7:30 AM – 5:00 PM          REGISTRATION

 

7:15 AM – 9:00 AM          NETWORKING BREAKFAST

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9:00 AM – 9:10 AM          DAY 2 WELCOME REMARKS

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

 

9:10 AM - 9:30 AM           ACTUARIAL TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION IN LIFE INSURANCE

Society of Actuaries CEO Greg Heidrich will highlight the growing uses of innovative actuarial technology by life insurers, and how the profession is working with industry and regulators to ensure the responsible use of artificial intelligence tools, data, and analytics techniques. 
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

 

 

10:15 AM –10:45 AM        REFRESHMENT BREAK

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10:45 AM – 11:45 PM       THE MIDTERMS: CONVERGENCEE 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 In 1999, President Clinton repealed the Act allowing banks and insurers to interact.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, Wells Fargo Securities

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, insuretech 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?

 

2:45 PM – 3:15 PM           REFRESHMENT BREAK                          

 

3:15 PM – 4:00 PM          GENERAL SESSION - GENERATIVE AI/CHATGPT - 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.

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Moderator:

Dave Rengachary, SVP, Head of Underwriting, US Mortality Markets, RGA Reinsurance Company

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Speakers:

Chris Behling, Vice Presidentm Underwriting, Northwestern Mutual​

Alex Cook, Senior Vice President, Strategic Capabilities, New York Life

Yuval Man, Chief Executive Officer, DigitalOwl

Scott Mullins, Managing Director, Head of Worldwide Financial Services Business Development, Amazon Web Services (AWS)

 

4:00 PM – 5:00 PM          NETWORKING RECEPTION

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