Browse a selection of webinars hosted by the Emerging Issues team.

Widening the Lens on Human Trafficking
April 2024

Nearly 50 million people around the world are impacted by some form of human trafficking, according to the International Labor Organization, suffering from forced labor, commercial sexual exploitation, or forced marriages. Industries such as domestic work, agriculture, and construction have historically been vulnerable to forced labor in the United States, while supply chains supporting the ever-growing tech industry continue to risk exposure to different iterations of compelled work.

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Pulling Back the Curtain on Data Privacy
January 2024

It’s no secret that data privacy has become an important focus for many state legislatures—and a growing source of potential liability for companies. It’s a complicated issue, made more complex still by new technologies such as generative AI and the ever-evolving landscape of litigation and cybercrime. In this webinar you'll learn more about how data privacy concerns are evolving due to new technologies; recent trends in data privacy-related litigation; select legislative and regulatory trends related to data privacy; and why neuro-privacy may be the next frontier for data privacy risk.

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PFAS: The "Forever Chemicals"
December 2023

PFAS stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances but you may know them by their more ominous moniker: “forever chemicals.” In this Emerging Issues webinar, learn more about the potential health impacts of PFAS exposure, the evolving regulatory and legal landscape surrounding PFAS, and how efforts to remove PFAS from products and the environment may be creating a set of unexpected concerns.

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Beyond Catastrophes: How the Climate Crisis Could Threaten Property
November 2023

There may be more—much more—to the climate crisis than increasingly costly natural catastrophes. Watch this on-demand webinar to learn: how underground climate change could threaten buildings; what kinds of construction material may be vulnerable to atmospheric changes; why property-destroying invasive species may be on the move; why the climate crisis may pose a unique challenge for electric vehicles and battery systems and more.

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Is a Space Weather Catastrophe on the Horizon?
September 2023

Verisk’s Emerging Issues team hosted a space weather webinar featuring Cordula Robinson, Ph.D., Division Vice President of Verisk’s Atmospheric and Environmental Research division (AER); Mark Leidner, Division Section Lead, AER; and Erica Gage, CPCU, AU, AINS, API, Product Development Analyst on theCommercial Property team at Verisk. The webinar discussed: How the Sun generates space weather through its magnetic field and the types of space weather events we might expect to see, such as flares and coronal mass ejections. How the Sun cycles through Solar Minimum and Maximum phases that correspond to decreases and increases in solar activity, respectively. The role the Earth’s magnetosphere plays in protecting Earth from space weather, and how that field is currently evolving. How space weather is forecasted. The potential impacts of space weather on property or businesses, such as the potential for widespread power outages, supply chain disruption, business closures, satellite failures, and much more.

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Assessing the Potential Liability Risks of Generative AI

June 2023

Verisk's Emerging Issues and Arium teams presented a webinar on the potential liability concerns and cybersecurity risks of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI). The webinar discussed the known and unknown potential flaws of GenAI; the possible systemic liability risk of GenAI; AI in the hands of bad actors; AI as a possible accelerant to existing trends and the potential longer-term risks of AI.

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Emerging Cyber Risks in the Automotive Ecosystem
November 2022

What are some of the key cyber risks facing the automotive market?

In this Emerging Issues webinar, special guest Giuseppe Serio, the Vice President of Market Development for the automotive cybersecurity and data management firm Upstream, explains how a new ecosystem of risk surrounding the automotive market could change how we think about vehicle cybersecurity.

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Trends in PFAS Research
March 2022

PFAS or "forever chemicals" have become a mounting public health crisis, contaminating drinking water and soil across the U.S. and the world. In this webinar, Dr. Rainer Lohmann, Professor at the University of Rhode Island and Director of STEEP (Sources, Transport, Exposure & Effects of PFAS), highlights current trends in PFAS research. Learn more about the chemistry of PFAS, their health effects, and current efforts to regulate, replace, or remediate PFAS.

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Understanding the Cannabis Industry
2021

Cannabis laws continue to evolve across the United States. Sean Arnold, founder of the cannabis consulting firm Terradigm Consulting, shares his unique insights on the latest developments in the cannabis industry that may help reveal both potential risk exposures and new opportunities for insurers.

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Grey Swans and Black Elephants: Why We Keep Getting Surprised and What We Can Learn
October 2021

Rade Musulin, a Principal at Finity Consulting in Sydney, Australia, shares his insights on crises where the sudden onset of unforeseen risks led to serious financial turmoil and major changes in risk management. History is full of examples of such crises—the great financial crisis, Hurricane Andrew, and COVID-19, to name a few—that have caught society by surprise. But should they have? These "grey swans" or "black elephants" were unanticipated, but in hindsight were simply hiding in plain sight.

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An Introduction to Blockchain
June 2016

In this 2016 webinar, Paul Zurek of Blockchain LLC, offers an overview of blockchain technology.

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An Introduction to 3D Printing
October 2016

3D printing, or additive manufacturing, has a range of potential uses: from building small toys to machine parts and even full-sized homes. In this Emerging Issues webinar, Jim Snodgrass from Stratasys provides an overview of 3D printing technology. (Webinar aired: April 2019.)

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