Marketing & Distribution Section: Insuring Tomorrow: Navigating the Digital Revolution in Insurance
Join host Tiana Zhao as she explores the cutting-edge trends reshaping the insurance landscape. From AI-driven underwriting to climate-focused products, this episode of the SOA Marketing and Distribution podcast dives deep into the technological and societal shifts transforming how we think about risk and protection. Discover how insurtech startups, IoT devices, and changing consumer expectations are driving innovation in product design, distribution channels, and customer experience. Whether you're an industry professional or simply curious about the future of insurance, this podcast offers valuable insights into the forces shaping the industry's evolution and the opportunities that lie ahead.
Anders Larson and Shea Parkes discuss using GenAI applications with coding agents to simulate healthcare costs. They revisit the distinction between large language models (LLMs) and the applications that wrap them. They then use some newer GenAI application functionality to generate some simulated healthcare cost distributions. During their discussion they explore what domain knowledge the modern LLMs already have, and how to supplement that with their own domain expertise.
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Health Section: AI & ML
Description: Listen as co-hosts Jackie Lee and Josh Hammerquist speak to data scientist Supriya Ramachandra as they discuss how she attacks messy data with Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. From this discussion, actuaries will learn about how these cutting-edge tools can be used in their work. PleaseNote: At timestamp 11:00: The training data was created through manual annotation — it took 4 annotators about a week to label the clinical notes. At timestamp 12:24–12:26, we said “non-supervised” — the correct term is “unsupervised learning."
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Young Professional Advisory Council: Promoting the Next Generation of Actuaries- The Art of Managing Down
In this month’s YPAC podcast host Shawn Stender, FSA, MAAA will be joined by Simon Gervais, FSA, MAAA to discuss an often-overlooked topic for young actuaries. With so much focus given to career advancement and “managing up,” actuaries looking might overlook the benefits of managing down to promote younger professionals within their organization. This podcast will discuss how managing down can not only benefit your career, but also the actuarial profession.
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Health Section: Understanding Tertiary and Quaternary Hospitals in the US, an Actuarial Perspective
Join Danny Moore and Aaron Jurgaitis as they discuss tertiary and quaternary care from an actuarial perspective. Danny and Aaron discuss: Definitions around the different levels of care, from primary up to quaternary Specifics around the types of care delivered in the specialized facilities that deliver this care, and The key themes actuaries need to keep in mind when analyzing data that include these types of services. Aaron shares information from his background of performing analysis for pediatric and academic facilities that highlight important factors that actuaries should consider, such as relative efficiency, referral patterns, episodes of care vs. points in time, and the specific value of expertise that these facilities contain. The information shared is relevant from both a provider and payer point of view, and will broaden your understanding of the unique characteristics of tertiary and quaternary care providers.
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