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Learning Lounge - ERM
Hinging on the idea that social interaction that makes learning stick, the planning committee is arranging two facilitated sessions for Spring Meeting attendees with responsibilities in one or both of these areas. These 75-minute sessions will be led by experienced practitioners in the field who will have attendees discuss and brainstorm solutions to challenges facing the profession in these areas. This will provide a platform for actuaries to discuss issues, learn and network.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Robert Wolf, David Ingram
Learning Lounge - Predictive Analytics
Hinging on the idea that social interaction that makes learning stick, the planning committee is arranging two facilitated sessions for Spring Meeting attendees with responsibilities in one or both of these areas. These 75-minute sessions will be led by experienced practitioners in the field who will have attendees discuss and brainstorm solutions to challenges facing the profession in these areas. This will provide a platform for actuaries to discuss issues, learn and network.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Robert Wolf, Steven Armstrong
Microinsurance Working Party Roundtable
Join us for a broad discussion on a year of research by the CAS microinsurance working party, and how innovations in microinsurance are being successfully deployed in developing and mature markets. Barbara, Jim, and Tom will discuss key issues for launching, growing, and operating microinsurance programs – including regulation, distribution, technology and managing cost-effective operations. We look forward to an interactive discussion, and the ideas brought by each participant.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
Tom Johansmeyer, Barbara Chabbaga
Presenting to Non-Actuaries Roundtable
This roundtable will share and discuss real life situations in which communication & presentation style was integral to the outcome of a discussion. The discussion will focus on different presentation styles used for various types of audiences encountered by consultants, company actuaries, and others, along with resources for self-improvement of presentation skills.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
David Prevo
Sustainability Practices in P&C Insurance
How do we make the leap from "Corporate Social Responsibility" to Sustainability? What is the impact of sustainability on actuarial processes and methodologies? Participants are invited to discuss these topics and the way forward.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
Anh Le
Outside the Box: The Role for Actuaries in ILS
Over the last several years, the Insurance-Linked Securities market has grown to encompass a broad range of new instruments and structures. Expanding past a catastrophe model driven market to include a range of additional lines of business, the recent trends in the market have led to an increased role for actuaries in pricing and reserving for the associated reinsurance risk.
In this session, we will introduce what it means to do actuarial pricing and reserving in an ILS context. We will also look at how actuaries have played a role in some of the recent innovations in the market, and how they may continue to see their role increase in the near future.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Aaron Koch
Microinsurance - Applications and Innovations
Microinsurance typically refers to smaller policies that target low-income groups, but the concept and its potential applications reach far beyond this. Our microinsurance session will discuss how a number of different trends and developments in the insurance industry, such as mobile platforms, Insurtechs, blockchain and new sources of data, are enabling microinsurance to innovatively serve the traditional and emerging demands of developing as well as mature markets.
Furthermore, we will also discuss key factors to consider when estimating the demand and risk of prospective markets, important differences in product design and how to evaluate the success and impact of a program.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Eric Cheung, Xiaosu Wash, Xi Chen
Professionalism, Politics, and Prediction Error
Great effort has been expended in politics analyzing what went right and wrong in predicting outcomes of recent votes such as the 'Brexit referendum' and 2016 US presidential election. At the heart of these debates are issues such as validity and transparency of assumptions, quality of data, and relevance of the past in predicting the future. Such considerations could easily be discussed in the context of actuarial professionalism. In this interactive session, we analyze political prediction processes, draw insurance analogies, and debate appropriate professional considerations for actuaries.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Jim Weiss, Rob Curry
Disruptive Technology and Risk
Disruptive technologies such as nanotechnology, robotics, autonomous vehicles and many others tend to both giveth and taketh away in terms of risk. This session will examine the role of disruptive technology on several distinct industries and assess areas where risk is reduced and others where uncertainty is increased.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Kathryn Walker, Laura Maxwell, Vina Kuriakose
2017 Survey Results - Machine Learning: Adoption & Evolution
