Research Network Events

Providing world-class events since 2006

The WTW Research Network is an award-winning collaboration, which harnesses over 50 partners in science, academia, think tanks, and the private sector to form innovative partnerships with the risk management and insurance industries; improving understanding of risk for the benefit of our clients and society. Every year the WTW Research Network hosts a number of events, webinars, lunch and learn, conferences and so on. Please keep a look out on this page so you don't miss out on our world-class events.

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Upcoming Events

Emerging & Interconnected Risks Survey Report Launch - 20 November 2024

The world is changing at a rapid pace, with emerging and interconnected risks challenging organizations to ask questions of their strategy. Reviewing emerging risks and being future-ready is about more than maintaining a risk register, or scoring acceleration, impact and severity. Just as no risk operates in isolation, leaders increasingly need to have a wider understanding of impacts beyond their function – but keeping pace with that change and understanding what actions to take next is hard.

Natural Catastrophe Webinar Program 2024

Recent years have underscored the ongoing challenge of natural disasters, emphasizing the critical need for proactive mitigation strategies in a changing world shaped by climate change and urban growth. Our 2024 Natural Catastrophe webinar program will bring together multi-disciplinary expertise from our WTW Research Network and across WTW to explore key questions spanning a range of perils.

Past Events

Modelling Climate Litigation Risks for (Re) insurers

WTW is pleased to invite you to the launch of the publication by Martin Lockman (Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, Columbia Law School) of his research paper 'Modelling Climate Litigation Risk for (Re)insurers'.

The paper provides a toolkit to assist insurance practitioners and industry regulators model (re)insurer climate litigation risk. Drawing on academic literature relevant to climate litigation risk assessment and insurance, we will hear insights on the current focus of climate litigation within the insurance market, how this is likely to impact (re)insurers, the current regulatory focus, and how developing appropriate stress and scenario testing can assist in managing climate litigation exposures.

Direct and Facultative Training Academy

With the severity, frequency and impact of natural catastrophe events continuing to far outpace infrastructure investment, it’s never been more important to understand, quantify and mitigate against the risks.

"This webinar program will broaden your understanding of the NatCat big five by drawing on real-life case studies and bringing together multi-disciplinary expertise from the Research Network experts and across WTW."

Climate Liability: Time to Futureproof Your Business

18 April 2023, Lime Street, London

Join WTW climate leaders alongside selected WTW Research Network partners, civil society, analysts, insurers and sector experts on Tuesday 18 April at our Lime Street office in London for a cutting-edge discussion on climate-related liability risk exposures and opportunities. This event will empower you to make informed decisions, help future-proof and prepare your organisation to manage risks and consider the opportunities in a dynamic climate liability landscape. You will obtain practical information to help prepare for present and future risks, minimize potential climate-related liabilities, and evolve your business to successfully transition to a low-carbon net-zero economy.

Under Talent Risks in the Technology Industry

Join two of our leading experts for a webinar on the Talent Risks in the Technology Industry. Our speakers will be Fredrik Motzfeldt, TMT leader - Great Britain, WTW’s Corporate Risk and Broking business, and Shankar Raman, Global Co-Leader of the Technology Industry for WTW's Work and Rewards business. In this webinar, they will share the findings from the Mack Research and discuss what aspects of the findings remain relevant, what may have changed in the last six months, and what we can expect in the next six months."

Artificial Intelligence for Environmental Risks

Artificial Intelligence (AI) offers huge potential to transform our ability to understand, monitor and predict environmental risks, providing direct societal benefit as well as potential commercial opportunities. Realising this vision requires integrating domain-specific expertise with an understanding of the relevant computational methods.

Join us, the WTW Research Network, in partnership with the University of Cambridge’s Artificial Intelligence for the study of Environmental Risks (AI4ER) research centre and other partners at UCL and Loughborough University on 2 March 2023 for an afternoon of presentation, discussion and debate at our London Lime Street event suite.

Into the Gray-Zone

Join us at the launch of our new Geopolitical research hub as we celebrate new relationships with world-leading academics and discuss some of the key themes across the Geopolitical Gray-zone of international relationships. The talks will focus on the most significant drivers of geopolitical risk and what global businesses can do to proactively manage these threats.

New York Climate Week

Join us during New York Climate Week at our Midtown Experience Center for cutting-edge discussions on the resilient, net zero transition and latest developments in regulation, disclosure and investor demands. Across physical, transition and liability themes, we will showcase best-in-class analytics, practical solutions and client stories from our people, risk and capital businesses that empower organizations to prosper in the coming Climate Decade.

