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Taylor Pickett is a Vice President and Actuary at RGA. Taylor currently works as part of the pricing team supporting RGA's US Mortality business, serving as the actuarial subject matter expert for Underwriting Modernization. Taylor assists clients in understanding, incorporating, and evaluating the impacts of emerging underwriting programs and new sources of evidence. His responsibilities include supporting newer underwriting paradigms through program monitoring, data analysis and assumption development. Taylor has over 10 years of life reinsurance experience including roles in valuation, experience studies, research, and pricing. Taylor holds a Master of Science degree in Actuarial Science from Maryville University in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.

Nic Puckrin is an investment expert and passionate advocate of cryptocurrency and blockchain technology. He began his career in a quantitative role at Goldman Sachs, but was attracted by decentralized and permissionless finance. Nic founded Coin Bureau in 2017, which publishes independent crypto-educational content. Today, Coin Bureau operates several media assets, including the largest crypto-focused YouTube channel in the industry, with over 2.6 million subscribers.

Ryan Hildebrand is the chief innovation officer of Bankwell.

Vinicius Alves de Melo is the CEO of Carlos Contábil, in Brazil.