Riskthinking.AI: Using Digital Twin Technology to Project Climate Finance Risk

Riskthinking.AI: Using Digital Twin Technology to Project Climate Finance Risk

Author: Paul Ellis November 3, 2024 Duration: 25:51
In 1989, Ron Dembo founded Algorithmics Inc., which he grew from a start-up to the largest supplier of enterprise financial risk systems, serving 80% of the world’s largest banks and insurers. Fast forward to 2020, with just three employees, Dembo embarked on and even bolder mission, launching Riskthinking.AI–a groundbreaking simulation engine capable of modeling the world’s largest financial institutions, the most complex corporations, and even entire countries, all to assess the impact of climate change on their futures. On today’s program, Dembo talks to us about developing a platform that is scientifically rigorous, mathematically sound, scalable, computationally efficient and evolving alongside advancements in data science.

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