Tracks & Sessions

Obtain a complete overview of the latest RMS roadmap through 2018. Learn about what drives the RMS roadmap and development strategy, as well as upcoming software, model, and data releases on RiskLink^® and the RMS(one)^® platform to address the needs and opportunities throughout the global (re)insurance market.

Learn more about how RMS software platforms will evolve, interact, and deliver upcoming model and data solutions in the years to come. We will discuss the strategy, framework, and support plan behind RiskLink^® and the RMS(one)^® platform delivery mechanisms and how clients can get the most value out of each to improve their risk management processes.

Get a sneak peek into the next class of upcoming RMS model and data solutions beyond the existing roadmap. Learn about new focus areas, emerging risks and opportunities and why they are important to the (re)insurance market, and what RMS is doing to address these needs.

A panel of industry leaders across multiple market segments will provide their thoughts and insights into the RMS roadmap. Learn and discuss how the underlying content is consumed, how the innovation relates to the needs and opportunities throughout the global (re)insurance landscape, and how RMS can better build, communicate, and deliver this information to the market for the foreseeable future.

We’ll take a look at the challenges that insurance and reinsurance analysts face today when it comes to managing and gaining insights from their exposure.

This session covers the analytical concepts in Exposure Manager that enable users to accomplish their critical exposure management tasks, including exposed limit, risk analysis profiles, ad hoc accumulations using geopolitical and hazard scenarios, and spider analytics.

Join us for a case study to discuss how using Exposure Manager is a critical first step in any company’s model change management process.

A look at what’s coming next in Exposure Manager to solve one of the biggest pain points that reinsurers face: how to do exposure management across a reinsurance portfolio.

Learn from our product experts and get hands-on with Exposure Manager as you walk through the steps to prepare for and respond to an event.

High-definition represents a new simulation approach, new vulnerability approach, improved correlation, and much more. Understand the valuable advancements provided by HD models.

What does HD modeling mean for you? Explore some practical applications of HD models and the value to your business today.

By 2018, Europe flood and severe convective storm will be modeled in HD. Understand what the future holds for understanding Europe climate risk in HD.

Multiple sources of uncertainty, both epistemic and aleatory, surround modeled earthquake risk estimates. Learn how HD models help you investigate and evaluate model uncertainty.

Participate in a discussion about what HD modeling can offer the industry, including practical applications from RMS solutions. Listen to industry perspectives and share your thoughts with peers.

Supporting your growth in APAC is a key objective for RMS. Discover how the RMS models, data, and software roadmap helps you optimally achieve your goals.

Explore how you can best leverage RMS products and expertise in India as the country further opens to the international market this year.

Learn about the key drivers of loss changes for the updated Version 17 earthquake models in Philippines and Indonesia.

Discover how new Version 17 typhoon models for South Korea and Taiwan have strongly benefited from close collaborations with key national players.

Explore the critical aspects to be validated in the new Japan Typhoon and New Zealand Earthquake HD Models, from single model components to loss validation.

Question our panel of RMS experts, clients, and development partners on how modeling solutions should be used and expanded for more profitable business in Asia Pacific.

What metrics are required to confidently design and implement a resilient strategy? We will paint a picture of the metric-driven approach to justify and deliver the resilience promise.

A deep appreciation of the potential impact of catastrophic shocks is a fundamental characteristic of strong leaders. How do you foster that understanding in your leadership team, especially when they’re preoccupied with chronic, everyday stresses?

Resilience is a direction, not a state. The best first step is the acknowledgement of your current resilience profile in the context of your resilience targets. But what should those targets be and how should you best articulate them to effect positive change?

In this session, we will show exactly why exposure data is essential to any effective resilience strategy. We’ll explore possibilities to leverage the data you have today, as well as tactics to more precisely invest in developing better data.

In this case study, we will highlight how to use key outputs to make business decisions.

Explore the differences and similarities between ELTs and PLTs, and learn about the ability to calculate key statistics from each.

