Akur8 Academy

Your global training and upskilling community for insurance pricing!

The Akur8 Academy offers a variety of training opportunities, including webinars, workshops, online games and conferences, all designed to help actuaries improve their skills and knowledge in the area of non-life insurance pricing.
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Whether you're an experienced actuary or just starting out in your career, the Akur8 Academy is here to support you on your professional journey. Sign up for free today and become part of a vibrant and dynamic community of actuaries passionate about insurance pricing!

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Actuarial Trainings

Upcoming trainings & events*

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June 22, 2023

Webinar

Derivative Lasso Credibility-based signal fitting for GLMs (Webinar)

On June 22, Akur8 has the pleasure to host a webinar about a new research paper on "Derivative Lasso Credibility-based signal fitting for GLMs", co-written by Mattia Casotto, Thomas Holmes and Guillaume Beraud-Sudreau.

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June 27, 2023

Webinar

Penalized regression - Between Credibility and GBMs (Webinar)

Jan Küthe, Actuarial Data Scientist at Akur8, will have the pleasure to hold a presentation on penalized regression during the European Actuarial Day (virtual event).

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*Some activities can be accredited as Continuing Professional Development points with your local Actuarial Association.

Akur8 Credentials

(for Akur8 users only)

Our digital credential certification program allows you to test your skills and share your knowledge of the Akur8 solution with your professional network. This program is appropriate for both new and existing Akur8 users. Whether you’re just getting started or you're an expert using Akur8’s Risk, Demand or Rate modules, we have the right badge/certificate for you, including a 3-step program that delivers ‘Essential’, ‘Advanced’ and ‘Expert’ certifications.

Upon successful completion of a short (and fun!) quiz, you will officially receive the respective credentials, which can be shared on social media platforms, embedded in email signatures and added to your LinkedIn profile as professional credentials.

Interested in learning more? Request links to each quiz below:

Level up your pricing game!

Regardless of your level of experience within the actuarial field, our insurance pricing quiz is a great opportunity to learn something new and have fun while doing it.

As an added bonus, we always have little prizes for the players with the highest scores.
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Akur8’s insurance pricing e-learning hub

We provide access to a wide range of resources, such as research papers, recorded webinars, and industry reports, to help our members stay informed and ahead of the curve.

Check out our latest replays of webinars related to insurance pricing, and download our research and position papers below.

Webinars replay

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Singapore Actuarial Society - Penalization Techniques for Optimized GLM Modelling

Monica Carvajal-Pinto, Actuarial Data Scientist at Akur8, Thibault Imbert, Senior Insurance Solutions Manager at Munich Re, introduce penalization techniques for optimized GLM modelling during this webinar for the Singapore Actuarial Society.

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Convergence between actuarial and data science is coming!

Akur8 hosted a special webinar to share results from Akur8’s Global Pricing Survey! Insights have been gathered from over 100 insurance pricing professionals across lines of business worldwide, shedding new light on the pricing challenges and expectations of insurance carriers worldwide - in particular, the imminent convergence between actuarial and data science.

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Insurance pricing: How to use Machine Learning in a highly Regulated Market?

Jan Küthe, Actuary (DAV) and Actuarial Data Scientist at Akur8, was invited to speak at the Open Discussion Forum during the Annual Conference of the Institute of Actuaries of Japan.

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Reports and White papers

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Position paper

Pricing in an Age of High Inflation

As high inflation raises the stakes of pricing errors, influences insurer's costs, and changes customer behavior, what data and strategies can actuaries leverage to estimate future inflation? When speed of adaptation is more critical than ever, what kind of pricing and product approaches can help pricing teams make good decisions and improve time-to-market?

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