Conferences have — for better or worse (and if you’ve ever been trapped in a cavernous CES exhibition hall, you might say worse) — become a significant cornerstone of how industries engage with their audiences, whether they are comics superfans, …
Read more »JERUSALEM — When Israel went into lockdown last spring, Jerusalem pub owner Leon Shvartz moved quickly to save his business — shifting to a delivery and takeaway model that kept him afloat throughout the summer. Then came the second lockdown. …
Read more »Capturing how individuals and governments respond to pandemics is one of the key challenges to developing risk models that could underpin future insurance solutions, according to specialists. The race is on to develop risk models to support the development of …
Read more »The Willis Research Network has partnered with Metabiota, a risk analytics organisation that specialises in infectious diseases modelling and helps businesses and countries build resilience to pandemics. The partnership will leverage San Francisco-headquartered Metabiota’s epidemiological data analytics capabilities to improve …
Read more »Crises are inevitable—but society can act beforehand to limit their destructiveness “BE PREPARED” is the sensible motto of the boy scouts. Yet the fast spread of covid-19 reveals that the world largely ignored that wise dictum. With one conspicuous exception …
Read more »Metabiota on the Cover of Wired Magazine. Pilot Growth portfolio company, Metabiota, is featured on this month’s cover of Wired. “We Can Protect the Economy From Pandemics. Why Didn’t We?”
Read more »COVID-19 will not be the last pandemic in our deeply interconnected world, and sadly it won’t be the worst. Two profoundly different possible futures are available to us: one in which we stick our heads in the sand as we have consistently done, and one where humanity takes the hard, necessary steps to protect itself.
Read more »Bizzabo, an event success platform, has partnered with global video technology provider Kaltura to launch Bizzabo’s Virtual Experience Solution. A direct response to recent event cancellations due to COVID-19, the new solution is designed to enable event marketers to broadcast …
Read more »Metabiota on CNN Business. It’s too late for this pandemic. But everyone wants insurance against the next one.
Businesses around the world are facing catastrophic losses as the novel coronavirus forces them to scale back operations or shut down entirely, and most don’t have insurance cover for pandemics. Companies are now racing to buy protection against the next outbreak, insurance experts say.
Read more »It was an AI that first saw it coming, or so the story goes. On December 30, an artificial-intelligence company called BlueDot, which uses machine learning to monitor outbreaks of infectious diseases around the world, alerted clients—including various governments, hospitals, and businesses—to …
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