These hands-on exercises will fortify the knowledge of how to calculate key outputs from an ELT and PLT.

Gain a deeper understanding of drivers of loss changes from the hazard component of the 2017 North America Earthquake Model update. This will include a focus on seismic source and ground motion model updates that are impacting losses in the region.

Learn more about what’s driving loss changes from the geotechnical component of the 2017 North America Earthquake Model update. This will include a focus on soil classifications, basin amplifications, and next-generation liquefaction and landslide modeling.

Obtain a deeper understanding of drivers of loss changes from the vulnerability component of the 2017 North America Earthquake Model update.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North America Earthquake Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. RMS experts in earthquake hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North America Earthquake Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. RMS experts in earthquake hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North America Earthquake Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. RMS experts in earthquake hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

This session will provide a deep dive into the key distinctions of the RMS(one)^® platform and help you understand how an integrated platform delivers a consistent risk management framework, operational efficiencies, and underwriting agility. We will also walk through the benefits of cloud deployment and the key capabilities being delivered in Risk Modeler.

Blockchain, machine learning, predictive – what is next for the (re)insurance industry? This session will review some of the latest trends being explored by (re)insurance organizations and the possible outcomes.

There are many questions around data security and compliance. In this session we will explore all the security and compliance measures that are in place for RMS Cloud solutions.

Learn via interactive roundtables with our product experts about the key concepts that have been purpose-built into the RMS(one)^® platform to meet the challenges you may face on a daily basis. Find out how the new data schema captures all risk data and how the open modeling environment can execute RMS models, your models, and third-party models. We will show you how to use the new analyst sandbox to query and analyze model results and exposure, how to define a contract, and how to structure a program.

RMS(one)^® solutions are geared to deliver more insight and control to model users. This session will examine how the capabilities powered by this risk management platform can help analysts deliver valuable information to their businesses.

Models are valuable for understanding the risk being transferred in reinsurance programs, but their relevance depends on how terms and structures are accurately represented. Learn how the new capabilities on the RMS(one)^® platform allow more rich, flexible creation of reinsurance contracts and programs, so that modeled losses reflect how losses flow in reality.

This session will illustrate how today’s typical change management workflows can be transformed in terms of efficiency and the business insights they provide.

Join us for roundtable discussions led by RMS experts to demonstrate and discuss the modeling and analytics capabilities of the RMS(one)^® platform of solutions.

How can you do better business in the CALA region? Join us to see how the market is driving development and discuss the much-anticipated future of CALA products, software, and data.

Gain insight into modeling techniques and processes in an interactive session with current cat modelers.

Ever wonder how RMS builds new models from scratch? Dig into our hazard and vulnerability model components to get a better understanding of the impacts to your exposure. Join a collaborative Q& session with model experts on how we overcame the difficulties of building a model where models did not yet exist.

Want to formulate a report for regulators with a click of a button? Discover how exposure management tools have allowed CALA clients to improve analytics and reporting within the region.

In August 2016, Louisiana suffered devastating flooding. The staggering rainfall totals at record-breaking rates, levee overtopping, and the volume of people displaced from their homes puts this event on par with catastrophic flooding resulting from the likes of Katrina and Sandy. Learn about RMS reconnaissance findings, and be one of the first to hear RMS modeling estimates of industry impacts for this event.

New technologies – such as social media, satellite imagery, and drone imagery – are changing how the industry collects information and responds to events. Get a glimpse into the future of event response on the RMS(one)^® platform.

Take the opportunity to help shape RMS Event Response into a service that works for you. If you could have anything during a real-time event, what would it be?

Learn about new products available in 2017, improvements to existing products, as well as how to better assess your hurricane risk even earlier.

Matthew is considered by many to be a lucky miss, with speculation that losses could have reached upward of $50 billion. RMS modelers have analyzed realistic alternative scenarios; take a peek at what the impact to the insurance industry could have been.

