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Agenda at a Glance

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November 5, 2019

 

8 a.m. to 5 p.m.  

 Registration Open
 
8 to 9 a.m.   Breakfast Buffet Available
9 to 10 a.m.

Opening Plenary

  • Featured Speaker: P.J. O’Rourke, one of the nation’s best-known political satrists and commentators, and author.
10 to 10:15 a.m.  Break
10:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Practice-Specific Breakout Sessions

  • Health: Expanding Access to Public Plans
  • Life: Macroprudential Issues
  • P/C: Predictive Models and External Data
  • Pension: Multiemployer Plans – A Multitude of Challenges for Plan Sponsors, Participants, and Policymakers

Noon

Lunch
Presentation of the Outstanding Volunteerism Awards*
Presentation of the Jarvis Farley Service Award*
Annual Meeting
1:30 to 1:45 p.m.  Break
1:45 to 3:15 p.m. 

 Practice-Specific Breakout Sessions

  • Health: Regulating the Affordable Care Act: What’s New for 2020
  • Life: Combination Products
  • P/C: Insurance-Linked Securities
  • Pension: Public Plans Innovations and Plan Designs
3:15 to 3:30 p.m. Break
3:30 to 5 p.m.

 

Afternoon Plenary: The Professionalism Challenge

Bring your smartphone and join in the fun of answering questions prepared by the Committee on Professional Responsibility about topics like the Code of Professional Conduct and qualifications with your fellow audience members in three full-audience participation rounds.

  • Master of Ceremonies:Audrey Halvorson, MAAA, FSA; Vice President, Health; Chairperson, Committee on Professional Responsibility

5:30 to 6:30 p.m.

 Reception
 

 

Dinner on your own.

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November 6, 2019

 

7:45 a.m. to Noon 

 

 Registration Open

 
7:45 to 8:30 a.m. 

Breakfast buffet available
8:30 a.m. Morning Plenary: Women’s Unique Retirement Issues

  • Featured Speaker: Jean Chatzky, an award-winning personal finance journalist and founder and CEO of HerMoney

  • Panelists: Cindy Hounsell, President, Women’s Institute for a Secure Retirement; Gretchen Livingston, Ph.D., Pew; Elaine Weiss, Ph.D., Lead Policy Analyst for Income Security, National Academy of Social Insurance

  • Moderator: Linda K. Stone, MAAA, FSA, Academy Senior Pension Fellow
10 to 10:15 a.m.  Break
10:15 to 11:45 a.m.

Practice-Specific Breakout Sessions

  • Health: Long-Term Care
  • Life: Modeling and New Data Sources
  • P/C: Climate Risk / Flood Insurance
  • Pension: ERISA Retrospective – Have We Arrived at Our Intended Destination?

11:45 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.

Lunch 
Presentation of the Robert J. Myers Public Service Award*

Closing Plenary: Perspectives on Health Reform

Keynote speaker Jessica Altman will provide a state’s perspective on the current state of the Affordable Care Act and potential options to improve access to affordable health coverage. She will be followed by two veterans of democratic and republican administrations, Chris Jennings and Jennifer B Young, who will offer their insights on the political prospects for action.

  • Featured Speaker: Jessica Altman, Pa. Insurance Commissioner
  • Panelists: Jennifer B. Young, Partner, Tarplin, Downs & Young; Chris Jennings, Founder and President, Jennings Policy Strategies Inc.
  • Moderator: Cori Uccello, MAAA, FSA, FCA, MPP, Senior Health Fellow, American Academy of Actuaries

                                 
 

For a look at last year’s speakers and topics, see the other highlights from the 2018 Annual Meeting and Public Policy Forum.

*Times and agenda subject to change

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