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PANEL DISCUSSION
• What can we learn from other industries given our maturity is so low?
• Pros and cons of such a role
• Mapping out the core team and reporting structures of the department of the CDO
SAEED AMEN, Founder, Cuemacro
JOSE LOPEZ, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
ENRICO CAMERINELLI, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
KEVIN KINDALL, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
IAN MURRIN, CEO, Digiterre
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
0:00
Hello, everybody, thank you very much for joining the session, which is really asking the question Is this the year of the CTO, the chief data officer, and I'm joined by some wonderful panelists. So I'm going to ask them to introduce themselves in order, but I'll start with Enrico, and move on to Kevin, and Jose, and then say, eat and all that juice myself at the end. So Enrico, could you give us a minute or two on yourself and your background? And also your interest in data?
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
0:26
Yeah, thank you. Yes, I am in recall committee, nearly done in from Italy. And the non executive board member of supply at me supply me is an inventory monetization platform, basically will turn inventory into digital assets that can be traded. And so this allows companies to offset the inventory value from their balance sheet. So the interest on data is quite significant. Because, you know, we have to turn physical assets into digital data, and therefore, the management of data and the constant correlation between physical assets and digital assets. It's extremely important for us.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
1:08
Thanks, Enrique. Very useful, Kevin.
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
1:12
Hello, everyone. My name is Kevin Kindle. I'm joining from Houston, Texas. I'm a senior data scientist with heart three partners were a commodities trading shop based in New York, we trade, energy and soft and so on. And my interest in data is, because without data, you know, my I would not have, I couldn't do my job. I do work on a lot of valuation problems, I work on risk management problems. I do occasionally fundamentals, forecasting, and so on. And all that's very, very data intensive.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
1:46
Thanks very much, Kevin. I definitely get to find out more about some of the stuff you do and opinions later. I'm looking forward to it. Jose.
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
1:54
Hi, everyone. My name is Jose Lopez. I'm the Digital strategy director preflop Capital Management. We're a fund management company that invest in a semi bulk commodity trading, and we do small trades up to 15 million US dollar, therefore we don't compete with banks are more likely we collaborate with them. And what makes us special is that we do not lend money, we enable the trade by owning the commodity and managing the logistics. Therefore, for us data is key. Our fine has a fantastic record of over three years and a half. We do praise globally. We're based in Singapore, I'm actually participating in this panel from Singapore, we're very techy. I like to say that we digitize as much as we can. And we use a lot of data, artificial intelligence Iot of things with the objective of becoming efficiency and scalable. The mission of tray flow capital is to help to reduce the gigantic gap of 1.5 trillion that exists in trade finance between the SMEs and the financiers. And for this purpose, we have partnered up with ICC with the International Chamber of Commerce to help to reduce this gap. It's an honor to be here in this panel.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
3:11
Thank you very much. Jose, that's really useful. I look forward to hearing more about it. Saeed
3:18
Thanks for the invite. Sam, the founder of Q macros is a quantitative consultancy firm, developing trading strategies and analytics primarily for macro markets. So it's particular currencies, but also we've done a lot of work on commodities as well. And as they say, I guess like Kevin, my interested in data, because it's it's a key part of what I do. So sometimes can be forecasting, currency moves. Other times, it just might be trying to create indicators as well. And I've also co written the book of alternative get data, a guide for investors, traders, and risk managers looking at all sorts of unusual data sets and how they can be monetized from a trading perspective, as well.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
4:03
That is fantastic. I want to dig into that a bit later. So thanks very much say sticky on some of the subjects around, you know, monetization and stuff. So great panel, I feel honored to be kind of chairing this panel, and I'm the CEO and founder of Digitaria. We build both front office and middle office systems for organizations in the space, but also a lot of data architecture. So clients come to us to try and understand how to build an architecture that supports trading applications across the enterprise. So data to us is core to what we do and fascinating for me personally. So without further ado, let us roll on ice. My first question for the panel is what is the distinction between the role of a CDO which you know, on the face of it makes sense chief data officer and that of a CIO, which is a chief information officer when we're trying to make sure that the data gives us information rather than just as data versus a CTO versus a CEO. Perhaps that's easier. And finally Chief Digital Officer I'd love to hear from each member of the panel, like, what's your view on the distinctions between the two? And some of the sort of pros and cons of such a role? Enrico?
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
5:09
Yes. Let's see, I've taken notes, here are all these different acronyms. So let's start with so the see saw the chief is not because you know, these people necessarily have to be heading among, you know, huge sort of groups of, of employees, but it's rather, you know, the responsibility you have towards the company. So in my for my understanding from my research, also, my daily job is doing market research market analysis, that the chief data officer is basically the one responsible to turning raw data into information. And so it's providing them the size of the hacker they say, you know, the raw material, which in this case is information to the Chief Information Officer, CIO, the Chief Information Officer basically takes the information that is extracted from the raw data from the CEO, and then basically helps the company understand what kind of information is useful, how should be managed, what should be updated, what should be removed. So the CIO is then the one who basically feeds the CTO, because in order to manage this information in a proper way, you need to have a sound technology infrastructure. And also the CTO CIO, the Chief Technology Officer is the one who has to make possible the data extraction, which is part of the CDOs responsibility, but also how to manage the data that is certainly intimate information across the company. So once the CDO CIO and CTO role align, and have, you know, sort of fulfill their tasks, the CEO, the chief operation officer can actually establish you know, how to run the operations how to do in the most efficient way, because he or she has all the necessary information, and has the system in place to extract information and manage it at the best way possible. And finally, the Chief Digital Officer, let's say, I would say is at the service of all these individuals. So, you know, at the end of the day, of course, you can do these things manually. But the best way to do it is to, you know, automate and have a digital access and digital sharing. And so I would say that the See, see the chief data officer, the Information Officer, the operations officer, and who else did I forget these, the technology officer, they are basic, all the internal clients or the digital officer.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
7:49
That's really, really interesting, a very comprehensive So to summarize, you're saying back to the CEOs role is around raw data, the CIOs is turning that into usable information to run the organization that CTO is, in a sense, building some of the capabilities to get the data leverage the data surface a data is that and then the CEO, the Chief Technical sorry, the Chief Digital person, is a customer of that information. Is that a fair summary?
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
8:14
I would say it's no, the the Digital Officer, I would say is the provider of the service of all the above the others? Because that would be my opinion. Brilliant.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
8:27
Thank you very much. That's very comprehensive. Kevin, what are your thoughts as a gambling man,
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
8:34
For keeping things simple, you know, when I think of a chief data officer, I think, I think in the context of physical trading, so the focus of the chief data officer ought to be on the data on utilizing the data as an asset, and coming up with various governance policies. So if you look at a typical trading desk, you know, you have price data, and so on, but you also have a tremendous amount of fundamental data that's extremely specific to that particular market. So there's a lot of specialness. So for those of you who do physical trading, you understand this. There is sometimes information sometimes it's quite obscure, but it's very, very useful for decision making, and gives you some sort of has some sort of forecasting value. And, you know, the the challenge for a CTO is when he looks at a large organization, he has to understand the business well enough to know that certain types of data is very valuable. There's a timeliness aspect to it. There's, you know, has been a useful form. For some desk, they may have programmers, you know, they're very comfortable with relational databases or data lakes. For other desks. They largely run off Excel. But whatever platform they're using, the chief data officer is focusing on the data, how its utilized, why it's important, and so on. When we get into these other roles you focus more on The IT platform, the delivery mechanisms and such.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
10:03
Okay, good. Thank you very succinct, nice, clear dividing line. Thanks very much, Kevin. Jose, what are your thoughts on this subject? Yeah, well, it's
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
10:11
On both panels. And I would say I will just remark, in Rico's definition would be 99%, when it becomes a gigantic organization, I have the luxury of having every single C suite possible available, right, which is no longer the case. And all this always happens to be an overlapping between movies, the digital officer, who is Information Officer, ways, and so on. So reality of things that they do overlap. And depending on the size of the organization, I don't see particular in my organization that we could have four different specialties, and moreover, is the same person with different hats. So there's, there's a clear, physically or overlapping for them. And to the very good point, from Kevin, on on the data and the raw data, and so on. I do think that, from a macro perspective, what is critical is that data is wrong. It's absolutely valueless, without without bringing it to before transforming into information. And I would like to remind anyone that information is only valid at a specific time. If they have it's not ready, if it's not available, or is too soon, or raw, or it doesn't fall into the hands of the right person. That information is meaningless, right. So I support my both fair paneles definitions, I think they're great.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
11:29
Brilliant, thank you very much, as I say, What are your thoughts? Perhaps bring you also your experience with alternative data sources
11:36
Here? Yeah, definitely, I get a lot of work to say it's probably going to sound familiar given given some of the previous remarks. But the way that I would look definitely as a CEO gain would say, definitely somebody who's responsible for moving the raw data in some sort of structured form, which is usable by the rest of the organization. But I would say the CD obviously needs to have a lot of people reporting to them. Maybe data strategist to find the data data scientists to crunch the data as well. And at the same point, bringing to mind Kevin's point that the other roles are, I would say very much kind of to support the process. So you need to have a good tech stack and the CTO, for example will be will be responsible for that as well. So it's very much a team and team oriented player. But I would also agree that maybe all these subs are always going to be more for big organizations and the smaller firm, you know, you can't really justify having so many of these roles, but it's key, I would say to have a chief data officer to kind of drive change within an organization.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
12:36
Great, thank you. So we've got reasonable consistency across the piece. Fantastic. So moving to the next question around, okay, maturity. So I've heard this a lot around our industry is people thinking that our industry is not as mature, as some industries might be maybe financial markets, or even the tech industries around the use of data, the gathering of data. So what can we learn from other industries with respect to and has spent them being further at the maturity curve? In Rico? What are your thoughts on that?
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
13:08
Well, part of my most of my activity is working with financial institutions, but I do have a supply chain management background as well. So I'd say keep going to say back into my supply chain days, I would say data in that in that aspect. So supply chain management is not to be confused only with logistics. So it's not only moving your goods from one place to the other results are planning is understanding how to do it, when to do it, how much to hold, especially these days, we've seen with a with a actually these years now with the pandemic, how the full planning and logistics are are important. And so, in the in the supply chain world data is very much used, especially in the negotiation phase with suppliers as well as establishing for instance price schemes or establishing you know, networking logistics networking policies, because the more data you have, the more you can appreciate, where to position your manufacturing establishments, how to serve his clients and so on Also how to decide production where do you want to have Make to Stock so basically, producing based on forecast or producing on demand moving into the financial world, the use of data is even more robust and more important and coming apart of supply of finance, which is more related to commercial banking. But the most advanced that I see is on the retail side consumer. So we see now all the sprouting of these technologies called API's, or application programming interfaces that basically allow you know to capture, you know, the information or the preferences of the customer, and then providing services or advising you about services and opportunities based on on the on the data is collected based on permission, of course of the customer. So, I would say my best advice if anybody asked me one is not necessarily to look what's happening in your specific sector, but look at what's happening out in other sectors, and then try to, you know, turn those experiences and best practices into something that can be applicable to your own.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
15:26
Good, I get that point. And so you're effectively saying, there are different use cases and levels of data maturity, but that's partly driven by need logistics and stuff like that. So it's not the winner, sorry, less mature, but there are things we can learn from other industries, which makes sense. So thank you very much, Enrico. Kevin, what are your thoughts on this, particularly with respect to the gambling industry, which fascinates me,
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
15:48
But there's a lot of things that that come to mind when we talk about this. And, you know, in my view, you know, I've been in this business for a while. And it always seems that the energy business, particularly the physical trading seems to be a perpetual emerging market, it seems that, you know, we never seem to, you know, adopt the latest technologies, it seems like, we're always seem to use the same old, same old tools. You know, when I think of the data, I think of several different types of data, you have trade data, you've got price data, and even today, price discovery can be can be a bit of a challenge. And then, as I mentioned, before, you have this, this large amount of fundamental data, where you have supply and demand and logistics. And, you know, even like, when you talk about price data, you know, for the physical markets, a lot of this is still supplied by brokers. So, you know, there's not, you know, from the physical sign, most of that's not listed market, you don't have a settlement committee, or a settlement or an algorithm at an exchange that's providing a daily settlement price. And so a lot of this will come from brokers, and, you know, many times they will send this out either as a, an email or a PDF document attached to that email, or an Excel spreadsheet. And, you know, you look at this and you say, Well, you know, surely there's a better better way to disseminate price data, it's something that's more secure and more auditable? And yes, indeed, there is. But there's no incentive on the part of, of the broker community to do so. is almost as if someone has to come up with a solution. And essentially, give it away for free.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
17:32
Got it? Okay. Yeah.
