Max Martinelli is a Managing Director in the Insurance and Actuarial Advisory Services practice of EY, where he focuses on P&C pricing, actuarial data science, applied AI and external rating. He has over a decade of experience in actuarial and data science roles, primarily in predictive modeling for personal and commercial lines, and a background in machine learning and computational mathematics. A dedicated collaborator with the Casualty Actuarial Society, he co-designed and led the CAS AI Fast Track bootcamp and co-hosts Almost Nowhere, the CAS Institute podcast exploring AI and data science in insurance.

Thomas Holmes is currently the Head of US Actuarial Data Science at Akur8. Before Akur8, he worked for several years at Allstate, spending time as an analyst for commercial auto and then as a lead modeler on Allstate’s property modeling team. During his time as an actuary, he has worked with GLMs, GLMnets, and GBMs. He received his Fellowship from the Casualty Actuarial Society in 2019.