Oasis, Zurich Conference 2025 Highlights and Summary
Last month the Oasis community convened in Zurich for a Swiss Re-hosted conference that demonstrated impressive growth and innovation in catastrophe modelling. Key highlights included:
- Community growth: The Oasis LMF platform features over 100+ risk models from 20+ providers. One growing open platform.
- Standards evolution: Open Data Standards (ODS) are expanding beyond property coverage into liability, cyber, and marine sectors, creating a unified language for risk assessment across the industry
- Global exposure modelling: an ambitious project to map every building on Earth using OpenStreetMap data for comprehensive hazard exposure assessment
- AI/ML integration: Industry leaders discussed how artificial intelligence is moving from experimental to operational status in flood prediction and model development
- Professional development: The International Society of Catastrophe Managers now has 300+ credentialed professionals, addressing the industry's need for standardised expertise
- Industry adoption: Major insurers like SCOR, Allianz, and Aviva shared their successful implementations and strategic approaches to open-source modelling
The conference emphasised that collaborative, open-source solutions are accelerating across the industry, with growing participation from major players signalling a fundamental shift in catastrophe modelling practices.
Articles of interest
In his latest article for PreventionWeb, Dickie Whitaker champions open catastrophe modelling as a global public good—transparent, inclusive, and rooted in shared standards.
From hail models in France to cyclone tools in Bangladesh, the Oasis framework is empowering smarter decisions and greater resilience worldwide.
As Dickie writes: “Open-source risk modelling offers something rare: a pathway to shared resilience.”
Read the full article
Events for your diary
Oasis Insight Paris - Registration Open
Join us on 25 September for a day of expert insights into catastrophe risk, hosted with SCOR. Explore key challenges like hailstorm modelling, enhancing resilience to extreme weather, wildfires in Europe, and exposure data accuracy.
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