Virtual Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Insurance

The TECHNGI project at Loughborough University TECHNGI – Technology driven Next Generation Insurance has been conducting research on artificial intelligence (AI) in insurance for the past two and half years. Our project has been examining insurance industry experience with employing AI, building a core base of knowledge on the broader challenges of adoption, including the implication for business models and the organisational and public policy challenges.

This online conference will be delivered across four separate themed sessions. We will draw on the insights of the project, bringing together a range of perspectives on the business application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its role in the ongoing digital transformation of the insurance industry.

The conference sessions will feature a mix of leading university researchers and industry practitioners participating as both presenters and panellists. We look forward to welcoming you to a stimulating session of open debate and insightful discussion. 

1. Data – 13th January 2022, 14:00 – 16:00 Featuring Jason Garforth (IBM), George Zarkadakis (WTW), Alistair Milne (Loughborough)
2. AI Start ups and industrial strategy - 3rd February 2022, 14:00 – 16:00 Featuring Ed Gaze (Lloyds Data Lab), Tzameret Rubin (Loughborough)
3. AI strategy and business models - 10th February 2022, 14:00 – 16:00 Featuring Andrew Yeoman (Concirrus), Chris Holland (Loughborough)

The conference is the closing conference of the TECHNGI research project. It is hosted by Loughborough University and WTW and funded from the UK Government Industry Challenge Fund’s Next Generation Services program.

WTW Research Network Challenge Fund: Accelerating Climate Risk Analytics

At the end of last year, the WTW Research Network set a challenge to its members to come up with ideas for short collaborative research projects that focus on specific elements of risks associated with climate change. The WTW Research Network hosted a webinar on 8th of December for the final project presentations, followed by a Q&A session with the scientists.

Projects featured were:

• “Towards Physically Based and Usable Climate Event Scenarios” presented by Dr James Done, NCAR, and Prof Gabriele Villarini, Iowa State University
• “Convective storm characteristics in a changing climate (CSTOCC)” presented by Dr Chiara Lepore, Columbia University and Prof Dr Michael Kunz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
• “Proposed Realistic Climate Change Stress Tests Approaches for Disaster Prone Southeast Asia Domain” presented by Prof Shie-Yui Shie Liong, National University of Singapore

The Q&A included other project members and WTW representatives discussing details and applications. We hope you can join us for this interesting round up to climate risk focused research from the WTW Research Network.

COP26 briefing: a planet in the balance

On the 26 October, WTW held a webinar – ‘COP26 briefing: a planet in the balance’. Our expert panel provided framing to COP26 including discussion of potential commitments by Governments, and of parallel coalitions of public and private sector players, to drive emissions reductions and address climate risk. The panel members shared their views on likely outcomes and what success will look like coming out of COP26 and beyond.

The WTW Research Network: 15 years of Science for Resilience

The WTW Research Network (WRN) team hosted a 3-day conference to celebrate the team's 15-year anniversary. Since inception, we have grown to a network of more than 60 partnerships with top universities, research centres and think tanks all around the globe, collaborating to develop practical, applied research that can deliver innovative insights and a deeper understanding of the challenges we face. Over three days we looked at how WRN research has helped to develop a better understanding and knowledge across the risk landscape, covering a range of topics from natural catastrophes to geopolitical risks, the future of technology and emergent risks likely to shape the research agenda in the future.

Time and Location: 18 May 2021 - 20 May 2021

1^st WTW Denmark Annual Risk Conference

On the 27. January 2021 WTW, the WTW Research Network, and the University of Southern Denmark hosted the first annual Risk Research Conference in Denmark. Based on the UN's World Sustainable Development Goals the conference provided participants with an insight into the latest industrial experiences and evolvement in the science about the changing climate, urban development, and loss prevention. The speakers at the conference were experts and researchers from The University of Southern Denmark, The WTW Research Network, Ramböll with more. The speakers gave their suggestions on what to pay attention to when buildings are to be resilient to future weather conditions.

Keynote speakers:

• Tradeoffs in loss prevention and insurance cost
  Prof. Brooks Kaiser, The University of Southern Denmark
• The quantitative effect of loss prevention technologies
  Simon Sølvsten, WTW, The University of Southern Denmark

Time and Location: January 27, 2021, webinar

Recording available upon request.

