Conferences, Seminars and Visits

Conferences & Workshops

2025

Thirty-Ninth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2024

Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) Vancouver, Canada
European Actuarial Journal (EAJ) Conference Lisboa, Portugal
Colloque de Cerisy Cerizy, France
Optimal Transport Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques (IES), Cargèse, France
39th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Econometrics Study Group (CESG) Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Optimization Days 2024 HEC Montréal
Market Pricing with Reinforcement Learning
Journée d'étude sur le blanchiment et la fraude Université de Nîmes
Insurance Data Science Stockholm University, Sweden
Obtaining Fair Insurance Premiums with Multiple Sensitive Attributes
38th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-24) Vancouver, BC, Canada
A Sequentially Fair Mechanism for Multiple Sensitive Attributes
Workshop on decentralized insurance and risk sharing Chicago, IL, US
Collaborative insurance, unfairness and discrimination
Insurance: Mathematics & Economics Chicago, IL, US

2023

European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML/PKDD) Torino, Italia

Foundations and Applications of Decentralized Risk Sharing KU Leuven, Belgium
Risk sharing on Irregular Networks
Artificial Intelligence and Statistics (AIStats) Valencia, Spain



Sixth International Econometric Conference of Vietnam (Optimal Transport Statistics for Economics and Related Topics), Ho Chi Minh City (Thành phố Hồ Chí Minh), Vietnam
Optimal Transport for Counterfactual Estimation: A Method for Causal Inference
16th Annual Conference of Thailand Econometric Society (Machine Learning for Econometrics and Related Topics), Chiang Mai University (มหาวิทยาลัยเชียงใหม่), Thailand
Quantifying fairness and discrimination in predictive models
SSC Annual Meeting (Machine Learning and Data Mining in Insurance and Finance), Ottawa, Canada

2022

Colloque Assurances, vers une utilisation éthique de l'intelligence artificielle Telecom Paris, France (keynote)
Montreal AI Symposium Montréal, Canada



Convention A, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Versicherungs- und Finanzmathematik (DGVFM) and ASTIN-IAA (online)
Discrimination and fairness in insurance
Journée d’étude “Genre, Algorithmes et Droit” Aix-en-Provence, France
Workshop on Impacts of Climate Change on Economics, Finance, and Insurance Toronto, Canada
Simulation & IA 2022 Cargèse, Universita di Corsica, France (keynote)
Machine Learning in Insurance Sector Targeted to Risk Analysis and Losses CIRM, Marseille, France
100% Data Science (Institut des Actuaires) Paris, France
Emerging Insights in Insurance Statistics BIRS, Banff, Canada

2021

IAA (International Actuarial Association) Online Joint Section Colloquium
CMStatistics (ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics) King's College, U.K.
Atelier pluridisciplinaire sur la justice sociale, l’équité et les discriminations dans les systèmes algorithmiques CNRS, Paris
Risque et Incertitude Le Mans, France
Emeritaat Jan Beirlant KU Leuven, Belgium
Assurances et véhicules autonomes : un état des lieux Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris, France (online)
Insurance: Mathematics & Economics (online) (+ round table / panel discussant)
ASTIN Colloquium (online)
Insurance Pricing and Autocalibration
Canadian Statistical Society (SSC, online)
Insurance Pricing and Autocalibration
The Social Consequences of Algorithmic Forecast in Insurance, Medicine and Policing Bologna, Italy
Workshop on Applications of Mean Field Games: from Models to Practice Chicago, IL, US

2020

MODCOV19-CNRS Paris, France
Modèles épidémiologiques pour analyse coût-efficacité sous incertitude
Machine learning for economists and applied social scientists Halifax, Canada (plenary speaker)
Machine Learning in Actuarial Science & Insurance
Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference (AFMATH) Brussels, Belgium (invited speaker)
Online International Conference in Actuarial science, data science and finance (OICA) Lyon, France
Modeling Joint Lives within Families
Canadian Statistical Society (SSC) Carleton, Canada (session organiser on "Predictive analytics in Actuarial Science")
Insurance: Mathematics & Economics (IME) Montréal, Canada

2019

Risk Analytics Conference, University of Illinois, Chicago, U.S.A. (keynote speaker)
UCSB InsurTech Summit, University of California, Santa Barbara, U.S.A. (keynote speaker)
Natural Catastrophe Economics Workshop, Risk Center, ETH Zurich, Switzerland (invited speaker)
How to Estimate the Occurrence Probability of Natural Catastrophes
100% Data Science (Institut des Actuaires) Paris, France
Third International Congress on Actuarial Science and Quantitative Finance Manizales, Colombia (invited speaker)

