Upskilling on Data Handling and Communications at Swiss Re

R/Insurance: Automated (and stunning) actuarial reports with R Markdown and ggplot2

Summary:

In the first-ever R/Insurance webinar, the R Consortium invites three team members of Swiss Re to share their use of R and upskilling on data handling and communications. Four years ago Swiss Re set out for its actuarial community two ‘capability building’ objectives, to improve actuarial data handling and communication skills. Swiss Re launched a community-based initiative, the Atelier program, helping each other upskill whilst solving real-world business-as-usual problems. In this session, Swiss Re team members shared their approach to upskilling for data analytics before diving into an example of how to create automated (and stunning) actuarial reports.

Part I

Welcome and Webinar kick-off by Daniela Damm, Risk Management Divisional Operating Officer, Swiss Re
Upskilling for Data Analytics in Insurance and Actuarial Work by Georgios Bakoloukas, Head Model Development & Analytics, Risk Management, Swiss Re
Automated (and stunning) actuarial reports with R Markdown and ggplot2 by Claudio Torpes Rebelo, Senior Actuary, Risk Management, Swiss Re

Part II

Q&A with Host: Daniela Damm, Participants: Claudio Torpes Rebelo, Georgios Bakoloukas, Daniela Damm

Speakers

Daniela E. Damm, Divisional Operational Officer for Group Risk Management at Swiss Re.
Daniela is the sponsor of the Atelier Workbench at Swiss Re and the business and IT architecture of Risk Management. She holds a PhD in computer science and brings more than 20 years of IT related experience.

Georgios Bakoloukas, Head Model Development & Analytics, Risk Management at 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 and of Actuaries (IFoA) and Chair of IFoAs’ Programming for Actuarial Work Working Party.

Claudio T. Rebelo, Model Validation Actuary for Group Risk Management at Swiss Re.
Besides Actuarial models, Claudio has a keen interest in Data Science. He holds a master’s degree in Actuarial Science and has been a speaker for several actuarial associations as well as for RStudio/Posit focusing mainly on Data Visualization and Report Automation.

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