Emerging risks webinar with Willis Re ERM and WTW Research Network

In December, Lucy Stanbrough took part in the last Willis Re ERM webinar of the year with Dave Ingram and Daniil Shalmiyev. The session focused on emerging risks and some of the work over the last year from the Emerging Risks hub, along with discussions on how to find them, and what to keep in mind when evaluating, monitoring and taking action. The hope is that by tracking and planning for Emerging Risks, a company will not be totally surprised when one of them actually happens. Examples of emerging risks were used throughout the webinar, including a list of 50 possible risks that are on our radar.

Time and Location: 03 December 2020, Webinar

Pandemics under the microscope: using science for resilience

Organisations face no shortage of risks, yet pandemic modelling holds unique challenges compared to other perils. The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic (COVID-19) has shone the brightest of lights on the global need for improved understanding of and preparedness for communicable disease risk.

On Thursday 8 October at 16:30 BST, the WTW Research Network hosted a webinar with our new partner, Metabiota, to discuss how they use science to help businesses and countries build resilience to pandemics.

“Pandemics under the microscope: using science for resilience” featured a panel discussion with Q&A that will consider how analytics can be used to improve understanding of pandemic risks, and the need to move to a systems view that embraces the interconnectivity of risks.

Our panel of experts explored:

The state of pandemic modelling, how it differs from other perils, and the use of scenario-based approaches. Thoughts from COVID-19 on considering and communicating uncertainty, misinformation, and the value of early action. The need to move towards a more resilient future that deals with the interconnectivity of risks, and the potential for peril/threat correlations.

Time and Location: 08 October 2020, Webinar

On 8 October 2020, the WTW Research Network hosted a webinar with our new partner, Metabiota, to discuss how they use science to help businesses and countries build resilience to pandemics.

Realtime Risk and Globally Consistent Seismic Risk Modeling of Japan

Temblor have been a key WTW Research Network partner for several years. Willis Re hosted a talk with Temblor focusing on seismic risk modeling in Japan.

Prof. Shinji Toda and Prof. Ross Stein took us through their recent work looking at the ongoing activity in the region and what it signals for future seismic risk. In addition, they looked at the business application of tools like Realtime Risk to provide an independent view on the current Japan seismic modeling landscape.

Time and Location: 29 September, 2020 - Webinar

Earthquake science for (re)insurance decision-makers: bridging the gap between academia and industry

The Global Earthquake Model (GEM) foundation is a key WTW Research Network partner and we have collaborated over the last few years on a number of initiatives to deliver earthquake risk assessment solutions for WTW clients. GEM is world leading in earthquake science and has recently developed a global fully probabilistic earthquake model that is continuously being updated.

Dr Marco Pagani and Dr Vitor Silva took us through recent innovative products by GEM, while Massimiliano Arizzi, head of EMEA W/S Service Offering at Willis Re, and earthquake experts from Willis Re described how they leverage such outputs to help WTW clients and inform their decision making. In particular, they discussed how to enhance earthquake loss assessment using GEM exposure and vulnerability databases. They also showed how to develop alternative views of risk to vendor models leveraging the global earthquake model using two alternative approaches, with application to parametric insurance and portfolio management.

Time and Location: 23 September, 2020

Recording available upon request.

North Atlantic Tropical Cyclones – do catastrophe models sufficiently represent ‘the storms of the future’?

Colorado-based National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) have, for many years, been a prominent WTW Research Network (WRN) partner and, together with WTW, have developed insights around seasonal forecasts and longer-term trends relating to tropical cyclone.

Dr James Done, WRN Senior Academic based at NCAR, and Dr Ioana Dima-West of Willis Re presented the latest collaborative work, discussing a framework for how to assess whether Tropical Cyclone models represent current and future climate conditions. This discussion took place following a brief market introduction by Chris Hayday, Head of Specialty Property at Willis Re.

Use of simulated NCAR/WRN wind footprints of historical, stochastic or post-live storms have recently been deployed in developing and strengthening our clients’ View of Risk, in better understanding loss driving features of tropical cyclones. Within the webinar we extended this value provided to Willis Re clients to demonstrate how, within a framework of assessing model completeness, NCAR/WRN simulations of current and future climate can be used.

Our first step of the research will focus on identifying which trends or scientific evidence are important to consider when assessing current and future risk. We shall consider, given an historical event as a base, which evolving storm features are most impactful to loss. We will also look forward at how we shall test other components of climate change risk in the future, tropical cyclone-induced flooding and changes in landfall frequency and location, against this model completeness framework or within a probabilistic model set-up.

