IN-PERSON | COUNTY HALL, LONDON

FULL AGENDA

28-29 SEPTEMBER 2022



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Welcome from Commodities People

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Impact of recent market turmoil on energy market

Thumbnail Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey

Thumbnail Joscha Schabram, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey

KEYNOTE
• Wholesale gas price signals key to achieve “physical balance"
- Supply to Europe ramped up rapidly (diverted from other regions)
- Gas prices causing significant demand reduction
• Tight LNG supply driving correlation of gas indices globally
- Additional LNG demand from Europe results in tight market
- Gas price indices globally increasingly ‘converging

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Price volatility in energy markets: Thriving in the new abnormal

Thumbnail Christian Baer, Secretary General, EUROPEX

Thumbnail Mark Copley, CEO, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Thumbnail Richard Pohl, Senior Project Manager for Green and Digital Energy, Horváth & Partners

Thumbnail Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom

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?

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Security of supply vs fit for 55

Thumbnail Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET

Thumbnail Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies

Thumbnail Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol

Thumbnail Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic

Thumbnail Mónika Zsigri, Head of Unit of DG Energy - Energy Platform Task Force, European Commission

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?

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Coffee Break

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What are the big challenges and innovations in 2022/2023 for commercial operations and information technology in energy trading?

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Cutting edge digitalisation: What does that mean for post trade operations?

Thumbnail Stuart Beeston, Secretary of the Operation Committee, EFET

Thumbnail Graeme Bannon, IT Business Analyst, RWE Supply & Trading GmbH

Thumbnail Lorenzo Celio, Product Manager, Fidectus

Thumbnail 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?

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Lunch

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The outsourcing discussion: Different approaches for different results - A benchmark

Thumbnail Gaurav Garg, Managing Partner, capSpire

Thumbnail Stuart Beeston, Secretary of the Operation Committee, EFET

Thumbnail Mikael Kreiner, Head of Back Office, Ørsted

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

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Skillset in the back office: What are the new profiles, how to attract them and how do you retain them?

Thumbnail Mikael Kreiner, Head of Back Office, Ørsted

Thumbnail Ida Elversson, Head of Trade Control & Settlements, Maersk Oil Trading and Investments AS

Thumbnail Mathilde de Mareuil, Director, Shipping and Trading Network

Thumbnail Angelica Ibarra Romero, VP Back Office Europe & US, Statkraft

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?

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Networking Coffee Break

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The clinic

Thumbnail Guy Barnes, Director, CapSpire

Thumbnail Tomasz Tosik, Lead Back Office Specialist, Ørsted

PANEL DISCUSSION
Based on the registration survey, a selection of 2 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 interactive.

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Drinks reception and entertainment

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Reflect on liquidity management, clearing processes and transaction cost

Thumbnail Mario Claeys, Head of Exchanges - Clearing and Margining, Uniper Global Commodities SE

Thumbnail John Cunningham, Managing Director Commodities & Global Markets (Futures), Macquarie Group

Thumbnail Sean O'Brien, Head of Sales, OpenGamma

Thumbnail Christina Tarnanidou, Assistant Professor in Commercial & Financial Law, Athens University of Economics and Business - AUEB

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
In this section the audience will reflect on 3 topics. The structure will be the following:
15 minutes introductions
20 minutes of table discussions
25 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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How corporates are surviving the current environment

Thumbnail Rory Deverell, Commodity Risk Manager, StoneX

PRESPECTIVE
In this session, the presenter will go through the impact the energy crisis is having on companies that are very energy-dependent, covering various angles: material procurement challenges, supply chain issues, etc.

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Coffee Break

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Automation in the back office: The never-ending project

Thumbnail 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.

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How can the back office adapt to new revenue streams and support the commercial functions?

