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Emergence of Artificial Intelligence in Financial Services & Insurance

June 12th, 2025 at the University of Cincinnati's University Club

By Invitation Only
Overview

RMEF will be joined by international leaders in the areas of risk management, insurance regulation, legislation, distribution, business resilience, education, claims adjustment, law, insurance technology, and related governmental agencies and industries in interactive discussions around the concerns with and promise of AI and the rapid expansion of generative AI. Always with an overarching theme of ethical implementations and use, we will discuss and debate what we all hope will work to the benefit of people, businesses, institutions, and economies.

Academic Partners

RMEF is proud to have international academic partners in the fields of business, risk management and insurance: University of Cincinnati, University of Pittsburgh, and HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal).

Our Host

The Artificial Intelligence Event is hosted by Dr. Ann Hofmann, the Great American Insurance Group Chair and Academic Director at the Lindner Center for Insurance & Risk Management at the University of Cincinnati.

Academic Speakers & Partners

Academic Guests include Professor Chris Gassman, J.D. of the University of Pittsburgh, speaking on Business Resilience and artificial intelligence, and distinguished guest Professor M. Martin Boyer, Ph.D. of the finance and insurance schools at HEC Montréal (Université de Montréal).

KEYNOTE ADDRESS

The keynote address will be provided by Dr. Sam Volchenboum, in partnership with the St Baldick's Foundation, who are conquering kids' cancer. Dr. Volchenboum is a professor of pediatrics and the associate chief research informatics officer for the Division of Biological Sciences at the University of Chicago. He is the Associate Dean of Masters Programs, and he designed and launched the UChicago Master’s in Biomedical Informatics. His clinical specialty is pediatric hematology / oncology, caring for kids with cancer and blood diseases. His research group includes the University of Chicago’s Data for the Common Good (D4CG), dedicated to building communities, platforms, and ecosystems that maximize the potential of data to drive discovery and improve human health. D4CG’s flagship project, the Pediatric Cancer Data Commons is dedicated to liberating and democratizing international data for pediatric malignancies. He is the director of the Informatics Core for the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA), and he is director of the UChicago Clinical Informatics fellowship program.

Sponsors

Ryan Turner Specialty (Broker), Sunlight Solutions (Technology), Lindemann Miller Bowen (Law)

Partnerships

The St Baldrick's Charitable Foundation, Conquering Kids' Cancer

(Sponsorship/Partnership opportunities are still available for an individual event or our Series.)

Future topics include “Climate Change, the Perceived Proliferation of Natural Catastrophes, and Insurance Rates”; “Continued Re/Insurance Globalization: Concerns and Opportunities”; “Technology Paradigms in Insurance”; “Social Inflation in the United States: Myth or Reality"; “Insurance Loss Mitigation: Modern Methods, Who Pays, Who Benefits?"; and “Factors Driving M&A in the Financial Services Space, Especially Technological”