In this session we will introduce the key components of a catastrophe model. We will investigate the anatomy of the earthquake peril, event-set generation, ground motion and site effects, and secondary perils such as fire and tsunami.

Join this session to review the meteorological drivers of tropical cyclones, how stochastic track sets are generated, and the elements of wind modeling at a site. This will include storm surge as a key additional component of coastal hazard.

In this session, we will describe the primary exposure characteristics that determine damageability to each peril and why they are relevant.

A brief introduction to Version 17 of the North Atlantic Hurricane Model, with special focus on hazard updates required for the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology compliance.

The Version 17 Medium-Term Rate reflects the keen debate within the scientific community about the current phase of North Atlantic hurricane activity. Get up to speed on the new forecast by region, including the latest validation work.

Version 17 introduces important advances in multi-family dwelling, mobile home, and low-rise commercial vulnerability. Learn about the data underlying these updates and potential portfolio impacts.

In a culmination of 18 months of research, including almost four weeks of on-site reconnaissance, RMS Version 17 will include a significant update to hurricane vulnerability in Hawaii, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. Hear about these updates directly from the RMS modelers that led this work.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North Atlantic Hurricane Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S. and Caribbean, with spatial resolution down to U.S. zip code level. RMS experts in hurricane hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

What is involved in portfolio management? We’ll give you an overview of common challenges in the industry and feedback from our clients on RMS solutions.

Learn about what portfolio roll-up really is and how RMS has solved the industry problem. You’ll get an overview of how RMS solutions differ from third-party or internal tools and how our enterprise analytics strategy can deliver real-time information.

Find out the value of enterprise reporting and the importance of having everything in one place, from underwriting and modeling to reporting and more.

We’ll discuss how portfolio management is important for the underwriting process and how portfolio planning can identify underwriting opportunities. We’ll also provide an overview of how to get engaged with RMS solutions to gain a consistent view of risk.

In this first of two interactive sessions, we'll start with our roll-up report, then drill down to the individual model result.

In this second of two interactive sessions you'll learn about set-up and automation of roll-up, including creating business hierarchies in domain data, setting up an automated roll-up, and showing executing reporting that is possible with automated reporting.

Recent attacks in Berlin and Nice highlighted trends in the displacement of terrorism threat toward soft targets. What does this mean for the global risk landscape and how can the (re)insurance industry manage the risk?

Understand the drivers of change in global cyber risk, including threat actors, cyber defenses, recent events, and their impact on the insurance industry.

Understand the data, expertise, and approach incorporated into the RMS model to determine the correlation within a portfolio and quantify cyber aggregation risk.

Join the RMS Solutions Team for a detailed cyber portfolio analysis to understand the RMS Cyber Accumulation Management System capabilities and the types of questions it can help you answer.

Learn about the latest findings from the hydro-meteorological scientific community, such as the impact of extreme rainfall on flood risk at a global and regional scale, including the impact of teleconnection and climate change.

This session will provide insights into the drivers of loss from flood and share takeaways from field surveys following flood events worldwide. Specific focus will be given to potential flood vulnerability and how this affects the risk differentiation of assets. Measures adopted for flood risk mitigation will be addressed, along with the impact on risk quantification.

Flood is the most challenging natural hazard to model; traditional nat cat model validation steps might not be suitable for this peril. Learn more about end-user best practices for flood model validation, from single model components to loss validation.

In this session, a guest speaker will provide insight into the use of RMS flood models, including validation and production use cases.

Flood is a high-resolution peril, and the use of adequate underwriting tools is crucial to achieve a profitable business. This session will demonstrate how derivative model data can be used to provide an instantaneous view of risk, enabling more appropriate decision-making for use at the point of underwriting.

Prevention is better than cure – about four times better, in fact. But it isn’t always obvious whether building-level adaptation is better than regional; whether grey infrastructure is better than green, nature-based defenses. Use analytics to assess physical vulnerabilities, evaluate adaptation options, and obviate potential losses.

