
28-29 SEPTEMBER 2022
Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey
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
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
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?
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies
Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol
Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic
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?
Stuart Beeston, Secretary of the Operation Committee, EFET
Graeme Bannon, IT Business Analyst, 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?
Gaurav Garg, Managing Partner, capSpire
Stuart Beeston, Secretary of the Operation Committee, EFET
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
Mikael Kreiner, Head of Back Office, Ørsted
Ida Elversson, Head of Trade Control & Settlements, Maersk Oil Trading and Investments AS
Mathilde de Mareuil, Director, Shipping and Trading Network
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?
Guy Barnes, Director, CapSpire
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.
Mario Claeys, Head of Exchanges - Clearing and Margining, Uniper Global Commodities SE
John Cunningham, Managing Director Commodities & Global Markets (Futures), Macquarie Group
Sean O'Brien, Head of Sales, OpenGamma
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?
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.
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.
Gavin Ferguson, Head of Standardisation Workstream, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders
Angelica Ibarra Romero, VP Back Office Europe & US, Statkraft
Juan Miguel Retamar Garcia, Head of Back Office Processes, Endesa
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
Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey
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
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
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?
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies
Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol
Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic
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?
Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom
Prof. Dr. Sotirios Manolkidis, Vice President, Regulatory Authority for Energy (Greece)
Leonie Bensted, Head of REMIT Casework and Policy, Ofgem
Geoff Boon, Energy Markets Governance & REMIT, E-Control
Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading
PANEL DISCUSSION
In this session, regulators will be answering questions from the audience, including around:
• Cases and enforcement
• REMIT publication rules
• Market surveillance
Dr Martin Rose, EMIR & MiFID Expert, Federal Financial Supervisory Authority - BaFin
Stephen Hanks, Technical Specialist, FCA
Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading
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
Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory
Marek Dal-Canton, Compliance Officer, Statkraft
Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading
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?
Eren Erman, Compliance Technology Lead - Trade & Business Communication Surveillance, TP ICAP
Yasmine Li, Head of Surveillance EMEA, Macquarie Group
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?
Ailsa Longmuir, General Counsel, Centrica Energy Marketing and Trading & Centrica Business Solutions
PRESENTATION
• 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
Paul Rennison, Director of Product Management, deltaconX
René Dietz, Head of Regulatory Reporting, Statkraft
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
Erik Hauptvogel, Senior Compliance Officer, Axpo
PRESENTATION
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.
Gerfried Krömer, Senior Compliance Advisor, Shell Trading
Aviv Handler, Managing Director, ETR Advisory
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?
Cornelia Kawann, Head of Division Market Surveillance, Federal Electricity Commission - ElCom
Prof. Dr. Sotirios Manolkidis, Vice President, Regulatory Authority for Energy (Greece)
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
Daniel Chiechi, Head of Compliance | Wholesale Markets, DRAX
Oliver Spindler, Compliance Officer, Vattenfall
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
Latif Faiyaz, Head of Energy Trading & Strategy, Northern Gas and Power
Harry Huang, Managing Director Gas Trading, Uniper Global Commodities
Phil Hewitt, Director, EnAppSys
Richard Payne, Non-Executive, Cobblestone Energy
Marc Ostwald, Chief Economist & Global Strategist, ADM ISI
PANEL DISCUSSION
• 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?
Chris Regan, Business Lead / Energy – Short-term Power Trading, Brady Technologies
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.
Trevor Neil, Managing Director, BETA Financial Limited
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
Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-founder, enspired
PRESENTATION
• 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
Steffen Krutzinna, Team Manager Trading, Next Kraftwerke
PRESENTATION
• 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?
Steffen Krutzinna, Team Manager Trading, Next Kraftwerke
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.
Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey
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
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
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?
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies
Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol
Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic
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?
Guillaume Lawlor, Head of Sales & Structuring - Cross Commodity, CF Partners
Philip Wiltshire, Commercial Associate, Forsa Energy
Bruce Tozer, Strategy & Business Development, Gen 10
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
Pierre Lebon, Director of Analytics - EMEA, cQuant.io
PRESENTATION
• 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
Riccardo Rossi, Head of Southern Europe Origination, Centrica Energy Marketing & Trading
Jorge Arenillas, VP Energy Management, Sonnedix
Erik Dugstad, SVP Market Analysis & Public Affairs, Vårgrønn
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?
Marta Gonzalez, Senior Advisor - Public Affairs Directorate, International Gas Union - IGU
Dexter Steis, CEO, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI)
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?
Lucia Alcibar Castellanos, Hydrogen Strategy & Origination Associate, EDP Renewables
Vincenzo Anghelone, Hydrogen Business Model Lead - Low Carbon Solution, Equinor
Heike Carl Zatterstrom, Chief Communications Officer, Boson Energy
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?
Cyriel de Jong, Founder & CEO, KYOS
PRESENTATION
• 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
Mark Meyrick, Head of Smart Grids & PPAs, Ecotricity
Giorgio Corbetta, Senior Manager - Energy Transition, Kellen
Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-founder, enspired
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?
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.
Jürgen Mayerhofer, CEO & Co-founder, enspired
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?
Chirag Ahuja, ETRM Support, Varo Energy
Ganesh Natarajan, Chief Operating Officer, Enuit
Ben Hillary, Managing Director, Commodities People
Alex Whittaker, General Manager, Bonroy Petchem Co ltd
Richard Williamson, CEO, Gen 10
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?
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
Harshad Kolpyakwar, Head of Product Management, MarketMap Energy, FIS
Tristan Ranger, Director of Product, Enverus
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?
Andre Jäger, Senior Vice President – Product Management, ION Commodities
Frank Stolten, IT Applications – Project Manager, Mabanaft
Can Yentur, Director Commodity Trading Technology, PwC
Sajindra Jayasena, CIO, Targray
Chris Sass, Founder & Host, Insider's Guide to Energy
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
Yefreed Ditta, Chief Data Officer, Axpo AG
Ralf Harmens, Group Head of IT Sales & Trading, MET
Andreas Prøsch, Senior Director of Corporate Development and Commodity Markets, Cognite
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?
Tatiana Khanberg, Director - Strategic Communications and Membership, International Gas Union
David Callanan, Editor, Global LNG Hub
Tom Marzec-Manser, Head of Gas Analytics, ICIS
Daisuke Harada, Project Director, JOGMEC
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?
Jamison Cocklin, Senior Editor-LNG, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI)
Ed Cox, Editor - Global LNG, ICIS
David Callanan, Editor, Global LNG Hub
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
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?
Agnieszka Ason, Senior Visiting Research Fellow, Oxford Institute for Energy Studies
James E. Atkin, Partner, ReedSmith
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
Keynote
Xavier Veillard, Partner, McKinsey
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
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
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?
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
Mark Simons, Head of Gas & Power Trading Origination, TotalEnergies
Davide Rubini, Head of Regulatory Affairs - Gas / Power & Environmental Products EMEA, Vitol
Kathryn Porter, Energy Consultant, Watt-Logic
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?
Neil Atkinson, Independent Energy Analyst
Charles Xue, Director / CEO, Lothberg Asset Management
Saurabh Jain, Managing Director, Y&S Consulting 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?
Alex Whittaker, General Manager, Bonroy Petchem Co ltd
Saurabh Jain, Managing Director, Y&S Consulting Ltd
Hassan Al Alawi, Oil & Gas and Risk Management Expert
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?
Peter Harvey, Programme Director, Energy LEAP
Ian Murrin, Founder & CEO, Digiterre
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?
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!