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Insurance: models, digitalization, and data science

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This article summarizes the main topics and findings from the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2018. That event gathered experts from academia, insurance industry, regulatory bodies, and consulting companies to discuss the challenges arising from the impact of data science and, more generally, of digitalization to the insurance sector.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Stephan Schreckenberg for suggesting the format of the conference, and for his critical and active support in the creation of the Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum. We thank all participants for the stimulating and lively discussion: 1. Hansjörg Albrecher (Université de Lausanne, SFI), 2. Gianluca Antonini (Swiss Re), 3. Jörg Behrens (Fintegral), 4. Antoine Bommier (ETH Zurich), 5. Karsten Bromann (Solidum), 6. Roland Bürgi (Systemorph), 7. Michel Denuit (UC Louvain), 8. Liran Einav (Stanford University), 9. Damir Filipovic (EPFL, SFI), 10. Isabelle Flückiger (Accenture), 11. Irina Gemmo (University of Frankfurt), 12. Hansjörg Germann (Zurich Insurance), 13. Kai Giesecke (Stanford University), 14. Jean-Pierre Hubaux (EPFL), 15. Carmelo Iantosca (AXA-Winterthur), 16. Benno Keller (Geneva Association), 17. Pablo Koch (University of Zurich, SFI), 18. Kai-Nicholas Kunze (Generali Lings), 19. Stéphane Loisel (Université Lyon 1), 20. Alexander Mürmann (WU Wien), 21. Michael Müller (Baloise), 22. Tanguy Polet (Swiss Life France), 23. Frank Schiller (Munich Re), 24. Hato Schmeiser (University of St. Gallen), 25. Stephan Schreckenberg (Swiss Re Institute), 26. Effy Vayena (ETH Zurich), 27. Heiner Weber (Katalysen), 28. Stefan Weber (LU Hannover), 29. Lutz Wilhelmy (Swiss Re). The Swiss Risk and Insurance Forum 2018 received financial support from Fintegral, Swiss Re Institute, the Swissquote Chair in Quantitative Finance at EPFL, the ETH Risk Centre, the Center for Finance and Insurance at the University of Zurich and the Department of Actuarial Science of the University of Lausanne.

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  1. Department of Actuarial Science, Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Hansjörg Albrecher

  2. Department of Management, Technology, and Economics, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Antoine Bommier

  3. Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne and Swiss Finance Institute, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Damir Filipović

  4. Center for Finance and Insurance, University of Zurich and Swiss Finance Institute, Zurich, Switzerland

    Pablo Koch-Medina

  5. Institut de Science Financiére et d’Assurances (ISFA), Laboratoire SAF, Université Claude Bernard Lyon, Lyon, France

    Stéphane Loisel

  6. Institute for Insurance Economics, University of St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland

    Hato Schmeiser

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Albrecher, H., Bommier, A., Filipović, D. et al. Insurance: models, digitalization, and data science. Eur. Actuar. J. 9, 349–360 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13385-019-00209-x

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