Time and Location: The conference was held on August 06, 2020, Webinar.

Recording of the webinar is available upon request.

2020 Hurricane Season

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the main factors affecting hurricane activity in the Atlantic. Currently, the ENSO is in a Neutral phase and many ENSO prediction models indicate a 44% to 76% chance of the Neutral lasting from June through October 2020 and 25% to 30% chance of La Niña conditions during peak time of hurricane season (August-October).

With this year’s hurricane season fast approaching — along with rapidly changing climate conditions — predicting seasonal hurricanes becomes a timely and highly relevant topic for companies with insured risks in hurricane prone areas.

To address this change, Willis Re’s Catastrophe Analytics team hosted a one hour webinar on Monday 1^st June featuring our WTW Research Network partner Dr James Done of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Our guest speaker reviewed the atmospheric conditions that influenced the 2019 hurricane season, the 2020 hurricane forecast and the conditions that can have an influence on the 2020 North Atlantic hurricane activity.

Time and Location: 01 June 2020 / Webinar

Recording available on request.

Cambridge Global Risk Index 2020: Launch Event

The WTW Research Network hosted the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies launch event for the 2020 update of the Cambridge Global Risk Index. The conference featured key research from the Centre on modelling catastrophe risk to business activities, as well as provide perspectives on their new and emerging risk challenges.

The Centre has launched the sixth annual Cambridge Global Risk Index to bring business critical elements of the Cambridge Risk Framework into focus. Using the Cambridge Centre for Risk Studies' taxonomy of threats, the Centre is researching the catastrophic disruption to economic activities caused by multi-threat events. The Global Risk Index allows users to understand the economic implications of a variety of risks and use the GDP@Risk metric to enhance their preparedness and resilience. In this way, governments and firms will be better equipped to deal with risks in the future, some of which they may not have previously encountered. Topics discussed included an integrated risk outlook for 2020, better understanding of corporate risk profiling, and seeing opportunities for the insurance industry through risk science.

Time and Location: 09 December 2019 / The WTW Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

WTW Research Network - Unnatural Catastrophes: Cyber and Geopolitical Risk in the Modern World

The WTW Research Network (WRN) hosted a morning seminar featuring talks and discussions on two research themes that the WRN is currently focusing on: Cyber and Geopolitical drivers of risk.

As with any WRN seminar, we brought together views from academia and the business world, steering the dialogue towards pragmatic insights. Guest speakers provided their understanding of the risk landscape, discussed how organisations are currently managing those risks, and how those risks can be turned into opportunities.

Seminar themes

Cyber attacks: from crime to nation-state tool of aggression

he nature of our relationship with technology is increasingly complex and challenging and this evolution permeates across the risk landscape. Elisabeth Braw from the RUSI (Royal United Services Institute) Modern Deterrence Programme gave an insight into the changing nature of cyber attacks and what this means for business today.

This was followed by a panel session providing a tour d'horizon of the top cyber risks and trends, reflecting on how organisations are currently managing those risks, through a combination of risk management and insurance solutions.

• Andrew Hall (WTW)
• Matt Palmer (WTW)
• Elisabeth Braw (RUSI - Modern Deterrence programme)
• Prof. Andrew Martin (University of Oxford - Cyber Security Centre)
• Pete Cooper (Pavisade)
• From the battlefield to the boardroom: insights into geopolitical drivers of risk and opportunities

As we reflect on an increasingly fragile global landscape, the dynamics of the geopolitical narrative are increasingly influential for any organisation. Our keynote speaker Sir Richard Shirreff, NATO's former Deputy Supreme Commander Europe, surveyed the geopolitical landscape and explore opportunities which boardrooms should consider in order to manage risk effectively.

Our panel moderated by Neal Croft discussed top geopolitical risks and trends, risk mitigation strategies and how better insights can turn risk into opportunity.

• Neal Croft (WTW)
• Sir Richard Shirreff (Strategia Worldwide)
• Paul Davidson (WTW: Financial Solutions)
• Amalia Khachatryan (Oxford Analytica)

Time and Location: 05 December 2019 / The WTW Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

Artificial Intelligence and Next-Generation Insurance Services

Loughborough University and the WTW Research Network (WRN) hosted a conference bringing together a range of perspectives on the business application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its role in the ongoing digital transformation of the insurance industry. The goal was to look beyond the day to day business decision-making and examine the broader challenges of employing AI, the implication for business models and to address some of the organisational and public policy challenges to effective use of these new technologies. We had a mix of top university researchers and industry practitioners participating as both presenters and panellists to enhance our depth of knowledge around AI and the use of AI in our industry.

