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InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens Navigating uncertainty in cat risk (379)Catastrophe models have come a long way - but are decision-makers keeping up? In this panel from InsTech’s The future of catastrophe risk: where science meets reality, Alice Kaye (Inigo), Caroline McMullan (Verisk) and host Dickie Whitaker (Oasis LMF) confront the challenges of turning sophisticated risk models into clear, actionable decisions. Together, they explore why uncertainty is often more valuable than the average, how human biases still cloud our understanding of extreme events, and what’s needed to close the communication gap between modellers, underwriters and boards. This conversation gets real about the behavioural, stru...

2025-11-0220 min

The Dickie and Donny Show The Dickie & Donny Show Episode 5: Can Your Business Thrive Without Sacrificing Life?Feeling the tension between work and home life? In this episode, BOP Business Coaches Shawn "Dickie" Stinson and Brandon "Donny" Gray are joined by BOP Business Coach Brent "Darryl" Whitaker to talk about how life and business always intersect—and what happens when we don't acknowledge it. From setting rhythms and boundaries to defining what matters most, this conversation will challenge you to lead with intention at home and at work. Watch now and discover how aligning your values in both areas can transform everything. Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do...

2025-08-1122 min

Risky Science Podcast Open Models, Collaboration, and Catastrophe Risk With Oasis’s Dickie WhitakerIn this episode of the Risky Science Podcast, Dickie Whitaker, CEO of the Oasis Loss Modelling Framework, discusses how open-source catastrophe modeling is transforming the risk ecosystem. Whitaker shares the origin story of Oasis and how the platform is working to lower barriers to entry, spur innovation, and increase transparency in a space long dominated by proprietary models. The conversation covers how Oasis has evolved over the past decade, recent milestones in its adoption by major players like Moody’s and Verisk, and the importance of model evaluation frameworks in ensuring trust and credibility—especially for regulators, reinsurers, and deve...

2025-06-1841 min

My Business On Purpose The Dickie & Donny Show: Episode 5- Can Your Business Thrive Without Sacrificing Life?Feeling the tension between work and home life? In this episode, BOP Business Coaches Shawn "Dickie" Stinson and Brandon "Donny" Gray are joined by BOP Business Coach Brent "Darryl" Whitaker to talk about how life and business always intersect—and what happens when we don't acknowledge it. From setting rhythms and boundaries to defining what matters most, this conversation will challenge you to lead with intention at home and at work. Watch now and discover how aligning your values in both areas can transform everything. Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do...

2025-05-0222 min

The Zack Owen Show Live!Zack Owen Live! from the Backyard March 13, 2025Zack Owen Live! from the Backyard March 13, 2025Guest: Roy Spinks Whitaker Spinks & Koslovsky LLPMusic: Bailey Shea Dickie Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2025-03-132h 01

The Voice of Insurance Sp Ep: A Masterclass in Exposure Management, with Emma Watkins, Rupert Atkin and Dickie WhitakerIn today’s Episode we are getting to grips with all the key questions surrounding the hugely important issue of exposure management and modelling in our sector. Models are a core part of our business, but as we have come to rely more and more heavily on their output, many fundamental questions arise. For instance, how much of a worry should it be that the market is dominated by two very large players? Or do enough C-suite executives really understand how models work or know the right questions to ask of their exposure ma...

2024-11-2248 min

InsTech - insurance & innovation with Matthew Grant & Robin Merttens Tropical Cyclone - Managing Tomorrow’s Climate Risk Today with Reask and Fathom (220)In this episode we cover the highlights of our recent live event in London “Tropical Cyclone - Managing Tomorrow's Climate Risk Today with Reask and Fathom”. We heard about how insurers and portfolio managers are taking account of the increased need to understand the combined risk of floods and hurricanes. We were joined by some of the companies providing climate analytics and data including: 1:38 Jamie Rodney, CEO, Reask; Andrew Smith, Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer, Fathom; David Vicary, Research and Development Manager, Brit Insurance 15:01 Robert Porter, Product Director, VAVE; Oliver Wing, Chief Research Officer, Fathom; Sue...

2022-12-1154 min

The Reinsurance Podcast #17 - Dickie Whitaker: Loss Modelling, Innovation, & Open-Source Reinsurance SoftwareThis week we’re joined by Dickie Whitaker, chief executive at Oasis Loss Modelling Framework, an open-source catastrophe modelling platform. The guys discuss Dickie’s introduction to the world of reinsurance, what drove him to build a non-profit organisation in the space, and the complexities of modelling complex risk. We also discover that Dickie knows multiple people who own trebuchets, a risk we price for in the game segment. EPISODE LINKS: Dickie's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dickie-whitaker-671963 Oasis Loss Modelling Framework: https://oasislmf.org CO...

2022-05-1738 min

The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - Insurtech & Innovation The Leadership in Insurance Podcast - S1, E16, Dickie Whitaker, CEO, Oasis Loss Modelling FrameworkIn today's episode, we are joined by the brilliant Dickie Whitaker Dickie has a portfolio of businesses and ventures he is involved with but in this episode, we focussed on his work with Oasis Loss Modelling FrameworkIn this episode we talk about: The reason to start a business - find a problem large enough to solve that people will pay for it Why "we have always done it this way" is the very reason to change "that way" How important diversity - in all forms, create brilliant teams How startup teams are not creat...

2021-02-0845 min

TRUTHCAST 037 - Russian HackingThomas's cousin Paul Starr and Dickie's little brother Chad Rickets take over the Truthcast while Thomas and Dickie are in prison. This week Paul and Chad are joined by Russian hackers and masterminds behind Cancel Culture Ivan and Boris Smirnoputinovski. Paul is played, as always, by the brilliant Sam Rager. Download her album "Trigger Warning" here: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/samrager Chad is played by the also brilliant Wes Ward. Download his album "White Forest Whitaker" here: https://www.amazon.com/White-Forest-Whitaker-Explicit-Wesley/dp/B07S38KL1Y Boris was played well by Alex Bozinovic. You can find him on...

2020-01-2032 min

Premonition Premonition Podcast 3 : Dickie Whitaker, Oasis Loss Modelling FrameworkPremonition AI on the Future Podcast with Dickie Whitaker, Oasis Loss Modelling Framework. Premonition podcast talks to Dickie Whitaker, an expert on risk and innovation within the (re)insurance market. The post Premonition Podcast 3 : Dickie Whitaker, Oasis Loss Modelling Framework appeared first on Premonition. Premonition is an Artificial Intelligence system that mines Big Data to find out which Attorneys usually win before which Judges. It is a very, very unfair advantage in Litigation. Follow us at https://www.linkedin.com/company/premonition-analytics for insider legal news and visit us at Premonition.

2018-01-0900 min

Maezli by SPYRI, Johanna Premonition Podcast 3 : Dickie Whitaker, Oasis Loss Modelling FrameworkPremonition Premonition podcast talks to Dickie Whitaker, an expert on risk and innovation within the (re)insurance market. Dickie Whitaker has 30 year’s experience in the Re(In)surance business and for the last 20 years has specialized in risk and innovation and linking academia, government, and finance. He has worked and talked around the world on topics relating to insurance innovation. He is currently the CEO of Oasis Loss Modelling Framework based in London and we caught up with him on the Premonition Podcast to talk about the impact of big data and innovation on the insurance industry. The conversation in f...

2018-01-0913 min