2018

XXVIIIth International Biometric Conference, Barcelona, Spain (invited session)
European R Users Meeting, Budapest , Hungary (invited speaker)
Collaborative Genealogical Data in Demography



Ecole Thématique sur l’Evaluation des Politiques Publiques, Aussois, France (invited speaker)
Evaluation du prejudice corporel en assurance automobile

2017

Big data empirics and policy analysis, Bank of England, London, UK (keynote speaker)
Insurance: Risk Pooling or Price Segmentation (keynote speaker)
Artificial Intelligence for fintech and insurtech , Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France (invited speaker)
New challenges in the measurement of economic inequalities and injustices , Aix-Marseille, France
CartoStats, Paris Diderot, France
La ville en économie (invited speaker)
Dependence Modelling with Applications in Finance and Insurance, Αίγινα, Greece
Actuarial Pricing Game
Comprendre et Anticiper la Révolution du Numérique en Assurance, Caen, France
Statistical Learning and Data Science, Rotterdam, Netherlands (invited speaker)
Quantile and Expectile regressions
Sciences XXL, INED Paris, France (invited speaker)
Démographie Participative

2016

3rd International MACroeconomics workshop (IMAC), Rennes, France
Ordinal and Multidimensional Inequalities, Montpellier, France
Droit des données personnelles, Amiens, France
3rd EAJ Conference, Lyon, France
ICABE 2016 - International Conference on Applied Business and Economics, Paris, France
Equilibria for Insurance Covers of Natural Catastrophes on Heterogeneous Regions
Big Data : la recherche s’expose, Paris, France
Tarification en assurance dans un contexte concurrentiel
Rencontres de l'Actuariat, Paris, France
Actuariat & Données
Centre for Central Banking Studies, London, UK
Econometric Models and Statistical Learning Techniques (keynote speaker)
Asociación Española de Gerencia de Riesgos y Seguros Summer School, Barcelona, Spain
Data Science & Big Data for Actuaries (keynote speaker)
Colloque Extremes, copulas & actuarial science, Luminy, France
Probit transformation for nonparametric kernel estimation of the copula
6th BreizhCamp, Rennes, France (keynote speaker)
Economics, with Computers
Data Day, Niort, France

2015

Actuariat & Data Science, Paris, France
Pricing Game
Big Data & Environment, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Granularity Issues on Climatic Time Series (invited speaker)
IA|BE Summer School, Louvain, Belgium
Big Data and Machine Learning with an Actuarial Perspective
ACP meeting , Leuven, Belgium
Data Science: from Small to Big Data
Journées de Statistiques , Lille, France
Probit transformation for nonparametric kernel estimation of the copula density
22nd International Forecasting Financial Markets Conference , Rennes, France

2014

Insurance & Finance Colloquium, Le Mans, France
Non- and semi-parametric inference for risk measures
R in Insurance, London, UK
Getting into Bayesian Wizardry... (with the eyes of a muggle actuary)
SSC annual conference, Toronto, Canada
Quantiles Estimation from Heavy Tailed Distribution
Mathematical Finance Days, HEC Montréal, Canada
Quantiles Estimation from Heavy Tailed Distribution

2013

Borders, Walls and Security Conference, Montréal, Canada
World Social Science Forum (UNESCO), Montréal, Canada
Mathematical Finance Days, HEC Montréal, Canada
Advanced methods in trees

2012

6th R/Rmetrics Meielisalp Workshop & Summer School on Computational Finance and Financial Engineering, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
Actuarial Science with: life insurance & actuarial notations mortality tables nonlife insurance
Journées de la Société Canadienne de Sciences Economiques, Montréal, Canada
Modeling dynamic incentives an application to basketball
Mathematical Finance Days, HEC Montréal, Canada
Bivariate Count Time Series in Finance and Risk Management
Québec-Ontario Workshop on Insurance Mathematics , Toronto, Canada

2011

Changement climatique et gestion des risques, Lyon, France
Modeling heat-waves: return period for non-stationary extremes
Québec-Ontario Workshop on Insurance Mathematics , Montréal, Canada
Uncertainty in Claims Reserving
Journées de la Société canadienne de sciences économiques , Sherbrooke, Canada
Insurance of Natural Catastrophes When Should Government Intervene ?

