As the global situation with the COVID-19 is being put under control with the massive vaccination being currently in progress, AgroInsurance team confirms that the International Conference “Agroinsurance, Reinsurance & Brokerage for CIS, Europe & Asia” is planned for October 4-6, 2021 in Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi.
Due to the uncertain situation relating to COVID-19, the seminar on «Hail and Frost Damage on Berries» will unfortunately not be able to take place in Switzerland this year as planned. However, the seminar will be held in Switzerland in spring 2022 within the usual setting. In preparation for this, we would like to invite you to participate in the following event: Online Loss Adjusters' Seminar on Hail and Frost Damage on Berries 22nd June 2021 | 1 to 4 pm (CEST)The program covers the following points:•Insurance situation and offer in Switzerland, portrait of Swiss Hail•Presentations from other countries on berry production, insurance coverage and claims settlement•Technical presentation on new developments in berry cultivation and production methodsPlease feel free to forward this invitation anyone interested at your company. Further information on the free online seminar and registration will be provided at a later date. We would be pleased to welcome as many of you as possible. Source - https://www.aiag-iahi.org
On March 10, 2021, AgroInsurance International hosted a webinar “Covid-19 pandemic and agricultural insurance market. Report Summary”. The webinar discussed the impact caused by COVID-19 pandemics on agricultural insurance industry in 2020. Survey outputs were presented by Roman Shynkarenko, founder of Agroinsurance International. This survey was based on feedback received from 64 respondents from 29 countries. According to the survey results, COVID-19 did not have a significant effect on business operations of the agricultural insurance market overall. COVID-19 became an influencing factor in 2020, which encouraged insurance companies to focus on new technologies and solutions more seriously. Three companies sponsored this survey and during webinar they presented examples of technology solutions that helped agricultural underwriters and loss adjusters at time of 2020 lockdowns. Nick Ohrtman (Geosys) spoke about two examples of how Geosys analytics was integrated in their customers workflow in Brazil. Gregoire Tombez (GreenTriangle) presented cases of how agriculture insurance players digitized the loss adjustment process in several countries using solutions developed by Green Triangle company. Victor Yermak, CEO and founder of Skyglyph explained a cloud-based solution, developed by his company, that allowed insurers doing virtual inspections of clients’ fields and assets in 2020 by using their remote technology Virtual Crop Inspection. More than 80 online participants from 44 countries joined the webinar and contributed to the discussion adding more insights for better understanding of challenges faced by agricultural insurance industry worldwide. The webinar recording may be accessed through the link - Summary Webinar - Influence of COVID-19 on Global Agricultural Insurance Industry DOWNLOAD REPORT - Covid-19 pandemic and agricultural insurance market: Impact, changes and conclusions Source - https://agroinsurance.com
In the last few years there has been a fast growth in the amount of Earth observation (EO) data acquired from space. Earth observation (EO) provides various possibilities to support business processes of the agro-insurance industry. However, there seems to be a major gap between the perceived potential and the actual application of available EO capabilities by the agro-insurance sector. The Earth Observation Best Practice for Agro-Insurance (EO4I) project, initiated by the European Space Agency (ESA), builds on this bottleneck to fully exploit the opportunities EO offers for the agro-insurance sector. To go to the next step, a dedicated workshop on future EO-based insurance solutions is organized to progress from the best practice to practice. The two EO companies GeoVille and VITO together with the champion users from the agro-insurance sector are working closely together to find out more about the needs and challenges of the agro-insurance’s sector and how these might be addressed with the current and future EO capabilities. The results of these discussions and workshops will be presented during the third workshop. We are delighted to invite you on behalf of the project consortium to participate in this workshop. This workshop takes place virtually on April 28 and 29, 2021 and is divided into two morning sessions. In this workshop the capabilities and gaps will be aligned with possible future insurance solutions providing higher integration of the EO services into the agricultural insurance operations. The Project Team will extract the full potential of EO for the agro-insurance sector in dedicated presentations and following discussions . Register online (link) for the workshop before Thursday, April 14, 2021. Agenda: Wednesday, 28 April 2021, 9 – 12 a.m. CET | Connecting EO services and products to future insurance solutions.Challenges & Requirements of the agro-insurance sectorTechnological push by Covid-19 pandemic?Discussion: additional requirements?Current and future EO capabilitiesDiscussion: From Best Practice to PracticeThursday, 29 April 2021, 9 – 12 a.m. CET | Earth Observation for Agro-Insurance – From Best Practice to PracticeWorkshop: Enhancement of existing insurance products / creating new insurance products / future insurance solutions – e.g. pick a primary/re insurer use case & define the ideal product(s) (How would an ideal service look like? Which thematic aspects are needed? Which analysis tools are required? Dashboard requirements/API …)If you have any questions regarding the workshop, please contact via EO4Iworkshop@geoville.com Source - www.geoville.com