Seminar themes

• An assessment of the current state and potential of Artificial Intelligence
  Keynote speaker: Mike Hope, IBM, and David Lopez, University of Exeter
• AI and Insurance Business models & Digital Innovation in Insurance
  Featuring Steven Woodford, BGL and Chris Holland, Loughborough University
• New Insurance Technologies & The InsureTech Landscape
  Featuring Ed Gaze, Lloyds Lab, Matt Cullen, Association of British Insurers and Case studies from business
• The enterprise view of AI and data technologies in insurance
  Featuring research presentations and panel discussion on organizational challenges and regulatory compliance

Time and Location: 26 November 2019 / The WTW Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

Willis Re Paris annual Conference - Climate change : Adapting to a new Reality

Willis Re Paris annual conference will bring together industry leaders on climate change related risk and practitioners from insurance company with valuable insights from WWF and AXA, amongst others. Hosting in the "home" of famous environmentalist Yann Arthus-Bertrand, the conference will present to its audience Willis Re's perspective on providing the most relevant service offering on all climate-related regulatory and business subjects. Rowan Douglas will be speaking for the WRN, outlining the link between academic partnerships and their concrete application across WTW.

Time and Location: September 5, 2019 / GoodPlanet Foundation, Domaine de Longchamp, Paris

WTW Research Network: an afternoon with Greg Holland

The WTW Research Network (WRN) held an afternoon of presentation and networking with Dr. Greg Holland, Director Emeritus of the Capacity Center for Climate and Weather Extremes (C3WE) at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Holland has worked with WTW for many years via the WTW Research Network, focusing on tropical cyclone impact research, collaborating with our Willis Re Catastrophe Analytics teams closely, to develop new methods and data to help us maintain an up to date View of Risk for our clients.

In this session, Dr. Holland brought his wealth of experience and knowledge of weather and climate risk for an hour session covering recent research into tropical cyclones and climate change impacts, followed by a chance for questions and discussion.

Time and Location: May 29, 2019 / WTW Building, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

2019 hurricane season

The El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is one of the main factors affecting hurricane activity in the Atlantic. Currently, the ENSO is in a weak El Niño phase and many ENSO prediction models indicate a 50% to 70% chance of the El Niño lasting from June through October 2019.

With this year's hurricane season fast approaching - along with rapidly changing climate conditions - predicting seasonal hurricanes becomes a timely and highly relevant topic for companies with insured risks in hurricane prone areas.

To address this change, Willis Re's Catastrophe Analytics team hosted a one hour webinar on Wednesday, featuring James Done of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR). Our guest speaker reviewed the atmospheric conditions that influenced the 2018 hurricane season, the 2019 hurricane forecast and the conditions that can have an influence on 2019 North Atlantic hurricane activity.

In addition, New capabilities the Willis Re catastrophe analytics team has been working on related to utilizing the hurricane forecast to produce loss estimates was discussed.

Time and Location: June 05, 2019 / Webinar

WTW Research Network Earthquake Seminar

The WTW Research Network held an afternoon seminar featuring a number of research projects with our academic partners, where we demonstrated how this research has applicability to business decisions.

• Use of 3D simulation to reduce the uncertainty in loss estimates
• A Reinsurance, Capital and Regulatory challenge in the US and Canada: a $30bn to $300bn Pacific North-West / British Columbia range of industry probable maximum loss estimates – which to trust?
• The odd couple – aftershocks and clustering. How can we adjust or build models to account for these coupled events?

We presented potential benefits, and implications to reinsurance and capital requirements using recent events in Alaska, New Zealand and Mexico as examples. - Reducing gaps in model coverage and informing model validation. Willis Re's use of Global Earthquake Model data. To address these and many other questions we had a list of world-renowned experts on earthquake risk joining us from the risk management industry and academia. Dr Ross Stein (Temblor), Dr. Marco Pagani (GEM), Dr. Myrto Papaspiliou (Willis Re), Dr. Crescenzo Petrone (Willis Re), Tim Edwards (Willis Re) and Grant Baxter (Willis Re) are amongst the speakers expected on the day.

