Samantha Kappagoda and David K.A. Mordecai were Invited to Speak at WCF Insurance Board of Directors Annual Meeting

Samantha Kappagoda and David K.A. Mordecai were invited to speak at the WCF Insurance (Utah) Board of Directors’ Annual Meeting and Retreat in St. George, Utah. At the invitation of Ray Pickup, CEO of WCF, they addressed the Board to discuss prospective Workers’ Compensation pilot projects. Dr. Mordecai and Ms. Kappagoda are Co-Managing Members of Numerati^® Partners and lead research activities at RiskEcon^® Lab @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences.

Numerati^® Partners coordinates a data analytics and development ecosystem, with the mission of advancing and fostering the next generation of scalable data-intensive risk and liability management enterprises.  The firm provides resources fundamental to advancing the development of nascent leading-edge inferential surveillance, monitoring, and predictive analytics technologies for deployment within the RiskTech domain: risk technologies associated with adaptive distributed, networked and embedded systems such as remote sensing, agent-oriented data analytics, computing and control systems. Numerati^® Partners curates integrated RiskTech solutions as well as forensic and use-case applications in RiskTech sub-domains such as LitTech, RegTech, FinTech and InsurTech (litigation technology, regulation technology, financial technology and insurance technology).

The mission of RiskEcon^® Lab for Decision Metrics @ Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences NYU is to facilitate the development of software, analytics tools, and semantic libraries that employ high-dimensional datasets to integrate conventional data with web-enabled demographic, biometric, psychometric and sociometric data from innovative sources, by applying a range of computational and analytical methods to commercial, consumer and population-related societal trends, focusing primarily on research and development (R&D).Our goal is to integrate web-enabled crowdsourcing with machine learning, data-mining, and text-mining, in order to promote research fundamental to large-scale, real world questions, employing applied computational statistics, and robust and scalable data analytic solutions.

WCF Insurance has insured Utah employers since 1917 and is the largest workers compensation insurer in the state of Utah. In 1917, the Utah Legislature passed a workers’ compensation act, requiring all employers to have insurance for their employees. The system was established to protect both the employee and the employer from financial ruin that a workplace accident could cause.

September 22, 2015 | St. George, Utah