Pre-event resilience building fundamentally comes in three flavors. Which one is right for you? Are they mutually exclusive? Is the answer situation-dependent? Join the discussion.

Economic losses have tended to outstrip insured losses by 3 to 1. Arguably this is a demand rather than a supply issue. What levels of protection can be reasonably expected of a public body? Should these be different for the private sector? How can we assess – and regulate – what is prudent and economically efficient?

Public-private partnerships are full of promise. Learning from industry experts is core to increasing resilience. But how do you select the right partners? Where does the right expertise lie? And can too many cooks spoil the broth?

Navigate and understand the exposure data model that is resident on the RMS(one)^® platform.

Learn the role and use of structures and positions on the RMS(one)^® platform.

Explore the RMS(one)^® platform through the creation of various treaty structures and financial positions.

Learn more about the latest modeling tool, which integrates high-fidelity building data into existing workflows and unlocks the ability to generate and share your custom view of vulnerability across the market.

Learn how owning your view of risk, using the latest tools and solutions, can lead to significant benefits for rating agency and reinsurance pricing conversations.

Dr. Anne Cope, VP of Research at the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety, will provide insight into how advanced building vulnerability research directly benefits the insurance industry and enables the creation of your own view of risk.

Learn more about how RMS is enabling and supporting you to create your own view of risk, including in the complex European Solvency II context.

How can quality data capture enhance your view of risk? Learn how existing building characteristic collection practices can unlock enhanced and custom views of risk for your exposures.

Join this demonstration session that highlights the workflow and ease of use of the new RiskAssessor™ 2.0 application alongside Version 17.

Understand adoption considerations and get guidance on how to develop your adoption plan. We’ll discuss how to improve your risk management processes and ensure your future success with the RMS(one)^® platform of solutions.

Learn about the program interface of the RMS(one)^® platform and understand what to consider when you integrate systems to help transform your business processes.

Find out about easy adoption strategies for RMS(one)^® solutions as we walk you through the steps of a sample adoption plan.

Understand the new data formats in the RMS(one)^® platform and get information about considerations for data migration.

Join us for roundtable discussions with RMS experts to discuss your adoption strategy and provide a framework for seamless transition to the RMS(one)^® platform of solutions.

The terrorism global risk landscape is fluid, counterterrorism sophistication is growing, and attack frequency is high. What are the modeling implications in 2017, and how will they affect underwriting and portfolio management strategies?

Energy is a uniquely challenging line of business: its coverages are tricky, its modeling is technical, and its exposure values are volatile. Learn how cat modeling best practices can help your business optimize rate-for-risk tradeoffs.

Unlike ordinary contents modeling, using a purpose-built cargo model can highlight previously unknown or understated risks – and uncover opportunities.

Cargo exposure is diverse and its modeling must be specific. Learn how RMS marine cargo solutions can give you more precise understanding of cargo cat risk and exposure accumulations.

Spatial uncertainty is a fundamental challenge in cat modeling, and it is particularly challenging for specialty lines, whose exposures can be mobile and data quality can be poor. Learn how to addresses these challenges with several in-depth case studies on geocoding and data quality management.

Get ready to leverage the upcoming RMS^® U.S. HD Model release on the RMS(one)^® platform. Learn about the scope, roadmap, and distribution plan so you can evaluate and implement the U.S. flood solutions you need. If you’ve already started the process, get the most up-to-date details and evaluate the completeness of your approach for potential gaps. Kick off planning and management of U.S. flood opportunities and risks.

RMS clients have found great value and success by leveraging the U.S. flood hazard data that we released with Version 16. The insurance industry is thirsty for solutions that will combat the array of issues inherent to the risk and quench the desire for meaningful insights and granularity, allowing a company to differentiate themselves in their strategy. This session covers the issues companies are facing and how using RMS offerings can be highly effective.

The RMS flood hazard data layer reflects the presence of local defenses, but best-of-breed flood modeling requires site-specific knowledge about the property. Learn about the most important property attributes to start capturing in order to help property owners get the best value from your flood insurance product.

