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This session presents key insights from two recent PwC Risk Modeling Services (RMS) industry initiatives: a 2024/2025 PwC global actuarial modernization survey of over 200 insurance companies, and a 2025 PwC actuarial modeling roundtable with senior modeling leads.

The discussion will highlight how insurers are modernizing actuarial functions across strategy, target operating models, people, processes, and data and technology, including the emerging use of GenAI. It also explores practical modeling considerations raised by industry leaders, such as cloud economics, platform disruption from new versus established vendors, build-versus-buy decisions and home-grown platforms, AI-driven actuarial modeling, and the integration of asset modeling.

Attendees will gain a concise, market-informed view of current trends, challenges, and lessons learned as insurers evolve their actuarial and modeling capabilities.

Practice Area: Life

Practice Area: General

As healthcare becomes increasingly shaped by capital flows, regulatory policy, and risk-sharing arrangements, the role of the actuary is expanding well beyond traditional pricing and reserving. This session explores how actuaries influence strategic decisions across payers, providers, investors, and regulators by translating complex analytics into actionable insight.

Practice Area: Health

Life insurance companies are transforming actuarial modeling to be faster, more scalable, and more resilient—while maintaining strong governance and actuarial judgment. This panel brings together modeling leaders from multiple insurers to discuss how actuarial modeling is evolving in practice.

Panelists will compare how their organizations are modernizing modeling stacks without wholesale platform replacement, rethinking operating models and cross‑functional collaboration, and developing the skills needed for the next generation of actuarial modelers. The discussion will focus on practical, transferable patterns and lessons learned that actuaries can apply regardless of company size or modeling platform.

Practice Area: General

Hopefully by now, we are all informed about what AI is and what it can do for our productivity, but prompting can be a bit of a mystery for most. This session will be a hands-on workshop where-in we will dive into the art and science of prompting. We will learn how it works, discuss and practice numerous techniques to make your prompting more effective, and adjust our mindsets from treating AI as a "fancy Google" to treating AI as a model.

Practice Area: General

Join us as we report on the latest healthcare stories, dig into the hot topics in the news, and talk about the role of the actuary in a high trend environment. If we ran the session today, we would talk about how insurers decide what to cover or deny, why hospital systems and insurers make their contract disputes public, what is driving drug prices, and how actuaries make sense of it all.

Practice Area: Health

In the last few years, an explosion in the usage of large language models (LLMs) has produced widespread excitement but also anxiety about the potential of AI to simplify or perhaps replace human work. In this session we'll briefly review these models and how they might be used for actuarial work and then focus on the professionalism considerations for any actuaries relying on these models.

Practice Area: General

COVID-19, the opiod crisis and obesity/GLP-1 drugs have all taken the spotlight in recent years for their impact on current mortality and potential impact on future mortality. But what has really driven mortality trends over the past five years and how long will it persist? This session dives into past and current trends in US population causes of death – what’s known, what’s uncertain, and how these can shape the actuary’s view of future mortality trends. The session also reviews the impact for different socio-economic groups and how these may be extrapolated for the US insured population.

Practice Area: Life; Pension

Join us at the Harvey B. Gantt Center for African-American Arts+Culture

551 South Tryon Street
Charlotte, NC 28202

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The award-winning Travelers Actuarial Cooking Show returns for its third season! In this episode, our master actuarial chefs craft the perfect pricing pizza. Join us in the kitchen as we knead through exposure bases, layer on loss trends, sprinkle in expense loads, and bake it all to perfection. Watch how every topping comes together to create a perfectly balanced pricing pie!

This fun, interactive presentation serves up complex actuarial concepts in bite-sized pieces. You'll leave with practical insights and a fresh appreciation for the art of pricing. Mangia!

Practice Area: P&C

When people think of actuarial careers, they often picture pricing models, reserving analyses, or corporate finance roles. But some of the most influential actuarial work happens in public policy - where technical expertise helps decisionmakers shape policies affecting millions of Americans.

This session, led by senior representatives of the American Academy of Actuaries, will introduce attendees to the powerful and often overlooked role actuaries play in advising policymakers, regulators, and government agencies and the many societal issues they touch. Attendees will learn how actuarial modeling, long-term forecasting, and risk assessment inform state and national conversations on retirement security, healthcare sustainability, insurance markets, and emerging risks.