Thumbnail Gavin Ferguson, Head of Standardisation Workstream, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Thumbnail Angelica Ibarra Romero, VP Back Office Europe & US, Statkraft

Thumbnail Juan Miguel Retamar Garcia, Head of Back Office Processes, Endesa

Thumbnail Dr. Jens Bartenschlager, CEO, Fidectus

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

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Lunch



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Welcome from Commodities People

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Impact of recent market turmoil on energy market

Thumbnail Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey

Thumbnail Joscha Schabram, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey

KEYNOTE
• Wholesale gas price signals key to achieve “physical balance"
- Supply to Europe ramped up rapidly (diverted from other regions)
- Gas prices causing significant demand reduction
• Tight LNG supply driving correlation of gas indices globally
- Additional LNG demand from Europe results in tight market
- Gas price indices globally increasingly ‘converging

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Price volatility in energy markets: Thriving in the new abnormal

Thumbnail Christian Baer, Secretary General, EUROPEX

Thumbnail Mark Copley, CEO, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Thumbnail Richard Pohl, Senior Project Manager for Green and Digital Energy, Horváth & Partners

Thumbnail Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom

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?

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Security of supply vs fit for 55

Thumbnail Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET

Thumbnail Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies

Thumbnail Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol

Thumbnail Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic

Thumbnail Mónika Zsigri, Head of Unit of DG Energy - Energy Platform Task Force, European Commission

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?

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Coffee break

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Opening speech by Chairperson

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Q&A with the financial regulators

Thumbnail Dr Martin Rose, EMIR & MiFID Expert, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority - BaFin

Thumbnail Stephen Hanks, Technical Specialist, FCA

Thumbnail Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading

Thumbnail Christian Huurman, Senior Supervision Officer Capital Markets & Data, AFM Autoriteit Financiële Markten

PANEL DISCUSSION
In this session, regulators will be answering questions from the audience, including around:
• MiFID quick fix: Position limits
• EMIR review and possible outcome?
• Cases and enforcement

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Coffee break

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Over a decade of REMIT: Challenges, lessons learnt, what next?

Thumbnail Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory

Thumbnail Marek Dal-Canton, Compliance Officer, Statkraft

Thumbnail Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading

Thumbnail Sonia Auguscik, Secretary of the Trade Compliance Group, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

PANEL DISCUSSION
The panel will look at the various challenges faced by market participants and regulators along the way, around:
• Reporting
• Information publication
• Market manipulation

But will also answer the question: Is REMIT fit for renewables?
• Publication thresholds: What changes need to be done to cater for renewables?
• New clean energies not REMIT products - Is that meant to change?

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Roundtable discussions - RegTech

Thumbnail Eren Erman, Compliance Technology Lead - Trade & Business Communication Surveillance, TP ICAP

Thumbnail James Curphey, Compliance Manager Global Trade Surveillance America - EMEA & Asia, Shell International Trading & Shipping Company

Thumbnail Yasmine Li, Head of Surveillance EMEA, Macquarie Group

Thumbnail Oliver Blower, Group Chief Executive Officer, VoxSmart

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
After 5 short presentations (5minutes each), the audience will be divided into groups to reflect on a specific area, with the guidance of each presenter. After 20 minutes of debate and discussion, the presenters will be on stage to share takeaways and findings for the benefit of the whole audience.
The topics which will be discussed are:
• Communications surveillance: Where are we? What level of maturity do we see in energy trading?
• Trade surveillance in the energy space: How do you deal with intraday and spot market challenge?
• Cross market and cross product surveillance: How do you implement this?
• Regulators’ expectations around surveillance outsourcing
• Response to financial crimes: How do you embed AML transaction monitoring to your surveillance?

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Sanctions against Russia: How is energy trading affected?

Thumbnail Ailsa Longmuir, General Counsel, Centrica Energy Marketing and Trading & Centrica Business Solutions

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• Status report on The Russian sanctions: Who and what? Practical impact
• Know who you deal with along the supply chain
• How sanctions shape your KYC procedures

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Regulatory reporting: How do you manage volume and change of requirements?

