2014 Agenda

 

October 6, 2014 – Day 1

07:30 — 09:30 Conference participants registration
09:30 — 10:00 Welcome coffee: Meetings colleagues, getting acquainted with new colleagues and specialists from CIS, Europe & Asia.

10:00 — 10:30 Official conference opening  ceremony.

Welcome notes from organisers, sponsors and special conference guests.

10:30 — 12:30 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))

12:30 — 13:30 Lunch Time
13:30 — 15:30 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) 

15:30 — 16:00 Coffee brake
16:00 — 17:30 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))

20:00 — 23:00 Conference official reception.

 

October 7, 2014 – Day 2

09:30 — 11:30 Panel Discussion: Public Private Partnership (PPP) – the role of technical details at the initial stage of running a national agricultural risk management program.

11:30 — 12:00 Coffee break

12:00 — 13:30 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)

13:30 — 14:30 Lunch Time 

14:30 — 16:00 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))

16:00 — 16:30 Coffee break

16:30 — 18:00 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))

18:00 — 18:30 Working section closing.

October 8, 2014 – Day 3

09:30 — 10:00 Istanbul City Tour  – groups gathering. Program details is available here: >>> ISTANBUL CITY TOUR <<<