Through accessible case studies, members of the Academy will explain how actuaries contribute objective, nonpartisan analysis to policymakers and agencies, such as the Social Security Administration, and organizations like the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC). Students and more experienced attendees will see how technical concepts learned while they were taking their exams, and throughout their work experience translate into real-world impact when applied to public programs and real-world issues.

Throughout the session, speakers will emphasize practical next steps attendees can take—joining professional committees, seeking mentors, developing public speaking and presentation skills, and staying informed about emerging policy issues and available resources to help.

By the end of the session, attendees will:

• Understand how actuarial science influences public policy decisions
• Recognize public policy as a viable and impactful career option
• Identify specific steps to begin building toward policy-focused roles
• Feel empowered to bring diverse perspectives into leadership conversations

This session aligns with IABA’s commitment to technical excellence, leadership development, and expanding the visibility and influence of Black actuaries. Attendees will leave not only informed—but inspired to see actuarial science as a tool for broad societal impact.

Practice Area: General

As generative AI becomes an increasingly important part of professional workflows, actuaries must understand how to integrate these tools thoughtfully into their work. In this session, actuaries from Prudential Financial will explore how widely accessible AI assistants such as Microsoft Copilot are reshaping actuarial tasks through a series of practical demonstrations and use cases. Topics include enhancing documentation and training processes, augmenting Excel and Python workflows, and understanding the role of different AI models in actuarial applications. The session also highlights best practices for responsible AI use to help actuaries adopt these tools with confidence.

Practice Area: P&C; Life; General

U.S. life and annuity insurance regulation can feel opaque: state insurance departments set and enforce many rules, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) coordinates standards and model guidance across states, federal oversight intersects in targeted areas, and international supervisors and global standards-setters can influence expectations. In this practical, plain-English session, two leaders in actuarial and regulatory policy, featuring perspectives from industry and the American Academy of Actuaries (the profession’s national actuarial organization), break down how the system works and why it matters. Moderated by a retired former insurance regulator, the panel will cover who decides what, how solvency oversight and risk-based capital (RBC) fit together, product approvals and market conduct, and what to watch over the next 12–18 months.

Practice Area: Life

Longevity risk remains one of the most material and least predictable risks facing insurers, pension plans, and social security systems. Traditional actuarial approaches, anchored in deterministic improvements or narrowly parameterized stochastic models, often struggle to capture the structural uncertainty arising from medical innovation, behavioral change, socioeconomic divergence, and policy intervention.

This presentation introduces a scenario-based framework for longevity modeling that complements conventional mortality projection techniques. Rather than focusing solely on extrapolative trends, the approach explicitly incorporates alternative future states of the world, translating qualitative drivers of longevity change into quantitative scenarios. The session concludes with a discussion of how longevity scenarios can support clearer communication with stakeholders and regulators, and how they can be combined with stochastic models to provide a more robust view of longevity risk.

Practice Area: Life; Pension

Artificial intelligence is transforming actuarial science — from underwriting to pricing to risk segmentation. But as AI becomes more deeply embedded in insurance and financial systems, so does the responsibility to ensure fairness, equity, and ethical decision making.

This session explores how historical inequities in financial services show up in data, how AI can unintentionally amplify those inequities, and how actuaries can lead in building fair, responsible models. We’ll examine how bias enters AI-driven actuarial models, practical techniques for detecting and mitigating it, and the ethical responsibilities actuaries hold in shaping the future of risk assessment.

Join the conversation where we connect the past to the future - and discuss how AI can serve as a tool not only for prediction, but for progress.

Practice Area: General

This session will cover the basics of reinsurance and go over the loss cost analysis of reinsurance products. Topics covered include:  

• Key reinsurance terminology
• The difference between treaty and facultative insurance
• The difference between pro-rata and non-proportions covers
• The three reasons companies buy reinsurance: stability of results, capacity and catastrophe
• Key pricing/costing terminology
• Basics of experience rating
• Basics of exposure rating
• Basics of credibility theory

Practice Area: P&C

Many actuaries believe that career advancement requires changing employers. However, not everyone is able or inclined to make such a move. This session will feature actuaries with long tenures at a single organization who will share insights, strategies, and practical experiences on how to build a successful and fulfilling career within your current company.

Practice Area: General