Underwriting has always been the strategic core of insurance — where actuarial rigor, clinical insight, and portfolio judgment converge to price and protect risk. But the discipline is at an inflection point. In this fireside chat, Terry Buechner will explore with Dr. Dave Rengachary how underwriting has evolved from a specialist craft built on experience and instinct to a data-rich, AI-augmented function — and what that transformation means for carriers, reinsurers, and the broader ecosystem.

The conversation will span the arc of modern underwriting: how decision-making is changing across portfolios and products, where automation accelerates without sacrificing discipline, and where human expertise remains irreplaceable. It will also look candidly at the risks — the discipline gap that emerges when model speed outpaces the governance, validation, and judgment needed to catch what the model gets wrong.

Drawing on RGA's real-world deployment of generative AI to reorchestrate  the underwriting process — achieving transformative improvements in efficiency in partnership with AWS — the discussion will ground big ideas in tangible outcomes and open the floor to questions about what comes next.