Jessica Turner, Head of Exposure Management, MS Amlin

• Reflecting on the 2024 hurricane season predictions: Understanding the key factors behind forecasting discrepancies

• Evaluating forecast reliability: Considerations for how we test and utilise seasonal forecasts in risk modelling

• Looking ahead: What learnings from 2024 can be applied to future CAT risk management and modelling practices?

Gabriel Vecchi, Professor of Geosciences | Director (HEMI) | Deputy Director (CIMES), Princeton University

• A deep dive into the key extreme Nat-CAT events of 2024, including:

- Japan Earthquake

- Hurricane Milton

- SCS in Europe & US i.e. Italian Hailstorms

- Europe Wildfire

- Central European Floods

• Exploring how different types of extreme events (e.g. wildfires and earthquakes) interconnect and compound one another

• Evaluating model performance and the market’s response to these extreme events

• Assessing underwriting strategies for risk appetite and pricing in response to risks in 2024

Moderator: Emma Watkins, Head of Exposure Management & Aggregation, Lloyd’s

Christian Wittmann, Head of Natural Perils Modelling, Munich Re

Anna Neely, Managing Director - Head of Catastrophe R&D and Cat Response, HowdenRe

Len Shaffrey, Professor of Climate Science, University of Reading

• Explore how advanced climate risk analytics can identify and quantify complex interdependencies between various risk factors

• Assess how data-driven insights help to manage cascading climate risks across sectors

• Success stories of how advanced climate risk analytics have mitigated losses and optimised risk transfer

Paul Della-Marta, Head of Catastrophe Research, PartnerRe

José Miranda, Vice President, Group Risk Analytics, Vantage Risk Companies

• Overcoming portfolio challenges in a changing climate: How to effectively price risk ahead of climate-driven losses

• Practical steps for integrating climate data into underwriting workflows to enhance portfolio management

• Leveraging predictive analytics to anticipate emerging climate risks: adjusting pricing and risk appetite

Delegates will participate in two sessions of their choosing. Each session runs for 30-minutes.

Breakout A: TBC

Brandon Katz, Executive Vice President, Strategy, KatRisk

Petros Keshisian, Head of Model Engineering, KatRisk

Breakout B: TBC

Representative, GfK

Stefan Wiesmeier, Product Manager Location Risk Intelligence Platform, Risk Management Partners, MunichRe

Thilo Horner, Product Manager, Risk Management Partners, MunichRe

Breakout C: Predictive Modelling for Future Risk Scenarios

Breakout D: Real-time Data Integration Platforms for Dynamic Risk Monitoring

Hail impacts on solar farms, hurricane wind resulting in failures of power distribution networks, floods affecting battery energy storage systems (BESS) - our energy systems are being more impacted by extreme weather events, resulting in unique challenges in quantifying risk for exposure managers and underwriters. The insurance industry, however, plays a key role in the complex process of transitioning our energy systems to become lower-carbon overtime, which requires support for scaling of new low-carbon technologies. This presentation will focus on the challenges underwriters and catastrophe managers are faced with in supporting the energy transition and how new data, analytics, and risk transfer tools can help to support the acceleration of decarbonization efforts and manage disaster risk and liability.

Megan McCullough Hart, Global Head of Analytics and Collaborations | Climate Risk Advisory, Aon

• Gain insights into the latest market trends and geopolitical shifts driving SRCC threats

• Explore practical strategies to effectively mitigate SRCC risks on critical infrastructure and global supply chains

• Lessons from managing SRCC risks during 2024’s election year and how to enhance risk mitigation strategies for 2025

• Leveraging AI to streamline underwriting processes and effectively manage evolving risks

• Data-driven underwriting: Exploring how real-time data integration and advanced big data techniques enhance underwriting agility

• Strategies for adjusting underwriting and pricing models to account for inflation

Karen Dayal, Chief Underwriting Officer, Commercial Lines, Aviva

Michael Eberhardt, Managing Director and Chief Underwriting Officer, Hannover Re