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
17:34
Yep. But, you know, other industries,
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
17:36
He can draw upon, that you think do this better?
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
17:40
Well, you know, you you can look at, at the data intensive industries, like Amazon, they do a lot of customer profiling, you know, when I go shop on Amazon, and click on something, but don't buy it, it's not uncommon, you know, to see advertisements for that going forward. And, of course, you have the casino business does an excellent job, customer profiling, you know, they monitor loss rates, and so on real time. So there's a timeless aspect to that. And, you know, in their business, it's, it's very interesting, because they all have the same games. And, you know, how do you attract people to your, to your casino, you know, in the old days, it was big, they would build a bigger building, and, you know, build a casino in the shape of a pyramid or something like that. But that became cost prohibitive, and your internal rates of return start to start to go down. And so rather than doing something bigger and better, you have to run a run a much smarter operation.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
18:40
But really, we touched on this earlier, he's a brilliant, so you're really talking about tying the supplier to customer data much tighter in a tighter way than we do perhaps in our industry right now. Amazon does it brilliantly. I didn't realize gambling did it quite so well, between they do? Yeah, that's brilliant. Thank you, Kevin. Jose, what are your thoughts?
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
19:00
Yeah, I think the the example of the casinos and client profiling is probably the the best of the best examples. But I will look to the Guru's in my opinion, if you're talking about data, you need to look at Google, you need to look at Facebook, you need to look at visa, you need to look at PayPal. All these guys know, even Apple. They know I think they know you better than we know ourselves. They know exactly how much you're going to spend, what are you going to buy? When are you going to spend it? When can you go over the limit in and that might be a little bit more related to payment. But at the very end what they are doing is collecting raw data, absolutely raw data, how many websites so you clean how many times you do payments with your card, how many times you check your computer, and so on and define a pattern. So if I have to choose where which industry would I follow? I would say the tech companies are the ones that are actually leading The past of data analyses and, and creation of valuable information, which is the ultimate objective.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
20:08
Yeah, cool. And I think that this interesting point, the creation of valuable information that they then act on is critical, I would suggest a lot of our participants to this event and others are in companies that have seas of data, it's just turning that sea of data into valuable information that you can action, perhaps in a more automated way might be the challenge. But thank you very much
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
20:28
not to take us to the point where Kevin was mentioning at the very end, the suppliers of informations on platforms, where traders can actually go and collect the information, either Limited is the same guys for the last 20 years. Yeah. So it is complicated to get the information. That's why I think we need to learn from from the masters of data analysis.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
20:49
Right. Thank you, Jose, say, What are your thoughts on this particular? Again, I'd love your alternative data viewpoints all this?
20:56
Sure. I guess my experience is mostly from financial markets. So I've worked in banks also done projects with quant funds, on the one hand, obviously quite mature in the space in terms of utilization data. And then also for commodity trading houses where, where typically the use of data is not quite at the same level as a as a large quant fund. I think the key point is trying to do what you can. So it's not a case of jumping towards the most complicated machine learning model. From from the start, just started, going on to Kevin's point about price data being in kind of unstructured forms, like spreadsheets, etc. So that's a good place to start all the data in terms of price data, try and capture that as best you can and put it into a structured form like a database. And once you have the data in a structured form, then you can start playing around with it and utilizing it and just take small steps to begin with. Sometimes people want the most complicated model, but usually the simplest thing is actually a good start and potentially could be quite useful. And that's the same I'd say for alternative data, don't necessarily spend months and months on a project and try and maybe start with a structured alternative data set to begin to kick your process off, I'd say.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
22:12
So iteratively, effectively mine mine the seam iteratively and see what value you can get surface.
22:18
So yeah, definitely. I would agree with that. Because ultimately, and that's the way you get buy in as well.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
22:25
Yeah, that will make sense as you write that there are organizations, which are groups of people with different stakeholders all having different views and opinions and needs to try and satisfy with the data you're using. So a question for you, then I'm going to change the order a bit. This one I'll see directly is one of the steps then from taking us from raw data, which if I summarize the views of all of you, the CDO was more to do with the raw data. And the CIO is more to do with the interpretation and value add to that data. So what are the steps to going from raw data to decision making, ie information
23:01
That I would add, flip it to the other way around? Actually, so I would say what are your use cases. So if my use cases, I want to forecast a certain commodity price, I want to I want to try and get more insight in specific market, go from there, and then slowly narrow down into the sorts of datasets are going to be useful. Hopefully those datasets are things that you collect yourself, or if they're not there, they're something that you can obtain externally. So once you go from your use cases, then you can narrow down and identify what sorts of data and then once you have the datasets, then you structure the datasets, create models around them and go back towards your and your use case, essentially.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
23:41
Brilliant. So make it very problem problem focused and solve problems and surface the data you'll find the data to solve the problems find. Yeah, I
23:49
Would definitely, because at least whenever I looked at data is when you try and get a massive data and you try and find something, just invariably, you don't find a stack. Yeah, exactly. So at least if you know if you can shine a spotlight on the right side sorts of data and potentially the right variables to look at, I think that could be quite helpful for you. And and the thing is a lot of people in the industry experience they might not be tech folks, but they kind of have a feeling of what drives markets. So they're the first people I would say to ask it's not to begin with, it's more of a markets problem, as opposed to data science becomes a data science problem later on, once the question has been asked. And so
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
24:30
could you expand on that bit? For example, what what do you mean by that? It becomes data science later on.
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
24:35
Because I would say
24:36
The perspective of somebody who likes data, including myself is to try and find something in a data. And typically, you might end up data mining, some sort of solution was if you have some sort of guidance from a domain experts, then they can kind of guide you in such a way that you'll hopefully avoid kind of more spurious solutions within the data. So it's not okay. Just trying to Data Miner solution is trying to find something which they think can work and then verify it and go back.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
25:07
So almost for my hypothesis and then validated or not through the day, yeah, it's
25:11
Kind of more than traditional statistics. And I think particularly in these types of areas that markets, the signal to noise ratio is very low. Yeah, so potentially is more amenable to that. I guess in other industries, you can do a bit more data miners, you have so much more data, but at least within financial markets and kind of energy trading, that the signal, you just need a signal that works 51% of the time. And that's, that's good enough.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
25:35
Brilliant, very insightful. Thank you. So you'd, Josie, Jose, any any thoughts from you on that question of your raw data?
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
25:44
Now, I was actually thinking, Oh, well, your side was speaking on. I would say this a human factor, we're not taking in account. When do you want to develop? What are the steps not from the raw, from the from the raw data and on to valuable information? There's definitely a human factor, the person who has experience I was thinking in the case of free flow, free flow is yeah, you can say, We're digital, we are used artificial intelligence as one. First you locate what is the problem? What is what you're trying to solve in, as I was explaining beautifully. And but there's a big component of the experts, the experts using tangible information that that the experts actually bring on onto the table. And then you start building? What do you need? Which platform? Which systems are you going to use in order to get to that information? Or to convert it? No. And so my, my two cents to the discussion would be let's not forget the the experts in that they bring some tangible value that actually is valuable.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
26:54
Yeah, so I guess picking up on that same point inside the domain knowledge around that data is probably invaluable. Otherwise, just to see if data points without any surface value and information. Thank you very much. Yeah. That's cool. Jose, thank you, Kevin, you must have a view on this one.
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
27:11
I do. Yeah, I very much agree with the other panelists. So what I'm going to say is, is basically the same thing in different words. So a lot of the requests for data come directly from the front office. So these are traders or desk heads that understand their business very, very well. And they're looking for data that if they had it would allow them to make better decisions. And, you know, many times it doesn't have to be numerically correct, it can just be directionally correct. And so they're looking for things that give them that competitive edge. And because the data itself gives them a competitive, competitive edge, it's very much proprietary, and has to be closely held.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
27:56
Okay. Interesting. All right. So effectively building on the same points, but your point is, anything that's valid, truly valuable from a market perspective, has to be closely held, which kind of makes sense. Keep the secret sauce close,
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
28:10
Right? I mean, we all generally speaking, have the same tools and so on. And so if you're looking for something that, that allows you to make better trades and your competitors, many times it does come down to the data.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
28:22
Are there any insights from your side as to how that comes about? What what trade creates more secret sauce than others? I suppose in that question around moving from raw data to decision making, are there any obvious steps you see people making who are very good at that verse, he says, are less good at it.
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
28:38
I mean, a lot of it comes down to the specialness of these physical markets, you know, you know, if you if you have a trader that's been doing this for 15 or 20 years, he or she can, can remember all sorts of events that have happened and how the markets respond. And you know, just being on on a desk, and you slowly pick up and accumulate that commercial knowledge. As your commercial knowledge starts to expand, you start to realize that, hey, well, maybe there's something, you know, if we knew this, or we could model this aspect a little bit better. It would, it would give us that competitive edge. And you know, if you do have your data, and you go back and your your back tested and so on, you can see that yeah, you can actually start to quantify that benefit. Yeah,
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
29:21
Right. I think there's a Pascal quote about Fortune favors the prepared mind. So I think that's probably what you're talking about here is understanding the context. Great, Kevin, thank you very much, and Rico, anything to add to those thoughts?
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
29:34
And well, maybe a little bit more prescriptive, but I think that you know, to move from raw data to decision making, you have to follow us a number of steps that are both operational and strategic. So for instance, the first thing is extracting you must extract data from all sources or data sources. So the the first strategic point is you know, from which sources sources you want to extract data The second thing is you want to do data cleansing and normalization. Because if you want to use this data and match it, or correlated with other data, you want to make sure that you can compare apples with apples. And so make sure that you can read the same data, although coming from not sorry, the same data, but data can be comparable. And do the, for instance, you know, pattern analysis, but you want to make sure that you do it based on actually what is your business objective? So at this point, doing data cleansing normalization, and enrichments, you have turned data into information, but then you have to distribute the information that to whom? Who is authorized, read that information, who's authorized to manage that data? And then how do you store it? So this comes back to the CTO know the rules for how you store for how long? And then how do you maintain it? How do you update it? And last, when or how should you remove it for how long should it be there? Yeah, all these allow not only to transform data, raw data into information, but also to make it useful to to the company itself, and to all the different stakeholders within
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
31:08
The company. Yeah, and I think that's a really good point very close to our heart, we tend to make this distinction between data science and data engineering, where the engineering is around, you could argue the plumbing and the architecture necessary to achieve what you are talking about. And the science might be about achieving the insights from that data. And we see organizations that have perhaps very good insights, but not necessarily good infrastructure to support the robust sharing of that information to maximize the value. I think it's a really good point there. Thank you very much. I'm going to hop over to another question, which is a bit of a hybrid. But basically, I think we've agreed there's there's a lot of data, some organizations have more, some have less and more mature abroad is a lot of data around inside or outside, and it's getting bigger and bigger. So the first part of this is, how can the CTO avoid the analysis paralysis? And say, you came out with a very simple and elegant way of let's focus on the problem and build out from that iteratively, which I think does make sense. But we see a lot of organizations where there's just data everywhere, and everyone's coming at them, like, you know, playing from the sky. So how do you avoid the analysis paralysis, given those often conflicting request requirements, priorities that change? Not just on the front, the trading desk in the front office, but middle office and risk and other areas? And secondarily, can the CTO or the business that was run by the CTO be expected to monetize any of this slide? Why don't you kick off on that one?
