
DESIGNED FOR BACK OFFICE AND TECHNOLOGY PROFESSIONALS TO SHARE IDEAS AND BEST PRACTICES, FORM NEW PARTNERSHIPS, AND EXPAND THEIR NETWORKS
KEY TOPICS INCLUDE:
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KEYNOTE
Christian Baer, Secretary General, EUROPEX
Mark Copley, CEO, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders
Richard Pohl, Senior Project Manager for Green and Digital Energy, Horváth & Partners
PANEL DISCUSSION
• A look at the past 12 months price trends: Opportunities and struggles for the front office
• From an operational perspective: What has the tightness of prices revealed? Best practices around collateral management, risk management and settlement
• Technology: What can be done to unburden other departments?
• Price caps and governments intervention: What impact for the markets? How do we restore confidence in trading?
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Do we see a shift back to fossil due to the price situation?
How can security of supply be maintained in the context of sanctions on Russian gas?
- Does Europe have any alternatives to reliance on Russian gas?
- Is LNG the solution?
- Does gas still have a role to play in the energy transition?
• What might some of the long term implications be for energy markets from current high gas prices?
KEYNOTE
PANEL DISCUSSION
• What operations changes do you need to make to accommodate these new products?
• What are the technology challenges around environmental products?
• How can extensive trading experience best serve the energy transition?
CASE STUDY
Gaurav Garg, Managing Partner, capSpire
PANEL DISCUSSION
• How do you balance near-shore outsourcing and growing the back office teams?
• Taking the cost dimension out of the discussion
• Flexibility and velocity vs steady in-house expertise development
Stuart Beeston, Secretary of the Operation Committee, EFET
Graeme Bannon, Back Office Services Team – MFB-SU, RWE Supply & Trading GmbH
Lorenzo Celio, Product Manager, Fidectus
Jörg Reichelt, Head of Settlement Trading, EnBW
PANEL DISCUSSION
Post trade automation: What it is and where it’s going?
1. eSM; Current situation, changes, and road ahead
- What bilateral agreements can you do once your process is a bit more automated?
- Shortening the settlement cycle: Benefits, obstacles, and implementation roadmap
- Who will benefit from this implementation and interoperability?
- How do we move forward?
2. eCM; Current situation, changes, and road ahead
- Further automation & more innovation
- Interoperability and how you benefit from this
- Even wider adoption in the market
Towards full end-to-end post trade automation
Data you get: How actionable it is? What can you predict with it?
Senior Representative from capSpire
PANEL DISCUSSION
Based on the registration survey, a selection of 3 process issues will be presented to leading experts. They will have a few minutes to identify the improvement areas, and present what they’d put in place to solve to the audience. Highly competitive, and highly interactive.
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Back to manual tasks with PPAs: How can we standardise?
• How to adapt to the specificity of asset-based transactions?
• Ramping up LNG activities: Impact on operations
Mikael Kreiner, Head of Back Office, Ørsted
Ida Elversson, Head of Trade Control & Settlements, Maersk Oil Trading and Investments AS
Mathilde de Mareuil, Headhunter / Executive Search, Commodity Trading Jobs
PANEL DISCUSSION
• What is the back office dream candidate? What’s the right balance between IT fondness and business understanding?
• How do you make back office a career of choice as opposed to a stepping stone to other departments? Examples of programmes
• Recruitment challenges in times of hybrid working
• How do you make sure losing people to other departments can benefit you?
Juan Miguel Retamar Garcia, Head of Back Office Processes, Endesa
PRESENTATION
In this session, the audience will hear about Endesa’s journey to achieve more automation. Better understanding of the processes, communication with IT, and work organisation will be touched on as part of this very practical presentation.
PRESENTATION
With the increasing amount of business being done with Asian counterparts on Asian venues, how is the back office coping with a global presence, global risk, and global end of days?
CASE STUDY
PRESENTATION
• Silver lining: Collaboration within the Back office/Risk/Treasury triangle
• How do you make sure you’re called for the right amount of margin?
• Analyzing what drives daily margin changes
• How can you optimise the amount you are called for?
• How much cash do you need to set aside?
ROUNDTABLES
In this section the audience will reflect on 3 situations. For each the structure will be the following:
• 15 minutes of table discussions
• 5 minutes of feedback and take-aways on stage
The situations presented to the audience will facilitate discussions around key questions:
• Best practices in initial margin calls evaluation
• How can you optimise the amount you’re called for?
• How do you minimise the cash you need to set aside?
• In the context of very high margin calls, how do you guide the trading desk to minimise collateral requirement without compromising opportunities and revenue?
• Cost of trading on exchanges: Where do we see it going?
• Reacting to a sudden change in the markets: Check list for the energy trader
• Has clearing changed in light of the market volatility?
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