Assessing and managing risks and uncertainties is key for an optimal decision-making, also in agricultural production. Increasingly climate variability is further accelerating uncertainty at all stages of value chains. Recent advances in Big Data are promising to provide opportunities and technologies to enhance risk management in agricultural production using high-resolution data from satellites, open data platforms and data from agricultural machines.

A risk-based decision-making incorporating these advances will involve a common understanding among up and downstream companies, policy makers as well as finance and insurance professionals.
At the symposium, we will present and discuss recent scientific developments in the field of agricultural risk management and discuss novel insights and innovative approaches in risk mitigation integrating among international academics and industry experts.

Programme

15:30 Welcome
Robert Finger, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich Bastian Bergmann, Executive Director, ETH Risk Center

15:35 Hans Feyen, Head Agro EMEA Usa, Canada & Innovation, Swiss Re «Digitization in agricultural insurance, views and roles of a (re)insurer»

16:05 Yann de Mey, Wageningen University & Research, Netherlands «Risk, risk management and resilience in European agriculture»

16:35 (Break)
16:50 Joshua Woodard, Ag-Analytics, Cornell University, USA, «An open source, Open Data platform and applications for agricultural & environmental finance and insurance»

17:20 Robert Finger, Agricultural Economics and Policy Group, ETH Zurich «Innovations in agricultural insurance solutions»

17:50 Panel Discussion
18:15 Closing and Apero Riche

Registration
http://www.riskcenter.ethz.ch/events/workshops.html

Registration closes on 29.6.2018 This event is free of charge.