3. Event Location Advance Knowledge
SARS China 150 DAYS
Civil Unrest Georgia 75 DAYS
Norovirus United Kingdom 75 DAYS
4. BOOM
event realized
Left of Boom Right of Boom
• Prepare • React
Outbreaks*
• Protect • Respond
Epidemics*
• Mitigate • Recover
Pandemics*
Anarchy
Veratect enables the global
Famine
operator every opportunity to
stay “left of boom”
Genocide
Civil Unrest
5.
6. Veratect: The Intersection of Human
and Artificial Intelligence
Technology The Human Analytical Component
• Software and Communications ‐ Open and • Subject matter experts investigate changes in social
proprietary data from targeted sources indicators to determine if disruptions have probable
disease origins
• Software and modeling
• Ground truth validation to confirm and assess events
• The system “listens” to the voices of local and
regional communities for key indicators of social • Veratect analysts report to the user community
disruption and sorts and correlates millions of data
• Integrated with Computer System Component ‐
points daily
Humans are superior to computer systems for detecting
• Integrated with Human System ‐ Computer nuanced changes in the earliest indicators of event
Systems are superior to human for the gathering emergence
and indexing of massive amounts of data
7. Areas of Focus
Disease ‐ Foreshadow™
•
− Human, animal and plant disease
− Food and pharmaceutical safety
− Agricultural production (environment or pathogen)
Civil Unrest ‐ Shadowstream™
•
− Anarchy, tribalism, militarism, radicalism, ethno sectarian
− violence, jihadism, organized crime, domestic and inter‐
− national terrorism, natural resource contention
All events determined at lat / long specificity, provided with a proprietary risk metric and considered within
Three levels of proximity to each clients specific location (whether a facility, or an op’s team on the move) and
All risk metrics, whether emerging, abating, advancing or receding are applied to constant surveillance and
Redetermination and posted in the client real time interface every 15 minutes. The earliest, spot on
Quantified risk surveillance and intelligence envelopment in nearest real time with commercial access.
* Customization metrics capabilities
8.
9. Shadowstream™ ‐ Enterprise
The world’s best system in providing
actionable early indicators and warning of civil
unrest
Benefits for commercial application include:
Identify Emerging and Abating Risk with …….
‐ Identify environments for operation
‐ Give better assessment with off site
placement
‐ Protect local populations
‐ Provide situational intelligence on emerging
local jurisdictional issues
‐ Protecting Employees and Critical
Infrastructure
‐ Protect against internal and external risks
associated with political or criminal
community violence
‐ Compliance with best practices for corporate
governance
10. VeraSight™ ‐ Enterprise
PEERview™
EMPLOYEES AT RISK
SUPPLY CHAIN AT RISK
INGRESS/EGRESS AT RISK
MARKETS AT RISK
GEO‐LOCATIONS AT RISK
CAPTIVE AT RISK
11. ERM & Governance Treasury & Finance
Powerful Investment Management/
Disciplines
Arbitrage Tool; Facilitation Tool in
Differentiator in Executive Risk/Fiduciary
Capital Project Finance Settings
Liability Risk Profile and Rating Agency/
Analyst Perceptions
Supply Chain Management
Risk Finance
Supply chain, foreign market/
Skeleton key to improved cost-of-
logistics threat alert and assessment
risk/access to new markets and
IN OBVERSE – act in advance of coverage grants; improved captive or
price/supply chain disruption; retention management
monitor industry peers for
impending stress and market share
opportunity
Operational Risk Management,
Product integrity and 3rd party liability
buffer; human capital; infrastructure crisis
readiness and business continuity “fire
alarm”, threat valuation and counter-
measures trigger
12. PEERview™
Proprietary Economic Exposure Reference view
• Veratect‐developed corporate economic exposure index
• Applies user‐specified cost parameters (medical and insurance
costs, workers’ comp, evacuation costs, etc.), weighted by
industry and geo‐location and facility type against Veratect
identified disease risk level.
• Provides exposure relative to gross revenues, net income and
shareholder equity.
13. Employees @ Risk : Supply Chain @ Risk:: Ingress / Egress @ Risk:
Risk assessment Enables the commercial Enables commercial
applied to all of the
client to identify customer to target strategic
commercial
strategic supply chain points of ingress / egress for
customer’s employees,
at a lat / long partners for risk risk surveillance and
attachment point, by assessment surveillance. assessment with each
line of business,
Each discreet supplier is discreet port, air facility, rail
operational
monitored at a lat / long facility tracked at a lat / long
functionality, level of
risk of pathogen, and attachment for attachment profile for
proximity measures of emerging or abating risk emerging or abating risk
emerging or abating
attributes.
attributes.
risk
14. Geo‐Locations @ Risk: Captive @ Risk:
Markets @ Risk:
Users can identify critical This allows the commercial This tool allows for a
global markets for customer to monitor a wide detailed review of
assessment and monitoring.
range of risks or opportunity individual and aggregate
Determination of these
scenarios based on their risk profiles, based on the
markets is customer specific
based on appetite and unique needs for pinpoint risk client’s input data for their
exposure. assessment. captive insurer. Applies
insurance specific metrics
and output.
16. Company History
• Initially incubated by the U.S. DoD and IC with a goal of detecting
and identifying WMD – B and other CBRN instances earlier than
available through other means.
• Then recognizing commercial viability, Veratect privatized with the
ability to provide advance warning of emerging and endemic
communicable disease risks worldwide in many cases days, weeks,
and months before any governmental warnings were issued
• The Veratect analytic team was first to…
− Identify the expansion of H5N1 from Southern China to Russia and then to Eastern Europe
− Notify US government of outbreak of FMD in UK in 2007
− Identify Ebola in DRC in August 2007
− Provide early warning of vaccine drift of H3N2, a virus mutation that went undetected by CDC
and resulted in 170 percent increase in seasonal deaths since 2004‐5 in United States