2010

Journées d'Etudes Statistique, Luminy, France
Copulas , Insurance and Risk Measures
IA-Lyon Summer School, Lyon, France
Solvency II' newspeak 'one year uncertainty for IBNR' : the boostrap approach
Financial Risks International Forum, Paris, France

2009

Assessment and Mitigation of Emerging Risks, Paris, France
Emerging risks: an actuarial perspective
R.I.S.K. Symposium, Paris, France
Incertitude des régimes des retraites
Workshop Finance & Insurance, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Estimation of quantile related risk measures
Analyse spatiotemporelle des risques, Grenoble, France
Workshop on Actuarial Science, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
IBNR: quantification of uncertainty
Dynamic and multivariate risk measures, Paris, France
Tails of Archimedean Copulas

2008

7th International Workshop on Rare Event Simulation (RESIM), Rennes, France
Optimal Reinsurance with ruin probability target
Asterisk, Lyon, France
Optimal Reinsurance with ruin probability target
Summer School of the Groupe Consultatif Actuariel Européen, Lyon, France
Copulas, risk dependence and applications to Solvency II
International Workshop on Applied Probability, Compiègne, France
Dynamic dependence ordering for Archimedean copulas
Evaluation et couverture du risque extrême, Paris, France
Tails of Archimedean copulas
Journées de Statistiques, Ottawa, Canada
Tails of Archimedean copulas
(session organiser on "Copulas")
Public Economics At the Regional and Local level in Europe, Rennes, France
Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Conference (interplay between Finance and Insurance), Brussels, Belgium
Pricing catastrophe options in incomplete markets

2007

Journées de Statistique, Angers, France
Quantile estimation and optimal portfolios
Gemeinsame Jahrestagung der Deutschen Mathematiker-Vereinigung und der Gesellschaft für Didaktik der Mathematik, Berlin, Germany
The estimation of copulas : theory and pratice
Journées Extraction et gestion des connaissances, Namur, Belgium
Actuariat et Datamining : Prise en compte des dépendances
Insurance and Adaptation to Climate Change, Paris, France
Insurance and reinsurance markets, and climate risks

2006

Insurance Mathematics & Economics, Leuven, Belgium
Tails of Archimedean Copulas
Journées de Statistique, Paris, France
Tails of Archimedean Copulas

2005

Journées de la Statistique Rennaise, Rennes, France
Multivariate Extremes
Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Québec, Canada
Multivariate Extremes
Extreme values, copulas and applications day, Montréal, Canada
Multivariate Extremes with Copulas
Conference Statistique sur données dépendantes, Paris, France
Multivariate Extremes with Copulas

2004

Journées de la Statistique Rennaise, Rennes, France
Multivariate Extremes
Journées de Statistique, Montpellier, France
Multivariate Extremes
3rd Conference in Actuarial Science & Finance, Samos, Greece
Multivariate Extremes
Dependence Modeling: Statistical theory and applications in finance and insurance, Montréal, Canada
Tail distribution and dependence measures

2003

Statistical issues in actuarial risk modeling: Dependence modeling and detrending, EURANDOM, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Netherland
Dependence in Tail Distributions
ASTIN Colloquium, Berlin, Germany
Tail distribution and dependence measures
Insurance Mathematics and Economics, Lyon, France
Tail distribution and dependence measures

Conferences & Travel Policy

Visits

(> 1 week)

2024

CREST/ENSAE-Institut Polytechnique, Saclay, Paris, France
visiting Caroline Hillairet & Christian Y. Robert

2019

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, US
visiting Mike Ludkovski

2018

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
visiting Montserrat Guillen

Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Italy
visiting Raffaello Seri

2017

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, U.S.
visiting Christine Choirat & Pierre Jacob

2016

Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
visiting Montserrat Guillen

2014

Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Guanajuato, Mexico
visiting Victor Rivero

2013

Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte , Brazil
visiting Renato Assunção

2009

Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Guanajuato, Mexico
visiting Victor Rivero

Seminars

2025

HEC Lausanne Actuarial Seminar, Switzerland

2024

SCAI - Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence seminar, Paris, France
CES - Centre d'Économie de la Sorbonne Séminaire Modélisation Financière , Paris, France
Sorbonne Université Groupe de travail ARC (Actuariat et Risques Contemporains), Paris, France
(KU Leuven) ACP, Actuarial Conference, Leuven, Belgium
Københavns Universitet Actuarial Seminar, Copenhagen, Denmark

