Program
Listen to presentations by top speakers on the newest trends in insurance fraud. Talk to the leading experts and specialists from all lines or business to stay ahead of fraud schemes. Meet insurance colleagues and investigators to chat about your daily work.
Face Recognizer – a new method of fraud detection
Prof. Meike Ramon, Head of Applied Face Recognition Lab, Bern University of Applied Sciences, Bern, Switzerland
News from Coalition against Insurance Fraud and the National Insurance Crime Bureau
Daniel G. Abbott, Vice President of Partner Engagement and Member Services, National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), Oak Brook, USA
Michelle Rafeld, Executive Director, Coalition against Insurance Fraud, Columbus, USA
Summary of the last Global Insurance Fraud Summit and outlook of GIFS future activities
Matthew J. Smith, Esq., President, Insurance Law Services, Inc., Daytona Beach, USA
Dennis Toomey, Director, Fraud and Financial Crimes, PricewaterhouseCoopers Advisory Services LLC, Boston, USA
Insurance and Health Care Fraud Litigation
Health care fraud schemes in the US and analytics used to identify the schemes
Ross O. Silverman, Senior Counsel and Co-Chair, Insurance and Health Care Fraud Litigation Department, Kattan, Chicago, USA
The complexities of International Investigations
Challenges and Solutions
Bobby Gracey, Group Head of Counter Fraud, Charles Taylor, London, UK
The Balance of Technology and People in Fraud Detection
The UK Fraud Risks and Industry Approach
Scott Clayton, Head of Claims Fraud, Zurich Insurance Company Ltd., London, UK
Assessing witness credibility
Analysis and evaluation of witness statements during fraud investigations
Angelo Biondo, Senior Coordinator Assistant Chief, Ministry of Interior — Department of Public Security, Perugia, Italy
Property Fire Investigations
Rune S. Nielsen, Technical, Forensic Investigator, Gjensidige Insurance, Norway
Fraud Prevention
The benefits of moving more fraud controls to the front end of the process value chain
How data sharing can benefit preventing fraud
Ben Fletcher, Director of Fraud and Financial Crime, Allianz, Bournemouth, UK
When trust becomes a currency: The silent alliance of money laundering and insurance fraud
Matthias Kiener, Partner, Director Forensics, Forvis Mazars, Bern, Switzerland
Fraud prevention with context aware document forensics
Fake documents and technical solutions to detect fraud cases
Dr. Lars Winterfeld, Managing Director, ICO-LUX GmbH, Jena, Germany
Welfare Crime and its broader implications
Ronja Wildenstam, Senior Legal Advisor (Crime and Damage Prevention) & Vice Chairman of the Pension Claims Committee (PSK), Svensk Försäkring / Insurance Sweden, Stockholm, Sweden
Legal aspects in cross border fraud
Emeric Desnoix, Partner, Kahana Feld Attorneys, San Diego, USA
Michele Martin, Esq., Avocat, Cabinets d’Avocats, Tours, France
International Police Association – Friendship, Policing, Network
Oliver Hoffmann, Vice President IPA (International Police Association) Europe & Head of Department, State Bureau of Investigation Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Germany
Identity theft, fake identities and the misuse of personal information: understanding and mitigation the risks
Annika Almquist, Investigator, Gjensidige Försäkring, Malmö, Sweden
The use of Surveillance in Life Insurance
Eivind Sverdrup, Compliance & Legal Manager, Swiss Life Asset Managers Nordic, Oslo, Norway
Datarecoder in clearance of fraudulent Incidents
Prof. Dr. Michael Weyde, Officially appointed and sworn expert for accident data analysis and reconstruction, Priester & Weyde, Berlin, Germany
Investigative Techniques and addressing Cognitive Bias
Dr. Ivar Fashing, Detective Chief Superintendent / Associate Professor, Norwegian Police University College, Oslo, Norway
