd.
Martin Welch, CEO, Hawaii Employers’ Mutual Insurance Company
Guy Avagliano, FCAS, Principal & Consulting Actuary, Milliman, Inc.
Additional Live Streaming Sessions on Tuesday, November 12
Innovation’s Contribution to Financial Strength (Live Streaming)
[Tuesday, November 12 – 8:00 AM to 9:15 AM HST]
See above for session description.
Visual Thinking – Data Visualization for Actuaries and Data Scientists (Live Streaming)
[Tuesday, November 12 – 9:30 AM to 10:20 AM HST]
The goal of this session is to provide actionable insights into the rapidly-evolving data visualizations realm and empower actuaries and data scientists with data visualization tools to achieve high-impact results in story-telling and decision-making.
Panelists:
Marcela Granados, FCAS, Actuarial Analytics Leader, EY
Corey Alfieri, FCAS, Associate Actuary, The Hanover Insurance Group
Nan Zhang, FCAS, Hanover Insurance Group
Neil Greiner, FCAS, Hanover Insurance Group
GLM vs. Machine Learning – A Case Study in Pricing (Live Streaming)
[Tuesday, November 12 – 10:55 AM to 11:45 AM HST]
This session will discuss pros and cons of the two modeling approaches and specifically describe the major challenges of the two approaches.
Panelists:
Debbie Deng, FCAS, Head of Actuarial Research, Taiping General Insurance
Jun Zhou, FCAS, CPCU, Chief Actuary, Sinosafe General Insurance
The Big Short, Part II (Live Streaming)
[Tuesday, November 12 – 12:05 PM to 12:55 PM HST]
This session will shed more light into the events that got us to our current economic situation and how potential risks will impact areas of actuarial interest.
Panelists:
Robert Anderson, ACAS, Chief Actuary, United Auto Insurance Company
New Approaches to Modeling Silent Cyber Risk (Live Streaming)
[Tuesday, November 12 – 2:40 PM to 3:30 PM HST]
In this session, panelists will discuss how they are facing the emerging peril of “silent” cyber risk. Specifically, they will focus on case studies and disaster scenarios that can help quantify risk from this monumental challenge.
Panelists:
Jonathan Laux, FCAS, Head of Cyber Analytics, Aon Benfield
Ridhima Kale, FCAS, Senior Product Manager, Cyence
Driving Under the Influence – The Insurance of Distracted Driving (Live Streaming)
[Tuesday, November 12 – 3:40 PM to 4:30 PM HST]
This session will be aimed at defining the problem of distracted driving by: defining what is considered distracted driving for insurance purposes, giving the legal landscape of distracted driving, what role telematics play and pitfalls of analyzing distracted driving data.
Panelists:
David Kidd, Senior Research Scientist, Highway Loss Data Institute
Katie DeGraaf, Mobility Intelligence, Arity
Kudakwashe Chibanda, FCAS, Director, Data Science, The Hartford
For more information on the live streaming, visit the 2019 Annual Meeting Page.
About the Casualty Actuarial Society
The Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) is a leading international organization for credentialing and professional education. CAS credentials demonstrate the expertise to identify, analyze and advise on the potential financial impact of risk and uncertainty. Professionals educated by the Casualty Actuarial Society empower business and government to make well-informed strategic, financial and operational decisions.