Thumbnail Paul Rennison, Director of Product Management, deltaconX

Thumbnail René Dietz, Head of Regulatory Reporting, Statkraft

Thumbnail Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Recap: Reporting obligations under the financial and energy regulations
• With reporting requirements coming left, right and centre, how do you manage data collection?
• How can you optimise the reporting functions?
• Adapting to a dynamic space

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Algo trading: Make peace with your traders!

Thumbnail Erik Hauptvogel, Senior Compliance Officer, Axpo

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With more and more trading floors engaging, or wanting to engage in algo trading, what are the safeguards compliance teams should put in place to enable algo trading, without compromising on compliance? This session will present a roadmap to safely and compliantly implement algo trading.

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Coffee break

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Position limits under MiFID II - Review one month after new RTS implementation

Thumbnail Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading

Thumbnail Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory

Thumbnail Dr Martin Rose, EMIR & MiFID Expert, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority - BaFin

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Remaining EU Limits / UK Limits
• Divergence in EU / UK approach to position limits and forbearance declarations
• Limit per product and not per venue: Will that be implemented? What would the impact of venue aggregation be for trading companies?
• Position management: How venues are dealing with it
• What further changes do we expect?

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Intersection between prices and regulatory status: Coping with price spikes

Thumbnail Christina Tarnanidou, Assistant Professor in Commercial & Financial Law, Athens University of Economics and Business - AUEB

Thumbnail Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom

Thumbnail Prof. Dr. Sotirios Manolkidis, Vice President, Regulatory Authority for Energy (Greece)

Thumbnail Mike Bostan, Market Supervision Committee Manager, EFET

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Very high prices: Impact on liquidity, margining cost, thresholds
• Scarcity, and spikes in Intraday, Day Ahead, balancing, ancillary services: What do you do when prices go crazy? Overview of measures
• How do you work on the liquidity issues? Perspective of the regulators and market participants

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Roundtable discussions around compliance culture and working hybrid

Thumbnail Daniel Chiechi, Head of Compliance | Wholesale Markets, DRAX

Thumbnail Oliver Spindler, Compliance Officer, Vattenfall

Thumbnail Gordon Allott, President & CEO, BroadPeak Partners Inc.

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
• Measuring compliance culture: What sort of metrics do you have in place?
• Hybrid environment: Challenges and solutions



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Power and gas trading trends 2023

Thumbnail Latif Faiyaz, Head of Energy Trading & Strategy, Northern Gas and Power

Thumbnail Harry Huang, Managing Director Gas Trading, Uniper Global Commodities

Thumbnail Phil Hewitt, Director, EnAppSys

Thumbnail Richard Payne, Non-Executive, Cobblestone Energy

Thumbnail Marc Ostwald, Chief Economist & Global Strategist, ADM ISI

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• The weight of the war on Ukraine: How will prices evolve?
• Weather forecast: What’s winter looking like? Influence on prices
• What sort of energy mix are we looking at? How is the growing role of renewables impacting traditional products prices?

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Falck’s journey - How a renewables company navigates current energy trading complexity

Thumbnail Chris Regan, Business Lead / Energy – Short-term Power Trading, Brady Technologies

Thumbnail Simone Giacchè, Manager, Falck Next Energy UK Branch

FIRESIDE CHAT
In this session, Chris and Simone will discuss Falck’s strategy to access markets and manage exposures, as well as how technology enables their innovative operating system to work efficiently.

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Cross-border flows between the UK and its neighbours: Challenges and opportunities

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Coffee break

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Technical analysis in times of changing volatility

Thumbnail Trevor Neil, Managing Director, BETA Financial Limited

Thumbnail Eddie Tofpik, Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst, ADM Investor Services International Ltd.