In this group exercise, you’re an underwriter that is approached by a prospect seeking U.S. flood coverage. You’re up against a strict deadline to respond within a few minutes of the request, so you don’t have time for modeling. Learn how to use data layers to make an intelligent underwriting decision.

Navigate and understand the exposure data model that is resident on the RMS(one)® platform.

Learn the role and use of structures and positions on the RMS(one)^® platform.

Explore the RMS(one)^® platform through the creation of various treaty structures and financial positions.

Gain a deeper understanding of drivers of loss changes from the hazard component of the 2017 North America Earthquake Model update. This will include a focus on seismic source and ground motion model updates that are impacting losses in the region.

Learn more about what’s driving loss changes from the geotechnical component of the 2017 North America Earthquake Model update. This will include a focus on soil classifications, basin amplifications, and next-generation liquefaction and landslide modeling.

Obtain a deeper understanding of drivers of loss changes from the vulnerability component of the 2017 North America Earthquake Model update.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North America Earthquake Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. RMS experts in earthquake hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North America Earthquake Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. RMS experts in earthquake hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its 2017 North America Earthquake Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. RMS experts in earthquake hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

A brief introduction to Version 17 of the North Atlantic Hurricane Model, with special focus on hazard updates required for the Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology compliance.

The Version 17 Medium-Term Rate reflects the keen debate within the scientific community about the current phase of North Atlantic hurricane activity. Get up to speed on the new forecast by region, including the latest validation work.

Version 17 introduces important advances in multi-family dwelling, mobile home, and low-rise commercial vulnerability. Learn about the data underlying these updates and potential portfolio impacts.

In a culmination of 18 months of research, including almost four weeks of on-site reconnaissance, RMS Version 17 will include a significant update to hurricane vulnerability in Hawaii, the Caribbean, Mexico, and Central America. Hear about these updates directly from the RMS modelers that led this work.

For the very first time, RMS will showcase a preview of its North Atlantic Hurricane Model changes in results map series. Explore how each model component contributes to loss change in the U.S. and Caribbean, with spatial resolution down to U.S. zip code level. RMS experts in hurricane hazard and vulnerability will be on hand to explain the changes and address your specific questions.

RMS(one)^® solutions are geared to deliver more insight and control to model users. This session will examine how the capabilities powered by this risk management platform can help analysts deliver valuable information to their businesses.

Models are valuable for understanding the risk being transferred in reinsurance programs, but their relevance depends on how terms and structures are accurately represented. Learn how the new capabilities on the RMS(one)^® platform allow more rich, flexible creation of reinsurance contracts and programs, so that modeled losses reflect how losses flow in reality.

This session will illustrate how today’s typical change management workflows can be transformed in terms of efficiency and the business insights they provide.

Join us for roundtable discussions led by RMS experts to demonstrate and discuss the modeling and analytics capabilities of the RMS(one)^® platform of solutions.

Obtain a complete overview of the latest RMS roadmap through 2018. Learn about what drives the RMS roadmap and development strategy, as well as upcoming software, model, and data releases on RiskLink^® and the RMS(one)^® platform to address the needs and opportunities throughout the global (re)insurance market.

Learn more about how RMS software platforms will evolve, interact, and deliver upcoming model and data solutions in the years to come. We will discuss the strategy, framework, and support plan behind RiskLink^® and the RMS(one)^® platform delivery mechanisms and how clients can get the most value out of each to improve their risk management processes.

Get a sneak peek into the next class of upcoming RMS model and data solutions beyond the existing roadmap. Learn about new focus areas, emerging risks and opportunities and why they are important to the (re)insurance market, and what RMS is doing to address these needs.

A panel of industry leaders across multiple market segments will provide their thoughts and insights into the RMS roadmap. Learn and discuss how the underlying content is consumed, how the innovation relates to the needs and opportunities throughout the global (re)insurance landscape, and how RMS can better build, communicate, and deliver this information to the market for the foreseeable future.