Program

Opening Session:
0830Registration and Arrival
0930Welcome Greetings

Prof Tso-Chien Pan
Executive Director, Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, NTU, Singapore
0935Opening Address

Guest-of-Honour: Mr Bernard Wee,
Executive Director, Financial Markets Development, and Payments and Technology Solutions,
Monetary Authority of Singapore, Singapore

0945Presentation 1
Challenges and Opportunities for NatCatDAX Establishment


Prof Haresh Shah
Founding Chairman, ICRM International Advisory Board, NTU
Emeritus Member, Board of Trustees, NTU
Emeritus Professor, Stanford University
Founder & Senior Advisor, RMS Inc., USA

1000Morning Refreshment

Session 1 - Perspectives on Existing Nat Cat Exposure and Loss Data

Session Chairman: Mr Derek Wong
Vice President , Renaissance Reinsurance Ltd , Singapore Branch
1030Presentation 2
Big Data – Transforming Risk and Insurance


Mr George Attard
Head, Aon Benfield Analytics, International, Aon Benfield, Singapore

1050Presentation 3
Munich Re’s NatCatSERVICE Database: New Methods to Normalize Losses and Classify Event Intensities


Prof Peter Hőppe
Head, Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre, Munich Re, Germany

1110Presentation 4
Data Quality and Completeness for Cat Risk Management - A Global Insurance Company’s View


Dr Sibylle Steimen
Head, Global Cat Risk Management, Allianz Re, Germany

1130Presentation 5
Financing Population Displacement Costs in Southeast Asia – Data Needs


Dr Gordon Woo
Adjunct Professor, ICRM, NTU, Singapore
Catastrophe Risk Consultant, RMS Inc., UK

1150Presentation 6
Some Thoughts on Ways of Bridging the Insurance Protection Gap and Data Gap in Asia


Prof Shaun Wang
Professor, Nanyang Business School (NBS), NTU, Singapore
Director, Insurance Risk and Finance Research Centre, NBS, NTU, Singapore

1210Q&A and Presentation of Mementos

1240Lunch

Session 2 – NatCatDAX–Advanced Technologies to Bridge the Data Gap

Session Chairman: Prof Domenico Giardini
Chair, Seismology and Geodynamics, ETH, Zurich
President, International Association of Seismology & Physics of the Earth's Interior
Head, Swiss Competence Center on Energy Research – Supply of Electricity
1340Presentation 7
Data Development and Analytics at RMS – A Look into Industrial Clusters in East Asia


Mr Adrian Mark
Senior Product Manager, RMS Inc., UK

1400Presentation 8
QLARM: A Tool to Estimate Earthquake Losses


Prof Max Wyss
Science Expert, International Centre for Earth Simulation Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
Emeritus Professor, University of Alaska, USA

1420Presentation 9
Synthetic Aperture Radar Technology for Developing Urban Exposure Data


Prof Fumio Yamazaki
Department of Urban Environment Systems, Graduate School of Engineering, Chiba University, Japan

1440Presentation 10
Challenges and Design of Parametric Triggers


Dr Petr Puncochar
Head, Flood Model Development, Impact Forecasting, Aon Benfield, Singapore

1500Presentation 11
Natural Catastrophe Risk Data Acquisition, Analysis and Use: Indonesian Insurance Industry Perspective


Dr Frans Sahusilawane
President & CEO, PT Reasuransi Indonesia Utama (Persero), Jakarta, Indonesia

1520Presentation 12
Filling in the Gaps – What We Need to Know to Build Robust Global Exposure Models


Mr Ronald Eguchi
President & CEO, ImageCAT Inc., USA

1540Q&A and Presentation of Mementos

1600Afternoon Refreshment

Session 3 – NatCatDAX

Session Chairman: Dr Pane Stojanovski
Adjunct Professor, ICRM, NTU, Singapore
Founder, CatRisk Research, USA
1620Presentation 13
Plugging The Data Gap – The PERILS Experience


Dr Eduard Held
Head Products, PERILS AG, Zurich, Switzerland

1640Presentation 14
NatCatDAX@ICRM


Prof Tso-Chien Pan
Executive Director, Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, NTU, Singapore

1700Panel Discussion
Panel Chairman: Assoc Prof Edmond Lo, Deputy Director, Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, NTU, Singapore

Panelists:
  • Prof Haresh Shah, Founding Chairman, ICRM International Advisory Board, NTU; Emeritus Member, Board of Trustees, NTU; Emeritus Professor, Stanford University; Founder & Senior Advisor, RMS Inc., USA
  • Dr Frans Sahusilawane, President & CEO, PT Reasuransi Indonesia Utama (Persero), Jakarta, Indonesia
  • Mr George Attard, Head, Aon Benfield Analytics, International, Aon Benfield, Singapore
  • Prof Peter Hőppe, Head, Geo Risks Research/Corporate Climate Centre, Munich Re, Germany
  • Mr Ronald Eguchi, President & CEO, ImageCAT Inc., USA
  • Mr Randy Liu, General Manager, MS Frontier Re Modeling Research, Singapore
  • Ms Anne-Claire Serres, Head of Natural Catastrophe Underwriting, Asia Capital Re, Singapore
1745Closing Remarks

Prof Tso-Chien Pan
Executive Director, Institute of Catastrophe Risk Management, NTU, Singapore

1800 to 1900Cocktail (NEC Auditorium Foyer)