Thumbnail Clive Lambert, Chief Technical Analyst, FuturesTechs

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Technical analysis in extreme market conditions: Is there such a thing as ideal conditions for technical analysis to be relevant?
• How can charts deal with these volatility changes? Methods you can use
• Our expert analysts on current markets

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The importance of wholesales markets in battery optimisation

Thumbnail Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-founder, enspired

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• Market phases to consider for wholesales optimisation
• The impact of battery system sizing on trading performance
• How market liquidity and volatility determine wholesales revenues
• Distribution of capacity across different optimisation channels
• Considering operational aspects as part of commercial optimisation

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Lunch

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Demystifying the use of AI in trading

Thumbnail Steffen Krutzinna, Team Manager Trading, Next Kraftwerke

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• How do you roll out algorithmic trading without fancy AI tools?
• What are the cheap tools you need?
• What are the models you can start off with?
• Once established, how do you upgrade your set-up?

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Algo trading in energy: Group activity

Thumbnail Steffen Krutzinna, Team Manager Trading, Next Kraftwerke

Thumbnail Dr Konstantin Wiegandt, Head of Algorithmic Energy Management and Analysis, Statkraft Markets

ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS
Algo trading is being implemented in many companies, but there are still areas where humans have to call the shots and the right answer isn’t obvious. This session will allow anyone involved in such activities to get a sense of what others are doing and what the best practices are in that field.

After a brief introduction by the presenters, the audience will get a chance to reflect on a few questions posed by the presenters for 30 minutes. One of them will be:
An algorithm did great in backtesting, but the first day in production was devastating. What do you do, when do you stop?
The other questions to reflect on will be chosen by the audience itself via the voting function, out of suggestions by the presenters.

The remaining time will be dedicated to sharing findings from table discussions for the benefit of the entire audience, and with the guidance and support of the presenters.


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Welcome from Commodities People

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Impact of recent market turmoil on energy market

Thumbnail Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey

Thumbnail Joscha Schabram, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey

KEYNOTE
• Wholesale gas price signals key to achieve “physical balance"
- Supply to Europe ramped up rapidly (diverted from other regions)
- Gas prices causing significant demand reduction
• Tight LNG supply driving correlation of gas indices globally
- Additional LNG demand from Europe results in tight market
- Gas price indices globally increasingly ‘converging

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Price volatility in energy markets: Thriving in the new abnormal

Thumbnail Christian Baer, Secretary General, EUROPEX

Thumbnail Mark Copley, CEO, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Thumbnail Richard Pohl, Senior Project Manager for Green and Digital Energy, Horváth & Partners

Thumbnail Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom

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?

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Security of supply vs fit for 55

Thumbnail Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET

Thumbnail Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies

Thumbnail Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol

Thumbnail Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic

Thumbnail Mónika Zsigri, Head of Unit of DG Energy - Energy Platform Task Force, European Commission

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?

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Carbon markets: Do they still fulfill their original role i.e. help decarbonise the world?

Thumbnail Guillaume Lawlor, Head of Sales & Structuring - Cross Commodity, CF Partners

Thumbnail Philip Wiltshire, Commercial Associate, Forsa Energy

Thumbnail Bruce Tozer, Strategy & Business Development, Gen 10

Thumbnail Roy Manuell, Net Zero Correspondent, Carbon Pulse

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Is standardisation possible across the board? Voluntary vs non voluntary schemes
• Overcoming measurement issues
• Distinguishing direct and indirect emissions
• What’s the future of carbon markets with sustained high prices?
• Is carbon emulating? A look at plastic markets

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Risk management for the energy transition: Renewables, batteries, and carbon

Thumbnail Pierre Lebon, Director of Analytics - EMEA, cQuant.io

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• Challenges and risks that many organisations face as a result of the renewable energy transition
• Identifying and managing financial risk as well as tracking the net position of a variety of portfolio level attributes (e.g., cash flow, MWh, renewable energy certificates, CO2, etc.)
• Complexity involved in the renewable energy transition: How particular organisations will be affected, and what can be done to mitigate uncertainty

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PPAs role in energy transition

Thumbnail Riccardo Rossi, Head of Southern Europe Origination, Centrica Energy Marketing & Trading

Thumbnail Jorge Arenillas, VP Energy Management, Sonnedix

Thumbnail Erik Dugstad, SVP Market Analysis & Public Affairs, Vårgrønn

Thumbnail Maria Popova, Director - Carbon Neutrality and Renewable Electricity, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Geography disparities: How to close the gap in terms of regulations and policies?
• Unbalanced markets: How to encourage corporate buyers and what guarantees do they need?
• IPPs: Are PPAs the only route to market?
• Technology and PPAs: How much can you standardise?

