Past RMS Events

RMS hosted an open forum at Baden-Baden 2007 where our latest innovations in catastrophe risk modeling were presented. Leading modeling experts were available to discuss recent RMS development initiatives, including models for Europe earthquake, Europe hail, Europe windstorm, Germany flood, terrorism risk and pandemic influenza. For further information, please contact Jennifer Mueller at jennifer.mueller@rms.com.
 

The 2007 annual RMS International Client Conference was held in Milan, Italy from Monday, September 17 through Wednesday, September 19, 2007.
 

RMS hosted a half-day seminar in New York on Wednesday, July 25 entitled "Managing Terrorism Risk in 2008 and Beyond." This half-day event brought together the world's leading terrorism experts to discuss how the global terrorism threat has evolved and the likely impact on the insurance industry. The seminar included presentations on topics related to terrorism risk, insurance, and public policy.
 

RMS hosted a half-day seminar in New York on Wednesday, July 25 entitled "Managing Terrorism Risk in 2008 and Beyond." This half-day event brought together the world's leading terrorism experts to discuss how the global terrorism threat has evolved and the likely impact on the insurance industry. The seminar included presentations on topics related to terrorism risk, insurance, and public policy.
 

RMS held two local half-day seminars, "Providing a Complete View of Portfolio Risk." The first was held in London on Friday, June 8, at Lloyds Old Library, and the second in Zurich on Monday, June 11, at the Widder Hotel. Each half day seminar explored the new features of the version 7.0 release, including applicability to data management, underwriting and portfolio modeling, and management work flow.
 

This year's annual conference was held in Palm Beach, Florida at the legendary Breakers Hotel from Tuesday, May 1 through Friday, May 4, 2007.
 

In spring 2007, RMS released the first probabilistic earthquake model for China. Detailed information on the new model was presented to the China market at two half-day seminars on March 21 in at the Westin Financial Street Hotel in Beijing, and on March 23 at the Jiang Hotel in Shanghai.
 

RMS hosted the first annual Hurricane 'Eyewall Symposium,' featuring technical presentations from many of the world's leading scientists on their research into climate and the impact on hurricane frequency and severity. This one-day scientific symposium included presentations on several key topics related to hurricanes and the current state of academic research, including hurricane formation and environmental influences on intensity, seasonal hurricane forecasting, the impact of climate on hurricanes, and the role the Atlantic Multi-decadal Oscillation on hurricane frequency. The symposium was held in New York City on Thursday, October 12 at the landmark Hudson Theatre of the Millennium Broadway Hotel.
 

As part of the 50th anniversary of Rendez-Vous de Septembre, a reinsurance conference held every year in Monte Carlo, RMS and the Whitfield Group Ltd. co-hosted the Bermuda Reception. The Bermuda Reception has been a feature of the Rendez-Vous for the past 26 years, attracting over 800 of the industry’s major players to this cocktail reception hosted by the Bermuda insurance industry for their clients and guests.
 

RMS hosted a free market seminar on September 8 to present recent tools and consulting services launched to help the insurance industry manage exposure accumulations. This half day seminar was held in the Old Library at Lloyd's of London.
 

RMS ran a workshop (largely in Chinese) led by Dr. Weimin Dong, Dr. Chris Mortgat, Dr. Zifa Wang (of IEM), and Dr. Robert Muir-Wood, at the offices of the Chinese Insurance Regulatory Commission in Beijing, for fifty invitees across the whole Chinese insurance, reinsurance and broking communities with sessions on: the forthcoming RMS China earthquake model, the importance and role of high quality data in catastrophe loss modeling, portfolio management and portfolio optimization, securitization and the lessons of hurricane Katrina.
 

RMS held a free user training on July 27-28 at the Fairmont Hamilton Princess in Hamilton, Bermuda. The training conference provided users with tips and tricks on using new fields and functionality associated with version 6.0 updates to U.S. and Caribbean hurricane, eastern U.S. and eastern Canada earthquake, Europe windstorm, and more.
 

In addition to major upgrades to the RMS U.S. Hurricane and U.S. Earthquake models, RiskLink and RiskBrowser 6.0 feature major enhancements to the RMS Europe Windstorm and U.K. Storm Surge model, resulting in the first comprehensive upgrade in which all components of the model are being rebuilt since the model's original release. In Summer 2006, RMS will also release a river flood model for Germany based on a Europe-wide stochastic rainfall event set, supplementing existing RMS river flood models in the U.K and Belgium. Details of the Europe model releases, and our development agenda for the region were presented to the Europe market in two half-day seminars on May 30 in Munich and June 2 in London.
 

