In December, as the year drew to a close, we reflected on some of the highlights of 2019 by sharing our favourite photographs and memories of the year on social media.
Our nominated hashtag for the campaign, #Ambiental2019 was first used by our CEO, Dr Justin Butler, who marked the end of 2018 with a post which hinted at some of the exciting product updates and enhancements customers should look out for in 2019. Of course, we’ve now got our eye on the year ahead, set to be a momentous one as we collaborate further with Royal HaskoningDHV.

In January, David Martin, Chief Technical Officer demonstrated our smart city dashboard solution for Greater London and together with members of his team and debated the challenges and opportunities around using space technologies for disaster risk management at a UK Space Agency event.
Early in February 2019, our programmers devised process work chains which reduce manual process effort by scripting database development. The development of automated updates has enabled us to move to quarterly updates of our FloodScore data.
In March, we promoted our flood forecasting technologies and smart city flood resilience solutions to government officials and the private sector in Singapore and the Philippines.
In April, we were welcomed to the Royal HaskoningDHV family and we celebrated the acquisition alongside our new colleagues and worked collaboratively on developing smart city solutions.
In May, we showcased our smart city flood risk management systems at GeoBusiness 2019 to the geospatial industry, and debated with industry peers around how to improve flood awareness and incident response.
In June, we were part of a cross-industry working group contributing to the Bank of England PRA report on climate change risk for the insurance and reinsurance sector.
In July, we hosted an event at Lloyd’s of London where we gathered a panel of experts to discuss how the insurance industry should adapt their understanding of risk under a changing climate.
In August,we launched our new and improved flood risk solutions for Australia. The enhanced product developments (FloodMap and FloodCat) and introduction of Australia FloodScore marked a significant step forward for rating flood risk in the region.
In September, we won a contract to provide Groundsure, a leading environmental search report specialist, with flood risk data. They are involved in over half of the UK residential property transactions.
In September, Mladen Stojic, President of Hexagon Geospatial, demonstrated our FloodWatch technology at Hexagon’s annual conference in Las Vegas.
In October, together with colleagues from across the Royal HaskoningDHV group we exhibited at Digital Construction Week. We showcased our digital flood risk management solutions and provided demonstrations of our FloodFutures climate change adaption datasets.
In November, we provided bulletins and data analysis in support of the UK flood emergency in the North of England and we appeared on the national news discussing the flooding incidents.

In November, Mark Nunns presented at the Building Societies Association Risk Forum on how our data helps meet the responsibilities for the financial impact of climate change.