ImageCat, Inc. (IC), an advanced technology company (California, USA and London, UK), specializes in innovative solutions to risk assessment and management. Established in March 2000, the company has developed a reputation for innovative solutions in disaster risk assessment and reduction, quantification of the built environment, software development and post-disaster damage assessment. The company is built around a core group of engineers and scientists who are dedicated to developing multi-disciplinary solutions to complex risk issues and problems.

A leader in integrating remotely sensed data into Geographic Information Systems (GIS), ImageCat is known for harnessing advanced technologies to create building datasets that combine satellite, tabular, and geospatial data to provide quantitative information on occupancy and structure type in a format suitable for risk assessment. Our innovative research strategies for melding various data sets offer clients the most comprehensive data package available on the structural and human assets in a geographic area.

Kinetic Analysis Corporation (KAC) is a leader in multi-model impact forecasting and risk assessment for catastrophic events. Kinetic Analysis produces accurate, site-specific assessments of the potential impact of natural hazards and resulting loss for events around the globe. With information products from Kinetic Analysis, clients make better-informed decisions to protect lives and reduce loss to property and investments.

Kinetic Analysis Corporation was founded as a Maryland US corporation in 2006. Since then, the company has become a leader in real-time hazard data for tropical cyclones occurring anywhere in the world. In addition, KAC can act as a calculation agent for insurance-linked securities and provide custom risk modelling services. Kinetic Analysis Corporation has supported more than US$5 billion in parametric risk transfer and was the risk modeler for CCRIF from 2010 to 2018.

Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego is one of the most important centers for global earth science research and education in the world. Scripps scientists work to understand and protect the planet by investigating our oceans, Earth, and atmosphere to find solutions to our greatest environmental challenges. Scripps leads research in climate change impacts and adaptation, resilience to hazards, conservation and biodiversity, oceans and human health, national security, and innovative technology to observe the planet.

Willis Towers Watson (WTW) is a leading global advisory, broking and risk solutions company. With roots dating to 1828, WTW has more than 40,000 employees serving clients in more than 140 countries. We are a public company listed on the NASDAQ (Ticker: WLTW) with current market capitalisation of over USD 20 billion. WTW works with major corporations, emerging growth companies, multilateral institutions, governmental agencies, and not-for-profit institutions in a wide variety of industries, with many of our client relationships spanning decades.

WTW brings both technical and practical experience and expertise in disaster risk management and financing in both private and public sectors and across the full range of developing through emerging to developed countries. WTW have been at the forefront of innovation in the disaster risk financing space to support post-2015 development and humanitarian agendas, with climate risk and resilience a particular focus, including expertise in the emerging area of ecological risk management and finance. WTW has extensive qualifications in public-private collaboration and innovative climate risk management and finance, as well as analytics expertise in disaster risk finance and (re)insurance product design, development, and market placement.

The Met Office is the national meteorological service for the UK providing critical weather services and world-leading climate science. The Met Office issues Severe Weather Warnings for the United Kingdom through the National Severe Weather Warning Service (NSWWS). As a part of the National Adaptation Plan (NAP) for Antigua and Barbuda, Met Office has partnered with the Department of Environment (DOE), Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (‘Cefas’) and will be providing downscaled climate projections to make it suitable for national level loss estimation. Met Office will participate in this project in an advisory consulting capacity to provide guidance on integrating climate modelling data and providing background on the downscaling methods.