Our Activities
This page is oprganized by the following categories:
- Data Science Après-Midi
- Reading Club
- Other Contributions
Data Science Après-midi
Under this popular format we offer high-quality presentations on relevant actuarial topics.
Upcoming events
- 26-27 Sep 2025: Hackathon in Zurich: Build up climate resilience in Switzerland (Swiss {ai} weeks)
- 15 Oct 2025: Data Science Après-midi, Mario Wüthrich, topic tba
- 10.11.2025: How AI agents can support actuaries? Roland Bürgi, Systemorph
Past events
- 03.09.2025: "Survival of the fittest" | Survival Models, Daniel Meier, Swiss Re
- 28.05.2024: Revolutionizing Artificial Intelligence and Financial Services: A Dive into NVIDIA's Technological Impact
- 31.08.2023: Privacy Preserving Machine Learning (part 1, part 2)
- 05.07.2023: Deep Reinforcement Learning applied to ALM for a Pension Fund, Micha Villing
- 15.09.2022: Natural Language Processing for Actuarial Applications, Andreas Troxler
- 15.09.2022: Using neural networks in a Life & Health insurance context, Daniel Meier
- 15.09.2022: Do it yourself: R Package, Michael Mayer
- 06.10.2021: From TMX data to motor insurance relevant scoring, Riccardo Tisseur, Cristiano Misani
- 06.10.2021: Non-Life Insurance Pricing goes XAI, Michael Mayer
- 06.10.2021: Data Strategy: why actuaries and data scientists need one!, datazuum
- 04.11.2020: Modern NLP in claims management, Leandro von Werra, Data Scientist @ Swiss Mobiliar
- 07.10.2020: Automating Reports with R Markdown, Claudio Rebelo, Swiss Re
- 07.10.2020: A practitioner's view on data science tools, David Lüthi
- 07.10.2020: R / Shiny & Extensions, Robert Schöftner, Helvetia Versicherung & core dynamics GmbH
- 16.09.2020: FinSurTech, Frank Genheimer, new insurance business
- 16.09.2020: Actuarial Data Science - An Overview, Jürg Schelldorfer, Swiss Re
Reading Club
In a casual and interactive setting, actuaries and data scientists have the opportunity to share their experiences and learn from each other. Each session evolves around one practical topic of interest, which will be briefly introduced at the beginning.
If you are looking to discuss ideas, ask questions or simply be inspired by people working on similar topics, this might be for you!
Find our upcoming and past events on the meetup site.
Other Contributions
We have given the following presentations about our work:
- Partly additive models: a trade-off between linear models and the ML black box, 16th Septem-ber 2022, ETH Risk Day, Zurich
- Solving the Measurement Problem in Machine Learning, 26th August 2022, Annual Meeting of the Swiss Association of Actuaries, Andermatt
- LocalGLMnet: A Deep Learning Architecture for Actuaries, 17th June 2022, Insurance Data Science Conference, Milan
- What are the basic similarities and differences between insurance risk mod-elling and standard machine learning techniques? - An Overview, 16th June 2022, Insurance Data Science Conference, Milan
- What are the basic similarities and differences between insurance risk mod-elling and standard machine learning techniques? - An Overview, 12th May 2022, Data Science & Data Ethics, Online
- Actuarial Data Science - Material for actuarial applications in industry, 2021, SAA Bulletin, p. 40-41