8th SAS General Insurance Conference

Data, Data Everywhere26th 27th May 2016

Resorts World Sentosa

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Programme

Day One – 26th May 2016 Time Topic Name Company

8:30 Registration

9:00 Introduction and Welcome Matthew Maguire SAS

9:10 Smart Transport Requires Real Time Data Sing Mong Kee NCS Pte Ltd

9:40 D’Renaissance David Hardoon Azendian Solutions

10:10 Developing an Analytics Driven Organisation

Roshan Perera & Loh Sheng Chieh NMG Consulting

10:40 Morning Tea

11:10 A Revolution in Reserving Data Martin Noble IFoA

11:40 Moving to Stochastic Analyses Girinker Aggarwal XL Catlin

12:10 Session 1 Q&A

12:40 Lunch

13:40 Internet of Things to Promote Urban Sustainability

Dipti K Math & Snigdha Peruri

14:10 Usage Based Insurance – in Asia Roberto Malattia WTW

14:40 Customer Engagement & Distribution Matthias de Ferrieres Stark Group Pte Ltd

15:10 Afternoon Tea

15:40 Experiences from Reinsurance Daniel Burren ProMasta

16:10 Price Positioning in a Competitive World Valerie Gilles-Coeur & Raj Yadav Swiss Re

16:40 Session 2 Q&A

17:10 Working Parties Jessica So & Jennifer Yong

- Cyber Risk, Big Data, Reinsurance Mudit Gupta SAS WP

- Call for 2017 Working Parties Devin Tey

18:00 Close

18:15 Dinner at Grilled Fish – Sentosa

22:00 Close

Day Two – 27th May 2016 Time Topic Name Company

8:30 Registration

9:00 Is Your Model Discriminatory? Colin Priest DataRobot

9:30 Doing More with Less Neil Covington FIS Global

10:00 Cyber Risk – Understand, Avoid & Transfer David Piesse UltiRisk

10:30 Session 3 Q&A

11:00 Morning Tea

11:30 Singapore’s RBC2 Raymond Cheung SAS

11:45 Singapore’s Got Talent

12:45 Lunch

13:45 The Future of GI Actuaries Yin Lawn NTUC

14:15 A New Actuarial Career path? Toby Weston OJ Associates

15:15 Afternoon Tea

15:45 To disrupt or be disrupted Anthony Atkins Ernst & Young

16:15 Data Automation and the future of the GI Actuary

Martin Noble IFoA

16:45 Session 4 Q&A

17:15 Quiz Results

@SASGIC 17:25 Closing Keynote - George Attard - Aon

Introducing the Speakers

Sing Mong Kee Sing Mong Kee joined NCS Pte Ltd as Practice Director, Transportation in June 2014. Before, he was General Manager of ST Electronics Abu Dhabi Office for two years.

He has over 30 years of working experience in the area of transportation engineering. He spent about 18 years in the Land Transport Authority and the defunct Public Works Department of Singapore involving in the planning, design and implementation of major transport infrastructures such as expressways, LRT and intelligent transport systems (ITS). He later spent about 10 years in ST Electronics designing, promoting and implementing ITS solutions in local and overseas markets.

He graduated in Civil Engineering from the Ecole Nationale des Travaux Publics de l’Etat, Lyon,

France. He later obtained his Master of Science degree in Transport Planning and Engineering

from the Leeds University, United Kingdom.

He was the President of the Intelligent Transportation Society of Singapore (2004 to 2015). He was

a member of Board of Directors of ITS World Congress 2006 to 2015. He chaired the ITS Asia

Pacific Board of Directors (2006 to 2008). He won the Best Business Event Award in 2015.

David Hardoon Dr. David R. Hardoon is an Executive Director at Azendian Solutions Pte. Ltd. where he heads up

the advanced analytics practice and is responsible for the positioning of business analytics

advisory and services to clients across different business sectors across the region. Previous to his

current engagement he had established expertise in developing and applying computational

analytical models for business knowledge discovery and analysis through his involvement in a

number of research projects in the domains of taxonomy, neuroscience, aerospace and finance.

