The LA Fires and the Risk Market Value Chain With Joy Chen
The Eaton and Palisades fires are now the most expensive wildfire disaster in U.S. history — and what's happening in Los Angeles right now is a real-time stress test of the entire insurance value chai...
28 Apr 42min
How Catastrophe Models Work and Where They Fall Short With Anil Vasagiri
This episode is part of a series of live conversations recorded at Climate Tech Connect 2026 in Washington, D.C.Anil Vasagiri, Head of Risk Data Solutions at Swiss Re is a rare combination of technica...
22 Apr 27min
Why Mixing Catastrophes With Prediction Markets Is More Dangerous Than It Looks With Jamie Pietruska
The LA wildfires burned more than a hundred thousand acres. They destroyed thousands of homes. And while they were still burning, people were placing bets on them.Not insurers. Not reinsurers. Not cat...
15 Apr 48min
AI, Models, and the Limits of Climate Assumptions with Sarah Kapnick
We sit down with Dr. Sarah Kapnick at Climate Tech Connect in Washington, D.C. in a conversation covers the time-horizon problem at the heart of climate finance, what the PG&E bankruptcy revealed abou...
13 Apr 27min
Can Models Still Work When Everything Changes at Once? With Christiane Baumeister
This week I speak with Dr. Christiane Baumeister, a professor at the University of Notre Dame. Her research focuses on global oil market dynamics — disentangling the supply and demand forces that dri...
1 Apr 52min
(Preview) China's Growing Risk Data Moat and the US Brain Drain With Hui Su
A conversation with Dr. Hui Su, a professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and one of the leading researchers working at the intersection of satellite data, artificial intellige...
25 Mar 5min
(Preview) The $232 Billion Storm No One Is Pricing With Moody's Chris Lafakis
Chris Lafakis and his team did the first analysis to combine Moody's catastrophe modeling infrastructure with a full macroeconomic model. The results are eye opening.This is a preview of the Risky Sci...
11 Mar 10min