RMS hosted a free seminar to help the insurance market understand and manage the risks posed by pandemic influenza. This seminar was an opportunity to hear about recent scientific developments and RMS' launch of the first probabilistic pandemic risk model. This half day seminar was held in New York City in the Ballroom le Grande Paris at the Sofitel New York on June 1, 2006 from 2:00-5:30 pm followed by a cocktail reception.

 

For the fifth year, RMS hosted a client terrorism seminar where we provided an opportunity to hear first hand from some of the world's leading terrorism experts on how the threat of terrorism is evolving and the likely impact on the insurance industry. This half day seminar was held in New York City at the landmark Hudson Theatre of the Millennium Broadway Hotel.
 

In addition to major upgrades to the RMS U.S. Hurricane and U.S. Earthquake models, RiskLink and RiskBrowser 6.0 will feature major enhancements to the RMS Europe Windstorm and U.K. Storm Surge model, resulting in the first comprehensive upgrade in which all components of the model are being rebuilt since the model's original release. In Summer 2006, RMS will also release a river flood model for Germany based on a Europe-wide stochastic rainfall event set, supplementing existing RMS river flood models in the U.K and Belgium. Details of the Europe model releases, and our development agenda for the region were presented to the Europe market in two half-day seminars on May 30 in Munich and June 2 in London.
 

This year's RMS Client Conference was held May 9-12, 2006 at the five-star, five diamond Broadmoor Hotel and Resort in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Over 500 clients and industry representatives attended the conference.
 

RMS sponsored the opening reception of this annual event for the insurance and reinsurance industry. 

Over the past several weeks, RMS has been finalizing the scope of its U.S., Caribbean, and Offshore Platform hurricane model upgrades for the spring 2006 release. Recognizing that many reinsurance renewals are underway, RMS hosted several communications on the scope of the upgrade and also to provide insights into some of the lessons that have been learned through our extensive claims analysis and recent research initiatives. The model upgrade scopes were presented in an online presentation and followed by the London Q&A panel.
 

Over the past several weeks, RMS has been finalizing the scope of its U.S., Caribbean, and Offshore Platform hurricane model upgrades for the spring 2006 release. Recognizing that many reinsurance renewals are underway, RMS hosted several communications on the scope of the upgrade and also to provide insights into some of the lessons that have been learned through our extensive claims analysis and recent research initiatives. The model upgrade scopes were presented in an online presentation and followed by the Bermuda Q&A panel.
 

RMS hosted a seminar in London on October 21 entitled "Managing Terrorism Risk in 2006 and Beyond."
 

RMS hosted its annual European regional conference in Zurich on October 3-5. The conference tracks and keynote presentations were designed to increase the technical knowledge and practical insights that are central to the application of RMS products and services, with an emphasis on topics of particular interest for clients who manage international books of business.
 

RMS sponsored "Can Risk Be Quantified?" in London at the Royal Society. Speakers discussed the everyday risk decisions companies and governments make in terms of strengths and weaknesses of analytical tools for risk quantification, risk assessment in engineering design, pricing of insurance, assessing risk for health and safety policy choices, and operational risk assessment. This meeting addressed the more fundamental questions of whether risk can be measured at all, and, when numerical values are derived, what do they mean.
 

In place of the previously scheduled terrorism seminar taking place on September 20, RMS hosted a short seminar in the Tower Room at the London Underwriting Centre on Hurricane Katrina. The intent of this seminar was to provide another chance to see some of the material presented during the RMS online CAT Response presentations made since Katrina’s landfall and to review the findings from the RMS reconnaissance team that surveyed the area. RMS is in the process of absorbing and analyzing information learnt from the event, and in particular what impact this will have on the RMS models in the future. At this time it is too early to provide an indication of any potential changes to the models, and this topic will be covered during future discussions.
 

RMS sponsored an exhibit booth at the MARHedge hedge fund conference in Bermuda, September 18-21. Scott Cooper of the Bermuda Industry Practice Group and Jeff Hamlin from the Weather Risk Group attended the event.
 

RMS hosted a briefing on Hurricane Katrina for the attendees of the Monte Carlo Rendez-Vous. The briefing gave an overview of the situation in the affected region and provided detailed information on RMS’ analysis on elements contributing to the overall insured loss from this catastrophe, including the extensive flooding experienced in New Orleans.
 

