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March 11, 2025 Meeting

  • Session 1c: Waukee and Norwalk Financial Internship Programs
    by Jesse Hunt and Jodie Irlmeier
  • Session 2a: All for Math: Actuarial Foundation Programs
    by Mark Rowley, Daisy Hernandez, Nichole Semprit, and Michael Marion
  • Session 2c: Unconscious Bias in Actuarial Work
    by Sara Chen
  • Session 3a: U.S. Mortality Trends: Long and Short Term
    by Mary Pat Campbell
  • Session 3c: Catastrophe Risk Updates and Modeling
    by Clayton Franklin
  • Session 3d: Navigating the 2025 FSA Pathway and Exam Changes
    by Stuart Klugman and Doug Norris

    December 11, 2024 Meeting

  • Introduction to the ABCD
    by Ed Lee

    March 6, 2024 Meeting

  • Session 1a: Demystifying Large Language Models and Use Cases for Actuarial Professional Development
    by Dan Kim
  • Session 1b: Attraction and Retention of the Next Generation of Actuaries
    by Charles Johnson
  • Session 2a: The Bountiful Actuarial Toolbox: Professionalism Resources for Everyday and Beyond
    by Nancy Behrens
  • Session 2b: Interpretable Machine Learning
    by Larry Baeder
  • Session 3a: U.S. Population Mortality Trends Through 2023
    by Mary Pat Campbell
  • Session 3b: Reinsurance 101: Life & Health Reinsurance
    by Kevin Dill & Chris Arvia

    December 5, 2023 Meeting

  • The A-B-C-Ds of Guidance and Discipline
    by Cande Olsen

    March 22, 2023 Meeting

  • Session 1a: Piloting the Economy to a Soft Landing
    by Tom Root
  • Session 1b: Veteran Tips for Effective Modeling
    by Van Beach, Talex Diede & Zachariah Muhlenkamp
  • Session 2a: Management Reporting Best Practices
    by David Alison, Kaushal Balanadu & Julia Giacomazzi
  • Session 2b: Update on Climate Risk in Insurance: Insurance Associated Emissions
    by Graham Hall, Kyle Austin & Neha Srivastava
  • Session 3a: US Mortality Trends through the Pandemic
    by Mary Pat Cambell
  • Session 3b: How Not to Die in the Wilderness
    by Aree Bly & Dave Kester
  • Session 3c: Demographics: Interactions with Economic Growth
    by Max Rudolph

    May 20, 2022 Meeting

  • Math Motivators
    by Mark Rowley

    December 15, 2021 Meeting

  • Self-Regulation and the ABCD
    by William Hines

    February 19, 2019 Meeting

  • Session 1a: Targeted Improvement
    by Janelle Kern & Carrie Morton
  • Session 1b: Economic Environment
    by Robin Anderson
  • Session 2b: Neural Networks
    by Ellen Cousins
  • Session 3a: Actuarial D&I: Leading Beyond Convention
    by Margaret Resce Milkint

    February 20, 2018 Meeting

  • Session 1a: The Long Unwinding Road: Undoing the Aftermath of Crisis-Era Policy
    by Sean Severe
  • Session 1b: ASB Update: The Proposed Assumptions ASOP
    by Darrell Knapp
  • Session 2a: Professionalism in the Age of Trump
    by Jim Weiss
  • Session 3a: Product Life Cycle
    by Pat Stoffel, Todd Jones, and Tim Jongerius
  • Session 3c: Tax Reform / Reserves
    by Chuck Chacosky

    February 14, 2017 Meeting

  • Session 1a: Model Validation Scope and Practical Insights - Part 1
    by Teresa Branstetter
  • Session 1a: Model Validation Scope and Practical Insights - Part 2
    by Nile Vorbrich
  • Session 1a: Model Validation Scope and Practical Insights - Part 3
    by Jim McClure
  • Session 1b: The Certainty of Uncertainty: Forecasting Economic Indicators into the Near Future
    by Sean Severe
  • Session 1c: SOA and CAS Education Updates - Part 1
    by Jim Dornfeld
  • Session 1c: SOA and CAS Education Updates - Part 2
    by Toby White
  • Session 2a: Climate Change - Beyond the Expected
    by Ramona Lee
  • Session 2b: Uses of Actuarial Software
    by Derek Jansen, Sarah Jermeland, and Erin Lachen
  • Session 3b: PBR and You: How the Statutory Standards are Affecting the Industry
    by Alexandre Lemieux
  • Session 3c: Des Moines - A Great Place to Live and Work
    by Rachel Sinclair