Conference

Finally, the Insurance Data Science conference was back last week. After last year’s cancellation due to Covid-19 over 250 delegates from around the world came together on-line for the third instalment of the conference. The event kicked-off, or should we say lifted off, with a keynote by Thomas Wiecki, CEO of PyMC Labs, on Wednesday. Thomas explained how probabilistic programming can be used to assess risk and make decision in the context of insuring rocket launches.

The call for abstracts is open for the third Insurance Data Science Conference at Cass Business School, City, University of London, 22 June 2020. Our invited key note speakers are Bettina Grün (University of Linz, Austria) and Thomas Wiecki (Quantopian, PyMC). We are looking for abstracts in the areas of insurance analytics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and actuarial science. Please send your abstract by 9 March 2019 to: [email protected]

Following five R in Insurance conferences, we are organising the first Insurance Data Science conference at Cass Business School London, 16 July 2018. Insurance Data Science In 2013, we started with the aim to bring practitioners of industry and academia together to discuss and exchange ideas and needs from both sides. R was and is a perfect glue between the two groups, a tool which both side embrace and which has fostered the knowledge transfer between the two.

The fifth R in Insurance conference took place at Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l’Administration Economique, Paris on 8 June 2017. This one-day conference focused once more on the wide range of applications of R in insurance, actuarial science and beyond. The conference programme covered topics including reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment and also new statistical methods such as big data analysis.

The programme for the 2017 R in Insurance conference in Paris has been published. Talks will discuss new ideas and research with the applications in life and general insurance, from network analysis, reserving, pricing to catastrophe modelling, followed by a conference dinner at the Musée d’Orsay. Registration is open until 22 May. Agenda 9:00 am - 9:10 am Welcome - Julien Pouget (Directeur de l’ENSAE) 9:10 am - 10:00 am Opening Keynote Session Textual analysis of expert reports to increase knowledge of technological risks - Julie Seguela, Covea 10:00 am - 11:00 am Session 1 - big data 10:00 - 10:20 › Network Analytics in Claims Level Predictive Modelling - Marcela Granados, Ernst & Young

The fifth conference on R in Insurance will be held on 8 June 2017 at ENSAE. ENSAE is the Paris Graduate School for Economics, Statistics and Finance. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in Insurance. This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation.

The 4th R in Insurance conference took place at Cass Business School London on 11 July 2016. This one-day conference focused once more on the wide range of applications of R in insurance, actuarial science and beyond. The conference programme covered topics including reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment and much more. The audience of the conference included both practitioners (c.80%) and academics (c.

Hurry! The early bird registration offer for the 4th R in Insurance conference, 11 July 2016, at Cass Business School closes 30 May. This one-day conference will focus once more on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered include reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment, and more. We have a fantastic programme with international speakers and conference dinner at Ironmongers Hall.

We are delighted to announce that the programme for the 4th R in Insurance conference at Cass Business School in London, 11 July 2016, have been finalised. Register by the end of May to get the early bird booking fee. The organisers gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Verisk, Mirai Solutions, Applied AI, Studio, CYBAEA and Oasis, without whom the event wouldn’t be possible. Agenda [09:00 - 10:00] Keynote 1:

Hurry! The abstract submission deadline for the 4th R in Insurance conference in London, 11 July 2016 is approaching soon. You have until the 28th of March to submit a one-page abstract for consideration. Both academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged. Please email your abstract of no more than 300 words (in text or pdf format) to [email protected]. Invited talks will be given by: Mario V.

Following the successful 3rd R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam last year, we return to London this year. The registration for the 4th conference on R in Insurance on Monday 11 July 2016 at Cass Business School has opened. This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in insurance.

Following the successful 3rd R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam this year, we will return to London next year. We will be back at Cass Business School, 11 July 2016. The event will focus again on the use of R in insurance, bringing together experts from industry and academia with a diverse background of disciplines, such as actuarial science, catastrophe modelling, finance, statistics and computer science. We are delighted to announce or keynote speakers already: Dan Murphy and Mario V.

Photo: Arthur Charpentier The R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam was a sold out success! Congratulations to the organising committee at the University of Amsterdam, and many thanks to our sponsors: Milliman, RStudio, CYBAEA, Deloitte, a.s.r., Triple A Risk Finance, AEGON, Delta Lloyd Amsterdam, QBE Re and APPLIED AI This one-day conference focused once more on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R.

I had a great time at the R/Finance conference in Chicago last Friday/Saturday. Some brief takeaways for me were: From Emanuel Derman’s talk: It is is important to distinguish between theories and models. Theories live in an abstract world and for a given set of axioms they can be proven right. However, models live in the real world, are build on simplifying assumptions and are only useful until experiments/data proves them wrong.

The programme for the 3rd R in Insurance conference is on-line. The event will take place on 29 June 2015 at the University of Amsterdam. Time to register now. Special thanks to our sponsors, without whom the conference wouldn’t be possible: CYBAEA, RStudio, APPLIED AI, Milliman, QBE Re, AEGON, Delta Lloyd Amsterdam , Deloitte. You find impressions from the previous events on www.rininsurance.com. We hope to see you in Amsterdam!