32:32
Yeah, sure. So I guess Yeah, going back to my point to try and solve some sort of simple use case to start with, just to show that there is value in kind of spending time and money on data. Because ideally, in any organization, you'd want to have a perfect data lake with every single bit of data and in the firm their access to external data to begin with, that's the ideal use case. But if that's going to take a year, two years to create, then you're not going to get anywhere and by then, there's probably not going to be any budget, basically, for any data for it. So to start with a use case, which hopefully you can, you can strap relatively quickly. I would say in terms of monetization, there's several different way I was gonna say, Read, read my book, but
33:21
But I think there's two aspects in terms of monetization. So one is to directly to sell the data externally, this can be a bit of a hard sell for many organizations, because potentially, you're giving up some sort of secrets of how your data is being run. And also, it could be the case that it just doesn't move the needle for a large corporate anyway. And the second way to monetize data is obviously internally to if you're, if you're, for example, you're trading, or you're trying to streamline your operations, that's another way to analyze it. And then another way, is basically in terms of as a marketing exercise. So do you have some sort of interesting data which could be released maybe on a monthly basis to the market, where we'd have your name associated with it every single month, and just trying to produce your profile that way? So one example of that is ADP, a company which does payrolls in the US, they release a monthly number based on employment based on their internal data. And they just get financial press every three months for that. So there are there are several different ways to monetize it. It doesn't necessarily have to be you have to sell your, your data to funds, etc. It can also be through the marketing words as well.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
34:33
Thanks. There's a really good set of distinctions. I guess, in summary, we all see that the FT says X or, you know, coalition, or someone else says why. And that's a great way to monetize it, but indirectly as opposed to in his subscription model.
34:47
Yeah, exactly. And I think, because in some instances, they'll say, look, it's just not worth our while to try and sell data because we're a massive company and subscriptions are going to be maybe a couple of million dollars a year so It's
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
35:00
Not worth it. Okay, cool. Thank you. Jose, do you have any thoughts on this, particularly around the monetization part? But also maybe the analysis paralysis problem? Yeah.
Jose Lopez, Digital Strategy Director, TradeFlow Capital Management
35:08
On both on both on the analysis paralysis, what I would say is, well, you need to be responsible, and there's going to be a CTO or CEO, on your on your back asking you for the information, or why wasn't ready. And that take us to the point that we were speaking at the beginning that information given you the ground time, or too late or too raw, this is not information, it says raw data, right. So on the analysis paralysis definitely had there has to be in companies, there has to be a perfect alignment with between the management and who's getting the information in, I see that. Even here at trade flow, when you're talking between the developers, the CEO, and everyone that is in the middle, there has to be a perfect understanding, what do we want? What information do we want? And when do you need it? Right. So that that helps to avoid the analysis paralysis? And then the question would be, rather than money Tyson, the could a CEO or its department, be responsible, have a budget? Are you a profit center? Are you a cost center? We're looking at it as a cost center. And I think there's a certain point where you need to identify the revenue that that valuable information brings to the company? Or what do you lose if you don't have that information? So at some point, you have to really locate what is the value of that information? And that turns it into, into a profit center.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
36:35
Right. Brilliant. Thank you very much. I'm going to ask one last question, because when a couple of minutes, I'm going to ask Enrico, this question, which is, where do we go from here? What does the CEO function look like for the next five years,
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
36:48
Or maybe five years is too long shot, but I would say the role of the CEO would be to make him or herself useless. Let me say this. The role of CTO is basically to inject into all the other sea levels. Yeah, we return that understanding of how much data is important, how to use it, and how to leverage it. So it's, of course, so the role of the CEOs role today is to do that kind of job to extract data and all the things we've said, his or her job is to instill this into the other so that he, the CEO can really move to the next step, then we'll move to the next level of data monetization and making a strategic,
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
37:30
So sort of almost, you're talking about a sort of mentoring guidance, kind of quasi strategy.
Enrico Camerinelli, Non-Executive Director, Supply@ME Capital PLC
37:36
I mean, of course, I've been harsh, it's not that we don't need any more CEOs in the future. The point is that what the CTO is doing today, I think, should be part of the skill set of the of those who are the C level have to make to make decisions, in terms for instance, of helping the company understand what kind of digital automation is needed for people to make decisions, so that you know, the level of attention of data can move to the next level. Right? Operational.
Ian Murrin, CEO, Digiterre
38:04
Thank you very much. Unfortunately, I can't ask this question of the rest of the panel because we're running out of time. So just to recap, it seems to me that we've come to a fair conclusion around the roles of a CEO, a CTO, the CIO, and there are I spent agreed upon distinctions which is great. We think it is a vital role. It's got a kind of a mentoring aspect and a strategic aspect. There is plenty to learn from third parties, I think we all can see that and it's it's never It's a never ending journey. There is no particular destination apart from in and Rico's view, you make yourself redundant, but I suggest the function will probably continue to evolve, maybe the title will change. But it's been really interesting, really fascinating. And I'm never going to gamble ever again based on what you told me Kevin. Never was going to but frankly, never to get to now it's a it's a losing streak. But thank you very much for your thoughts and input. I've really enjoyed it. I hope as an audience, you've all enjoyed it.
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Fuelled by digital technologies, we guide companies through lasting transformations to create the change that matters. As our industry experiences once in a century transition, we build and share knowledge and experience promoting the triple aim of sustainable, reliable, affordable energy for all.
ION COMMODITIES
PARTNER
ION Commodities: The world’s largest portfolio of energy and commodities trading and risk management solutions.
ION Commodities accelerates your success with a data-driven approach and powerful, award-winning energy and commodities (ETRM and CTRM) trading and risk management solutions. Regardless of your industry, our solutions put you in complete control of energy and commodities value chains, from production and processing through to distribution. We provide full support and transparency for procurement, supply and trading, with continuous risk controls throughout the trade lifecycle. That’s why many of the world’s biggest and best-known companies partner with us to sharpen decision-making and boost productivity.
MOLECULE SOFTWARE
LEAD ETRM/CTRM PARTNER
Molecule is the world’s most modern ETRM/CTRM. The software is designed for electricity, natural gas, crude, liquids, metals, ags, softs, crypto, and FX options/futures. Molecule captures over 50,000 physical and financial products, across 50 commodities.
Molecule uses the latest technology to make the risk system powerful—but also light, fast, and easy-to-use – a first in the industry. As a result, Molecule lets risk and operations managers at trading companies “go home earlier,” by automating routine tasks and complex calculations. It is next-generation position, P&L, near-time VaR, and risk analytics software for any company that trades commodities. Molecule also offers specialized add-ons for physical power and enterprise cryptocurrency trading.
Using our cloud-native product, customers get more data security and reliability while enjoying a SaaS pricing model and regular product upgrades with no interruption to service. Implementations can be completed in 90 days, and proactive support is provided by the team that does implementations – so that we can alert your team of problems, before you find them.
Based in Houston, Texas, the Molecule team serves IPPs, hedge funds, energy marketers and advisors, and Fortune 100 companies in North America and worldwide.
HITACHI ENERGY
NETWORKER
Hitachi Energy is a global technology leader that is advancing a sustainable energy future for all.
We serve customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future.
We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible, and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion.
The Energy Portfolio Management (EPM) group offers energy market intelligence services as well as commercial energy operations software for optimization of generation resources and portfolios into solution models, forecasting of prices, load, and generation, commodity/energy trading and risk management (C/ETRM) to maximize value and mitigate risk, as well as communication interfaces with market operators.
K3 by BROADPEAK
SPONSOR
AXPO
SPONSOR
Axpo is driven by a single purpose – to enable a sustainable future through innovative energy solutions.
Axpo is Switzerland’s largest producer of renewable energy and an international leader in energy trading and the marketing of solar and wind power.
Axpo combines the experience and expertise of more than 6,000 employees who are driven by a passion for innovation, collaboration and impactful change. Using cutting-edge technologies, Axpo innovates to meet the evolving needs of its customers in over 30 countries across Europe, North America and Asia.
RECLEVER – AI
EXHIBITOR
Reclever is an AI-powered search engine for oil and gas traders. It uses GPT language models to distil complex info into actionable insights.
Reclever understands the context of your question and presents you with the most relevant information from trusted sources.
You can also see the references for each answer to verify the information. Reclever uses custom AI pipelines that are flexible and fine-tunable to meet your specific data needs.
The benefits include:
EUROPEAN ENERGY EXCHANGE
SPONSOR
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is the leading energy exchange which builds secure, successful and sustainable commodity markets worldwide – together with its customers.
As part of EEX Group, a group of companies serving international commodity markets, it offers contracts on power, natural gas and emission allowances as well as freight and agricultural products. EEX also provides registry services as well as auctions for Guarantees of Origin, on behalf of the French State.
BRADY
SPONSOR
Empowering business performance in energy markets.
Brady Technologies enables energy market participants to profit in new ways from the green energy transition, supporting Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) requirements. We provide software solutions to support above market returns, resilient risk management and scheduling in volatile markets.
Our customers include globally renowned organisations from utilities, independent power producers, renewable asset developers, energy trading firms, oil & gas companies, state power grid operators and commodity trading firms. Whether engaged financial or physical trading, on major exchanges or over-the-counter, we help market participants to realise revenue growth across the trading life cycle.
Our solution suite comprises:
PowerDesk – a SaaS trader’s dashboard for European intraday and day-ahead power trading. With dynamic, intelligent visualisation of live P&L and market connectivity from one central place, traders are empowered to seize opportunities faster and optimise revenues from generation assets.
Igloo – a high-performance ETRM SaaS solution designed in collaboration with one of the world’s largest financial energy traders. It offers a state-of-the art user experience, unrivalled exchange connectivity and automated trading of exceptionally high trade volumes. Igloo helps energy trading desks achieve maximum return on investment from their operations.
PowerDesk Scheduler – helps traders to deliver power through the majority of TSOs across Europe in a single solution. The solution helps to maximise trading opportunities enabling adherence to country-specific TSO communication protocols and deadlines.
CRisk – a cloud credit risk management solution providing real-time exposure monitoring to ensure oversight and control of all counterparty positions. Supports the entire OTC counterparty lifecycle from assessment to limit allocation and exposure management, both current and PFE. This is supplemented by comprehensive CSA collateral management capability and liquidity forecasting.
Energy Data Manager – A market leading trading and communication platform for Nordic electricity market participants. Supports day-ahead, intraday and reserve market bidding, including FCR, aFRR and mFRR. Enables power scheduling via Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish TSOs.
