Workshop on Fairness and Discrimination in Insurance

Overview

The Workshop on Fairness and Discrimination in Insurance is back for its third edition!

Given the rapid evolution of the field and the success of previous editions, the workshop will, for the first time, span two days: October 6-7, 2026. Researchers, regulators, actuaries, and legal scholars will gather to discuss fairness in insurance pricing and actuarial practice.

The workshop is supported by the Chair of Educational Leadership on big data analytics for actuarial sciences - Intact and is organized by professors Marie-Pier Côté (Laval University) and Arthur Charpentier (UQAM). It builds on two previous editions held in 2022 and 2024, the latter attracting more than 120 participants.

The program brings together academic, regulatory, legal, and operational perspectives on algorithmic discrimination and fair practices in insurance.

The Workshop on Fairness and Discrimination in Insurance will be offered in a hybrid format. Speakers will be present at Université Laval, offering in-person attendees the opportunity to engage with them and participate in the discussions. Remote participants via Zoom will only be able to attend the presentations. The majority of the talks will be presented in English.

Speakers

• Mathias Millberg Lindholm (keynote), professor, Stockholm University

• Qi An, actuary, Aviva Canada

• Mouloud Belbahri, ML scientist, TD Insurance

• Olivier Côté, PhD student, Université Laval

• Agathe Fernandes Machado, PhD student, Université du Québec à Montréal

• Charlotte Jamotton, PhD student, Université Catholique de Louvain

• Kathleen Miao, PhD student, University of Toronto

• Stay tuned: other speakers will be announced soon!

Partners

• Actuarial and Financial Mathematics Laboratory

• Big Data Research Center, Université Laval

• Chair of fairness of predictive models: an application to insurance markets, Foundation for science

• Institute Intelligence and Data, Université Laval