4th University of California Santa Barbara InsurTech Summit 2023

April 14, 2023

Location: UC Santa Barbara

Duration: 90 minutes for the panel discussion

Attendees: ~80

Audience: 75% Academics, 15% Startup roles, 5% Actuaries, 5% Other

• 3 panelists engaged the audience along the following themes
• New career paths available to actuarial students thanks to the InsurTech Wave?
• Most useful skills new college graduates can acquire in order to get an “edge” in actuarial/InsurTech. Also, is Excel finally going to die out?
• Expected impact of ChatGPT and similar technologies. Impact to the insurance industry. Impact on actuaries.
• Most interesting trends in InsurTech and predictive analytics
• Other questions:
• credentials are needed/will be needed to enter the actuarial job market
• influence of “Big Data”; simply a fad, or something more significant
• sources for the latest trends in the actuarial profession