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Thought Leadership

Risk Analysis Lessons From Hurricane Ian

Here are the valuable risk analysis lessons we've learned from 2022's Hurricane Ian.

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

Risk Management 101: The Importance of Emergency Action Plans

Here are the key Emergency Action Plan scenarios and the necessary resources to effectively mitigate the potential loss of your commercial assets.

Grace Bank, Structural Engineer at Archipela...
Company Updates

Archipelago Demonstrates Commitment to Security by Completing SOC 2 Type I Attestation

We are pleased to announce the successful completion of Archipelago's SOC 2 Type I attestation.

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

How Can Transparency Transform the Property Insurance Landscape?

A lack of transparency in the CRE industry is negatively impacting key stakeholders. Learn what steps can be taken by insurers, brokers, and risk managers to increase transparency and understanding of insurance pricing.

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership | Company Updates

Perspectives on Navigating Risk

In the last quarter of 2022, we published two byline articles in Business Insurance and Property Casualty 360 on the different ways one looks at risk.

The Archipelago Team
Event Coverage

Curing the Property Pain Chain

Hemant Shah rejoins Matthew Grant on InsTech London’s podcast for episode 207 'Curing the Property Pain Chain'. Listen along or read the transcript!

The Archipelago Team
Enterprise Risk Management

2022 Property Risk Management Report

Discover the insights and trends shaping the commercial property risk management landscape. Access the Advisen, a Zywave company, and Archipelago second annual report on Property Risk Management.

The Archipelago Team
Archipelago Platform

Modernizing Property Risk Data

Today Archipelago meets another milestone as we release integrated loss history data with exposure data on our platform. See what you have to gain from losses on Archipelago.

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

These Walls Can Talk

For organizations that own and run their businesses out of properties, knowing the history and data of each building helps us to understand its future and to predict if it will stand the test of time.

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

Taming Catastrophe Models

Catastrophe models are essential for improving your insurance outcomes with quality property data. Archipelago helps risk management teams tame those catastrophe models – learn more!

The Archipelago Team
Archipelago Platform

Work Smarter, Not Harder With Archipelago AI

Archipelago AI brings a level of efficiency to a typically difficult, manual process by improving the data quality of commercial property data. Learn more!

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

Building Resilience for a Changing Climate

In 2021, the global insurance industry paid over $120 billion in catastrophe claims, the second-largest annual loss ever experienced by insurers.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Thought Leadership

Where Property Insurance Buyers Are Headed: A Paradigm Shift

Hemant, the CEO of Archipelago, gives a viewpoint from his customers—large property owners and investors in commercial property.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Steven Sachs, SWS Risk Management Advisor, LLC

In this Q&A, Steven discusses risk management strategies, rules for successful productivity, and why the World Trade Center is his favorite building.

Steve Sachs, Steve Sachs is the Principal at ...
Event Coverage

Recap: Back From RIMS Webinar

If you missed the conversation between Archipelago’s co-founders about the top topics at the RIMS RISKWORLD conference, here’s your chance to catch up.

The Archipelago Team
Archipelago Platform

The Archipelago Underwriting Assessment Report

Gain an underwriter’s perspective on your property portfolio with the Archipelago Underwriting Assessment Report.

Joe O'Neill, Senior Product Marketing Manager...
Thought Leadership

10 Pillars of Property Insurance for Commercial Real Estate Owners

Here are the 10 pillars that support commercial real estate owners in standing out from the crowd – to ensure optimal insurance outcomes.

The Archipelago Team
Road to RIMS 2022

5 Can’t-Miss Sessions at RIMS

The Archipelago team has selected the top 5 can't-miss break-out sessions to attend at RISKWORLD 2022. We can't wait to see you there.

Mike Winterle, Senior Product Marketing Manager...
Thought Leadership

Big Changes Ahead For Flood Insurance

In this blog, Erin discusses the importance of understanding your portfolio’s flood risk in response to the new FEMA rating system: Risk Rating 2.0.

Erin Ashley, Director of Risk Engineering at ...
Archipelago Platform

The Archipelago Readiness Report

Maximize your potential in the commercial property insurance market with the Archipelago Readiness Report.

Mike Winterle, Senior Product Marketing Manager...
Thought Leadership | Company Updates

On Common Ground: The Journey to $7T of TIV and Beyond

Hemant Shah discusses Archipelago's expanding capabilities & how incorporating the platform further upstream helps customers wring out inefficiencies.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Thought Leadership

Into the Looking Glass: 2022 Risk & Insurance Trend Predictions

Nine topics that are top of mind for the Archipelago team as we head into 2022.

The Archipelago Team
Company Updates

Archipelago's Top 5 Articles of 2021: Risk & Insurance Insights

We thought it'd be interesting to revisit the articles that you found the most intriguing this past year. Here are our 5 most popular articles of 2021.