Hurry! The abstract submission deadline for the 3rd R in Insurance conference in Amsterdam, 29 June 2015 is approaching soon. You have until the 28th of March to submit a one-page abstract for consideration. Both academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged. Please email your abstract of no more than 300 words (in text or pdf format) to [email protected]. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in insurance.

The registration for the third conference on R in Insurance on Monday 29 June 2015 at the University of Amsterdam has opened. This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in insurance.

The 2nd R in Insurance conference took place last Monday, 14 July, at Cass Business School London. This one-day conference focused once more on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R. Topics covered included reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment and more. In the first plenary session, Montserrat Guillen (Riskcenter, University of Barcelona) and Leo Guelman (Royal Bank of Canada, RBC Insurance) spoke about the rise of uplift models.

The registration for the 2nd R in Insurance conference at Cass Business School London will close this Friday, 4 July. The programme includes talks from international practitioners and leading academics, see below. For more details and registration visit: http://www.rininsurance.com. Still unsure? Review some impressions and presentations from last year’s conference. On behalf of the committee and sponsors, Mango Solutions, Cybaea, RStudio and PwC, we look forward to seeing you in London on 14 July!

The early bird registration offer for the 2nd R in Insurance conference, 14 July 2014, at Cass Business School closes tomorrow. This one-day conference will focus once more on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered include reserving, pricing, loss modelling, the use of R in a production environment, and more. All topics are to be discussed within the context of using R as a primary tool for insurance risk management, analysis and modelling.

I am delighted to announce that the programme and abstracts for the second R in Insurance conference at Cass Business School in London, 14 July 2014, have been finalised. Register by the end of May to get the early bird booking fee. The organisers gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Mango Solutions, CYBAEA, RStudio and PwC without whom the event wouldn’t be possible. R in Insurance Cass Business School, London, 14 July 2014 9:00 - 10:00 Opening keynote:

Don’t forget, this is the final week you can submit an abstract for the second R in Insurance conference. For more details see http://www.rininsurance.com and perhaps for inspiration review last year’s programme.

The registration for the second conference on R in Insurance on Monday 14 July 2014 at Cass Business School in London has opened. This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered may include actuarial statistics, capital modelling, pricing, reserving, reinsurance and extreme events, portfolio allocation, advanced risk tools, high-performance computing, econometrics and more.

Following the very positive feedback that Andreas and I have received from delegates of the first R in Insurance conference in July of this year, we are planning to repeat the event next year. We have already reserved a bigger auditorium. The second conference on R in Insurance will be held on Monday 14 July 2014 at Cass Business School in London, UK. This one-day conference will focus again on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation.

The programme and the presentation files of the first R in Insurance conference have been published on GitHub. Front slides of the conference presentations Additionally to the slides many presenters have made their R code available as well: Alexander McNeil shared the examples of the CreditRisk+ model he presented. Lola Miranda made a Windows version of the double chain-ladder package DCL available via the Cass knowledge web site.

Yesterday the first R in Insurance conference took place at Cass Business School in London. I think the event went really well, but as a member of the organising committee my view is probably skewed. Still, we had a variety of talks, a full house, a great conference dinner and to top it all, the Tower Bridge opened while we had our drinks at the end of the evening.

Last week I had the honour to give the opening keynote talk at the Talking Data South West conference, organised by the Exeter Initiative for Statistics and its Applications. The event was chaired by Steve Brooks and brought together over 100 people to discuss all aspects of data: from collection and analysis through to visualisation and communication. Building interactive relationships with data and colleagues The programme was very good with a variety of talks such as How data collection from smart phones can improve agronomic decision making in potato crops by Robert Allen or Spatial data and analysis in the improvement of aquatic ecosystem health and drinking water quality by Nick Palling.

I am delighted to announce that the programme and abstracts for the first R in Insurance conference at Cass Business School in London, 15 July 2013, have been published. The conference committee received strong abstracts from academia and the industry, covering: Pricing Reserving Data mining Capital modelling Automate reporting Catastrophe modelling High-performance computing Software development management Register by the end of May to get the early bird booking fee.

The registration for the first R in Insurance is open and there is still time to submit a talk / lightning talk. The conference will take place at Cass Business School in London on Monday, 15 July 2013. This is the Monday following the useR! 2013 conference in Spain. Thus, if you come from overseas to Spain, why not stop in London on your way back?

The registration for the first conference on R in Insurance on Monday 15 July 2013 at Cass Business School in London has opened. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in insurance. The 2013 R in Insurance conference builds upon the success of the R in Finance and R/Rmetrics events. We expect invited keynote lectures by: Professor Alexander McNeil, Department of Actuarial Science & Statistics Heriot-Watt University: Implementing CreditRisk+ in R with the Faster Fourier Transform Trevor Maynard, Head of Exposure Management and Reinsurance, Lloyd’s: There is an R in Lloyd’s We invite you to submit a one-page abstract for consideration.

The first conference on R in Insurance will be held on Monday 15 July 2013 at Cass Business School in London, UK. The intended audience of the conference includes both academics and practitioners who are active or interested in the applications of R in insurance. This one-day conference will focus on applications in insurance and actuarial science that use R, the lingua franca for statistical computation. Topics covered may include actuarial statistics, capital modelling, pricing, reserving, reinsurance and extreme events, portfolio allocation, advanced risk tools, high-performance computing, econometrics and more.