Join the global agriculture (re)insurance community on Wednesday, March 10, 2021, at 10:30 am (CET) for a summary webinar dedicated to presentation of COVID-19 Survey results. Estimated duration: 1.5 hours. COVID-19 Survey was conducted by AgroInsurance International in 2020-2021. Survey results and market insights include responses and comments of respondents from 29 countries. Survey’s outputs will be presented along with several examples of technology solutions that served as efficient tools for underwriters and loss adjusters at time of local and global lockdowns in 2020. This survey is sponsored by Geosys (www.geosys.com), GreenTriangle (www.green-triangle.com) and Skyglyph (www.skyglyph.com) technology service providers, making it possible to distribute the report with results to a broad public worldwide free-of-charge (on e-mail request). The aim of thissurvey was to assess the actual impact caused by COVID-19 pandemics to agricultural insurance industry. Survey questionnaire responses are complemented and updated with the personal communication notes and analysis of industry-related public sources. Summary presentation, key outputs and the follow up discussion will cover COVID-19 effects on:Business operationof agriculturalinsurers,reinsurers,brokers and technology service providers;Underwritingagricultural portfolio;Loss adjustment;Client management;Application of technology solutions in the agricultural (re)insurance industryin 2020.Detailed agenda will be additionally communicated to the registered participants before March 5, 2021. The full version of the report will be distributed upon the completion of the webinar. Those registered participants, who will not be able to join online broadcast on March 10, 2021, at 10:30 CET will have an opportunity to access the webinar recording later, as well as make votes or leave their comments through the capabilities of the webinar platform. Organizations and individuals that may miss this opportunity to register, may still request a copy of the report by contacting AgroInsurance International by e-mail: admin@agroinsurance.com. The webinar is free of charge and open to all interested in the latest agricultural insurance developments in the world. Online accommodation may be limited, so we advise securing your participation in advance by filling the form below (orfollowthis link to register): Source - https://agroinsurance.com
The global trend of new confirmed COVID-19 cases has not changed significantly for the last 6 months, continuously increasing the number of daily cases worldwide. Most countries still experience local outbreaks with limitations and local lockdowns imposed. The Republic of Georgia, the next Conference’s location, continues with the limited regular flights operations with selected air carriers, maintaining the major air connection with Europe and Asia. However, local quarantine requirements and limitation on conductions of physical workshops and conferences is imposed at least until February 1st, 2021, with an expected extension of such for at least one more month, if considered further by the Government of Georgia. Considering the situation, AgroInsurance International takes the responsibility for the safety and health of our partners and conference participants. Thus, AgroInsurance team took the leadership and re-negotiated the Conference dates for October 4-6, 2021. Conference updates will be posted further on our official websites www.agroinsconf.com and www.agroinsurance.com. Should you have specific questions or concerns with the new conference dates and arrangements, please contact us via admin@agroinsurance.com. AgroInsurance Team wishes you to stay ingoodhealth and we are looking forward to an opportunity of meeting you in Tbilisi, Georgia in October 2021!Official web page: Place for venue: Dates: Conference Organizer: Conference Manager: Conference Administrator: Contact phone: Contact email:www.agroinsconf.com Biltmore Hotel Tbilisi, Georgia October 4-6, 2021 AgroInsurance International LLC. – www.AgroInsurance.com Ian Shynkarenko Liudmyla Krychevska +995 599 3 777 01 admin@agroinsurance.com Source – www.agroinsurance.com
The agro-insurance sector is going through rapid changes currently due to major trends such as climate change and digitalisation that are impacting on the sector. Climate change induced extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and so do their impacts on agricultural businesses. Earth observation-based products and services can help with the difficult task to support farmers and assess potential damages to crop and agro-companies. The ESA Best Practice project EO4I has sought to capture these developments and assess and analyse both the geo-information needs of the agro-insurance sector and the Earth observation-based services and products currently considered best practice by the wider EO community. The results are presented and synthesised on the EO4I website. OnNovember 5, 2020 at 16:00-16:45 (CET), EARSC is organizing the next EOcafe moderated by host,Geoff SAWYER, EARSC’s Strategic Advisor and former Secretary General to discuss the value and benefit of Earth observation for the agro-insurance sector. Based on the findings of the EO4I project, Ralf RYTER from GeoVille will elaborate on how EO may help overcome the difficulties faced by the agro-insurance sector, and Hansueli LUSTI, Vice-Director and Agricultural Engineer at Swiss Hail Insurance Company, will explain how geo-information can support the agro-insurance sector in the light of trends such as climate change. In this edition, we will discuss:What are the biggest challenges and trends in the agro-insurance sector?Where are the challenges in integrating EO solutions into the specific agro-insurance business processes? What is the added value to the agro-insurance sector?What is the future of EO in agro-insurance? How can Earth Observation help in the future?Registration:This webinar is open to ALL but priority will be given to EARSC members. Registration is free but compulsory. Please click on the following link to register by 5th November at 11:00 (CET).EOcafe RegistrationPlease note this is a virtual event that will be recorded. The details will be sent on Thursday 5th by 12:00 (CET). If you have any questions or you want to know more about the EOcafes, please contact Natassa (natassa.antoniou@earsc.org).Source - https://earsc.org
