About This Event
This webinar is 90 minutes.
This webinar is complimentary to non-North American audiences in the CAS.
Granular, scalable data collection across all farm sizes, especially smallholder farms, is redefining actuarial precision and insurance performance in agriculture. High-frequency, ground-level data enables more accurate risk modelling, refined underwriting, and improved claims predictability, all of which are critical for both insurers and reinsurers in managing climate and yield volatility.
Key Messages
Startups like Wingsure are enabling this transformation by deploying proximal and multimodal sensing technologies. This allows for real-time capture of hyper-local agronomic and environmental variables, feeding into dynamic risk models.
For actuaries, this means more robust and responsive pricing frameworks. For insurers and reinsurers, it supports better portfolio diversification, early warning systems, and timely, evidence-based claims management, ultimately reducing basis risk and enabling more innovative, scalable crop insurance solutions tailored to underserved markets.
This webinar is complimentary to non-North American audiences who are part of the CAS and the CIA. The webinar will be conducted over GotoWebinar. Please make sure to test your system.
François-Xavier HAY, Director of Investments & Asset-Liability Management
An expert actuary in risk management with 30 years of experience, including 15 years internationally, François-Xavier HAY joined CCR in December 2023 as Risk Director before evolving to Director of Investments and Asset-Liability Management in September 2024 to align these activities with the renewed objectives of the public reinsurance institution.
François-Xavier HAY began his career in 1992 in bond management before moving to Canada (Toronto) as an actuary for a catastrophe reinsurance company. Returning to France in 1997, he became head of an actuarial department for an insurance company in Rouen.
In 2000, he moved to India to develop microcredit and microinsurance entities (health, accident, property insurance, retirement) and advised several institutions (Ministry of Health, international organizations, insurance companies) in Asia on the design and implementation of social protection systems targeted at the informal sector.
In 2008, he joined the MACIF group as Director of Partnerships, where he managed collective contracts and spearheaded product innovation in insurance. In 2014, he transitioned to the life insurance branch of the group to implement Solvency II standards and became the director of risk management and solvency.
In 2019, he ventured into entrepreneurship and developed Wingsure, in partnership with SRI International, an “agri-insurtech” offering various services to farmers based on artificial intelligence and image recognition technologies.