2023

ESSEC Risk Seminar, Paris, France
ENS (École Normale Supérieure) , Ker Lann, France
Econometrics Seminar, Montréal, Canada
SINCLAIR (Saclay INdustrial Collaborative Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence Research), Paris, France
Bayes Business School, London, UK
Waterloo University, Ontario, Canada
Séminaire Bachelier, Paris, France
ASTIN Reading group, webinar

2022

Chaire DIALog digital insurance and long term risk, Paris
StatQAM, UQAM, Montréal
Institut des Actuaires, France
Statistique Bayésienne et actuariat
Réseau de recherche en sécurité routière, Québec
Données télématiques et prévention
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Bodily injury claims, to sue or not to sue
ASTIN (online)
CIMMUL (Université Laval), Québec
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, US

2021

INTEL, India
Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Institut Louis Bachelier , Paris, France
HEC Montréal, Canada

2020

Science Po (TransNum), Paris, France
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, US
University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney, Australia
Aix-Marseille School of Economics (AMSE), Marseille, France
European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS), France
Paris Machine Learning Group, France
CMAP, École Polytechnique, France
AICS, Toronto, Canada
HEC Montréal, Canada

2019

Banque de France, Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR), Paris, France

Chaire Pari, Paris, France

ESSEC, Paris, France

University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, US

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, US

University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada

UQAM, Montreal, Canada

Université Laval, Quebec, Canada

2018

UQAM, Montreal, Canada
Telecom ParisTech, France
Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy

2017

ESSEC, Paris, France
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, U.S.
Université de Caen, France

2016

Université Paris Diderot, France

2015

Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium

2014

GERAD, Montréal, Canada
Université Laval, Quebec, Canada
Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas, Guanajuato, Mexico

2013

Université de Sherbrooke, Canada
Society of Actuaries, Chicago, IL, US
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands
HEC Lausanne, Switzerland

2012

GeoTop Montréal, Canada

2011

Université Laval, Quebec, Canada (x3)

2010

HEC Montréal, Canada
McGill University, Montréal, Canada
Université Rennes 1, France

2009

ESSEC, Paris, France
Université de Montpellier, France
Université de Brest, France

2008

Université de Rennes 1, France
University of Hong Kong 香港大學 Hong Kong (香港)
Université de Nantes, France
Université Pierrre & Marie Currie, Paris, France
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands

2007

Université de Toulouse 1, France
Imperial College, London, UK
PSE ENS Cachan, Paris, France
Université de Grenoble, France
Université Paris Nanterre, France
Université de Compiègne, France

2006

Universidad de Valparaíso, Chile
ENSAI, Rennes, France
PSE Paris Sorbonne, France
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium
Institut de mathématiques appliqués, Angers, France

2005

ENSAI, Rennes, France

2004

Université Paris 1, France
CREST, Paris, France
Université Paris Dauphine, France

2003

Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgique

Practitioners

2025

Bermuda Monetary Authority , Bermuda
Institut Luxembourgeois des Actuaires , Luxembourg

2024

SCOR Foundation online webinar, Paris, France
Chaire Thélem / ILB, Orléans, France
Data Talk Generali, Paris, France
TD Insurance Pricing Seminar, Montréal, Canada

2023

TD Insurance IA/ML, Montréal, Canada
3e Colloque International de l’Actuariat Francophone, Paris, France
Akur8 Pricing Seminar, Paris, France
Table ronde sur la pratique actuarielle, AG2R, Paris, France
Seminar Data Science Institute, Montréal, Canada
Séminaire Corporels, France Assureurs, Paris, France
École Nationale d'Assurance (ENASS), Paris, France
Institut du Risk Management (IRM), Paris, France

2022

Séminaire Beneva, Québec, Canada
Casualty Actuarial and Statistical Task Force, U.S.
AXA Chief Actuaries Meeting, Paris, France
Colloque SCOR-Institut des Actuaires, Paris, France
Équité et discrimination en assurance - Optimind, Paris, France
Interprétabilité et explicabilité - Covéa, Paris, France
Climate Modeling - Groupama, Paris, France
Chaire DIALog (Digital Insurance And Long-term risks), Paris, France
SoScience & Allianz, Paris, France
Journées IARD, Institut des Actuaires, Paris, France
IVADO, Montréal, Canada
Cov&Data, Covea seminar, Paris, France
AXA Actuarial seminar, Paris, France