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What role can gas play in energy transition?

Thumbnail Marta Gonzalez, Senior Advisor - Public Affairs Directorate, International Gas Union - IGU

Thumbnail Dexter Steis, CEO, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI)

Thumbnail Philip Wiltshire, Commercial Associate, Forsa Energy

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Cleaner than coal, is natural gas the bridging energy we’re looking for?
• Switching to gas powered plants: What are the obstacles? How can they be overcome?
• Regional approach: Where and how can gas be used? For what carbon saving and what cost?

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Spotlight session: Hydrogen - Where do we go from here?

Thumbnail Lucia Alcibar Castellanos, Hydrogen Strategy & Origination Associate, EDP Renewables

Thumbnail Vincenzo Anghelone, Hydrogen Business Model Lead - Low Carbon Solution, Equinor

Thumbnail Heike Carl Zatterstrom, Chief Communications Officer, Boson Energy

Thumbnail Eric Gosseye, Solutions and Partnerships Manager, ENGIE Green Hydrogen

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Hydrogen and other green molecules at the centre of the diversification strategy at European level
• Hydrogen pricing and duration of contracts: What would be the benchmark?
• Sellers and buyers critical mass: What are we looking at to create a functioning market place? Promotion of both production and consumption of hydrogen
• Where can investment on hydrogen come from? What part of the development does it need to go to?

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Optimal hedging of a PPA portfolio

Thumbnail Cyriel de Jong, Founder & CEO, KYOS

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• Forecasting and simulating PPA returns in practice
• Volume hedge, value hedge or optimal hedge?
• Stack-and-roll: how to design the strategy?
• Correlations between PPA returns across markets and assets
• Proxy hedging on the most liquid markets

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Storage and batteries: Latest trends and developments

Thumbnail Mark Meyrick, Head of Smart Grids & PPAs, Ecotricity

Thumbnail Giorgio Corbetta, Senior Manager - Energy Transition, Kellen

Thumbnail Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-founder, enspired

Thumbnail Robin Lane, Commercial Director, Gravitricity

PANEL DISCUSSION
• What are the batteries of the future?
• Battery project evaluation; What should you watch out for?
• How do you use batteries to optimise grid services and intraday positions and revenue?
• Local flexibility markets and batteries
• Battery warranties: What should you look for?
• What is the ideal battery duration?

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Technology and sustainability - Straight into the wall?

Thumbnail Dr Luc Julia, Co-creator of Siri & Chief Scientific Officer, Renault Group

KEYNOTE
It is clear that we are heading towards the wall: the planet is in danger. This terrible observation is not only made by experts and scientists, each of us is beginning to measure the seriousness of the situation in our daily lives. Natural resources are shrinking like a stone in the face of the imperatives of our growth model. Our societies are therefore faced with a global challenge that invites us to change our logic and to reinvent life on earth. Controlled and virtuous, technology can stop this logic of self-destruction and help build a more fraternal and humanistic society.

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Fireside chat with Jürgen Mayerhofer | Artificial intelligence in action, from front to back office

Thumbnail Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-founder, enspired

Thumbnail Chris Sass, Founder & Host, Insider's Guide to Energy

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Goal: Is AI the right technology that will get you to your goal? A look at real use cases
• Tools: From the starter pack to the very sophisticated set-up, what works best for each case?
• Capabilities: What sort of human investment do you need to make?

