Overview

OLA is sponsoring students and career changers to attend the CCA 2024 Annual Meeting on October 27-30, 2024 in Marco Island, Florida! OLA will cover travel, lodging, and registration fees. OLA Leaders will be at the conference to provide support and mentorship.

Go to:

• Highlights
  
• Eligibility & Deadline
  
• OLA's Waiver of Liability Agreement
  
• Application
  

Highlights

• Attending the CCA annual meeting is a great opportunity to learn what consulting actuaries do and what is currently happening in the actuarial world. Best of all, you will meet other candidates and a lot of consulting actuaries from different companies.
• The program for the meeting provides opportunities for networking and continuing education for consulting actuaries. You can learn more about the meeting here.
• For details of the sessions offered during the meeting, please see details here.
• Attendees will have the opportunity to network with practicing consulting actuaries.
• Attendees will have the opportunity to attend workshops on current issues, professional development, DEI, and other consulting topics. 
• Best of all, you will make life-long connections with the other attendees and OLA leadership. Strengthen your tie to the OLA community!

Eligibility & Deadline

Eligibility: In order to be selected, you must meet the following requirements:

1. Student with at least one exam / Career changer: This opportunity is available to students with exams, and career changers. This experience is particularly valuable for those curious about a consulting career or those seeking to break into the consulting business.
   
2. Availability Requirement: Be available to travel arriving in Marco Island on Sunday October 27, through early noon on Wednesday, October 30.

Selection Criteria: Exams required.  This experience is targeted toward college grads seeking to learn about or break into the consulting industry, students will also be considered.

Deadline: Sunday, September 22, 2024, 11:59 P.M. ET DEADLINE HAS PASSED; APPLICATION HAS NOW CLOSED

OLA will notify winners by Tuesday, September 24, 2024.

If you have any questions, please email us at travel@latinoactuaries.org.

OLA's Waiver of Liability Agreement

Candidates selected for this travel sponsorship opportunity will be required to sign OLA's "Waiver of Liability" agreement as outlined below. You will be asked to confirm your agreement with this requirement at the end of the application form.

By consenting to the above, you confirm you understand the following:

• The Organization of Latino Actuaries (OLA) sponsors travel for its members as a means of providing comprehensive and diverse professional development opportunities. Travel Sponsorship program participants and OLA Leaders (Board of Directors and Program Managers) are expected to conduct themselves in a professional and positive manner as representatives of OLA. Failure to follow guidelines and/or directives from OLA Leaders may result in revocation of the Travel Sponsorship.
• OLA will provide financial and other support, but does not mandate attendance at any event.
• All persons who accept support from the Organization of Latino Actuaries to travel to an event do so voluntarily and strictly at their own risk. Each person is responsible for:
  • Following the advice of their physician,
  • Adhering to the Center for Disease Control safety mandates and guidelines (cdc.gov),
  • Staying up to date with relevant information from the World Health Organization (who.int),
  • Following conference rules,
  • Following local ordinances, and
  • Acting responsibly
• Participation in this Travel Sponsorship program could involve risk of physical injury, illness, death, or property loss, and despite safety precautions, OLA cannot guarantee safety thereof, as all risks cannot be prevented.
• OLA does not provide health and accident insurance for trip participants, and you understand that any medical expenses, property loss, or other personal expenditures that result during or from this travel/trip, are to be borne by you, the participant.
• If you drive your own vehicle, or are a passenger in another’s private vehicle in connection with this trip/function, that OLA does not cover auto insurance for private vehicles. You also understand that OLA cannot be responsible for assuring the safety and reliability of such private transportation or driver, nor for any non-sponsored activities and travel that you might choose to participate in before, during or after the OLA-sponsored function(s)/event(s). You therefore accept the risks and responsibilities associated with such private vehicle travel and activities.
• In consideration of the opportunity afforded, with full knowledge and acceptance of the risks associated with this trip; and with full understanding of the above issues/conditions and risks, you release, indemnify and hold harmless the Organization of Latino Actuaries, its staff, trustees, officers, volunteers, and agents from all form and manner of risks inherent in, and from all claims, suits and demands of any nature arising from participation in said trip, or activities.

Note that while OLA Travel Sponsorship experiences have been overwhelmingly positive for prior attendees, the aforementioned waiver is a precautionary measure to establish the expectation of OLA's limited liability in light of the inherent risks of attending any event in-person.

Application

Ready to apply? Click here to access the application form!

Please note that only college grads and career changers signed-in with upgraded profiles will be able to access the application form. Applicants will automatically be admitted to OLA Academy if not already enrolled. If you have any questions, please email us at travel@latinoactuaries.org.