He received a B.Sc. in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence with first class honors at Royal

Holloway, University of London in 2002 and a PhD in Computer Science in the field of Machine

Learning from the University of Southampton 2006. He is currently an Adjunct Faculty at School of

Information Systems, Singapore Management University and an Honorary Senior Research

Associate at the Centre for Computational Statistics & Machine Learning, University College

London.

David regularly tutors, advises and provided consulting support in Analytics and Business

Analytics. More can be found on www.davidroihardoon.com

Roshan PereraRoshan is a Partner within NMG’s Actuarial Consulting Solutions and has over 16 years' technical

and business development experience. He is a specialist in frontier, emerging, and developing

markets in Asia and offers strategic/technical support to companies operating within these

jurisdictions. Roshan has a broad range of technical skills in the insurance space including

reserving, pricing, reinsurance structuring, financial modelling, and strategy development. His

most recent projects have involved M&A advisory services for a number of recent transactions in

the region and the solvency framework development in the Philippines.

Loh Sheng Chieh

Sheng Chieh is a Consultant with NMG’s Actuarial Consulting Solutions and has been involved in

various statutory and advisory projects including stress testing, valuation of insurance liabilities

and pricing since joining NMG. Prior to NMG, Sheng Chieh was the Manager of the Enterprise Risk

Management & Actuarial Department for a large General Insurance company in Malaysia, where

she worked extensively on ICAAP and stress-testing. Sheng Chieh is an Associate of the Institute

of Actuaries Australia and a Chartered Enterprise Risk Actuary.

Martin Noble Martin is the Deputy Chair of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (IFoA) General Insurance

Practice Board, and works as Chief Reserving Actuary of Zurich Insurance in the UK.

Martin’s role on the IFoA’s GI Practice Board includes a focus on enhancing IFoA member support

internationally, for example by supporting the new pilot initiative of a regional Asian working

party for interested IFoA and other affiliated actuaries. Martin is also involved in the Board’s on-

going strategic review of GI research, ensuring that current, emerging and future topics of interest

for GI actuaries attract study.

At Zurich Insurance, Martin’s role as CRA involves a wide range of responsibilities, including

performing his reserving oversight role, acting as Actuarial Business Partner to the UK Executive,

designing and implementing a response to Solvency II, and (last but not least) developing a team

of actuaries.

Prior to working at Zurich Insurance, Martin spent 7 years in Asia working in an audit and advisory

role with a ‘Big 4’ accountancy firm; Martin was based in Hong Kong, leading and supporting

projects across the Asia region. Martin originally qualified as an actuary in the UK.

Girinker Aggarwal Girinker is a nearly-qualified actuary working with XL Catlin as part of their ‘Reinsurance

Reserving’ and ‘Group Reporting’ teams for nearly 6 months now. Formerly, he worked with RSA

in their ‘Capital Modelling’ and ‘Catastrophe Modelling’ teams for about 5 years.

Specialising in risk-based capital assessments for their ‘Emerging Markets’ businesses (Asia, ME,

Latin America and, Central and Eastern Europe) for UK PRA reporting, using stochastic modelling

techniques through the software – IGLOO.

Additionally, he worked on large loss assessment to stochastically model losses and reinsurance as

part of the annual budgeting process for future years. Lastly, he pioneered the development of

RSA’s Catastrophe Risk Internal Model (now Solvency 2 approved) and played a pivotal role in

calibrating their world-wide catastrophe risk.

Roberto Malattia Rob joined Willis Towers Watson in April 2013 and prior to joining WTW worked for two primary

global insurance companies in a number of senior actuarial roles in London and Italy.

He brings almost 15 years of experience in the insurance industry and he has provided support

and consultancy services to insurance companies in over 20 countries worldwide.

He has performed a wide range of actuarial services from reserving and pricing to capital

optimisation and Enterprise Risk Management. Roberto’s key area of specialism is on ratemaking,

portfolio management, product design and Usage Based Insurance.

He is a regular speaker at seminars, conferences and professional events in Asia.

Rob is Fellow member of the Institute of Actuaries in the UK, Singapore Actuarial Society, Actuarial

Society of Malaysia, Actuarial Society of Thailand and Actuarial Society of Hong Kong and he holds

a Master in Insurance and Risk Management.

