Almost Nowhere

Why Smart People Are Extremely Bad at Explaining Things with Sean Malloy

Being an expert can actually make you worse at explaining what you know. Sean Malloy joins Alicia Burke and Max Martinelli to unpack the science of how people actually l

Are We Already at That Point with AI?

AI has had plenty of big weeks. This one felt different. Sergey Filimonov returns to Almost Nowhere for a breaking-news conversation with Alicia Burke and Max Martinelli

Melissa Huenefeldt and Brekk Hayward - Reserving for a Driverless Future

Autonomous vehicles may sound like a problem for the future, but the technology is already challenging some of the assumptions actuaries use to understand commercial auto

Bill Dubinsky and Mike Leybov on the Future of Alternative Capital

Insurance-linked securities have been part of the reinsurance market for decades. But as alternative capital expands beyond property catastrophe risk, new opportunities—a

Jonathan Lim Returns

Jonathan Lim returns to Almost Nowhere one year after his first appearance to answer a simple question: what actually changed? Joined by Alicia Burke and Max Martinelli,

When the Driver Isn't in Charge: Insurance in the Age of Autonomous Vehicles

In this episode recorded at the CAS Seminar on Reinsurance, Nick Klinka, FCAS MBA, discusses how autonomous vehicles are already affecting insurance. He explains differen

Joanna Amorim - Actuarial Education in the Age of AI

In our final episode from RPM in Chicago, Joanna Amorim, COO of ACTEX Learning, joins Alicia Burke and Max Martinelli to ask a bigger question: How do we prepare actuarie

Dorothy Andrews and Nate Luketin on Climate Attribution Science

When is a changing climate actually changing insurance risk—and how do actuaries know? Recorded live at the CAS Spring Meeting in New York City, Alicia Burke and guest c

Preview: iCAS Vibe Coding Course

What could you build if coding were no longer the barrier? Alicia Burke speaks with Sergey Filimonov, Head of Applied AI at Akur8, about how vibe coding can help actuari

GIS Insights for Wildfire Underwriting and Pricing

Guest: Kevin Brashem Today we’re talking about wildfire risk, getting into what geospatial data actually changes for underwriting, pricing, and model validation when you

Tetteh Otuteye

Devyn McNicoll joins Alicia Burke as our guest host for this episode filmed at the 2026 Spring Meeting.

Piotr Lebiedz

Recorded live at the 2026 RPM Seminar in Chicago, this episode of Almost Nowhere explores a question that sits at the center of modern actuarial practice: what does prici

Betty Zhu: InsurTech After the Hype

Recorded live at the 2026 RPM Seminar in Chicago, this episode of Almost Nowhere cuts through the noise surrounding InsurTech, GenAI, and the future of insurance software

Beyond the Pacific: Inside Japan’s Insurance System

Recorded live at the 2025 CAS Annual Meeting in Austin, Texas, this episode of Almost Nowhere explores how Japan’s insurance industry manages some of the most concentrate

Jim Weiss & Howard Kunst

Climate risk is changing faster than actuarial practice. In this episode of Almost Nowhere, Jim Weiss challenges how actuaries think about responsibility when models, da

Charles Johnson

AI is rapidly reshaping how actuaries are trained, hired, and evaluated. In this episode, Alicia Burke and Max Martinelli talk with Charles Johnson—actuary, educator, and

Mario DiCaro and Shine Wang on the CAS AI Primer

In this episode of Almost Nowhere, we dig into the CAS AI Primer and the problem it was built to solve: a growing divide between actuaries actively experimenting with AI

Josh Pyle

Josh Pyle, Head of Corporate Actuarial, Reinsurance Strategy & ERM at Root Insurance, joins Max Martinelli, Alicia Burke, and surprise co-host Sergey Filimonov for a deep

Alp Can

Live from the 2025 CAS Annual Meeting, Alicia Burke and Erin Olson sit down with Alp Can to talk climate risk, tipping points, and what actuaries can do when the baseline

Sergey Filimonov interview from CAS 2025 Annual Meeting

In this crossover episode with Actuarial Review, Sergey Filimonov returns for round three to talk AI hype, hard truths, and what’s actually working. From compute costs an