program.qmd

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title: "Risk 2026 Program"
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## Day 1: Wednesday, February 18, 2026

All times Eastern

| Start Time | End Time | Duration | Title of Talk | Speaker and Title (affiliation) |
|------------|----------|----------|---------------|----------------------------------|
| 8:00 AM | 9:00 AM | 60 mins | [Keynote: When Everyone Can Code, What’s a Quant Still For?](Abstracts.qmd#jd-long) | JD Long, CTO at Palomar, co-author of *R Cookbook: Proven Recipes for Data Analysis, Statistics, and Graphics* |
| 9:10 AM | 9:50 AM | 40 mins | [Fully Reproducible Model Validation Reports Using Docker, R, Quarto, {renv} and {targets}](Abstracts.qmd#michael-thomas) | Michael Thomas, Chief Data Scientist, Ketchbrook Analytics |
| 9:55 AM | 10:35 AM | 40 mins | [The Distributions Tailored to Skewed and Fat Tails in the FatTailsR Package](Abstracts.qmd#patrice-kiener) | Patrice Kiener, Président - CEO, Inmodelia |
| 10:40 AM | 11:20 AM | 40 mins | [Financial Dependence via ISE100 via vine copulas: R packages for risk modeling](Abstracts.qmd#ozan-evkaya) | Ö. Ozan Evkaya, Lecturer in Statistics, School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh; part-time remote lecturer, Istinye University |
| 11:25 AM | 12:05 PM | 40 mins | [Identifying Critical Participants in the SIC Payment System with R](Abstracts.qmd#julius-mattern-christoph-meyer) | Julius Mattern, Senior data scientist, Swiss National Bank<br>Christoph Meyer, Senior data scientist, Swiss National Bank |
| 12:10 PM | 12:50 PM | 40 mins | Sorry, cancelled: Agentic R Workflows for High-Stakes Risk Analysis | Greg Michaelson, Co-founder and Chief Product Officer, Zerve |
| 12:10 PM | 12:50 PM | 40 mins | [How the R packages NumericEnsembles and LogisticEnsembles can return the best possible results for data sets related to risk](Abstracts.qmd#russ-conte) | Russ Conte, Independent consultant |
| 12:55 PM | 1:35 PM | 40 mins | [A Bayesian R Framework for Quantifying Cyber Risk Using the FAIR Model and MITRE ATT\&CK](Abstracts.qmd#joshua-connors) | Joshua Connors, Cyber Security Risk Management Engineer, Viasat |

## Day 2: Thursday, February 19, 2026

All times Eastern

| Start Time | End Time | Duration | Title of Talk | Speaker and Title (affiliation) |
|------------|----------|----------|---------------|----------------------------------|
| 8:00 AM | 8:15 AM | 15 mins | [Defining Granular Risk Groups: A Reproducible Workflow for Multi-Threshold Survival Analysis](Abstracts.qmd#payton-yau) | Payton Yau, Lecturer in Computational Biology, Nottingham Trent University (UK) |
| 8:15 AM | 8:30 AM | 15 mins | [Risky viz](Abstracts.qmd#cara-thompson) | Cara Thompson, Data visualisation consultant |
| 8:30 AM | 8:45 AM | 15 mins | [Conformal Inference & Calibrating Uncertainty with a Three-Way Split](Abstracts.qmd#frank-hull) | Frank Hull, Director of data science & analytics |
| 8:45 AM | 9:00 AM | 15 mins | [Lightweight Transfer Learning for Financial Forecasting Using Quasi-Randomized Networks](Abstracts.qmd#thierry-moudiki) | Thierry Moudiki, Founder and lead, Techtonique LLC |
| 9:00 AM | 9:15 AM | 15 mins | [Shiny Apps for Time Series Analysis and Extremes in Hydrology](Abstracts.qmd#alonso-arriagada) | Alonso Arriagada M., Senior Hydrologist Engineer, AUSENCO |
| 9:15 AM | 9:30 AM | 15 mins | [From Forecasts to Action: A Data Pipeline for Air Quality Monitoring and Notifications](Abstracts.qmd#bjorn-bos) | Björn Bos, Environmental and behavioral economist, University of Hamburg |
| 9:30 AM | 10:10 AM | 40 mins | [DWD Temperature Explorer: An Open-Access R Shiny Dashboard for Climate-Informed Risk Governance in Germany](Abstracts.qmd#cesar-ivan-alvarez) | Dr. Cesar Ivan Alvarez, Research Scientist, Chair of Climate Resilience of Cultural Ecosystems, Center for Climate Resilience, University of Augsburg, Germany |
| 10:15 AM | 10:55 AM | 40 mins | [mcmodule: An R Package for Multi-Pathway Monte Carlo Risk Assessment](Abstracts.qmd#natalia-ciria) | Natalia Ciria, Veterinarian and PhD candidate in Epidemiology, Department of Animal Health and Anatomy, Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB) |
| 11:05 AM | 11:45 AM | 40 mins | [Mapping the Unknown During an Active Outbreak: Lessons from Geospatial Risk Modelling of Oropouche Virus](Abstracts.qmd#anna-fruhauf) | Anna Frühauf, MD/PhD Candidate, Virus Epidemiology, Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin |
| 11:55 AM | 12:15 PM | 20 mins | [Final Remarks](Abstracts.qmd#terry-christiani) | Terry Christiani, Executive Director, R Consortium |