Presenter(s): Mike McGavick
Moderator(s): Stephanie Gould Rabin, ACAS, MAAA, SIOP, Holborn Corporation

Description: The insurance industry has always been built on models, judgment, and disciplined decision-making. Now a new class of AI systems—often called agentic AI—is beginning to participate in those processes, interpreting data, running analyses, and coordinating complex workflows. What does this mean for the way risk decisions are made? In this keynote, Mike McGavick explores how emerging AI capabilities are changing the speed and structure of underwriting and reinsurance decisions—and why actuaries may become the most important stewards of these new risk engines