RMS hosted a half day terrorism seminar in New York on August 31. The event was held at the landmark Hudson Theatre and focused on the latest understanding of terrorism risk and the support available from RMS to help manage exposure. World renowned terrorism expert Dr. Bruce Hoffman of RAND provided insight into the evolving terrorism threat landscape.
 

RMS hosted a free half day seminar in Hamilton, Bermuda on August 11. The seminar provided clients with the latest information about upgrades to several RMS models, including Europe windstorm and flood, and Japan earthquake.
 

This year's annual client conference was held at the Fairmont Scottsdale Princess and attended by over 400 RMS clients and industry professionals.
 

RMS has completed the development of the latest version of its earthquake and cyclone models for Australia. To officially launch the new models and provide a full technical update on the model development, RMS hosted a market launch seminar on Tuesday, May 10 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney.
 

RMS hosted a series of free afternoon seminars in New York, London, and Bermuda to update the industry on its 2004 hurricane season research initiatives and implications for product enhancements. The symposiums were attended by over 300 RMS clients and industry professionals.
 

This RMS seminar, at the Chartered Institute of Insurance Halls, introduced RMS' solution for international terrorism risk management. In addition to presentations from RMS on managing international terrorism exposure, the seminar featured several guest speakers, including Dr. Rohan Gunaratna, Director of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research in Singapore, Richard Reeve, Sentinel Security Assessments, Jane’s Information Group, and Jon Hughes, Terrorism Underwriter, Montpelier Re.
 

This event took place at the Caledonian Hilton hotel in Edinburgh, Scotland. Highlights included detailed information on the fall 2004 release of version 4.5, industry guest speakers, and topics of particular interest for clients who write international business.
 

This event took place August 4-5 at the Radisson Riverfront Hotel in St. Paul, Minnesota. Highlights included detailed information on the fall 2004 release of version 4.5, a guest speaker on wind vulnerability, and other topics of particular interest for our Americas Region clients.

The conference also featured a full breakout track dedicated to modeling workers compensation coverages, including details on the version 4.5 release of the U.S. Workers Comp Earthquake Model for use in RiskLink-DLM.
 

RMS held a morning seminar in London to introduce the RMS® Data Wizard.
 

RMS held an Executive Retreat for 20 terrorism model clients to improve the collective understanding of the evolving nature of terrorism risk, the future of insurance market response to these risks, and RMS' research and development strategy. The event was co-hosted by the University of St. Andrew's Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence (CSTPV), and was held in St. Andrews, Scotland. Leading terrorism experts from CSTPV, RAND, the Department of Homeland Security, TRIA, and international intelligence agencies provided expert briefings.

Clients provided recommendations on areas to enhance existing terrorism technology as well as their needs for international terrorism modeling capabilities. For further information on the event, contact Peter Ulrich at peter.ulrich@rms.com
 

RMS held a half-day seminar in London on the evolving global terrorism threat and the support available from RMS to help manage exposure to terrorism risk.
 

RMS hosted this seminar in Paris featuring sessions that emphasized European catastrophe perils and new product developments.
 

RMS hosted this free seminar in New York to address changes in the terrorism landscape and demonstrate how these changes are reflected in the updated RMS terrorism risk model. Over 100 attendees heard presentations from leading terrorism experts at the event.
 

This year's workshop featured sessions to update RiskLink® and RiskBrowser® users on the rollout and practical use of the new western U.S. and Canada Earthquake and U.S. Hurricane Models. An introduction to new accumulation management functionality was also featured.
 

RMS hosted this free half-day seminar to introduce the new RMS Israel Earthquake Model. Over 70 members of the London market were in attendance.
 

The RAND Center for the Study of Terrorism Risk Management was launched at a roundtable co-hosted by RMS and RAND in RAND's Washington D.C. office. Thirty representatives from leading insurers, reinsurers, intermediaries, trade associations, TRIA, and the Treasury attended this event, that featured briefings on terrorism risk and related issues from several of RAND's top terrorism experts. Click here to read more about the workshop.
 

RMS hosted this free seminar to officially launch the new urban accumulation management and building-level geocoding capabilities in RiskLink® and RiskBrowser®.
 

RMS hosted this half day seminar to officially launch the new Offshore Platform Risk Model. Over 90 representatives from the insurance, reinsurance, and weather brokering industries were in attendance. Michael Drayton, Alok Jha, and Phil LeGrone from RMS lead the seminar.