BRADY
EXHIBITOR
Empowering business performance in energy markets.
Brady Technologies enables energy market participants to profit in new ways from the green energy transition, supporting Environmental, Social & Governance (ESG) requirements. We provide software solutions to support above market returns, resilient risk management and scheduling in volatile markets.
Our customers include globally renowned organisations from utilities, independent power producers, renewable asset developers, energy trading firms, oil & gas companies, state power grid operators and commodity trading firms. Whether engaged financial or physical trading, on major exchanges or over-the-counter, we help market participants to realise revenue growth across the trading life cycle.
Our solution suite comprises:
PowerDesk – a SaaS trader’s dashboard for European intraday and day-ahead power trading. With dynamic, intelligent visualisation of live P&L and market connectivity from one central place, traders are empowered to seize opportunities faster and optimise revenues from generation assets.
Igloo – a high-performance ETRM SaaS solution designed in collaboration with one of the world’s largest financial energy traders. It offers a state-of-the art user experience, unrivalled exchange connectivity and automated trading of exceptionally high trade volumes. Igloo helps energy trading desks achieve maximum return on investment from their operations.
PowerDesk Scheduler – helps traders to deliver power through the majority of TSOs across Europe in a single solution. The solution helps to maximise trading opportunities enabling adherence to country-specific TSO communication protocols and deadlines.
CRisk – a cloud credit risk management solution providing real-time exposure monitoring to ensure oversight and control of all counterparty positions. Supports the entire OTC counterparty lifecycle from assessment to limit allocation and exposure management, both current and PFE. This is supplemented by comprehensive CSA collateral management capability and liquidity forecasting.
Energy Data Manager – A market leading trading and communication platform for Nordic electricity market participants. Supports day-ahead, intraday and reserve market bidding, including FCR, aFRR and mFRR. Enables power scheduling via Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish TSOs.
DELOITTE
SPONSOR
Making an impact every day, in everything we do
At Deloitte, our existence is driven by one purpose; to make an impact that matters. To us, that means lasting results for our clients and their businesses, ideas and actions that look out for the greater good. It is empowering our people and promoting their growth.
For over 175 years, we have worked with leaders around the world—from the Global 500® to private businesses—to help them build better futures. To support their people. To succeed. All while caring for our communities.
Our vision connects commercial success to sustainable development, with goals that strengthen both business and humanity. With a workforce made up of the industry’s greatest minds, we continue to shape the future by delivering real, measurable results.
We make an impact, by supporting our clients in responding to the challenges associated with the energy transition, using our experience and innovative technologies that ensure the balance of value preservation with value creation. We support our clients in their carbon management journey, as they strive to reach their decarbonization targets and navigate the uncertainty of new commodity markets in an agile landscape.
We go beyond talk—we act.
VENTRIKS
EXHIBITOR
Ventriks help customers accelerate and enable actionable information with the cloud-native Ventriks Data Platform. Unbounded by scale, flexibility and data type, organisations can extend and mature their data management and analytical workloads using data-application ready connectors, automated workflows and an advanced business rules management system, supported by a Digital Data Marketplace. Ventriks powers the complete data journey across all industries and geographies.
Ventriks Data Platform (VDP) is a cloud-native and cloud-agnostic solution, built for data teams by data teams, that enables users to work and collaborate with any data, unbounded by scale, performance, and flexibility. VDP offers a faster and more efficient platform to ingest, transform, and orchestrate data workloads with no-code data connectivity and engineering, automated inter-application workflow and powerful data targeted components.
Ventriks Data Marketplace (VDM) provides data partners the opportunity to attract and engage with a wider audience and our clients to have a better experience in sourcing, monetising, procuring, and sharing data content.
The Sweden Ukraine Foundation
CHARITY PARTNER
We are doing what we can to help rebuild Ukraine.
Support us and make a difference!
Initially launched in March 2022 following the Russian full-scale invasion of Ukraine as a private initiative of Carl Tosterud, M.D and specialist in Emergency Medicine, with friends and colleagues from Sweden with the purpose to bring medical equipment and first aid medical supplies to Ternopil regional hospital (Ukraine).
WOOD MACKENZIE
KNOWLEDGE PARTNER
Wood Mackenzie is a global energy research and consultancy business, partnering with organizations and governments to inspire better decision making. For nearly 50 years, we have been providing quality data, analytics, and insights used to power the natural resources industry.
With dedicated oil, gas & LNG, power & renewables, chemicals, and metals & mining sector teams located around the world, we place intelligence at the heart of changing markets.
CorreggioNET
SPONSOR
CorreggioNET’s geographical scope: power and gas market coverage Over time, we plan to extend the services of CorreggioNET to cover all EU markets and beyond, in line with the business needs of our subscribers. CorreggioNET is covering 30+ jurisdictions in Europe, including countries in the Balkans, Turkey, Ukraine and Moldova.
Correggio Consulting is an independent international consultancy based in Brussels. We specialise in regulatory advisory services for the gas, electricity and renewable sectors. Correggio Consulting is best known for its Correggio Digest, covering energy market regulatory and policy developments across Europe.
Commodity First
EXHIBITOR
Commodity First: is a leading consultancy firm in energy trading. As a sponsor of the Energy Trading Week 2023, we are excited to showcase our expertise and commitment to driving innovation, optimization, and growth in this dynamic industry.
Managed by seasoned professionals with extensive experience in energy trading, technology, and management consulting, CommodityFirst is uniquely positioned to address challenges faced by utilities, trading houses, and investment banks. With a European presence and global reach, CommodityFirst delivers tailored solutions enabling clients to thrive in regional and international markets.
Our track record speaks volumes. Successful projects include a €75 million transformation program for an international energy trading company, a multimillion pan-European asset optimization and scheduling solution for a large energy utility, and a risk management solution fueling business growth of a leading renewables company.
At CommodityFirst, we offer best-in-class knowledge, expertise, and talent. Our consultants provide in-depth industry insights, with direct experience from the industry. Our team includes former executives, desk heads, and technology specialists, ensuring a comprehensive blend of trading and technology proficiency for our clients.
We understand the intricacies of energy trading. With decades of business, management, and technology consulting experience, combined with our consultants’ deep-rooted industry knowledge, we are well-equipped to handle your most complex projects. We consistently deliver agreed functionality, on time and on budget, and our commitment to transparency, engagement, and delivery orientation is praised by our clients.
Energy Exemplar
SPONSOR
Energy Exemplar: Headquartered in Adelaide, Australia – with offices in the US, Europe, North and South America, and Asia – Energy Exemplar helps 500+ customers, comprising a large share of the world’s top energy market stakeholders across 73 countries, to analyse scenarios for the most accurate outcomes while supporting their organisational and digital transformation. Through their PLEXOS® platform, the market-leading integrated energy simulation software, Energy Exemplar supplies solutions across the electric, gas and renewable markets and supports infrastructure projects worldwide.
Energy Exemplar also provides cutting-edge capabilities for energy trading companies. By leveraging PLEXOS®, users can digitally replicate real-world energy markets, incorporating comprehensive datasets related to electric power, water, and gas. This powerful simulation capability allows users to explore various scenarios and understand the potential risks and opportunities associated with different market conditions. The sophisticated capabilities of PLEXOS facilitate crucial tasks such as trading, generation scheduling, capacity expansion, and market analysis across multiple industry sectors. Energy market participants can gain valuable insights into price forecasting, market trends, and supply-demand dynamics, enhancing their ability to optimise trading strategies and mitigate risks.
DEXTER ENERGY
NETWORKER
Dexter Energy provides leading AI-based forecasting and trade optimization products that help short-term energy traders managing a RES portfolio reduce their balancing costs by up to 35%.
KYOS
SPONSOR
KYOS Energy Risk Solutions understands the needs of commodity market players. We have worked for decades in commodity and energy trading. Especially if you are dealing with multiple commodities such as raw materials, ingredients, packaging, energy for production – with all of these: we support you with excellent trading and risk management software and services, incorporating best-in-class financial modelling techniques.
Our software helps to streamline processes, improves financial performance and reduces risks. Our automatic reports give you and your stakeholders consistent and up-to-date information to make
better decisions.
Whether you are in the food, packaging, energy or metals markets – KYOS has the tools and expertise to help you manage your commodity price exposures. Our analytics – your advantage.
LCP DELTA
EXHIBITOR
LCP Delta was formed through the merger of Delta-EE and LCP Energy to bring together deep generation and consumer-side expertise, to provide our clients with a single partner to help them on their journey and provide them with a 360° view across the energy spectrum. We provide data-driven research, consultancy, technology products and training services to companies investing in and navigating the energy transition. We are a diverse team from a variety of backgrounds including engineers, data analysts, environmentalists and more. LCP Delta is a mission driven organisation – all of us want to make a difference to the energy transition and accelerate the path to a low carbon future. Visit us at www.delta-ee.com to find out more.
ClearDox
SPONSOR
Digital commodity solutions by commodities experts
ClearDox® allows commodity-intensive businesses to secure a competitive advantage by digitizing and automating critical document-intensive processes. ClearDox provides the only intelligent automation platform created for commodity companies by commodity experts. By unlocking data across their business interactions embedded in hundreds of types of documents, our clients improve operational efficiencies and resiliency, while making smarter decisions.
ClearDox is unique in the space by offering turnkey solutions across agriculture, metals, renewables, oil, and gas, covering vital processes including trade confirmations and inventory/transportation management, along with invoice and letter of credit processing. At the core is a patented multi-faceted AI approach that intelligently extracts the appropriate data for processing and automates the reconciliation process.
Stop by our booth to learn more or go to https://www.cleardox.com
cQuant.io
LEAD ANALYTICS PARTNER
Founded in 2015, cQuant.io is an industry leader in analytic solutions for energy and commodity companies. Specializing in Total Portfolio Analysis, cQuant’s cloud-native SaaS platform simulates all risk factors, optimizes portfolio decisions, and includes dynamic reports and dashboards for better decision making. cQuant’s customers have greater insight into their financial forecasts and the drivers of value and risk in their business.
cQuant.io is a team of senior quantitative model developers, experienced energy analysts, software developers and cloud infrastructure experts. Leveraging decades of energy experience, cQuant.io is committed to serving the present and future analytic landscape with the most accurate models and highest performance in the industry. The field of analytics is changing rapidly and cQuant.io is dedicated to offering the latest advantages to their customers.
GEN10
CARBON MARKETS PARTNER
Gen10 focus on making the day-to-day tasks of commodity and carbon trading faster and simpler through automation and collaboration. Our technology empowers our clients, completing the feedback loop between trading and finance to support smarter, safer trading decisions.
The cloud-first technology can be accessed on any device, with systems providing lifecycle carbon credit management as well as complete commodity management. And our platforms combine all the features you expect of a CTRM with enhanced operational risk controls and greater support for logistics and operations to create end-to-end commodity management.
The flexible systems use powerful automated workflows that can be customised for your organisation’s processes and integrated with existing technologies such as finance and ERP systems for real-time data-sharing. This is how we can provide commodity-specific support to over 100 commodities; across cocoa, cotton, metals & concentrates, petrochemicals, and more – in one cloud platform.
Gen10 believes in making innovative, high value and flexible commodity management solutions. The UK-based development and support teams work in collaboration with clients to build up a real understanding of the challenges they face; delivering technology that drives value from their massive data flows and transforms their operations.
POWERBOT
EXHIBITOR
PowerBot is an algorithmic trading platform for short-term power markets such as EPEX Spot and Nord Pool with a particular focus on features for data science and machine learning. It allows for easy automation of intraday trading desks with integrated standard algorithms and own custom strategies.