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ETRMs: From ownership to service

Thumbnail Chirag Ahuja, ETRM Support, Varo Energy

Thumbnail Ganesh Natarajan, Chief Operating Officer, Enuit

Thumbnail Ben Hillary, Managing Director, Commodities People

Thumbnail Alex Whittaker, General Manager, Bonroy Petchem Co ltd

Thumbnail Richard Williamson, CEO, Gen 10

Thumbnail Sunny Tiwana, CEO, Energy One UK

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Major shift to cloud-based systems: What does that mean cost-wise? What is the aggregated cost for cloud-based solutions for the next 5 years?
• Best practices moving your systems and infrastructures to cloud-based solutions
• ETRM vendors/Cloud computing providers/energy trading companies: How are they aligning in the fast paced environment?

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Is data still the new oil?

Thumbnail Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners

Thumbnail Harshad Kolpyakwar, Head of Product Management, MarketMap Energy, FIS

Thumbnail Tristan Ranger, Director of Product, Enverus

Thumbnail Ian Murrin, Founder & CEO, Digiterre

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Drilling for data: What data sources are available to you?
• Refining data: From data lake to meaningful use of collected information
• Data consumption: What areas of the business can do with more data?

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Interoperability challenge: How can platforms communicate best in the context of end-to-end digitalisation?

Thumbnail Andre Jäger, Senior Vice President – Product Management, ION Commodities

Thumbnail Frank Stolten, IT Applications – Project Manager, Mabanaft

Thumbnail Can Yentur, Director Commodity Trading Technology, PwC

Thumbnail Sajindra Jayasena, CIO, Targray

Thumbnail Chris Sass, Founder & Host, Insider's Guide to Energy

Thumbnail Anthony Hammond, Global Offering Lead - Trading as a service, Luxoft

PANEL DISCUSSION
• How do you manage communications between the various applications and systems you work with?
• How do you standardise back office processes while allowing for innovation on the commercial systems?
• Establishing cross-industry standards: How to make them flexible

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Building a data governance programme to enable further growth and innovation

Thumbnail Yefreed Ditta, Chief Data Officer, Axpo AG

Thumbnail Ralf Harmens, Group Head of IT Sales & Trading, MET

Thumbnail Andreas Prøsch, Senior Director of Corporate Development and Commodity Markets, Cognite

Thumbnail Ian Murrin, Founder & CEO, Digiterre

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Can we achieve standardisation?
• What definitions can we all agree on?
• Corporate level: How centralised/decentralised should your data governance be?



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LNG trends in 2023 and beyond

Thumbnail Tatiana Khanberg, Director - Strategic Communications and Membership, International Gas Union

Thumbnail David Callanan, Editor, Global LNG Hub

Thumbnail Tom Marzec-Manser, Head of Gas Analytics, ICIS

Thumbnail Daisuke Harada, Project Director, JOGMEC

Thumbnail Keith Bainbridge, Managing Director, CS LNG

PANEL DISCUSSION
• High prices: A look at the impact on flows
• Is LNG the transitional ‘fuel’ we’re looking for?
• Ukraine crisis: What impact on transition and LNG
• Shift from Asia to Europe in terms of investment: What’s the dynamic in Europe at the moment?

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Geographical tour

Thumbnail Jamison Cocklin, Senior Editor-LNG, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI)

Thumbnail Ed Cox, Editor - Global LNG, ICIS

Thumbnail David Callanan, Editor, Global LNG Hub

Thumbnail Marwa Rashad, Senior Energy Correspondent, Thomson Reuters

PRESENTATIONS & PANEL DISCUSSION
During this session, presenters will give an overview of the current LNG trends in different geographies, including:
- Europe
- The US
- Asia

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LNG operations: Navigating the shipping nightmare

Thumbnail Keith Bainbridge, Managing Director, CS LNG

PRESENTATION
• How is the war in Ukraine impacting global LNG supply and demand flows?
• What actions can be taken to resolve the current shipping issues?
• Spotlight on Freeport terminal: What’s the impact of this port being down on global shipping?
• How are the shipping struggles impacting prices? What should we expect in the longer term?