Dipti K Math

Dipti has gained valuable consulting experience in various projects involving Actuarial practices in

Employee Benefits having worked with Towers Watson (India) Benefits team in Mumbai for a

year. She holds two bachelor degrees, Bachelor of Science in Actuarial science and Bachelor of

Commerce in Banking & Insurance.

Dipti believes in the risk managing capabilities of Actuarial Science combined with Data Analytics

in safeguarding the future of various industries in a sustainable manner.

Snigdha Peruri

Snigdha is an actuarial student working with M/s K.A.Pandit Consultants and Actuaries. The

consultancy has the distinction of being the oldest actuarial firm of India. Her primary expertise lies

in the area of life insurance. She is currently involved in providing actuarial assistance to leading

insurance companies in Sri Lanka, the Gulf and Nepal.

She feels strongly about contributing towards betterment of the society and is deeply inclined

towards learning about and developing new and novel methods to ensure sustainable

development.

Matthias de

FerrieresIn Asia-Pacific since 2000, Matthias is a French citizen, married with a Singaporean wife and has 2

kids (2008-2010). An economist with a business & legal background (Chicago University – Chicago

Booth, Sydney University – Faculty of Law), he has over 16 years of experience in P&C insurance in

South-East Asia.

Matthias spent 15 years in AXA Asia where he started as an actuary in 2001 before coveringdifferent management positions focusing in transforming the fast growing organisation. RegionalCMO and Head of digital for the General Insurance side in ASIA, Matthias left the insurance giantin December 2014 to spearhead a series of local start-ups under the umbrella Stark Group PrivateLimited.

Stark Group Private Limited (www.stark-grp.com) is established in Singapore since January 2015. It

aspires to accelerate the crucial transformation and digitization of the insurance industry in Asia,

with particular focus in Singapore, Thailand and Indonesia.

Daniel BurrenDaniel is the founder and director of the actuarial consultancy company ProMaSta Pte Ltd

(www.promasta.com), has a MSc in mathematical statistics and a PhD in economics, and is a fully

qualified actuary of the Swiss Association of Actuaries. Daniel has 7 years of experience in the

reinsurance sector and has published in several peer reviewed research journals including an

article in “Insurance Mathematics and Economics”.

Raj Yadav

Raj, a pricing Actuary with Swiss Re, is an experienced professional with expertise in insuranceand reinsurance pricing and application of analytics in multiple industries. He has close to 10years of experience in analytics and actuarial services field.

His areas of expertise include demand modelling in insurance, persistency management,generalized linear modelling for non-life insurance pricing, vehicle rating, loyalty cardmanagement and customer segmentation.

Raj holds a Bachelor degree in Technology in Civil Engineering from Indian Institute ofTechnology, Madras and he is a student member of Institute of Actuaries of India.

Valerie Gilles-CoeurValerie leads the Singapore Business Development team in Swiss Re. Based inSingapore, she is responsible for helping clients use reinsurance to improve theirtechnical efficiency and financial soundness.

Valerie has extensive experience in the Property and Casualty (P&C) direct andreinsurance business. Prior to joining Swiss Re, she was a regional actuary with ERGOAsia, where she supported subsidiaries on motor pricing, claims reserving and capitalmodelling. Before that, she was also with AXA for 15 years, where she headed theprocess for assessing the value of its P&C business, approving new products, andheaded the Research & Development team to build up components of the internalcapital model at AXA.

Valerie is a qualified actuary (Institut des Actuaires Francais) and holds a Master ofBusiness Administration for Executives from INSEAD.

Neil Covington Neil works as Director of Solutions Management GI for FIS’s Prophet solutions based out of the

UK. He is responsible for leading global GI solution strategy, direction and delivery, including

gathering and prioritizing solution and customer requirements, defining the solution vision, and

working closely with product development, sales, marketing and support to ensure revenue and

customer satisfaction goals are met. He works extensively with the insurance areas of FIS’s

customers and serves as a subject matter and solutions expert for FIS’s sales teams and

customers.

Neil’s background includes more than twenty years of actuarial experience in insurance, working

in both companies and consultancy. His deep background includes the design and development of

models, as well as experience using, interpreting and explaining them across the business and to

Boards. In previous roles, he served as Chief Actuary and Head Actuary for multi-line, multi-

national businesses.