Want to know more?
Visit our website www.powerbot-trading.com or send us a message at [email protected]
ATMOSPHERIC 2G
EXHIBITOR
Atmospheric (adjective) – relating to the atmosphere of the earth or another planet.
G2 (noun) – In depth information about any person or thing; An intelligence report.
AG2 was founded to accelerate innovations in global weather and environmental insights for risk management. AG2 Trader (formerly WSI Trader) is the world’s leading weather decision support platform for energy trading. We intend to accelerate investment to continue delivering unique, market-leading insights to customers around the world.
PREVISE SYSTEMS AG
EXHIBITOR
At Previse Systems, we fundamentally reshape the way Energy Trading and Risk Management (ETRM) software is designed, implemented, and operated. We offer a highly performant SaaS solution for European electricity, natural gas and certificates trading – combining modern software architecture with the latest available tools and technology. As a conceptual innovation, we build on the notion of “community”, with an infrastructure for energy companies to leverage synergies through collaboration in the IT domain. The goal of this is simple: better software, faster and at lower cost. We create software without any legacy burden. Our data structure follows accepted market standards, which drives easy and fast data migrations, and is also a core factor of strong system performance. We develop software that is both optimized for today’s energy trading, and ready for the changes anticipated in the markets in the coming years. With our open App Store, we have the solution to the classic question of “buy vs. build” by proposing an optimal equilibrium. For the development of individual, regional, or otherwise specific functionality, our App Store introduces a flexibility of choices and alternatives, as well as a speed of realization not seen before in this industry. With Previse Systems, energy companies are well equipped to master the challenges of a fast-evolving environment.
LUCIDO GROUP
SPONSOR
Lucido Group LLC is a specialist solution provider, serving capital markets and energy market participants, primarily users of trade lifecycle systems (C/ETRM for energy) such as Findur, Endur, RightAngle, and Allegro. We have market-leading expertise on enterprise data models, energy and non-energy derivatives, software delivery and support.
QUOR GROUP
METAL MARKET SUBJECT EXPERT
In the Commodity Trading and Management business, expertise emerges as the most valuable resource. A deep understanding of the commodity trade lifecycle is what makes Quor Group, the leading Commodity Trading, and Commodity Management solutions provider.
WEYTEC
EXHIBITOR
WEYTEC – No. 1 for Workflow- and Workplace Solutions in Control Rooms and on Trading Floors
With over 35 years of experience, WEYTEC is the specialist for high-performance workplaces in Control Rooms and Trading Floors. Our integrated turnkey solutions are scalable and long-lasting. They dramatically simplify day-to-day tasks for operators and traders, making their workflows more precise, efficient and cost-effective.
WEYTEC is the world’s only full-service provider with in-house development and production facilities, so that our solutions can be adapted to individual requirements. From consulting and development to production and maintenance, our customers benefit from uncompromising quality “Made in Switzerland”. As an experienced global player, we stand for innovation, expertise, reliability and security. WEYTEC is represented in 45 countries and has deployed over 50,000 workplaces worldwide.
S&P GLOBAL
GOLD SPONSOR
At S&P Global Commodity Insights, our complete view of global energy and commodities markets enables our customers to make decisions with conviction and create long-term, sustainable value. We provide respected benchmarks, perspectives and solutions for commodity and energy markets, helping customers zoom in on the near term and zoom out for the big picture. By enabling decisions that create sustainable value, we help accelerate progress in the world.
S&P Global Commodity Insights is a division of S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI). For more than 100 years, we’ve been a trusted connector that brings together thought leaders, market participants, governments, and regulators to co-create solutions that lead to progress. Vital to navigating Energy Transition, S&P Global Commodity Insights’ coverage includes oil and gas, power, chemicals, metals, agriculture, and shipping.
The markets are constantly changing, but our real-time news, market reports, analysis, price assessments, and fundamental data always provide a valuable reference point. Each day we showcase a selection of our news, research, analysis, and video insight on the Market Insights section of our website. For more information, please visit Latest Oil, Energy & Metals News, Market Data and Analysis | S&P Global Commodity Insights (spglobal.com)
MOLECULE SOFTWARE
LEAD ETRM/CTRM PARTNER
Molecule is the world’s most modern ETRM/CTRM. The software is designed for electricity, natural gas, crude, liquids, metals, ags, softs, crypto, and FX options/futures. Molecule captures over 50,000 physical and financial products, across 50 commodities.
Molecule uses the latest technology to make the risk system powerful—but also light, fast, and easy-to-use – a first in the industry. As a result, Molecule lets risk and operations managers at trading companies “go home earlier,” by automating routine tasks and complex calculations. It is next-generation position, P&L, near-time VaR, and risk analytics software for any company that trades commodities. Molecule also offers specialized add-ons for physical power and enterprise cryptocurrency trading.
Using our cloud-native product, customers get more data security and reliability while enjoying a SaaS pricing model and regular product upgrades with no interruption to service. Implementations can be completed in 90 days, and proactive support is provided by the team that does implementations – so that we can alert your team of problems, before you find them.
Based in Houston, Texas, the Molecule team serves IPPs, hedge funds, energy marketers and advisors, and Fortune 100 companies in North America and worldwide.
FAIRWORDS
SPONSOR
Fairwords is on a mission to promote fairness in business by encouraging ethical, honest, and compliant communications. Our communications compliance solutions help provide compliance leaders and teams with proactive training, analytics, and archiving to mitigate communications risks and prevent compliance crises and lawsuits. Helping companies and teams uphold cultures of compliance is core to our sense of fairness because we believe integrity and profit are not mutually exclusive, but rather, they work together to create the greatest success.
enspired
SPONSOR
enspired is a fully digital power trading-as-a-service company headquartered in Vienna. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our augmented trading services. Our platform for augmented trading is the fastest on the market and utilize AI models to leverage vast amounts of data in real-time.
The enspired team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe that the way power is traded will soon change drastically – in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. We are actively trading on German and the UK power markets, supporting customers in several countries in Europe and plan to expand even further.
CUBELOGIC
SPONSOR
CubeLogic was founded by industry veterans in 2009, with a clear vision to provide out of the box risk and reporting solutions using the latest Business Intelligence platforms and concepts. Through rapid, global growth, we now serve major tier one organisations within the energy, commodities and financial services sectors. We continue to provide value to our clients with offices in the UK, USA, Germany, Singapore and Bangalore.
Mark Copley, CEO, EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders
PRESENTATION
• The Fit for 55 package and the role of trading in decarbonising economies.
• Trading challenges for the UK market
Marc Merrill, President & CEO, Uniper North America
Nicki Dalgaard, CEO, Disruptive Biotrading
Catherine Newman, CEO, Limejump
• What are the impacts and developments in the UK and Europe post-Brexit and Covid?
• The future view for energy trading
• Exploring wider areas and regions of interest for traders
• Ongoing Covid limitations and incorporation into the trading floor; expansion of virtual markets
Latif Faiyaz, Head of Energy Trading & Strategy, Northern Gas and Power
Paul Monk, UK Power Specialist, Catalyst Commodities
Nick Speechley, Strategic Projects Manager, Octopus Energy Generation
Jeremy Plester, Commercial Manager, MetDesk
PANEL DISCUSSION
• 21/22 winter outlook and market impact scenarios
• Predicting the unpredictable: impact on renewables
• Optimising your forecasting solutions and strategies
• AI’s future role within forecasting
Trevor Neil, Managing Director, BETA Financial Limited
Clive Lambert, Chief Technical Analyst, FuturesTechs
Nicole Elliott, Technical Analyst & Private Investor
PANEL DISCUSSION
• With the increased use of Algo trading, is technical analysis still relevant?
• Is liquidity too low in energy and commodity markets for technical analysis to be efficient? Does it work enough so that it MUST be used?
• Top technical analysts comment on your markets – The panellists want your suggestions
Mark Randall, Trader Performance Coach / MD & Co-Founder, The AlphaMind Project
Steven Goldstein, Trader Performance Coach / MD & Co-Founder, The AlphaMind Project
Clive Lambert, Chief Technical Analyst, FuturesTechs
Mark Meyrick, Head of Smart Grids & PPAs, Ecotricity
PANEL DISCUSSION
• From soft skill to edge builder: Mindset optimisation tactics and techniques for traders
• Mental gymnastics to upgrade your trading performance
• Deep dive into trading psychology
• A holistic approach to mindset focus and mental, emotional and behavioural challenges
Robert Carver, Systematic futures trader and author, Independent
PRESENTATION
• Algorithmic trading trends across multiple commodities and markets
• A deeper look into technology applications
• The different ways Algo has been used in trades and how it delivers benefit, value and profit
• AI/Algo – what are the benefits and risks in a man vs machine environment? Where should the machine end and man start?
Chris Sass, Founder & Host, Insider's Guide to Energy
Kelly Vaughan, Director of Digital Strategy, Mercuria
Conversation
• Technology chasing a business case? Or the next technological revolution for energy trading?
• Use cases in trade analytics
• Applying AI to automation – from RPA to algo trading
• Mitigating risk and supporting compliance via AI
Peter Styles, Executive Vice Chair of the Board, EFET
Harry Huang, Managing Director Gas Trading, Uniper Global Commodities
Mark Meyrick, Head of Smart Grids & PPAs, Ecotricity
Alejandro Navarro, General Counsel, Energopole
PANEL DISCUSSION
• ESG Investment trends: how is it impacting trading firms?
• What are the key ESG linked trading opportunities?
• Market structural effects to pick up on environmental exposure of risky commodities
• New product markets and how do you participate in these new markets (green/blue gas, voluntary carbon markets, etc.)
• Existing markets (oil and heavy products) will still exist, how does the energy market expect to accommodate and still meet ESG exposure mitigation targets?
• What is the future impact of hydrogen on the markets?
PREDICTIVE LAYER
SPONSOR
Predictive layer is a leading software company focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forecast time series.
The company has developed a unique solution to produce automatically the most accurate short-term forecasts for almost any signal.
The Predictive Layer solution is already connected to thousands of public data sources to which additional proprietary data and business knowledge can easily be added in a secure manner. The Predictive Layer solution can be hosted in a client’s own data center or in a secure private cloud to build predictive signals automatically, without requiring any specific AI expertise.
The solution is being used successfully today in several financial areas including pricing, trading in commodities, stocks, bonds and maritime freight.
Through its professional services team, Predictive Layer also leverages its AI platform to develop specific custom forecasts or trading strategies for clients, depending on their own unique needs.
EMSYS VPP
SPONSOR
emsys VPP is a pioneer in the development of Virtual Power Plants and ranks as a leading international provider. Our sophisticated technology is offered as a Software-as-a-Service solution and digitally connects decentralized power generators, storage facilities and controllable consumers via a common control room. It is used by numerous energy suppliers and aggregators to monitor, remotely control, and profitably market aggregated electricity production.
ENERGY & METEO SYSTEMS
SPONSOR
With its precise wind and solar power forecasts and comprehensive consulting services, energy & meteo systems is one of the major international providers of forward-looking services and IT products for the market and grid integration of renewable energies. Power traders, aggregators, grid operators as well as solar and wind farm operators on all continents rely on our digital solutions and sound expertise to manage the energy transition.
PREDICTIVE LAYER
EXHIBITOR
Predictive layer is a leading software company focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forecast time series.
The company has developed a unique solution to produce automatically the most accurate short-term forecasts for almost any signal.
