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 Mars 5min
Confidence as a Service With Eric Winsberg
We speak with Eric Winsberg: a philosopher of science at Cambridge and the University of South Florida, who has thought hard about what happens when models move from the lab into the world and into p...
18 Mars 1h
(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 Mars 10min
How Hurricane Risk Really Gets Priced with Dr. Ben Collier
Dr. Ben Collier, a professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and his fellow researchers published a recent paper that uses twenty years of Florida data to trace a direct line from cat model re...
4 Mars 55min
