The second Insurance Data Science Conference at RiskLab (ETH Zurich) follows on from its first edition at Cass Business School (London) and five iterations of the R in Insurance conferences. This one-day conference is an exciting international event that brings together industry and academia in the fields of insurance and computer sciences.

The aim of this conference is to share and present the latest developments in the fields of insurance data science, statistical learning and machine learning. This includes technological developments, and mainly focuses on applications in insurance pricing, reserving, risk assessment and modeling, customer analytics, capital management, catastrophe and econometric modelling.

The two keynote speakers Joachim Buhmann (Professor of ETH Zurich) and Ronald Richman (Chief Actuary at AIG, South Africa) will be sharing their view of machine learning in insurance, a panel discussion will be illustrating the future potential of this field, and the community is invited to submit their latest ideas to be presented at this conference.

We are looking forward to seeing you at ETH Zurich on 14 June, 2019!

The call for abstracts will be opened on December 1, 2018.

A first programme will be announced on March 10, 2019.

An abstract submission should include:

• Name and affiliation of the speaker
• Email address of the speaker
• Title of the presentation
• Abstract of 10 to 20 lines and not more than 5 references
• Format: pdf file and LaTeX file (template)

Note that conference fees will be waived for speakers.

Local organizers

• Prof. Dr. Patrick Cheridito (ETH Zurich)
• Prof. Dr. Mario Wüthrich (ETH Zurich)
• Dr. Bastian Bergmann (ETH Zurich)
• Ms. Galit Shoham (ETH Zurich)

Scientific committee

• Katrien Antonio (KU Leuven and University of Amsterdam)
• Patrick Cheridito (ETH Zurich)
• Christophe Dutang (Université Paris Dauphine)
• Guojun Gan (University of Connecticut)
• Markus Gesmann (Vario Global Capital, London)
• Ioannis Kyriakou (Cass Business School, City, University of London)
• Davide de March (Markel, London)
• Pauli Rämö (Mirai Solutions, Zurich)
• Ronald Richman (AIG, South Africa)
• Jürg Schelldorfer (Swiss Re, Zurich)
• Giorgio Alfredo Spedicato (Unipol Group, Milan)
• Andreas Tsanakas (Cass Business School, City, University of London)
• Mario Wüthrich (ETH Zurich)

Swiss Re Institute

Swiss Association of Actuaries

AXA

Milliman

Mirai Solutions

RStudio

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• ETH Zurich, Rämistrasse 101, 8092 Zurich, Switzerland