We live in a world surrounded by analytics. It is everywhere. Sports teams use it to get an edge on the competition, Netflix uses it to predict which shows you are most likely to like and Amazon uses it to introduce you to additional products you didn't even know you wanted. The insurance world is no different. Machine learning and advanced analytics techniques are being used all across the industry including the pricing process. In this session, we will review the interesting findings of a survey conducted around the extent of usage of machine learning and predictive analytics practices among insurance pricing practitioners. Besides learning about the current status of analytics usage, we learn how pricing practitioners are continuing to advance the science. This session will also include live polling to dig deeper into some responses.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Drew Lawyer
The Changing Role of the Actuary in the Face of Robotics and Process Automation
Many jobs across the economy are quickly becoming disrupted as a result of robotics and process automation. From accounting clerks to manufacturing facilities, traditional roles are quickly disappearing as computers are able to take on more and more sophisticated processes. Are actuaries next? Using a process called Pixelation, this session will explore the many tasks that actuaries perform and what parts of our roles could be disrupted and replaced. At the same time, we will discuss how this disruption can have a positive impact on the many roles that actuaries play and how we can provide even more value to our many constituents.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
Sarah Voit
Panelists:
Bruce Fell, Jonathan Ankney
Actuaries and Digital Insurance Innovation
This session will be led by actuaries who have transitioned from traditional actuarial roles to key roles in an InsureTech company. We will discuss how we think of insurance product, underwriting and rating to be digitally consumable and present a case study with a partner carrier. We will also discuss the value actuaries bring to a tech-focused environment and the skills necessary to be successful.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
General Session
Panelists:
Anita Sathe, Kelli Broin, Vinu Kuriakose, Kjersten Elias
Ensembles and Combining Models
Ensembles are powerful analytical methods used commonly in the wider Predictive Analytics community outside of Insurance. We'll describe the rationale and explain the effectiveness of Ensembles in general, as well as the basic approaches of bagging and boosting Ensembles of Trees. Advantages of Ensembles on insurance data will be shown and the issues surrounding complex models discussed. Finally, strategies for combining linear regression and ensemble models will be explored.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Christopher Cooksey, Jim Weiss
Actuaries' Impact in Technology Implementations
Our session will focus on developing the business case and defining critical required capabilities during the vendor selection process, defining and rationalizing the product architecture, supporting rating and pricing tools, identifying opportunities to streamline the portfolio, and defining functional requirements to maximize the process efficiency and downstream reporting and analytics needs. Throughout the product lifecycle, actuaries help the business to realize competitive advantages arising from the increased data capabilities, better information fluency, and employment of advanced analytics, while further developing their pricing and general business skills.
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Peter Tomopoulos, Kelly Cusick, Rob Curry, Leigh Kenwothy, Nilay Doshi
Blockchain for Actuaries
Imagine an insurance industry without paperwork, a system where some claims are verified and handled almost instantly, and applications/renewals are approved nearly as fast. Imagine being able to minimize fraudulent claims or loss adjustment expenses with a massive, decentralized database that leverages real-time data sources of almost unimaginable size. Imagine the cost savings to your company of improving efficiency across the insurance value chain (from product management to underwriting, to claims, to customer service), all while potentially increasing the security of your policyholder's data. Now imagine that the technology to do this already exists. It does. The hot name right now is 'blockchain technology.'
Source:
2017 In Focus Seminar
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
Sarah Voit
Panelists:
Michael Henk, HongTao Wang, Robert Bell
Maximizing the Value of Your Actuarial Opinion and Reports
Your actuarial opinion and reports are reviewed and analyzed by several people, a number of whom are not actuaries. These people include company management, auditors, regulators and court officials and jurors. This workshop will guide you to interact with these non-actuaries and communicate effectively in language that they can understand and how to .
Each group has different needs for information. Some only want bottom-line numbers, others want to know how you derived your numbers, and some may want to know if you verified your work. The workshop facilitators include a regulator, an actuary who conducts audits, an actuary who testifies in court, an actuary who is a CEO and an actuary who writes opinions on offshore companies not subject to NAIC regulations. There will also be a COPLFR representative as well.
Source:
2017 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
Type:
Workshop
Moderators:
Andrew Lawyer
Panelists:
Michael Toothman, Erich Brandt, Kathleen Odomirok, Julie Lederer
Groundbreaking Innovations in Induced Seismic Activity
There has been a lot of trembling within Company risk management due to the recent increase in Induced Seismic Activity. Learn about some of the groundbreaking techniques and considerations companies have been developing to "shake out the flak" as they try to develop measurements of risk in this area.
