The first African instalment of the Insurance Data Science Conference (IDSC) is coming to Johannesburg on 20 April 2020. The international version has been held in European cities for the past 7 years and returns to London in 2020.

This one-day conference aims to bring together industry and academic experts from the fields of insurance, data science and computer science.

We are delighted to have Professor Mario Wüthrich (RiskLab, ETH Zürich) (via video link) and Marjorie Ngwenya (ALU School of Insurance, ex-President of the Institute and Faculty of Actuaries) as the keynote speakers.

IDSC Africa is hosted jointly by the Actuarial Society of South Africa, The University of the Witwatersrand and QED Actuaries and Consultants. The conference will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre. Registration will open in early 2020 and a call for papers will be issued at the beginning of December. The event is open to everyone who is interested in applications of data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence in insurance and actuarial science.

The website for the upcoming 2020 event in London can be found here: https://insurancedatascience.org/

The call for abstracts is open. Please send your abstract until 29 February 2020, to:

submissions@insurancedatascience.org.za

An abstract submission should include:

• Name and affiliation of the speaker
• Email address of the speaker
• Title of the presentation
• Abstract of 10 to 20 lines and not more than 5 references
• Format: pdf file and either Word file (template) or LaTeX file (template)

The submitted abstracts will be evaluated and speakers will be selected by the scientific committee of the conference. Conference fees will be waived for selected speakers.

Registration will open in January 2020.

The conference is jointly organized by the Actuarial Society of South Africa, QED Actuaries and Consultants and the University of the Witwatersrand.

• Mario Wüthrich (ETH Zurich)
• Andreas Tsanakas ( Cass Business School, City, University of London)
• Markus Gesmann (London)
• Robert Maxwell (University of the North West)
• Nicolai von Rummell (QED Actuaries and Consultants)
• Conrad Beyers (University of Pretoria)
• Ronald Richman (QED Actuaries and Consultants)
• Roseanne Harris (University of the Witwatersrand)