Speeches, Presentations and Workshops
2008
"Introduction to GLM's". Predictive Modeling Seminar.
Casualty Actuary Society.
San Diego, November 2008.
"Software and Utilities: Free or Inexpensive". Predictive
Modeling Seminar. Casualty Actuary Society.
San Diego, November 2008.
"Text Mining on Unstructured Data". Casualty Actuary
Society. Predictive Modeling Seminar.
San Diego, November 2008.
"Instructional Approach to Mack and Bootstrap Models."
Loss Reserve Seminar.Casualty Actuary Society.
Washington, DC. July 2008.
"Introduction to Decision Trees", World Research Group.
Predictive Modeling for Workers Compensation. Chicago, November
2008
"Predictive Modeling and Insurance Operations", CAS
Spring Meeting.
Quebec City, November 2008
2007
"Cheap Sources of External Data." Special Interest
Seminar on Predictive Modeling. Casualty Actuary Society. Las
Vegas, October 2007.
"Introduction to Generalized Linear Models." Special
Interest Seminar on Predictive Modeling. Casualty Actuary Society.
Las Vegas, October 2007.
"Text Mining", CAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, November
2007
"Actuarial IQ", CAS Annual Meeting, Chicago, November
2007
American Risk and Insurance Association Annual Meeting, Discussant
of two papers on Catastrophe modeling, August 6, 2007, Quebec
City, QC
"Data Mining in Insurance, Past and Future." Insurance
Services Office Seminar, Jersey City, NJ. June 2007
"Predictive Modeling." CAS Reinsurance Seminar, Atlanta,
Ga. March 2007
"Regional Affiliates Class: Testing the Assumptions Underlying
Estimates of Reserves." CAS Reinsurance Seminar, Atlanta,
Ga. March 2007
"Dirty Data on Both Sides of the Pond." CAS Ratemaking
Seminar, Atlanta, Ga. March 2007
"Data Preparation" CAS Ratemaking Seminar, Atlanta,
Ga. March 2007
"Data: The Undiscovered Country" half day workshop,
World Research Group, Predictive Modeling in Workers Compensation,
Las Vegas, Nv. March 2007
2006
"Data Quality." Casualty Actuarial Society Annual Meeting,
November 12, 2006
"COTOR Challenge Round 4." Casualty Actuarial Society
Annual Meeting, November 12, 2006
"Introduction to Generalized Linear Models." Special
Interest Seminar on Predictive Modeling. Casualty Actuary Society.
Boston, MA. 4 October 2006.
"Data Preparation." Special Interest Seminar on Predictive
Modeling. Casualty Actuary Society. Boston, MA. 4 October 2006.
Limited Attendance Seminar on Reserve Variability, Instructor
with Mark Shapland, 24 - 25 October, 2006, Casualty Actuarial
Society
"Data Mining", Central Pennsylvania Actuaries Club,
June, 2006
"Comparison of Methods and Software for Modeling Nonlinear
Dependencies: A Fraud Application" International Actuarial
Conference, Paris, France, 1 June 2006.
"A Comparison of Methods and Software for Modeling Fraud"
Salford Systems. San Diego, CA29 March, 2006
"Understanding the Essential Tools and Techniques of Data
Mining." World Research Group Predictive Modeling in Work
Comp. Chicago, IL, 27 March 2006. <presentation><datasheet1><datasheet2>
2005
"An Introduction to Text Mining with an Application to General
Liability Claims Data." Insightful User Conference 2005.
Princeton, NJ. 26-27 October 2005.
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"Introduction to Predictive Modeling." June 2005 <presentation><datasheet1><datasheet2>
"Trees, Neural Networks and Clustering used for Predictive
Modeling." Spring Meeting. Casualty Actuaries of the Mid-Atlantic.
Princeton, NJ. 2 June 2005
"COTOR's Loss Reserving from the Viewpoint of Modeling."
The Committee on Theory of Risk: Training Project. Casualty Actuary
Society Annual Meeting. Phoenix, AZ. 15-18 May 2005.
"Insurance Fraud Detection: MARS vs. Neural Networks"
Second Annual CART Conference. Salford Systems. San Francisco,
CA. 24 March 2005
2004
"Introduction to Predictive Modeling." Predictive Modeling
Implementation in Workers Compensation. World Research Group.
Orlando, FL. 18 December 2004.
"Generalized Linear Models: Introduction." Panel Presentation.
Special Interest Seminar on Predictive Modeling. Casualty Actuarial
Society. Chicago, IL. 4-5 October 2004. <download
handout>
"The Insolvency Put: An Asset of the Corporation?"
Annual Conference. American Risk and Insurance Association. Chicago,
IL. 10 August 2004.
"Fraud Classification Using Principal Components Analysis
of RIDITS." Moderator: Panel Discussion. Spring Meeting.
Casualty Actuarial Society. Colorado Springs, CO, 16-19 May 2004.
"Data Mining in the Property/Casualty Insurance Industry."
Panel. Ratemaking Seminar. Casualty Actuary Society. Philadelphia,
PA. 11-12 March 2004.
<Download presentation>
"Insurance Fraud Detection: MARS vs. Neural Networks"
International CART Data Mining Conference. Salford Systems. San
Francisco, CA. March 2004.
2003
"Models- Do You Trust Them? Computer models within the insurance
industry." Panel. Annual Meeting. Casualty Actuarial Society.
New Orleans, LA. 9-12 Nov 2003,
"Martian Chronicles: Is MARS Better than Neural Networks?"
Paper Presentation. Ratemaking Seminar. Casualty Actuary Society.
San Antonio, TX 27-28 March 2003 <download
paper>
2002
"Modeling for Fraud: Neural Networks Demystified."
Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts. November. 2002
"Data Mining Neural Network Applications in Insurance."
Annual Meeting. Casualty Actuary Society. Boston, MA 10-13 November
2002. <Download
presentation>
"Fair Value Accounting for Actuaries in the Post Enron World."
Loss Reserve Seminar. Casualty Actuary Society. Arlington, VA
. 23-24 Sept. 2002.
1998-2001
"Neural Networks Demystified". Ratemaking Seminar.
Casualty Actuarial Society. Las Vegas NV. 11-13 March. 2001 {found
the meeting but you were not on the agenda}
"Fair Valuations Task Force: Methods of determining risk
adjusted discounted losses." Casualty Actuaries of Greater
New York. December 2000.
"Fair Value of Insurance Liabilities - CAS White Paper "
Panelist. Casualty Loss Reserve Seminar. Casualty Actuary Society.
Minneapolis, MN. 18-19 September 2000.
Presented theory and methods of using regression for estimating
loss development factors. ·. Regression Models of Loss
Reserving. September 1998
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