Interview

October 8, 2019

Mapping epidemics and AI to analyse natural disaster damage

What Munich Re’s head of innovation is excited about.


Maija Palmer

4 min read

Just hours after Hurricane Dorian ripped through The Bahamas and Florida last month Munich Re had already sent out the first planes to fly overhead to survey the damage.

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