Time and Location: May 09, 2019 / The WTW Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

The WTW Research Network Autumn Seminar

The WTW Research Network (WRN) held an insightful afternoon featuring a number of research projects and academic partners. A range of themes were included such as the influence of climate variability and change on extreme weather, as well as an overview of new parametric insurance solutions relating to volcanic eruptions. The talks featured prominent academic experts who presented the findings from the latest research in their fields, along with the outputs of some of the WRN's recent scientific collaborations. Each academic talk were followed by a representative from WTW to show current analytical projects and applications of the research for our clients across the insurance and reinsurance sectors.

• Climate modelling and NAO predictability
  Presented by Prof. Adam Scaife (Met Office Hadley Centre and University of Exeter)
• Volcanic risk and the (re)insurance industry
  Presented by Dr. Christopher Kilburn (UCL Hazard Centre, University College London)
• Tropical cyclones and climate extremes today and in the future
  Presented by Dr. Greg Holland (National Center for Atmospheric Research)

Time and Location: November 06, 2018 / The WTW Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

The WTW Research Network Spring Seminar Series

Time and Location: April - May 2018 / Academy Rooms, The Willis Building, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

The WTW Research Network (WRN) held a 'Spring Seminar' series featuring a number of research projects and partners across several weeks in April and May. Topics ranged from severe convective storms to corporate risk profiling. These talks presented the findings from some of the WRN's latest scientific collaborations, alongside current analytical projects underway in Willis Re teams around the world, with an emphasis on the latest events impacting our industry.

Spring Seminar Sessions

• April 18 – Hail Hazard Modelling
  Our WRN partners at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology have been working with Willis Re catastrophe analytics teams for many years on developing hail hazard event sets. Introduced by Hubert Bast, Head of Analytics and Model Development at Willis Re International, ongoing research focussed on European hail storms remains a key research stream. Dr. Michael Kunz and Dr. Heinz-Jürgen Punge will present their latest work on hail modelling, both in Europe and Australia.
• May 02 – Sequential Hazard Vulnerability
  Professor Tiziana Rossetto and Dr. Carmine Galasso from UCL EPICentre will present recent advances in physical vulnerability modelling of the built environment. The talk will discuss 1) the impact of earthquake duration on earthquake loss assessment; 2) the performance-based assessment of the built environment to sequential hazards, such as earthquake followed by tsunami; 3) the performance-based assessment of earthquake-induced structural fracture in high-rise steel buildings.
• May 09 – Is There a Correlation Between Wind and Flood in UK?
  Featuring collaborative work between the University of Exeter and Willis Re, Dr. Ben Youngman will link up with Dr. Ioana Dima-West, Head of Model Research and Evaluation, Willis Re International and Tim Edwards, Head of European Catastrophe Analytics, Willis Re, to discuss their recent research into whether there is any correlation observed between extreme floods and severe windstorm events in the UK. They will consider how this correlation varies between empirical hazard and claims datasets and establish how the level of correlation changes where i.) the severity of the event changes and ii.) when the definition of the event is aligned to that of reinsurance contracts.
• May 24 – Corporate Risk Profiling: Managing Your Risks
  With opening comments from Jon Gascoigne, Senior Risk Advisor, Capital, Science and Policy Practice, WTW, and building on work at the Cambridge Judge Business School, Jessica Tsang, Research Assistant at the Centre for Risk Studies will provide an overview on the management of corporate risk, an area increasingly relevant as firms seek to recognise, assess and ultimately manage risk in today's volatile world.

The WTW Research Network Autumn Seminar

Time and Location: 1^st November 2017 / The Willis Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

WTW held an afternoon of insight and discussion with the WTW Research Network (WRN). The event, held in the London Lime Street Auditorium on November 1^st, discussed trending topics on severe convective storms, tropical cyclones and inland flooding with a range of prominent and respected speakers in the fields of weather and climate risk. The event presented findings from some of the WRN's latest scientific collaborations, alongside current analytical projects underway in Willis Re teams around the world, with an emphasis on the latest extreme weather events impacting our industry.

The WTW Research Network: Seismic Risk Seminar

Time and Location: 23^rd February 2017 / The Willis Building Auditorium, 51 Lime Street, London EC3M 7DQ.

WTW held an afternoon of insight and discussion with the WTW Research Network (WRN). The event, held in the London Lime Street Auditorium on February 23^rd, discussed trending topics on Seismic Hazard and Risk, and highlighted opportunities for potential research directions that could trigger major advances and improve the way seismic hazard and risk is perceived, assessed and quantified in the Re/Insurance industry.