Source:
2017 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
James Heer
Panelists:
Jason Harland, Charles Mueller, Renee Lee
Recent Innovations in Fraud Detection Analytics
“Although claims predictive analytics have become commonplace in the insurance industry, the use of analytics to identify claims with the potential for hard or soft fraud is an area that is often overlooked, or misunderstood. Developing a claims analytical model that provides truly meaningful insights into potential fraud indicators has proven to be a challenge, but these challenges can be overcome with the proper approach.
This session will discuss the elements of an analytical model that can provide a meaningful identification of claims with fraud potential, and also detail how internal and external data can be used to identify key predictive variables that predict claim outcomes. Critical business implementation elements will also be shared that support the appropriate interpretation and use of the analytical model outputs so that potential fraud can be identified and managed early in the life of a claim.”
Source:
2017 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
Gerry Palisi
Panelists:
Richard Messick, Christy Van Dyke, Daniel Olson, Michael Hall
Current Applications of Microinsurance Innovations
Members of the CAS Working Party researching micro-insurance will present selected findings.
Description: P&C micro-insurance products range from on-demand coverage for personal articles to sensor-based drought coverage in Zimbabwe. In this session members of the CAS Microinsurance Working Party will present why organizations may want to consider micro-insurance in their strategies and how actuaries can get involved. Specific areas considered will be market selection, measuring impact, developing products, and understanding micro coverage needs in mature markets.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Concurrent Session
Panelists:
Tom Johansmeyer, Jim Weiss, Scott Swanay, Barbara Chabbaga
Internet of Things Roundtable
The Internet of Things (IoT) promises exponentially more data, communicated from devices including everything from home appliances to automobiles to fitness monitors to utility meters. With more data on insured risks there is great excitement about how this data can improve the business of insurance, but also significant trepidation and uncertainty. Participants are encouraged to discuss their plans, desires and concerns regarding the applications of IoT in P&C Insurance.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
George Hosfield
Diversity in the Actuarial Profession
The financial case for diversity is strong. However, diversity efforts often fail if there is no culture of inclusion. In this roundtable, you are invited to share your thoughts on what we can do create more inclusive environments in the workplace, and how we can all help to increase the diversity in the profession.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
Kezia Charles
Data Visualization
Want to pick up some tips on how to most effectively display your data? Have some data visualization tips to share? Join our discussion. We will start with a couple of data visualization exercises and then talk about trends and the future of data visualization.
Source:
2017 Spring Meeting
Type:
Roundtable Discussion
Panelists:
Alison Khan
Workers' Compensation Loss Development Tail Factors
As a very long tailed line, workers’ compensation presents a significant challenge in estimating loss development tail factors. Various qualitative properties and empirical anecdotes about WC tail development will be discussed and several methods for tail factor estimation will be demonstrated.
Source:
2017 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
Andrew Lawyer
Panelists:
Jonathan Evans, Anthony Pipia
Bermuda Economic Balance Sheet: Technical Provision
Bermuda's new Economic Balance Sheet (EBS) for major (re)insurers and groups has moved from theory to reality with the year-end 2016 financials. In this session, a representative from the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA) and a Willis Towers Watson consultant will discuss the first-year implementation of EBS. For instance, what went smoothly? What was difficult? What further developments might be in store for future years?
This session will provide a practitioner’s perspective on the EBS requirements and how the guidance is being interpreted and how companies are complying with the BMA's EBS provisions. This session will cover pitfalls and challenges and allow an open forum to discuss the various approaches taken to conform to the BMA's guidance.
Source:
2017 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
Alejandro Ortega
Panelists:
Ashley Wohler, Jeferino dos Santos
What's New with Stochastic BCAR
A.M. Best is in the middle of a transition from a deterministic model to a stochastic-based model. Jim Gillard, a representative from A.M. Best, will update us on its capital adequacy model (BCAR). Jim Gillard will give a high-level overview of the rating process with emphasis on quantitative components and will share his insights on this very important transition.
Source:
2017 Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar (CLRS)
Type:
Concurrent Session
Moderators:
Alejandro Ortega
Panelists:
James Gillard