AgroInsurance International, in partnership with Skyglyph, Planet and Swiss Re, hosted a joint webinar dedicated to forestry insurance and use of modern technologies for risk portfolio monitoring. More than 70 participants from 27 countries joined the webinar, contributing to the discussion by asking specific questions on technical aspects of forestry insurance. The webinar participants represented insurers, reinsurers, consulting agencies, development organizations, financial institutions, technology and service providers. High geographical distribution of participants indicates forestry risks are important, providing a range of opportunities for development of forestry risk covers in the future. Webinar speakers covered technical aspects of forestry insurance. Major topics discussed included specifics of forestry underwriting, portfolio management, loss assessment, application of remote sensing data in forestry insurance, opportunities for index-based structures and reinsurer’s view on global forestry insurance market. Panelists highlighted the key challenges experienced in forestry insurance and provided specific recommendations to consider when insuring forests. Webinar participants had an opportunity to discuss a number of questions in the Q&A panel. Questions covered a broad array of topics including the technology capabilities and areas still requiring further development, underwriting approaches to forestry risk portfolios management, insurance product types and other technical issues. Do you want to know more about upcoming industry events and follow AgroInsurance news through monthly newsletters? Visit us on www.agroinsurance.com or send us your questions and comments at: admin@agroinsurance.com Source - https://agroinsurance.com
Join us on Wednesday, October 28, 2020 at 09:00 am (CET) for a webinar dedicated to forestry insurance. Advance booking of webinar seats is available at the web link - Forestry Insurance Webinar Registration. Ian Shynkarenko (CEO, Agroinsurance International) will moderate the event with participating speakers: - Roman Shynkarenko (Technical Director, Agroinsurance International) - Peter Welten (Senior Agriculture Underwriter, Swiss Re) - Victor Yermak (CEO, Skyglyph) - Erik Zillmann (Technical Sales Engineer, Planet). During the webinar experts will discuss the following technical aspects of forestry insurance:insurance product design;underwriting and portfolio management;loss assessment;application of satellite data for forestry insurance and monitoring forestry assets;reinsurer’s view on global forestry insurance market.Webinar speakers will also provide examples of modern technologies applied for monitoring forestry plantations with corresponding cases for Ukraine, Indonesia and Australia. Speakers will answer questions from the audience live, covering the wider range of technical issues related to forestry insurance. Webinar is conducted free of charge. Online accommodation may be limited, so we advise securing your seat in advance (follow this link). Webinar Agenda:Introduction - Yan Shynkarenko (CEO, Agroinsurance International) (5 minutes)Technical Aspects of Forestry Insurance: Product Design, Underwriting and Loss Assessment - Roman Shynkarenko(Technical Director, Agroinsurance International) (15 minutes)Reinsurance View on Global Forestry Insurance Market - Peter Welten (Senior Agriculture Underwriter, Swiss Re)(15 minutes)Use of Modern Technologies for Monitoring Forestry Plantations: Cases for Ukraine, Indonesia and Australia - Victor Yermak (CEO, Skyglyph)(15 minutes)Satellite Data for Forestry Insurance and Monitoring Forestry Assets – Erik Zillmann (Technical Sales Engineer, Planet)(10 minutes)Questions & Answers (30 minutes)Source - https://agroinsurance.com
The damage from drought worldwide increased to over €20 billion in 2019, while less than €2 billion was covered by insurance. Farmers and governments are now demanding insurance, while the industry is looking for the best ways to provide this. Do you want to understand this market opportunity better? If yes, please spend the next 5 to 10 minutes of your time to quickly answer these questions. Your input for this survey will be treated strictly confidential and the results shared with you in a personal meeting or via email. You can access to the survey through the following link – PARTICIPATE IN THE SURVEY. Thank you in advance for your participation in this survey!
As of today, the global number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 has exceeded 16 million. Most of insurance and reinsurance companies in Europe and Asia have suspended all non-essential international business travels for their employees until the end of the year 2020. Here at AgroInsurance International we feel responsible for the safety and health of our conference participants and guests. Thus, AgroInsurance team would like to confirm that the Conference has been rescheduled for April19-21, 2021 because of our participants’ convenience and safety considerations.
Earlier announced new tentative conference dates (October 5-7, 2020) remain effective. Conference premises are fully suited for maintaining the required social distancing between the participants, as well as necessary disinfection measures applied by the hotel and dining locations. The next conference update is expected on July 20, 2020, following the opening of the international travel by Georgia, the European Union and Asian countries.