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4th National Insurance and Actuarial Congress was organized at Middle East Technical
University

4th National Insurance and Actuarial Congress by METU “Non-Life Insurance”,
Institute of Applied Mathematics was organized on 24-25 which was moderated
June 2019 at METU Culture and Convention Center with by Mehmet Kalkavan,
the participation of nearly 800 people. The congress began Director at Turkish In-
with the opening speeches by Prof. Sevtap Kestel, Head of surance Institute. Par-
METU Mathematics and Actuarial Sciences; Taylan Matkap, ticipants of the panel
President of the Actuarial Society of Turkey; Gábor Hanák, were Atilla Benli, CEO
President at the International Actuarial Association; Dr. Ah- of Güneş Sigorta; İl-
met Genç, Deputy Undersecretary at the Ministry of Treasury hami Koç, CEO of Anadolu Sigorta; Yavuz Ölken, CEO of
and Finance; and Prof. Dr. Mustafa Verşan Kök, President of AXA Sigorta; and Yıldırım Türe, CEO of Ergo Sigorta. They
Middle East Technical University. answered questions on the false facts about the insurance
market, and gave career recommendations to young people
The program continued with a speech titled “Latest Devel- who wish to choose insurance as a profession in accordance
opments in Financial Risk Assessment” by Prof. Dr. Burak with their own experiences.
Saltoğlu from Boğaziçi University. In his speech, Prof. Dr.
Burak Saltoğlu spoke about the efficiency of current meth- On the last day of the congress, a panel on “Digital Transfor-
ods against future crisis in finance sector and new model ten- mation in Insurance Market” was held. It was moderated by
dencies in the academic world. After that, Sinem Cantürk, Damla Harman, Partner at Ernst and Young and participated
Partner at KPMG, moderated a panel on “UFRS17” which by Murat Hakseven, CEO of Insurance Information and Mon-
was participted by Mete Güler, Chairman of Insurance Super- itoring Center; Uluç İçöz, Head of Insurance Department at
vision Board at The Ministry of Finance and Treasury; Ersin the Ministry of Treasury and Finance; and Will Mirams, Sen-
Pak, CFO of Allianz Sigorta; and Mary Trussell, KPMG's ior Manager at Ernst and Young UK. Following the coffee
Global Lead Partner for Insurance Change. The panel under- break, another session on “Regulation and Legislation” was
lined the importance of UFRS17 process, its influences and held which was moderated by Nafiz Özgür Rifaioğlu, Manag-
role of actuaries within this process. ing Partner at Verda Hukuk and participated by Dr. Evrim
Akgün, Assistant Professor at Bahçeşehir University; Ebru
In the afternoon, the panel on “Catastrophic Losses and Cli- Gençosmanoğlu, Department Manager at Insurance Gener-
mate” which was moderated by Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yakut was al Directorate of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance; and
participated by Zeki Karakurt, Deputy General Manager of Özgür Öntürk, Vice Chairman at Insurance Supervision Board
TARSİM (Agricultural Insurance Pool); Bilal Türkmen, Dep- of the Ministry of Treasury and Finance.
uty Secretary General of TCIP (Turkish Natural Catastrophe
Insurance Pool); and Ünal Ünaldı, Chairman of RS Servis. The congress was finalized with a panel on “Life Insurance
The panel focused on agricultural insurance in Turkey, in- and Pension”, which was moderated by Prof. Dr. Coşkun
surance rate of earthquake insurance and projects planned Küçüközmen from İzmir University of Economics. This was
for the coming terms, hail losses and their impacts on the another CEO panel participated by Burak Ali Göçer, CEO of
automotive industry, as well as planned accreditations. The Garanti Emeklilik; Erol Öztürkoğlu, CEO of Fiba Emeklilik;
program continued with a presentation on machine learning an Marius Popescu, CEO of NN Hayat ve Emeklilik.
in insurance market by Chris Holiday and Anıl Gülveren from
Willis Towers Watson. The presentation gave attendees in- During the congress, a poster contest was also organized for
formation on text data mining and how fraud can be detected young people in order to get the contribution of young minds
using machine learning applications and underlined that ma- and talents to the congress.
chine learning helped insurers produce more efficient models
more rapidly. The program was closed after the Award Ceremony for the
Poster Contest.
The first day of the congress was closed with a CEO panel on

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