2014 Agenda

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Section: General overview of agricultural insurance markets.

1. Agricultural Insurance Markets in CIS: Market Dynamics, 2015 prospective. — Ian Shynkarenko (CEO at AgroInsurance International)

2. State support in national agricultural insurance program for Georgia. First results of program implementation and prospectives. — Kseniya Semiokhina (Deputy CEO at Insurance Company IC Group)

3. Agricultural Insurance Market in Russia: Changes and results achieved in 2013. Prospective for development in 2014.   — Korney Bizhdov (CEO of the Russian National Agroinsurers Union)

4. Potential of catastrophe crop insurance in Russia. — Ilya Strokin  (Head of GR Department — Russian Grain Union)

5. Agricultural Insurance in Brazil: Challenges and Opportunities — Vitor Ozaki (Head, PhD at GESER Group — Risk and Insurance Management / University of Sao Paolo (Brazil))

Section: Technical aspects of crop & livestock insurance underwriting.

1. Key technical aspects of livestock insurance programs for insurers. — Olena Sosenko (Senior Agricultural Underwriter at Allianz Re)

2. Considerations on Data for Quotations of Agricultural Portfolio. — Sergiy Parkhomenko (Underwriter Agriculture at Hannover Re)

3. A methodology for rate making in crop hail insurance with limited data. — Necati Icer (Technical Manager at the Turkish Agricultural Insurance Pool Management Company — TARSIM) 

Section: New programs and approaches in crop & livestock insurance.

1. Livestock Insurance — reducing risks. — Gary Hutchings (Executive Director at AON Benfield)

2. Future opportunities for bloodstock insurance in CIS. — Dina Dziuba (Deputy Underwriter Agriculture at Hannover Re)

3. Agricultural Risk in the United States — Benefits to the Farming Community.  — Barbara M. Leach (Risk Mitigation Expert — Washington, DC (USA))

Panel Discussion: Public Private Partnership (PPP) — the role of technical details at the initial stage of running a national agricultural risk management program. 

 Section: Complex insurance programs and approaches in MPCI . Technical aspects of underwriting and programs design.

1. Role of Government Subsidy in Crop Insurance – Case Study US Multi-Peril Crop Insurance. — James Tran (Head of Agriculture at Catlin (USA))

2. Ongoing changes in Polish subsidised system and prospects for fruit growers — Konrad Rojewsky (Product Manager — Agriculture at Polish Re)

 Section: Standards, approaches and technologies in agricultural loss adjustment and crop monitoring.

1. Meteosat based index insurance design and crop loss assessment. — Andries Rosema (General Director at EARS — Earth Environment Monitoring BV (Netherlands))

2.  Use of modern technologies in agricultural insurance: SwissRe’s mobile Apps to support underwriting and sales processes for indemnity and index-based products. — Hans Feyen (Head Agriculture RI & Central Europe at Swiss Re (Switzerland))

Section: Standards, approaches and technologies in agricultural loss adjustment and crop monitoring.

1. Assess and Monitor crop risks for Banking and Insurance industry: what’s new? — Pierre Rolland (Director, Operations EAME at GEOSYS (France))

2. Standards, unified approaches applied in crop monitoring, loss adjustment and experts logistics. Ukrainian results. — Liudmyla Krychevska (Insurance Programs Administrator at AgroInsurance International LLC. (Ukraine))

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