The Archipelago Team
12 Questions

12 Qs with Jackson Slavik, Former Head of Starwood Capital

In this Q&A, Jackson shares his thoughts on the rise of Blockchain/Web3 technology and how he’ll be keeping a close eye on metaverse real estate.

Jackson Slavik, First Real Estate Tech Innovatio...
Event Coverage

The Imperative of Ensuring Resiliency - Advisen 2021 Property Insights

Advisen Property Insights Conference @ Home Virtual Series interview with Jeff Cohen, SVP at Zywave, and Hemant Shah, CEO of Archipelago.

The Archipelago Team
Event Coverage

Blueprint 2021: Fireside Interview On The Untapped Proptech Category

Blueprint 2021 Conference featured an interview with Jackson Slavik, former head of Starwood Capital, and Hemant Shah, CEO of Archipelago.

The Archipelago Team
Enterprise Risk Management

Advisen and Archipelago 2021 Property Risk Management Report

See the results of Advisen, a Zywave company, and Archipelago's first annual report on Property Risk Management.

The Archipelago Team
Event Coverage

Innovation in the Large Commercial Property Insurance Business

Insider Engage interviewed Hemant Shah and leaders in the commercial property insurance industry to analyze market trends and predict incoming shifts.

The Archipelago Team
Commercial Property Risk Management

Power of Data-Driven Differentiation in Risk and Insurance

Jeff Bray and Joffre Mishall speak with Hemant Shah about data-driven differentiation and their experience on the Archipelago platform.

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

What Went Wrong in Surfside? A Risk Engineer’s Perspective

Hemant Shah, interviews director of risk engineering, on the condominium collapse in Surfside, Florida.

Erin Ashley, Director of Risk Engineering at ...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Kate Stillwell, Founder & CEO of Jumpstart Insurance

In this Q&A, Kate shares her thoughts on the potential to embed insurance costs in the initial point of purchase and the core mission of insurance.

Kate Stillwell, Founder and CEO of Jumpstart, an...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Christine Sullivan, SVP, Risk Control Director at Sompo

In this Q&A, Christine discusses the use of drones in the insurance industry and the need for more focus on large-scale catastrophes.

Christine Sullivan, SVP, Risk Control Leader at Somp...
Event Coverage

Harnessing Your Own Property Data to Improve Risk & Insurance with RIMS & Blackstone - On-demand Webinar

Learn about common challenges and opportunities to manage high-quality data and why data matters for risk management and insurance outcomes.

The Archipelago Team
12 Questions

12 Qs with Seraina Macia, CEO & Co-Founder of Joyn Insurance

In this Q&A, Seraina shares her thoughts on what the insurance industry is capable of and the opportunity for innovation in middle-market insurance.

Seraina Macia, CEO and Co-founder of Joyn Insur...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Justin Levine, Co-Founder & CEO at Shepherd

Justin shares his thoughts on the need for tech companies to improve risk management and making clean, usable loss data available in the insurance space.

Justin Levine, CEO at Shepherd, a tech-enabled ...
Event Coverage

RIMSLIVE: Property Data Must-Haves to Optimize Insurance Outcomes

Takeaways from a panel discussion with Marco Flores of Revantage (Blackstone) and Ian Ascher of JLL.

Adam Sandler, Chief Customer Officer at Archip...
Thought Leadership

There’s A Way To Stop Climate Change Risk Pushing Up Premiums

How can property owners work with insurers to create an accurate picture that includes climate change risk?

The Archipelago Team
Thought Leadership

White Paper: Demystifying How Your Property Data Drives Your Insurance Outcomes

Download our white paper to understand and take control of how your property risk data impacts your commercial property insurance renewals.

The Archipelago Team
12 Questions

12 Qs with Kais Al-Rawi, AIA, Senior Associate at Walter P Moore

Kais shares his thoughts on the world of 3D printing, the potential to use it for making buildings, and the tools that his team uses for complex 3D models.

Kais Al-Rawi, Kais focuses primarily on the fa...
Company Updates | Archipelago Platform

Beat the Renewal Rush Using Archipelago to Manage Properties

Archipelago moves upstream with new capabilities for you and your team to add, update, or dispose of properties.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Thought Leadership

Accelerating CRE’s Digital Shift With Risk Management & Insurance

After decades of having a reputation for being slow to adopt technology, CRE enterprises are empowering digital leaders and embracing proptech innovations.

The Archipelago Team
Event Coverage

Connecting Risk & Capital for Better Protection: Blueprint Interview

Our CEO and co-founder, Hemant Shah recently spoke with Blueprint’s Vik Venkatraman for their Conversations with Champions video series.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Event Coverage

Moving Upstream: Digitizing & Standardizing Customer Data at Source

Hemant Shah joins Matthew Grant on InsTech London’s podcast. They discuss digitizing customer data to connect large property owners, brokers, and insurers.

