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R in Insurance Conference, London, 14 July 2013

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R in Insurance: Presentations are online

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.
  • Alessandro Carrato's 1-year re-reserving code is hosted on the ChainLadder project web site.
  • Giorgio Spedicato's life contingencies package is on CRAN already.
  • Simon Brickman and Adam Rich's HTML presentation and underlying R code for Automated Reporting is included in the GitHub repository.
  • Stefan Eppert pointed out that KatRisk published an illustrative catastrophe model in R.
  • Hugh Shanahan's code to integrate R with Azure for high-throughput analysis is on GitHub.
Thanks again to all the presenters who have helped to make the event a success.

Hopefully, we see you again next year!

Quick review: R in Insurance Conference

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.

I will post a more complete review in the future with links to the files of the presentations and R code, once we had a chance to collate all the information.

Many thanks again to all who helped to make this event a success, particularly Andreas Tsanakas at Cass and to our sponsors Mango Solutions and CYBAEA.

Lecture room

Breakout area

Conference dinner at Cantina del Ponte

Tower Bridge

There is definitely R in July


The useR!2013 conference in Albacete, Spain, will commence next Wednesday, 10 July, and on the day before Diego and I will give a googleVis tutorial.

The following Monday, 15 July, the first R in Insurance event will take place at Cass Business School and I am absolutely delighted with the programme and the fact that we are sold out.

On Tuesday, 16 July, the LondonR user group meets in the City, awaiting presentations by Andrie de Vries (Revolution Analytics), Rich Pugh (Mango Solutions) and Hadley Wickham (RStudio).

Finally on Friday, 19 July, the next Cologne R user group meeting is scheduled with two talks: Predicting the Euro/Dollar exchange rates with Twitter (Dietmar Janetzko) and Networks in R using igraph (Afshin Sadeghi).

R in Insurance: Programme and Abstracts published


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.

We gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Mango Solutions and CYBAEA, without whom the event wouldn't be possible.

Programme and Abstracts


Register by the end of May to get the early bird booking fee.

Submit a talk for the first R in Insurance conference

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?

All further information and registration details are available on the Cass Business School conference site.

Registration for 'R in Insurance' conference has opened


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. Both academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged.

The submission deadline for abstracts is 28 March 2013. Please email your abstract (in txt or pdf format) to rinsuranceconference at gmail dot com.

The conference committee consists of:

Details about the registration and abstract submission are given on the new dedicated R in Insurance page at Cass Business School.

The organisers, Andreas Tsanakas and Markus Gesmann, gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Mango Solutions.

R in Insurance Conference, London, 15 July 2013



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. All topics will be discussed within the context of using R as a primary tool for insurance risk management, analysis and modelling.

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:
We invite you to submit a one-page abstract for consideration. Both academic and practitioner proposals related to R are encouraged.

Details about the registration and abstract submission are given on the R in Insurance event web site of Cass Business School.

You can contact us via rinsuranceconference at gmail dot com.

The organisers, Andreas Tsanakas and Markus Gesmann, gratefully acknowledge the sponsorship of Mango Solutions.