The Predictive Layer solution is already connected to thousands of public data sources to which additional proprietary data and business knowledge can easily be added in a secure manner. The Predictive Layer solution can be hosted in a client’s own data center or in a secure private cloud to build predictive signals automatically, without requiring any specific AI expertise.
The solution is being used successfully today in several financial areas including pricing, trading in commodities, stocks, bonds and maritime freight.
Through its professional services team, Predictive Layer also leverages its AI platform to develop specific custom forecasts or trading strategies for clients, depending on their own unique needs.
PREDICTIVE LAYER
GOLD SPONSOR
Predictive layer is a leading software company focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forecast time series.
The company has developed a unique solution to produce automatically the most accurate short-term forecasts for almost any signal.
The Predictive Layer solution is already connected to thousands of public data sources to which additional proprietary data and business knowledge can easily be added in a secure manner. The Predictive Layer solution can be hosted in a client’s own data center or in a secure private cloud to build predictive signals automatically, without requiring any specific AI expertise.
The solution is being used successfully today in several financial areas including pricing, trading in commodities, stocks, bonds and maritime freight.
Through its professional services team, Predictive Layer also leverages its AI platform to develop specific custom forecasts or trading strategies for clients, depending on their own unique needs.
LUXOFT
SPONSOR
Luxoft is the analytics and engineering arm of DXC Technology, providing bespoke, end-to-end technology solutions for mission critical systems. As experts in Banking and Capital Markets technology and solutions, we are a trusted provider of change, modernization and run services. We partner with leading technology firms to offer an ecosystem of innovative products, technology and talent, that empowers our clients to lead the industry. We are fluent in financial services, with decades of experience enabling clients to advance in challenging environments.
Baringa Partners
SPONSOR
Baringa Partners is an independent business and technology consultancy. We help businesses run more effectively, navigate industry shifts and reach new markets. We use our industry insights, ideas and pragmatism to help each client improve their business. Collaboration is central to our strategy and culture, ensuring we attract the brightest and the best. And it’s why clients love working with us.
Baringa launched in 2000 and now has over 900 members of staff and 92 partners across our practice areas Energy & Resources, Financial Services, Products & Services, and Government & Public Sector. These practices are supported by cross-sector teams focused on Customer & Digital; Finance, Risk & Compliance; People Excellence; Supply Chain & Procurement; Data, Analytics & AI; Intelligent Automation & Operations Excellence; and Technology Transformation. We operate globally and have offices in the UK, Europe, Australia, US and Asia.
Baringa Partners have been voted as the leading management consulting firm in the Financial Times’ UK Leading Management Consultants 2021 in the categories Energy, Utilities & the Environment, and Oil & Gas. We have been in the Top 10 for the last 14 years in the small, medium, as well as large category in the UK Best Workplaces™ list by Great Place to Work®. We are a Top 50 for Women employer, and are recognised by Best Employers for Race.
Baringa. Brighter Together.
OPENGAMMA
SPONSOR
OpenGamma is a derivatives analytics firm with expertise in over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives margin methodologies, backed by CME, JSCC, Accel and Dawn. They are trusted by the world’s large and most sophisticated global banks, trading firms and fund managers, with thousands of users depending on its analytics.
SYNMAX
EXHIBITOR
SynMax is a satellite data analytics company which specializes in the use of commercial satellite images to find and monitor oil and gas assets. SynMax Hyperion is the world’s only near real-time frac crew monitor which makes daily observations of frac activity in every major oil and gas play in the US. Hyperion has used this proprietary satellite data to build a first of its kind short term oil and gas production model which can predict near-term changes in oil and gas production.
SynMax is also developing a first of its kind coal pile monitor which once complete will give clients regular updates of coal inventories at each coal power plant in the US.
COGNITE
SPONSOR
Cognite is a global industrial SaaS company that was established with one clear vision: to rapidly empower industrial companies with contextualized, trustworthy, and accessible data to help drive the full-scale digital transformation of asset-heavy industries around the world. Our core Industrial DataOps platform, Cognite DataFusion®️, enables industrial data and domain users to collaborate quickly and safely to develop, operationalize, and scale industrial AI solutions and applications to deliver both profitability and sustainability. Visit us at www.cognite.com and follow us on Twitter @CogniteData or LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/
WOMEN IN ENERGY
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
Women in Energy, WONY is a non-profit association, which has been founded in Budapest in 2017. Our aim is to increase the proportion of women leaders in the energy sector, not only in Hungary, but also in the CEE Countries. Our objective is to support the growing professional community of women in energy field, enable women to reach top decision-making positions and bring women board mandates to a visible level. We strongly believe that the unlimited power of women can inspire and provide a wealth of success to the industry especially in the current very fast changing new energy world. Diversity on boards leads to competitiveness and can contribute to improvements. A board has to be innovative which is the key to efficiency. Energy revolution cannot happen without women. This revolution has a huge impact to our whole future. It would be a big mistake not to use the women power in this particular situation. The women power can bring more efficiency, more competitiveness and more human sensibility to our common business.
RELATIVITY TRACE
EXHIBITOR
Relativity Trace is a communication surveillance platform that detects insider trading, collusion, and other non-compliant behaviour in real-time. The solution increases the efficiency of compliance teams performing communication surveillance by seamlessly pulling communications from every enterprise system, leveraging a suite of innovative AI capabilities to reduce false positive alerting, and providing an endlessly flexible platform to support any organization’s workflows. Use it to automatically surface the riskiest content so your teams can spend more time focusing on what matters most to you.
HITACHI ENERGY
EXHIBITOR
Hitachi Energy serves customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future.
We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Customers rely upon our solutions to plan, build, operate, optimize and maintain their power infrastructure, whilst increasing overall flexibility and resilience.
Our Grid Automation hardware, software and services portfolio unites deep domain knowledge and innovative technologies that enable customers across the globe to optimize the critical systems that power, move and connect us. Our digitalization solutions are cost effective, agile and innovative, delivering control, visibility and stability for increasingly complex systems.
Through digitalization we can improve reliability and resiliency, and enable a wide range of sustainable choices.
Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
WISTA Switzerland is a key global shipping and trading hub, with regional clusters in the Geneva Lake area, Zug/Zurich and Locarno. The shipping and trading activity in Switzerland provides over 35’000 jobs and represents 3.8% of the Swiss GDP. Switzerland, and Geneva in particular, is also home to international organisations such as the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD).
WISTA Switzerland was founded in Geneva in 2009 and incorporated according to the WISTA International statute in January 2010. The Association is active in both Geneva and Zug/Zurich chapters with the Board and Members meeting monthly to discuss topics of interest, exchange ideas and experiences. We also meet for networking events, conferences and member exclusive coaching sessions.Every year, several conferences are organized by Wista Switzerland on latest developments in the industry in both areas Geneva and Zug/Zurich.
FENDAHL
PARTNER
Fusion CTRM is an analytics-driven, end-to-end commodity management platform that enables Metals trading companies to efficiently and profitably meet the challenges of complex and volatile commodity markets.
Designed to meet the complex requirements of Metals and Metal Concentrates, Ags and Energy trading businesses Fusion provides greater levels of automation and task management than ever before, allowing for the digitisation of previously manual business processes.
Fusion manages; Trade Entry, Pricing, Contract Management, Market Data Integration, Electronic Exchange Integration, Enterprise Risk, Logistics, Freight, INTTRA Container management, Bulk Handling, Blending, Processing, Assay Exchanges, Decision Support, Automated Task Management, Forecasting, and Reporting. The solution supports the functional trading and risk management requirements of metals trading businesses, mining companies, processors, producers and manufacturers.
COMMODITY TRADING ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The CTA Commodity Trading Association is the leading international Network of Commodity Trading, Shipping and Financing professionals.
HR MARITIME
MEDIA PARTNER
HR Maritime, founded in 2008 by Richard Watts, is a Geneva based company providing services to the International Trading, Shipping and Trade Finance Industries. With a client base both within Switzerland and around the globe we offer guidance and implement tailored solutions to the range of problems besetting a company involved in the Trading, Shipping or Financing of commodities. We work with Commodity Traders, Importers and Exporters, Ship Owners and Managers, P&I Clubs, Insurance Underwriters, Trade Financiers, Lawyers and a number of associated service providers. With our broad knowledge and experience across many areas of business, geographical regions and various commodities, we are able to approach nearly any problem or situation with a practical, pragmatic and innovative solution. We are equally at home working on enhancing efficiency within the largest trading companies as with small exporters or importers looking to break into the international markets. Our services focus on Consultancy, Outsourcing and bespoke Training.
PROPELLER CLUB
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The Propeller Club – Port of Geneva is a professional association providing opportunities for Shipping and Trading professionals to network and develop their knowledge.
Founded in 1983, the Club has been actively involved in the local and international Shipping and Trading community and presently is proud to have about 160 members including individuals working as shipowners, traders, charterers, logistics providers, agents, banks, insurers and lawyers as well as a large number of companies active in the market.
Geneva is a global hub for Shipping and Trading and in an industry where network is key to one’s individual and to the industry’s success, the Propeller Club serves a vital role.
The Propeller Club organises a range of events which are open to the Shipping and Trading community both in Geneva and those visiting for work or pleasure. These events include monthly evening events focused on specific topics combining learning and networking opportunities. On a more social level, the Club organises networking events such as our annual events to celebrate Escalade, an annual outing on the Neptune on Lake Geneva and a summer lunch. The Club also organises drinks events to promote networking in the larger community.
The Propeller Club is in close contact with Propeller Clubs in ports and cities throughout Europe and further afield to coordinate our activities and to create value for the broader network.
AMPHORA
SPONSOR
Amphora is the proven software solution provider for commodity trading, logistics and risk management in the global oil, refined products, LPG, bunkering, biofuels, coal, ore, LNG, metals, concentrates and freight marketplace. Founded in 1997 with headquarters in London, Amphora provides enterprise software solutions designed and developed for commodity trading organisations. Our team includes some of the most experienced software designers, developers and business analysts in the commodities industry today.Since our inception, our goal has been to provide the trading community with the most robust, user-friendly, easy to implement and enterprise-wide software package available.Amphora continues to launch new products that address customers’ needs and adjust to dynamic market demands.
GLOBAL PRESENCE
– 100+ employees with direct hands-on experience with commodity trading systems
– Development Centres in London, Dubai, Hyderabad, Zug
– Service Centres in London, Dubai, Houston, Zug, Hyderabad, Mexico City and Singapore Trade Commodities? Need a fresh look at your risk management? We got you!
EMSYS VPP
EXHIBITOR
emsys VPP is a pioneer in the development of Virtual Power Plants and ranks as a leading international provider. Our sophisticated technology is offered as a Software-as-a-Service solution and digitally connects decentralized power generators, storage facilities and controllable consumers via a common control room. It is used by numerous energy suppliers and aggregators to monitor, remotely control, and profitably market aggregated electricity production.
ENERGY & METEO SYSTEMS
EXHIBITOR
With its precise wind and solar power forecasts and comprehensive consulting services, energy & meteo systems is one of the major international providers of forward-looking services and IT products for the market and grid integration of renewable energies. Power traders, aggregators, grid operators as well as solar and wind farm operators on all continents rely on our digital solutions and sound expertise to manage the energy transition.
KELLEN
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
Kellen, the world’s leading partners to associations, offers full-service management as well as support services including advocacy and government affairs, education and certification programs, marketing and communications, meeting and expo production, strategic development, and technology services. Kellen’s managed portfolio includes more than 130 of the world’s most impactful trade associations and professional societies representing and supporting more than 10,000 companies and 100,000 professionals worldwide. Kellen is headquartered in Atlanta, with additional offices in Beijing, Brussels, Chicago, Kansas City, New York City and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit kellencompany.com.