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LNG contracts today: Challenges and opportunities

Thumbnail Agnieszka Ason, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies

Thumbnail James E. Atkin, Partner, ReedSmith

Thumbnail David Callanan, Editor, Global LNG Hub

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Security of supply and energy independence: The drivers behind the longer-term contracts high demand
• Europe vs Asia: Fight over the scarce supply
• How are spot markets and long-term contracts fitting together

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Welcome from Commodities People

Keynote

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Impact of recent market turmoil on energy market

Thumbnail Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey

Thumbnail Joscha Schabram, Expert Associate Partner, McKinsey

KEYNOTE
• Wholesale gas price signals key to achieve “physical balance"
- Supply to Europe ramped up rapidly (diverted from other regions)
- Gas prices causing significant demand reduction
• Tight LNG supply driving correlation of gas indices globally
- Additional LNG demand from Europe results in tight market
- Gas price indices globally increasingly ‘converging

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Price volatility in energy markets: Thriving in the new abnormal

Thumbnail Christian Baer, Secretary General, EUROPEX

Thumbnail Mark Copley, CEO, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders

Thumbnail Richard Pohl, Senior Project Manager for Green and Digital Energy, Horváth & Partners

Thumbnail Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom

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?

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Security of supply vs fit for 55

Thumbnail Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET

Thumbnail Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies

Thumbnail Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol

Thumbnail Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic

Thumbnail Mónika Zsigri, Head of Unit of DG Energy - Energy Platform Task Force, European Commission

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?

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Oil markets trends in 2023

Thumbnail Neil Atkinson, Independent Energy Analyst

Thumbnail Charles Xue, Director / CEO, Lothberg Asset Management

Thumbnail Saurabh Jain, Managing Director, Y&S Consulting Ltd

Thumbnail Eddie Tofpik, Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst, ADM Investor Services International Ltd.

PANEL DISCUSSION
• What does the reshuffling of crude oil trade flows in the wake of the war on Ukraine look like?
• Oil prices: What do we forecast for the months to come?
• What crudes are the best replacements for the western refining complex?
• How is energy security impacting decisions on crude sourcing?
• What role does China play in the new crude order?
• How are oil players integrating ESG requirements into the development strategies?

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Oil trading technology in light of high prices

Thumbnail Alex Whittaker, General Manager, Bonroy Petchem Co ltd

Thumbnail Saurabh Jain, Managing Director, Y&S Consulting Ltd

Thumbnail Hassan Al Alawi, Oil & Gas and Risk Management Expert

Thumbnail Georges Panaghoulis, Head of Price Risk and Hedging, Island Oil Ltd

PANEL DISCUSSION
• Risk management in the context of high price volatility
• Are today’s trading tools adapted to current market conditions?
• What tools are available for a more accurate, real-time evaluation of exposures, allowing for better cash management?

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Digitalisation of the oil supply chain: Are we there yet?

Thumbnail Peter Harvey, Programme Director, Energy LEAP

Thumbnail Ian Murrin, Founder & CEO, Digiterre

Thumbnail Imad Nabli, Principal Architect - Refined / Products / Low Carbon Trading and Shipping / Markets and Midstream, bp

PANEL DISCUSSION
• End-to-end digitalisation: What are the obstacles? The solutions?
• Documentation standardisation: What are the initiatives currently?
• Increasing demands around ESG criteria: How can this be part of your workflow?

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Technical analysis on oil markets: The master class

Thumbnail Nicole Elliott, Technical Analyst & Private Investor

PRESENTATION
How do you train yourself to look at everything in a chart? How do you fight biases and behavioural pitfalls in chart interpretation and analysis? In this session, you’ll learn the routine that will help you overcome these challenges, and will give you the competitive advantage you’re looking for!

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