28.10.2020
9:00 am
10:30 am
CET

Forestry Insurance Webinar

Speakers:
Yan V. Shynkarenko, Roman Shynkarenko, Peter Welten, Victor Yermak, Erik Zillmann
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Hosted by:
AgroInsurance.com
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ABOUT THE WEBINAR
Forestry insurance not only benefits rural households who depend on forestry services but can also contribute to sustainable agricultural practices.

During the webinar experts will discuss the following technical aspects of forestry insurance:

  • insurance product design;
  • underwriting and portfolio management;
  • loss assessment;
  • application of satellite data for forestry insurance and monitoring forestry assets;
  • reinsurer’s view on global forestry insurance market.

Webinar speakers will also provide examples of modern technologies applied for monitoring forestry plantations with corresponding cases for Ukraine, Indonesia and Australia.

Speakers will answer questions from the audience live, covering the wider range of technical issues related to forestry insurance.

 

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Focus Region:
Global
Focus Topic:
Climate / Weather / Environment
Agenda
9:00 am
Introduction

Yan V. Shynkarenko

9:05 am
Technical Aspects of Forestry Insurance: Product Design, Underwriting and Loss Assessment

Roman Shynkarenko

9:20 am
Reinsurance View on Global Forestry Insurance Market

Peter Welten

9:35 am
Use of Modern Technologies for Monitoring Forestry Plantations: Cases for Ukraine, Indonesia and Australia

Victor Yermak

9:50 am
Satellite Data for Forestry Insurance and Monitoring Forestry Assets

Erik Zillmann

10:00 am
Questions and Answers
10:30 am
End of webinar
About the speakers

Yan V. Shynkarenko

Yan V. Shynkarenko, CEO of AgroInsurance International LLC

Yan V. Shynkarenko is responsible for coordinating analytical, consulting and public company projects. Mr. Shynkarenko has been involved in agricultural production and trading activities since 1997 when he started his career in Kirovograd, Ukraine as the grain logistics analyst at the regional office of Tradigrain Ukraine LLC. In 2010, Mr. Shynkarenko started administering agricultural insurance and risk-management programs within www.AgroInsurance.com Project. Currently, Yan’s areas of professional interest and development are agricultural risk management insurance consulting, insurance and banking (financial) underwriting for agriculture, crop/livestock insurance program administration, and market analysis.

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Roman Shynkarenko

Technical Director, AgroInsurance

Roman Shynkarenko is an expert in agricultural insurance and risk management issues. He works in the agricultural sector since 1993, having started to work with agricultural insurance since 2001. He has been working at private insurance and consulting companies as well as offered consulting services while working for international organizations.

Roman has extensive experience in insurance product development (both traditional and index ones), launching private and public insurance programs, setting underwriting systems. He consulted private and public institutions from different countries including Russia, Moldova, Albania, China, Ukraine, etc.

Roman Shynkarenko conducted numerous consulting assignments for international organizations and private consulting companies. He has developed a number of agricultural insurance technical training courses that have been repeatedly conducted during the last ten years in CIS countries.

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Peter Welten

Senior Underwriter Agriculture, Swiss Re

Peter Welten joined Swiss Re in December 2000 and successfully completed the internal graduate’s program. During 6 years he was working as a Senior Casualty Underwriter for Global Clients. Since 2006 he is working in Swiss Re’s agriculture reinsurance team where he is responsible for several European markets. In his role as an agriculture market Underwriter he is working in a client facing role as well as assessing and analyzing agriculture business such as crop, livestock, bloodstock, aquaculture, greenhouses and forestry risks. He holds a Master’s degree in Forest Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH).

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Victor Yermak

CEO, Skyglyph

Victor Yermak is CEO of Skyglyph, a company engaged in developing a cloud composite risk management platform for agriscience and agroinsurance.

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Erik Zillmann

Technical Sales Engineer, Planet

 

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