The Archipelago Team
12 Questions

12 Qs with Matthew Grant, Partner at InsTech London

Matthew discusses the concept of digital twins for property, insurance innovation teams, and the need for climate change risk analytical tools.

Matthew Grant, Co-Managing Partner of InsTech L...
Thought Leadership

Rise of Parametric Insurance in an Increasingly Disaster-prone World

Natural disasters are occurring with greater frequency and severity. Yet populations and businesses continue to move to cat-prone geographies most at risk.

Daniel Vetter, Head North America at Descartes....
12 Questions

12 Qs with Gary Kaplan, President of Construction at AXA XL

In this Q&A, Gary discusses new risk-reducing technologies, the ever-changing insurance industry, and getting back into writing limericks.

Gary Kaplan, President of Construction AXA XL...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Ronald T. Eguchi, CEO and Co-Founder of ImageCat

In this Q&A, Ronald shares his thoughts on access to smart data following natural disasters, transforming virtual meetings, and more.

Ronald T Eguchi, CEO and Co-Founder of ImageCat, ...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Victor J. Sordillo, EVP, Global Director Risk Control at Sompo

In this Q&A, Victor shares his thoughts on parametric insurance, emergent perils, and his favorite novels.

Victor J Sordillo, Executive Vice President at Somp...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Roger Platt, SVP, Strategic Partnerships & Growth at GBCI

In this Q&A, we talk with Roger about electrical overload, mutual respect across the industry supply chain, and the value of green buildings.

Roger Platt, Global strategy for the U.S. Gre...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Jeff Cohen, SVP at Zywave and former President of Advisen

In this Q&A, Jeff discusses rapidly occurring innovations in insurtech, maintaining relationships, and how proud he is to work in this industry.

Jeff Cohen, Senior Vice President at Zywave ...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Jack Gibson, President & CEO at IRMI and CEO of WebCE

In this Q&A, Jack shares his thoughts on virtual learning in small bites, the dimensions of cyber risk, and scheduling quiet time.

Jack Gibson, President and CEO of Internation...
Company Updates

Accelerating Impact: Announcing Our Series B Venture Funding

It’s been just eight months since we launched Archipelago, and we are excited to announce the successful close of our Series B financing.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Thought Leadership

Using Data to Drive Value to Our Stakeholders

Ian Ascher shares how the Archipelago platform improves data collection, validation, and enhancement.

Ian Ascher, Executive Director of Global Ris...
Thought Leadership

Using Data to Differentiate Our Assets

Mark Marshall discusses what led him to a 15 year career of educating carriers about the excellent spread of risk for the self storage category.

Mark Marshall, Former Director of Risk Manageme...
Thought Leadership

Using Applied ML to Solve Central Problems in the Insurance Industry

Nick Sturiale discusses how AI can alleviate problems in the insurance industry and the approach Archipelago is taking to solve these problems.

Nick Sturiale, Managing Partner at Ignition, an...
Thought Leadership

Use Your Data to Get Proactive

Kate Sampson shares how by harnessing data, you can take control of your risk management, be proactive with your insurance partners and drive results.

Kate Sampson, Investor at Anthemis focused on ...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Tim Wright, Senior Advisor & Director, Archipelago

In this Q&A, Tim discusses his trick to writing To-Do lists, how to translate great ideas into new businesses, and why the industry is anything but boring.

Tim Wright, Tim has over thirty years experi...
Thought Leadership

Improving the Commercial Insurance Sector Needs an Inside-Out Approach

Tom Hutton shares why he became involved with Archipelago and the important problems the platform is addressing.

Tom Hutton, Managing Partner and Founding Pa...
Thought Leadership

The Possibilities Are Just Extraordinary

It’s time to modernize — create a platform that will make it simpler, clearer and more compelling to convey critical information needed by underwriters.

Mike McGavick, Former CEO of XL Group and curre...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Murat Melek, Design Manager at Walter P Moore

In this Q&A, Murat discusses technological leaps in the construction industry and product innovation over the next year.

Murat Melek, Design manager in Walter P Moore...
Company Updates

Ease Impact of a Hard Market: Underwriters' Thoughts on Data Quality

We asked underwriters and executives at major insurance companies throughout North America to share their thoughts on the impact of data quality.

The Archipelago Team
12 Questions

12 Qs with Megan Miller, ED of Spencer Educational Foundation

In this Q&A, Megan discusses the importance of leadership and supporting talent coming into the insurance industry.

Megan Miller, Executive Director at Spencer Ed...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Mark Cravens, Principal at Cravens Consulting

In this Q&A, Mark discusses new norms, the irreplaceable value of working together, and ponders the nature of the right answer.