Neil is a qualified UK actuary with the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries, FIA, and holds both a

Masters degree in Business Administration, MBA, and a first class honours degree in mathematics,

BSc. Additionally Neil is a certified Prince 2 project manager.

Colin Priest Colin is an Australian actuary with more than 25 years of experience, including 7 years in Asia.

Even though Colin's actuarial work has spanned a wide range of roles and lines of business, he has

also enjoyed non-traditional roles such as the CEO of a high-tech start-up company. In 2015 he

joined DataRobot as Director, Customer Success, Asia.

Colin is also a data scientist who has worked with big data and unstructured data, having designed

license plate recognition and face detection algorithms. He recently placed second in Kaggle's

"Denoising Dirty Documents" competition. His data science blog posts on www.colinpriest.com

have been read by thousands of people.

Colin has used machine learning approaches in several insurance projects, including quantitative

marketing, automatic detection of changes in mix of business, portfolio segmentation, price

elasticity modelling, pricing, renewal retention modelling, consumer sentiment tracking,

automatic detection of misselling practices, and intelligent management information dashboards.

David Piesse David is the Chairman of the International Insurance Society Ambassador (IIS) for Asia Pacific

reporting to New York Headquarters. The IIS, www.iisonline.org, is the only truly Global Insurance

Society in the world promoting new risk strategies and advice from the insurance industry.

David Piesse is the Chief Risk Officer and advisory board member of Guardtime

www.guardtime.com. He is a frequent speaker at cyber conference worldwide on cyber liability

and the use of blockchain technology for data centric security.

David Piesse is the Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific for Ultimate Risk Solutions, an

independent financial modelling company. He is in charge of looking after the URS clients,

marketing in the region and providing business models for clients in reinsurance strategies,

portfolio optimization, surplus allocation, asset liability matching, catastrophe risk, market risk,

operational and underwriting risk within an Enterprise Risk management platform. He is looking

to model the cyber risk with Dynamic Financial Analysis as soon as becomes possible.

David Piesse is a member of the Chartered Insurance Institute and the British Computer Society.

Yin Lawn

Yin is currently the certifying actuary of NTUC Income, heading its GI actuarial team.

Prior to his position at NTUC Income, he was a consulting actuary for various companies based in

Hong Kong and Taiwan for more than 14 years working on reserving, pricing, risk management,

and merger and acquisition projects. In addition, Yin has also been assisting Taiwan insurance

guaranty fund in their efforts to run-off failed insurance companies.

Originally from Taiwan, Yin is a Fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society in US.

Toby WestonAfter joining Michael Page’s graduate scheme, Toby joined Oliver James Asia in 2012 and set up the

Asian division of the world’s largest actuarial search team. Based out of Hong Kong the team is now

made up of 3 dedicated consultants recruiting actuaries, and catastrophe modelers to over 10

countries in APAC.

Toby and his team have placed over 100 actuaries in the Asian region from entry level to Chief

Actuaries, and within insurance, reinsurance, consulting and investment banking. Additionally he is

the account manager for Oliver James’ General Insurance clients in Asia and co-ordinates

recruitment into all functions.

Anthony Atkins

Tony is an Associate DIrector of Ernst & Young Actuarial Services, based in Singapore and leading

the non-life actuarial team in South East Asia. He is a qualified actuary has over 8 years of

consulting experience in non-life insurance in Asia and Europe.

He has in-depth knowledge around the application of telematics technology in motor insurance.

He also specialises in insurance liability valuation, capital and risk management, due diligence and

portfolio management.

George Attard George joined Aon in 2008 and is based in Singapore. He has over 25 years of experience in financial services across property & casualty (re)insurance, banking and finance, life (re)insurance and pensions leading teams in consulting, analytics and underwriting.

As Head of Aon Benfield Analytics, International, George is responsible for the ongoing development and provision of Aon Benfield’s analytical capabilities to meet our client’s strategic risk and capital objectives. This includes Catastrophe Management, Actuarial, Regulatory & Rating Agency Advisory, Research & Product Innovation and other strategic and technical services.

George has a Bachelor of Economics, University of Western Australia and is a Fellow of the Institute of Actuaries of Australia