Location is important in all types of insurance and for property insurance it is the key risk factor. It is therefore no surprise that insurers were some of the earliest adopters of GIS. In the digital age however traditional GIS enterprise architectures no-longer scale as geo is going mainstream. In this talk we will explore some key insurance use cases from risk assessment to exposure management and how modern geo services are transforming the insurance business.
I am Mark and I run a company called Addresscloud, providing location intelligence services to the insurance industry and built upon FOSS4G technology. My first FOSS4G was in Nottingham and I have only missed one since (I even met my business partner and our CTO Tomas in a drone workshop in Korea!). I am huge fan of PostGIS and this sits at the very heart of what we do at Addresscloud. I am from the UK and still do most of my business there but have lived in the South of France with my French wife and 2 boys for the past 11 years.