Location: KCIC AUDITORIUM

Oliver Baltzer
Co-Founder & CTO
Analyze Re Inc.
 

Abstract: Risk Engineering is the discipline of utilizing predictive
analytics and real-time market data to design portfolios of risk that
target specific economic goals while satisfying regulatory, market, and
other constraints. Risk Engineering is used by insurance and reinsurance
companies as part of their strategic planning and execution. Analytical
processes around Risk Engineering are data-driven and computationally
intensive. Analyze Re provides Software-as-a-Service solutions for Risk
Engineering to the insurance and reinsurance industry. This talk provides
an overview of the computational challenges that are involved in Risk
Engineering applications and discusses how some of them are being solved
with today's technologies.
 

Bio: Oliver Baltzer is a technology generalist with more than two decades
of experience in software development and 12+ years of building scientific
and parallel applications. As Chief Technology Officer, Oliver is leading
Analyze Re's innovative product vision and R&D strategies. Prior to
co-founding Analyze Re he was Chief Architect for Computational Analytics
at Flagstone Reinsurance, where he has led the design and implementation
of leading-edge catastrophe modeling software, risk analytics and pricing
platforms with great success and impact to the business. Oliver holds a
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Dalhousie University and Master's
degrees in High-Performance Computing from University of Reading and
Computer Engineering from HTW Berlin. His main areas of interest are
high-performance computing, scalable distributed systems and risk
engineering applications.

Everyone is welcome to attend.