These four webinars focused on insurance and actuarial science. The webinars were led by two experts in the field, Georgios Bakoloukas, Head Model Development and Analytics at Swiss Re, and Benedikt Schamberger, Head Atelier Technology & AI Consulting at Swiss Re.
These sessions offered a hands-on exploration of the transition from Excel to basic R, highlighting the benefits of working with R and one possible way to straddle across Excel and R. The subsequent webinars then moved to production-level R, and ultimately to high-performance R applications.
The webinars were tailored to be accessible to all, requiring no previous experience with the R programming language or specialized knowledge in insurance or actuarial science. Anyone with basic spreadsheet experience or who is considering applying for a bank loan has the necessary background to benefit from these webinars.
From Excel to Programming in R
Speaker: Georgios Bakoloukas, Head Model Development & Analytics, Group Risk Management, Swiss Re
Georgios Bakoloukas, Head Model Development & Analytics, Group Risk Management, Swiss Re
Georgios’ team enables actuarial teams across the group to adopt best-practice programming and data science skills in daily work. Georgios is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries (IFoA) and Chair of IFoAs’ Programming for Actuarial Work Working Party.
Benedikt Schamberger, Head Atelier Technology & AI Consulting, Swiss Re
Benedikt recently joined the Model Development & Analytics team as a Senior Data Science Actuary. Previously, he worked for several years in Swiss Re’s Quantitative Financial Risk Management, validating financial models and risk aggregation methodologies. He supports the Atelier and R programming communities with questions surrounding infrastructure and other everyday challenges. He has an academic background in financial and actuarial mathematics.
This is a series of webinars focused on the adoption of R. Each session will include a case study and often include panels or discussions to enable those starting their journey to ask questions.
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