2021

Data Driven Montréal (Meetup), Montréal, Canada
IVADO, Montréal, Canada Journée sur l’intelligence numérique collaborative

2019

TD Insurance, Montréal, Canada

2018

SCOR, Beaune, France
Rencontres Mutualistes
AON Benfield, Paris, France
Journée du marché
BNP Parribas Cardif, Paris, France
COVEA, Paris, France
Groupe de Travail Chaire Actinfo

2017

Institut des Actuaires, Paris, France
Groupe de Travail Big Data
COVEA, Paris, France
Groupe de Travail Chaire Actinfo

2016

Generali, Paris, France
Data science conference
COVEA, Paris, France
Groupe de Travail Chaire Actinfo

2015

AXA Group, Paris, Istambul, Singapore
Data Science for Actuaries Training
Institut des Actuaires, Paris, France
Groupe de Travail Big Data

2013

Institut des Actuaires, Paris, France
Groupe de Travail Big Data
Society of Actuaries, Chicago, IL, US
Predictive Modeling, webinar

2011

Desjardins, Montréal, Canada
Reserving Seminar

2010

Milliman, Paris, France
Reserving Seminar
SCOR, Paris, France
Life/Non Life Actuarial Seminar
AXA, Paris, France
Nonlife Claims Reserving
COVEA, Paris, France
Nonlife Claims Reserving

2008

Generali, Paris, France
Risk Measures & Solvency II

2007

EDF, Paris, France
Risk Measures & Copula Modeling
AXA Risk College, Paris, France
Catastrophe Modeling

Popular Conferences

2021

Marathon des Sciences (Festival d'Astronomie), Fleurance, France
Assurance : des incertitudes individuelles aux certitudes collectives

2019

Journée de la Recherche, Faculté des Sciences, UQAM, Montréal, Canada

2018

Form@Doct, Université de Bretagne Loire , Rennes, France
Communication scientifique : nouveaux visages, nouvelles frontières

2016

Mathématiques Populaires, Rennes, France
Mathématiques & Économie
Rendez-vous Parlementaires de Bretagne sur l’Economie Numérique, Rennes, France
Données et Economie

2014

Coeur des Sciences, UQAM, Montréal, Canada
À qui appartient le pôle nord
Big Brother, Big Data

2010

Biennale d'Art Contemporain, (Ateliers de Rennes), France
Le futur et ses risques

Organization

2025

Workshop on Probability and Machine Learning CIMAT-Guanajuato, Mexico (organising/scientific committee)
Confidence and Fairness: Scientific Foundations in AI and Risk Paris, France (organising/scientific committee)

2024

Workshop on fairness and discrimination in insurance & Journée sur l’équité et la discrimination en assurance Université Laval, Canada (organising/scientific committee)

2023

Modeling of Infectious Diseases Colloquium Université de Montréal (CRM-Fields), Canada (organising/scientific committee)
Networks, Games and Risk UQAM, Montréal, Canada (organising/scientific committee)
5th Insurance Data Science conference, London (scientific committee)

2022

Workshop on fairness and discrimination in insurance & Journée sur l’équité et la discrimination en assurance Université Laval, Canada (organising/scientific committee)
4th Insurance Data Science conference, Milano (scientific committee)
CIRM, Machine Learning in Insurance Sector Targeted to Risk Analysis and Losses, Marseille (scientific committee)
Emerging Insights in Insurance Statistics BIRS, Banff, Canada (organising/scientific committee)
53e Journées de Statistique Université de Lyon, France (scientific committee)

2021

3rd Insurance Data Science conference, London (organising/scientific committee)

2020

IME (Insurance: Mathematics and Economics) Montréal, Canada (short courses organizer)

2019

36th Meeting of the Canadian Econometric Study Group, Montréal (scientific committee)
Machine Learning Econometrics
Atlantic Causal Inference Conference, Montréal (poster judge)

2018

Workshop on data science for actuarial applications, Paris (ACTINFO Chair, with Chairs at Univ. Lyon 1, organizer)
Workshop on multivariate inequalities (ANR), Rennes

2016-2018

Groupe de Travail, Rennes
Risk, inequalities and redistribution

2012

Journées de Statistiques, Brussels (scientific committee)

2009

UseR!, Rennes (organizing committee)