Mark Cravens, Independent consultant: Mark has...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Ken Radigan, CEO at PRMIA

Ken shares his thoughts on the implications of country-level debt, risk management as a core discipline of modern business, and promptness as a virtue.

Ken Radigan, CEO of the Professional Risk Man...
Thought Leadership

My Business is Digitizing, Why Not My Risk Management Too?

Jeff shares how important data is to having favorable outcomes in the insurance market and his frustration with how little the renewal process has changed.

Jeff Bray, Senior Vice President at Prologi...
Thought Leadership

'Basis Risk’ in the Modeled Vulnerabilities of Customers' Exposures

Learning more about your ‘basis risk’ within the modeled vulnerabilities of your customers' exposures is highly valuable.

Scott Lawson, Chief Risk Engineering and Resil...
Thought Leadership

It’s Time for Transparency

Insurance is a data-driven industry, and it’s time we deliver data-driven transparency on what the relationships are between inputs, and outputs.

Mike Korn, National Property Practice Leade...
Thought Leadership

It’s Now Time for our Data to Catch-up

Steve Sachs details his career and how Archipelago empowers real estate owners to take control of their own data.

Steve Sachs, Steve Sachs is the Principal at ...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Ibbi Almufti, Associate Principal at Arup

In this Q&A, we chat with Ibbi Almufti, Associate Principal, Advanced Technology & Research at Arup, about climate-related risk, resilience, and design.

Ibbi Almufti, Leads the Advanced Technology an...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Greg Hendrick, CEO at Vantage Group

In this Q&A, Greg discusses catastrophe insurance, the iPad, and how the Vantage vision brings people together.

Greg Hendrick, Chief Executive Officer of Vanta...
Thought Leadership

Inside Baseball: Lessons for Today’s Risk Managers from a Retired CUO

Fred recounts a conversation with Ken Jenkins, CUO, about the lessons Ken has learned over his 30+ year career as a property and casualty underwriter.

Fred Kipperman, Former Managing director at Arch...
Thought Leadership

In Trust We Data

Underwriters are skeptical of the information. It’s ironic: an industry built on trust lacks trust in the very data that defines what it does.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Company Updates

CNA Taps Archipelago for Increased Data Analytics

The insurance industry must continue to digitize and maximize data and analytics, helping to quantify and better understand emerging risks.

Mike Nardiello, Senior Vice President, Global Pr...
Thought Leadership

Building a Shared System of Trust

Data is the lifeblood for the insurance industry, yet gathering, curating and publishing that data is a hard problem.

Roger Bodamer, Chief Technology Officer and COO...
Thought Leadership

Best-in-Class Risk Managers are Multilingual

After working with risk managers for more than 25 years, I have tremendous respect for the importance of their Swiss Army Knife-like roles.

Scott Davis, President of National Specialtie...
Thought Leadership | Archipelago Platform

2021: A Year of Digital Convergence for Large Commercial Risks

Over 25 years leading RMS, and now even more so with my new colleagues at Archipelago, I’ve developed an affinity for the built environment

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Thought Leadership

Risk & Insurance: 2020 Trends Set to Shape 2021

Six topics that are top of mind for the team at Archipelago as we head into 2021.

The Archipelago Team
12 Questions

12 Qs with Frank Nutter, President of the RAA

In this Q&A, Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Association of America (RAA) shares his thoughts on underwriting, climate risk, and remote work.

Frank Nutter, President of the Reinsurance Ass...
12 Questions

12 Qs with Alexandra Glickman, SMD, Real Estate & Hospitality at Gallagher

Alexandra Glickman, Senior Managing Director and Global Practice Leader at Gallagher, chats about commercial insurance as an apprentice business.

Alexandra Glickman, Area Vice Chairman and Senior Ma...
Company Updates

Using Data to Unlock a Resiliency Dividend

Hemant Shah announces the launch of Archipelago after 20 months in stealth.

Hemant Shah, Co-Founder and CEO of Archipelag...
Thought Leadership

Two Huge Markets to Benefit from a Digital Transformation

Rich Boyle is excited to share his enthusiasm for the Archipelago platform and how the platform is digitally transforming in the insurance market.

Rich Boyle, Board Director of Archipelago, i...
Thought Leadership

Standing out in the Hardening Market

Hanner shares how Archipelago helped him share client’s data with property markets and give underwriters the opportunity to verify important data points.

Jared Hanner, Senior Vice President and Execut...
Thought Leadership

Differentiating Your Portfolio in a Hard Market

As Risk Managers, now more than ever it’s crucial we take proactive steps to prepare for our next renewal.

Vahe Simitian, Senior Vice President of Risk Ma...
Thought Leadership

Blue Ocean Opportunities

The availability of digital twins for properties and their risk characteristics opens up new possibilities for insurance to help with the risk management.

Sean Ringsted, Executive Vice President at Chub...

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