KERV
EXHIBITOR
Combining the world’s best cloud-centric managed services with a uniquely collaborative way of working, Kerv helps businesses get ahead – and stay there. As part of Kerv, the Kerv Collaborate practice simplifies business communications through bespoke voice, mobile, data, and communications compliance solutions.
At Kerv Collaborate, we understand financial markets and other regulated industries. We support organisations with fully end-to-end solutions that allow them to adapt to ever-evolving communications requirements, whilst meeting compliance recording and monitoring obligations under FCA, MiFID II and other regulatory standards.
But why us? As well as being experts in communications compliance, our service wrap also covers telephony, IT, networking, contact centre and digital transformation. We look forward to meeting you at Energy Trading Week ’22.
AIGET
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
AIGET: Associazione Italiana di Grossisti di Energia e Trader / The Italian Association of Energy
Traders & Suppliers (www.aiget.org)
Created in 2000, with the beginning of the liberalization of the Italian energy markets, AIGET represents and promotes the interests of the Italian and foreign entrants in the supply, trading & shipping of electricity, natural gas and related services & certificates. The main targets of the Association are the promotion of competition, transparency and liquidity in the Italian energy markets & supporting the development and standardization of tradable energy products and contracts, including energy & weather derivatives.
ELEVEN ASSOCIATES
MEDIA PARTNER
As the world pivots for energy transition, upstream and downstream producers and consumers of energy are evolving rapidly to meet and exceed global climate goals.
Eleven are deeply involved in the energy transition across trading, investment, development, optimisation and analytics including factors affecting these decisions and advice, such as meteorology and geopolitics, collaborating and sharing advice and insight.
And, as such, over the last 23 years, Eleven has evolved from operating in a traditional downstream supply and trading industry into a partner of choice for energy and commodities, renewable, chemical and alternative technologies. During this diversification, our operations in traditional geographies have evolved into emerging markets whilst supporting our existing clients within the European energy trading sector including but not limited to Gas, Power, LNG and Carbon. We’ve worked in these markets since the early days of deregulation, placing our first power broker in 1999. Our client portfolio includes trading companies, private equity and institutional backed companies, banks, utilities, emerging technologies and retailers.
FINANCIAL IT
MEDIA PARTNER
Financial IT is a digital platform for multimedia and editorial content, rankings and overviews of major industry events. Financial IT magazine is published throughout the year in digital form. Financial IT magazine is available in print form at major trade events through our media partnerships.
We believe that our competitive edge comes from our established relationships with financial IT companies and institutions, the breadth of the solutions described and the quality of content. Financial IT provides a detailed map of the everchanging space where the IT provider sector meets the broadly defined financial services sector.
FIDECTUS
PARTNER
Fidectus’ Global Energy Network (GEN) delivers fully automated management of your entire over the counter (OTC) post-trade lifecycle; including regulatory reporting, electronic Confirmation Matching, electronic Settlement Matching, bilateral netting, multilateral netting, financing, and payment for energy and commodities markets.
GEN enables you to reduce your counterparty risk, increase your operational efficiency and scale. It also helps you to increase the speed of counterparty onboarding, improve your PnL and better manage your liquidity. We provide you tools to better manage your working capital.
GEN supports multiple standards as ISDA, EFET electronic Confirmation Matching (eCM), EFET electronic Settlement Matching (eSM) etc. Furthermore, you can connect easily and quickly to GEN via multiple channels as Restful API, SFTP, Email, SharePoint, cognitive OCR etc.) and formats (e.g. xml, json, csv etc.). That means you can handle and control all your inbound and outbound post trade workflows in one solution.
EUROPEAN GAS HUB
LNG MEDIA PARTNER
ERENEWABLE
EDUCATION PARTNER
At eRENEWABLE our comprehensive approach combines energy efficiency and price transparency while reducing your RFP time by more than 50 percent to help you discover real time market value while getting the best price and terms for your PPA/VPPA.
With our proprietary auction platform, it allows you to bring buyers or sellers to an online marketplace competing for your business while also providing last-look technology that ensures you get the best market price possible.
In addition to facilitating PPA’s and VPPA’s through our network of clean energy professionals, we can also reduce your carbon footprint utilizing Responsibly Sourced Gas via our partnership with a leading global energy provider – and our RSG contains 90% less methane on average than the standard U.S. natural gas.
Looking for Green Energy Credits? Whether you utilize verified RSG certificates or unbundled RECs, your path to NetZero and Decarbonization is one step closer with eRENEWABLE.
If it’s reliable off-grid Energy that you need, we’ll keep you powered-up onsite with our solar array, battery storage, and budget-conscious Microgrid solutions.
Please visit us at www.erenewable.com today or call 1-866-ERENEW-1 to learn more.
As one of the premier podcasts in the Renewable Energy sector, The Green Insider, powered by eRENEWABLE is telling the story of The Energy Transition with the best minds, leaders, and disruptors in the industry. With 120+ episodes since it launched in August 2020, The Green Insider covers the latest in hydrogen, battery storage, wind, solar and grid resiliency. In addition to being the official podcast of several conference networking events and forging partnerships with industry leading trade organizations like NAEMA and a collaboration with the University of Houston, The Green Insider has established itself as appointment podcast listening.
International Gas Union
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
KWA Analytics
EXHIBITOR
KWA Analytics is a Global Advisory firm specializing in delivering Trading & Risk Management business and technology solutions for clients in the Energy, Commodity, Treasury and Capital Markets.
We bring together, under one roof, the industry’s leading experts with the complete TRM and related skillsets providing unrivaled business and technical consulting services. We understand your needs and the business and technical services necessary to plan, design, develop, implement, and support your organization.
Since our founding KWA Analytics has an established set of credentials as a trusted advisor and partner. We are pleased to have been recognized again as the #1 consultancy in the Energy Risk 2022 Technology Advisory Awards.
For further information about KWA and ways we can work with you, please visit us at kwa-analytics.com
NATURAL GAS INTEL
MEDIA PARTNER
Believing that transparent markets empower businesses, economies, and communities, Natural Gas Intelligence (NGI) provides natural gas price transparency and key news, insights, and data for the North American energy markets.
Through its offering of Subscription Services, NGI provides daily, weekly, and monthly (Bidweek) price indexes for more than 170 locations throughout the United States, Mexico, and Canada. Since 2008, NGI has greatly enhanced the liquidity of its indexes through a perpetual partnership with the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), providing for the inclusion of ICE trade data in its proprietary price index determination process. NGI also produces natural gas forward curves out 10 years, as well as Mexico, U.S. shale, and indicative LNG Netback pricing as part of its larger LNG Data Suite.
In addition to these key market price transparency data offerings, NGI provides a suite of news and information services in English and Spanish that help businesses across the global value chain understand news and events that affect their business decisions.
VERIDAPT
GOLD SPONSOR
VERIDAPT is an award-winning IoT and fintech company that delivers a digital verification platform providing world leading, real-time monitoring of bulk commodity supply chains to mitigate theft and fraud.
VERIDAPT is trusted to monitor and control billions in commodities around the world and helps companies meet their ESG goals by measuring carbon emissions.
We provide certainty through real-time data, and our accurate reporting allows our customers to know their total emissions and offset this as part of offering net-zero product.
Our solutions allow stakeholders across supply chains in banking, mining and industry to deal with certainty. Backed by Macquarie Group, VERIDAPT’s mining customers include BHP, Rio Tinto, Yancoal, Glencore and Vale.
Our products include, AdaptSCF, a platform solution designed to mitigate operational risk, by providing;
CONTOUR
LEAD DIGITAL TRADE FINANCE NETWORK
PARTNER
Contour is a leading digital trade finance network that is building the global standard for trade by bringing together the world’s banks, corporates and ecosystem partners, onto a common, digital, and trusted network. Powered by innovation, trust and collaboration, Contour uses decentralised technology to offer seamless integration with market-leading digital document systems and other digital networks, enabling the instant flow of trusted data across the world’s trade routes and current fragmented ecosystems.
DYCOTRADE
PARTNER
DycoTrade delivers high-end commodity ERP software solutions for commodity and trade companies all over the world.
Volue
SPONSOR
Volue is one of Europe’s largest enterprise software companies and has pioneered green technology for five decades.
Volue is the result of the fusion of four companies: Powel, Markedskraft, Scanmatic and Wattsight. The companies were rebranded in January 2021. Two additional companies have been added to Volue since: Likron and ProCom GmbH.
Volue delivers software, insight and services for energy production, trading and distribution. It was created to fast track the green transition while securing the availability of the core services society relies on – energy, power grid, water and infrastructure.
Volue enables new and existing players to prepare for the future of energy, water supply and infrastructure building. It is a reliable partner for anyone committed to sustainably managing the challenges of the climate crisis.
In Europe, more than 350 TWh of annual power generation is planned and optimized using Volue solutions. Getting the most out of existing power plants is a serious contribution to sustainability.
HORVATH
SPONSOR
Horváth is an international, independent management consultancy firm with over 1,000 employees in locations in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Italy, the USA, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. We represent in-depth knowledge across different industries and top-level subject matter expertise in all company functions – with a focus on performance management and transformation. We carry out projects for our international customers around the world. In this context, we provide precise knowledge of, and take into account, the local conditions thanks to the cooperation with our partners of “Cordence Worldwide”, a global network of truly connected consultancy firms with the ability to think and deliver together.
Our specialists support companies and top executives with extensive competence in business models, organizational structures, processes and systems to successfully align their organizations for the future. We combine passion and effective implementation to turn change into success across whole companies, in individual business areas or in functions such as sales, operations, procurement, controlling & finance, HR and IT.
Horváth stands for project results which create sustainable benefits and value. That is why our consultants accompany their customers from the business management concept and anchoring in processes and systems through to change management and training of managers and employees.
GEN10
PARTNER
Gen10 focuses on making the day-to-day tasks of carbon and commodity trading faster and simpler. Our technology is built on automation and collaboration that empowers clients to Work Better. Together. – completing the feedback loop between trading, operations and finance to support smarter, safer trading and risk management decisions.
NetZero OS, the solution for environmental markets, allows you to easily and safely manage and control your origination, trading, tracking and procurement of carbon credits at scale, across the entire lifecycle. With custom attributes and premiums, you can differentiate and price assets and manage exposure across registries. Automation, portfolio and inventory management, governance and reporting combine to bring control to your exposure to these fragmented, challenging markets.
CommOS, Gen10’s commodity management system, brings this collaboration and control to energy commodities trading. Automate processes, enhance collaborative data flows and improve control and governance, for confident data-driven decision-making. End–to–end transaction processing and analytics cover everything from fast trade capture, origination, PnL, and sample management through export, trading, import, distribution, to final settlement and risk management.
Gen10 believes in making innovative, high value and flexible solutions. The UK-based development and support teams work in collaboration with clients to build up a real understanding of the challenges they face; delivering technology that drives value from their massive data flows and transforms their operations.
EULER HERMES
SPONSOR
Allianz Trade is the trademark used to designate a range of services provided by Euler Hermes. Euler Hermes is the global leader in trade credit insurance and a recognized specialist in the areas of surety, collections, structured trade credit and political risk. Headquartered in Paris, Euler Hermes is present in more than 50 countries with 5,500 employees. In 2020, Euler Hermes global business transactions represented 824 billion Euro in exposure. Euler Hermes is a full member of Allianz Group.
