Three Actuaries And A Data Scientist Walk Into A Conference…

I met them at the Tuesday sunset reception held for attendees of NCCI’s Annual Insights Symposium. The Orlando weather was picture perfect for the outdoor dinner, perfectly fitting the evening theme, which was ‘Florida Nights.’

A friend, a board member for a peachy southern state regulatory agency who we will call Manny (people who associate with me seem to appreciate the benefit of anonymity for some reason), and I passed through one of the buffet lines before sitting at a table. We were joined shortly by his state’s two other board members, Moe and Jackie.

Across the table from us were four people, a man, and three women. Three of them were from Seattle, and one was from Iowa. They were wearing the Panama hats that NCCI was distributing that evening as part of the themed dinner.

All of them work for the same company, which we will not identify but for purposes of this story will call Miberty Lutual.

I really should write spy novels, given my mastery of intrigue.

We struck up a conversation with our new dinner companions, who when asked what they did for Miberty Lutual told me ‘We work with data.’ Ok. Clearly more pressing questions needed to be asked here.