7:00 AM – 5:00 PM

Registration

 

7:15 AM – 9:00 AM

Networking Breakfast

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9:00 AM – 9:30 AM

Day 2 Welcome and Remarks

Speaker:
Dale Hall, Managing Director of Research, Society of Actuaries
 

9:10 AM – 9:30 AM

Empowering the Future: Building a Professional Workforce in the Age of AI

Society of Actuaries CEO Greg Heidrich will explore AI’s transformative role in professional employment sectors. Discover the balance of risks and opportunities presented by AI and learn how the SOA is strategically equipping the actuarial profession – a critical insurance workforce – with the tools to thrive in this new era.

Speaker:
Greg Heidrich, Chief Executive Officer, Society of Actuaries

 

9:30 AM – 10:15 AM

General Session: Impact of Weather

Once thought of as a non-life insurance problem, climate change has now begun to affect the life insurance industry.  Wildfires, flooding, storms and earthquakes have killed thousands of people worldwide in 2023 alone. These numbers will undoubtably grow in years to come.  Stakeholders are also putting demands on how insurers invest trillions of assets, pressuring them to stop supporting carbon-friendly businesses.  Learn about how the insurance industry is handling these pressures and what the future might hold.

Moderator:

Jeff Poulin, Chief Executive Officer, Canada Life Reinsurance

Speaker:
Karen Clark, Co-Founder, Karen Clark & Company

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10:15 AM –10:45 AM

Refreshment Break

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10:45 AM – 11:45 AM

General Session: Convergence of Asset Management and Insurance

Since President Roosevelt signed the Glass-Stegall Act into law in 1933, banks and insurance companies needed to conduct business separately.  In 1999, President Clinton repealed the Act allowing banks and insurers to interact.  Currently, banks are taking a lot of interest in the huge assets that insurers have amassed.  But it is not just an asset management "play" any longer.  Some banks are actually embracing insurance risk.  Learn how the insurance industry has adjusted to more involvement by banks and private equity firms into the world of insurance.  

Moderator:

Philip Salem, Managing Director, Goldman Sachs

Speakers:

David Schieldrop, Managing Director, Wells Fargo Securities

Tom Vandever, Managing Director, Head of FIG M&A, Americas, Barclays

 

12:00 PM – 2:00 PM

Networking Lunch
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2:00 PM – 2:45 PM

General Session: State of Insurtech/Sustainability of Innovation Insurance

Over the past 10 years, insurtech has helped foster and accelerate innovation around underwriting, claims, customer service/distribution, and management information.  This has been fostered by Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Carriers/Reinsurers Strategic Investment arms.  With over $15B invested in Insuretech, are we getting the results we expected - in terms of return, actual acceleration of innovation? Do we still see this as a viable option for helping to drive/support innovation?  How has the past experience and challenges in implementing Insuretech partnerships change the buy versus partner paradigm?  How well are we equipped to drive innovation without the insuretech seed?

Moderator:

Brian Winikoff, President & Chief Executive Officer, MIB

Speakers:
Chris Murumets, Senior Vice President, Strategic Growth, RGA Americss

Troy Thompson, Chief Actuary, Ethos

Ori Ben-Yishai, Partner, Viewpoint Ventures

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2:45 PM – 3:15 PM

Refreshment Break

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3:15 PM – 4:00 PM

General Session: Generative AI- Pearls, Pitfalls, and Promise in Life Insurance
The use case for technologies based on generative AI and Large Language Models is marked in equal parts by opportunity and risk.  The growing consensus, however, is that having no approach is no longer a viable option.  True to its multi-disciplinary nature, we've assembled a panel of leading life industry, insurtech, and big tech executives who all share one commonality: they are actively leveraging these tools beyond the theoretical and into practice. 

Moderator:

Amanda Hug, Director, Insurance Consulting & Technology, WTW; President- Elect, Society of Actuaries

Speakers:
Chris Behling, Vice President, Underwriting, Northwestern Mutual

Tony Jacob, Worldwide Financial Services Go-to-Market (GTM) Lead, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

Yuval Man, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalOwl

Don Vu, Senior Vice President, Chief Data & Analytics Officer, Strategic Capabilities, New York Life Insurance Company

 

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Networking Reception

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