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SUNDAY, APRIL 11
Sunday evening
Opening reception
MONDAY, APRIL 12
Monday morning
Breakfast (7:30-8:30 a.m.)
General session (8:30-11:30 a.m.)
Jeanne Harris, an executive research fellow at the Accenture
Institute for High Performance, will be our opening speaker.
Harris is a co-author of the best-selling book Competing on
Analytics, published by the Harvard Business Press and
translated into 13 languages. The book explains how successful
enterprises are basing their strategies on data-based decisions.
Jeanne Harris |
Her presentation at the Main Event will offer a critical assessment
of analytics in business operations,
and will draw, in part, upon research for her upcoming book,
Analytics at Work.
In more than 30 years at Accenture, Harris has led Accenture's
business intelligence, analytics, performance management, knowledge
management, and data warehousing consulting groups. She has
consulted for a variety of organizations throughout the world in
various industries.
Nothing is ever as easy as it sounds.
Getting results from data requires a disciplined,
comprehensive commitment to overhaul your operations and
culture to shed old habits and prepare your staff to utilize
data systematically and effectively.
Managers from two well-known and highly regarded companies
will describe the challenges their organizations faced in
developing and implementing d ata-based
decision making.
Joel Brown is vice president of personal lines for
State Auto Insurance, Columbus, Ohio. Joel is a seasoned
executive with nearly 30 years of experience in pricing,
product development, corporate communications, and sales
with Motorists Insurance Group, Meridian Insurance Group,
and now State Auto.
Greg Hansen is actuarial research leader for
Westfield Insurance, Westfield Center, Ohio. Greg, a fully
credentialed actuary, created and now leads Westfield's
actuarial research and predictive modeling unit. Since 2006,
that unit has developed rating and underwriting models for
homeowners, BOP, and other personal and commercial lines.
Angelyn Treutel
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It's not all about you, or your company.
If you implement data-driven underwriting and pricing without
considering the response of key constituencies, you may run into
some unpleasant surprises.
Your agents may find the process disruptive to the
customer relationships they cultivate on your behalf.
No one is better prepared to address that than Angelyn Treutel, vice
president of an independent agency in Bay St. Louis, Miss., and
chairwoman of the IIABA's Agents Council for Technology.
Angelyn will offer firsthand observations on how agencies react when
new rating plans create profound changes in the classification and
rating of customers.
Monday afternoon
AAIS Golf Outing (12:15-5:30 p.m.)
Optional Lunch Cruise on the
Sanibel Harbour Princess (12:30-2:30 p.m.)
Monday evening
Reception (6:30-8 p.m.)
TUESDAY, APRIL 13
Tuesday morning
Breakfast (7:30-8:30 a.m.)
General session (8:30-11:45 a.m.)
Greg
Jaynes |
Deborah
Summerlin
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Susan Luecke |
Who would have thought that protection class is
much less of a factor in fire loss than long believed? That's
just one of the things AAIS actuaries learned as they developed the
foundation for AAIS's new and innovative by-peril rating plans, to be
introduced in homeowners and carried over to other lines.
Greg Jaynes, AAIS chief actuary, Deborah
Summerlin, vice president of insurance lines, and Susan Luecke,
assistant vice president
for personal lines, will describe how by-peril rating can play a key
role in selecting and pricing your risks and, by doing so, help you
reach your goals for growth and profitability. You'll learn what the
"winners" in today's market are doing to stay competitive.
Among other things, the presentation will include a
description of the upcoming AAIS Homeowners rating plan, and research
findings that challenge conventional wisdom about rating variables. You
won't want to miss this.
Mark Boozell
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For the second of two presentations on external
reactions to data-driven underwriting and rating, we have Mark Boozell, government affairs advisor for the law firm Dykema Gossett PLLC,
and former director of the Illinois Department of Insurance.
Mark will address what insurers are likely to
encounter from regulators and legislators as they seek to develop
new predictive factors for underwriting and rating policies.
Before joining Dykema, Boozell served for more than 20 years in Illinois government,
and later led a division of Aon.
Charles Chamness |
Charles Chamness, president of the National Association of
Mutual
Insurance Companies (NAMIC), will speak on public policy and
regulatory trends at the state and federal level, including the
impact of federal health policy on property/casualty insurers.
"Chuck" came to NAMIC as vice president for public policy in 1995,
after working in Washington, D.C. as a Capitol Hill press secretary,
director of public affairs for the Federal Housing Finance Board,
and deputy assistant secretary under Secretary Jack Kemp in the
Department of Housing and Urban Affairs. He was named to his current
position in 2003.
This year's Main Event is adding a special track on Tuesday for
inland marine specialists and for P&C executives who want to know
more about the line. This track will run concurrently with the
general session, and attendees can choose this track in place of the
general session.
Click here for
details on the inland marine program.
Tuesday afternoon
Lunch and AAIS annual meeting (Noon-1:15 p.m.)
Roundtable discussions (1:30-3 p.m.)
The business program of the Main
Event concludes with breakout roundtable discussions led by AAIS
staff members.
This year's
sessions and topics include:
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Executive, led
by Paul Baiocchi,
president (topics to be determined)
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By-peril
Rating, led by Greg Jaynes,
Sue Luecke,
and Debi Summerlin
(see above)
--Customizing the rating plan
--Managing renewal impact
--Managing overall performance of the plan
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Inland Marine,
led by Robert Guevara,
vice president of inland marine
--Commercial Output form changes and challenges
--Changes to the Installation Floater class
--Revising and simplifying the EDP forms
--Information on cargo filings with departments of transportation
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Farm & Ag, led
by Sherry Taylor,
manager of farm and agribusiness
--Forms and filing status of the new Ag Excess/Umbrella Program
--Future enhancements to the AgGL Program
--Forms and coverage features for a new Ag Property
Program
--Emerging environmental, political, and other issues
Tuesday evening
Closing reception and dinner, 6-10 p.m.
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