Educational Sessions
Port of Vancouver: Planning for the Future
Speaker: Kate Ramsay, Senior Risk Analyst, CFO Division
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Presentation Description:
This presentation will provide a brief description of the importance of the Port of Vancouver to the Canadian economy and facilitating trade for the future.
About Kate:
As a Risk Management Specialist, Kate is responsible for the delivery of financial services, including enterprise risk management and insurance program management for the Port of Vancouver. Prior to joining the Port of Vancouver in 2016, Kate worked for a Canadian insurance brokerage with a focus on management and professional liability. Before that, she spent a significant amount of her career in the financial services industry with a leading Canadian institutional pension manager and a large Canadian asset management firm.
Kate is a Canadian Risk Manager, Chartered Financial Analyst, and hold a Bachelor of Commerce degree (with a major in Finance) and a Bachelor of Applied Science from Simon Fraser University. Kate most recently achieved the Associate of Business Continuity Professional designation.
Challenges of the trucking industry and the way forward
Speaker: Lindsay Samson, Manager of Policy, British Columbia Trucking Association
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Presentation Description
Changes to the trucking and freight transportation industry are coming out of necessity, innovation and opportunity. The industry is already dealing with the challenges presented by the drive shortage and the legalisation of recreational cannabis legalization. Government and the industry are working together to look at how to make the roads safer, whether it's with better training, the use of electronic logging devices, advanced driver assistance, or self-driving systems. And technology has the potential to help the transportation industry significantly reduce its greenhouse emissions with advances in alternative fuels and electric vehicles.
About Lindsay:
Lindsay is the Manager of Policy at the BC Trucking Association, where she works with industry representatives to research and develop policy positions on a variety of topics as they relate to trucking and transportation such as safety, human resources, the environment, and industry regulations, among others.
Lindsay previously spent four years as the Senior Policy Analyst for the Association of Manitoba Municipalities. She holds a BA in History from McGill University and an MPA from the University of Regina, and lives in Surrey with her husband and 11-month old daughter.
Nat Cats in Canada - how do we tame these Cats?
Speaker: Dipika Deol, Senior Treaty Underwriter, Vice President,Property & Specialty Underwriting, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd, Canadian Branch
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Presentation Description:
The Nat Cat experience the past decade has been far-reaching: everything from decimating wildfires, to windstorms, floods, and icy blizzards. What's the best way of underwriting these perils? Can we learn from other modelled perils or lines of business? Our industry has a key role to understand this complex Cat landscape, take the right underwriting actions and thereby make Canada more resilient to these severe events.
About Dipika:
Dipika Deol is a Senior Treaty Underwriter at Swiss Re and is responsible for property treaties, Nat Cat capacity monitoring as well as being a CatNet ambassador in Canada. In her role, Nat Cat is a topic of increasing importance and she is very close to all aspects of it at Swiss Re, including modelling, client tools and solutions, risk appetite and applying learnings from global Nat Cat experiences. Dipika joined Swiss Re Canada in 2013 as a Treaty Property Underwriter covering the reinsurance markets for Canada and the English Caribbean.
Dipika began her insurance career in 2007 when she joined RSA's graduate programme in London. She spent the majority of that time in the UK working on the reinsurance team at RSA's headquarters in two main roles: administration of intra-group reinsurances and buying RSA's Engineering treaties. In 2013 she moved to Toronto to join the RSA Canadian reinsurance team and was responsible for buying the Property treaties, both Per Risk and Cat.
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