VOXSMART
SPONSOR
VoxSmart are a global leader in voice and eCommunications surveillance for financial services. Our portfolio of communication capture, speech recognition and surveillance products address many risk management requirements such as, employee and operational supervision, senior management oversight and automated trade reconstruction. Customers include commodity brokers, sell-side and buy-side firms, insurance companies and cryptocurrency exchanges, among other regulated institutions. Our vision is to help firms streamline their surveillance assets, answering key challenges around interoperability and data analysis.
ELEOX
SPONSOR
ENVERUS
SPONSOR
Enverus Trading & Risk connects trade floors to the world of commodity and energy market data with forward curves risk management software for agile workforces, custom and out-of-the-box data management solutions for proprietary data, and highly accurate AI power market forecasting. Connect with our 500+ data and market intelligence channel partners through our flagship MarketView Desktop terminal.
PWC
SPONSOR
At PwC, our purpose is to build trust in society and solve important problems. We’re a network of firms in 155 countries with more than 284,000 people who are committed to delivering quality in assurance, advisory and tax services. Find out more and tell us what matters to you by visiting us at www.pwc.co.uk
EFET
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
EFET was established in 1999 and we represent around 130 energy traders across Europe. Our mission is to promote competition, transparency, and open access in the European energy sector.
We work to build trust in power, gas and carbons markets across Europe, so that they may underpin a sustainable, efficient and secure energy supply and enable the transition to a carbon neutral economy.
We do this by:
WINDWARD
PARTNER
Windward, is the leading maritime AI company, providing an all-in-one platform for all your risk management and maritime domain awareness needs. With real-time insights into ownership structure, cargo, containers, and vessel behaviours, we help our partners make decisions with confidence.
By leveraging maritime domain expertise, augmented by best-in-class artificial intelligence and machine learning, we connect the dots, going beyond data to deliver a customized view of your risk with actionable predictive intelligence and insights, through an easy API integration or as an online tool
We enhance any KYC, due diligence, vetting, or law enforcement processes, from screening and monitoring to deep investigations by providing immediate go / no go recommendations with 4 times fewer false positives, so you can focus on future-forward decisions to grow your business opportunities, secure your operations, and trade with confidence!
Windward partners with leading global banks, insurance, and energy & trade companies, governments, and ship owners to navigate their risk while optimizing operations.
Windward- Power your organization with maritime AI
STA
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The Society of Technical Analysts (STA) www.technicalanalysts.com is one the largest not-for-profit Technical Analysis Society in the world. The STA’s main objective is to promote greater use and understanding of Technical Analysis and its role within behavioural finance as the most vital investment tool available. Joining us gains access to meetings, webinars, educational training, research and an international, professional network. Whether you are looking to boost your career or just your capabilities – the STA will be by your side equipping you with the tools and confidence to make better-informed trading and investment decisions in any asset class anywhere in the world. For more details email [email protected] or visit www.technicalanalysts.com
FIDECTUS
PARTNER
GEN enables you to reduce your counterparty risk, increase your operational efficiency and scale. It also helps you to increase the speed of counterparty onboarding, improve your PnL and better manage your liquidity. We provide you tools to better manage your working capital.
GEN supports multiple standards as ISDA, EFET electronic Confirmation Matching (eCM), EFET electronic Settlement Matching (eSM) etc. Furthermore, you can connect easily and quickly to GEN via multiple channels as Restful API, SFTP, Email, SharePoint, cognitive OCR etc.) and formats (e.g. xml, json, csv etc.). That means you can handle and control all your inbound and outbound post trade workflows in one solution.
EMA
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The Environmental Markets Association (EMA) is a as a 501(c)(6) not-for-profit trade association representing the interests of companies that are involved in the trading, legislation and regulation of environmental markets. For twenty-five years, EMA has focused on promoting market-based solutions for environmental challenges through sound public policy, industry best practices, effective education and training, and member networking. EMA represents a diverse membership including large utilities, emissions brokers and traders, exchanges, law firms, project developers, consultants, academics, NGOs and government agencies. EMA is a pro-business and pro-environment industry trade association that advocates for competitive and tradable market-based solutions for solving the world’s most pressing environmental challenges, while simultaneously contributing to economic development.
Cassini Systems
EXHIBITOR
Cassini Systems is a leading provider of pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives market participants. Buy-side firms can leverage the platform to monitor, optimize and ensure transparency on their margin, as well as achieve collateral liquidity and efficient utilization, lowering the carry cost of derivatives.
Cassini’s platform provides the only full front-to-back solution covering margin, collateral, and cost analytics for all classes of cleared and uncleared over-the-counter derivatives as well as futures and options. It integrates into post-trade collateral management, treasury, and risk systems – enabling clients to bring post-trade cost analytics into the pre-trade process. Cassini is also integrated into key asset management platforms to facilitate leveraging analytics with little implementation overhead.
Top-tier hedge funds, asset managers and Tier 1 banks rely on Cassini for powerful, flexible, automated tools to manage their portfolios of over-the-counter and exchange-traded derivatives products. For more information, visit www.cassinisystems.com.
enspired
EXHIBITOR
enspired is a fully digital power trading-as-a-service company headquartered in Vienna. We drive the energy transition by enabling our clients to bring flexible assets to power spot markets and capture their full value with our augmented trading services. Our platform for augmented trading is the fastest on the market and utilize AI models to leverage vast amounts of data in real-time.
The enspired team consists of leading algorithmic traders, data scientists and technology enthusiasts who firmly believe that the way power is traded will soon change drastically – in our world, there is no room for trading screens and traditional optimization. We are actively trading on German and the UK power markets, supporting customers in several countries in Europe and plan to expand even further.
ENUIT
SPONSOR
Enuit provides leading enterprise risk management solutions for energy and commodities trading companies worldwide.
We give our customers complete visibility, insights, control and management over their business operations helping them to have peace of mind to make quick and informed decisions that affect the bottom line.
Enuit was founded in 2008 with a single goal in mind: To bring to market affordable, functional trade management software. The core solution Entrade is all of this and more. And, it really works. It can help your company track its transactions through the entire deal life cycle: From done deal through a sent bill.
Trade Finance Global
MEDIA PARTNER
Trade Finance Global (TFG) is the leading trade finance platform. We assist companies to access trade and receivables finance facilities through our relationships with 270+ banks, funds and alternative finance houses.
TFG’s award winning educational resources serve an audience of 160k+ monthly readers (6.2m+ impressions) in print & digital formats across 187 countries, covering insights, guides, research, magazines, podcasts, tradecasts (webinars) and video.
ENUIT
GOLD SPONSOR
Enuit provides leading enterprise risk management solutions for energy and commodities trading companies worldwide.
We give our customers complete visibility, insights, control and management over their business operations helping them to have peace of mind to make quick and informed decisions that affect the bottom line.
Enuit was founded in 2008 with a single goal in mind: To bring to market affordable, functional trade management software. The core solution Entrade is all of this and more. And, it really works. It can help your company track its transactions through the entire deal life cycle: From done deal through a sent bill.
DIGITERRE
PARTNER
We are a software and data engineering consultancy that enables technological and organisational transformation for many of the world’s leading organisations. We envisage, design, and deliver software and data engineering solutions that users want, need, and love to use.
We deliver ‘Agility at Greater Velocity’, because we care about creating outstanding outcomes and taking ownership for solving the toughest technical challenges. As a result, we typically deliver high-risk, high-profile, and time-constrained projects in less time than competitors, often significantly so.
CTRMCloud
EXHIBITOR
Company Overview
CTRMCloud™ is transforming the energy and commodity trading landscape by simplifying once-complex trading and risk management software. By offering CTRM-as-a-Service, CTRMCloud offers a subscription-based model with a cloud-native solution that is quickly and efficiently deployed, equipping organizations with real time decision support and intraday reporting across the entire commodity value-chain.
Cloud-native, customizable and extensible, it offers unmatched computation power at a fraction of the usual cost.
CTRMCloud was established in 2016, with presence in San Francisco, New York, Paris and London.
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Product Overview
CTRMCloud™ delivers the benefits of a modern, cloud-native solution including rapid implementations, continuous product enhancements, high performance, scalability, better user experience – all at a significantly lower TCO.
The CTRM-as-a-Service platform utilizes a microservices based architecture to enable modular deployment for point solutions, ready to scale with your business requirements. At the same time, it has the breadth and depth of the functionality and the robustness required to serve as an enterprise-wide, end-to-end E/CTRM solution for large, global companies with complex business problems.
deltaconX
PARTNER
deltaconX regulatory platform is an innovative software service catering for European Financial & Energy Market participants enabling our customers to meet various regulatory requirements all over the globe such as EMIR, REMIT, MiFIR/MiFID II, FMIA, US-Dodd Frank, MAS, HKMA, ASIC, etc.
Through full automation and dynamic error handling, reporting processes are massively simplified, minimising manual workload and human errors.
At deltaconX we harness technology to make regulatory compliance processes fast, easy and cost effective.
Metdesk
SPONSOR
MetDesk offers a comprehensive suite of weather forecasting products to the energy industry. Our team brings together a wealth of experience in the energy sphere with expert energy meteorologists, data scientists and experienced client managers combining to bring our products to life. A vast amount of weather-maps, charts, tables and power forecasts are available via the MetDesk trading website, while our state of the art API delivers both historical and live weather data into the heart of our customers operations. In a world where data is king this brings exciting opportunities to expose our weather data to analytical processes. We design our products to take away the complexity in interpreting weather data, and with speed of data delivery sitting at the centre of everything we do, we ensure any changes to the weather models can be picked out in a timely manner. Our newly updated training packages cover all aspects of energy meteorology ensuring our customers fully understand the data they are in receipt of. Supporting our automated products, our panel of expert weather forecasters brief the market with the latest weather developments around the globe – whether it’s a major cold weather outbreak in the far East, hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico or a heatwave here in Europe, we have it covered. Email us at [email protected] to find out more.
BrightMile
MEDIA PARETNER
Established in 2006 in London, BrightMile provides specialist recruitment services within financial markets, with a particular focus on fintech & trading roles for commodity markets. We have been sourcing and placing expert professionals, including C-Suite leaders, with leading energy companies, banks, trading houses, financial exchanges & consultancies.
Over the last decade, we have worked with leading organizations internationally, and successfully placed talent across various financial hubs including London, Paris, Dubai, Hong Kong, New York & Singapore.
Our specialist focus, global reach, and the knowledge and professionalism of our teams, enables us to deliver a timely and consistent service of the highest level – which surpasses the expectations of both our clients and candidates!
The EFET Energy Markets Training Program is a specialised online training course providing a comprehensive insight into the complexities of energy commodity
markets.
Through seven detailed modules, covering topics including master agreements,
financial regulation, back-office tasks and risk management, the course provides
participants with both a broad and deep knowledge of energy trading.
Relevant for experienced professionals and those seeking to understand the basics,
the EFET Energy Markets Training Program is a one-stop-shop for market
knowledge.
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Special offer: sign up before 15 October 2021 to get 15 months for the price of 12!
Fees:
EFET-members: Euro 1500 per calendar year per company.
Non-EFET members: Euro 2750 per calendar year per company.
To find out more, or become an EFET member, please contact us [email protected]
Cassini
EXHIBITOR
Cassini is the leading provider of pre- and post-trade margin and collateral analytics for derivatives markets.
Buy-side firms can leverage the platform to monitor, optimise and ensure transparency on their margin, as well as achieve collateral liquidity and efficient utilisation, lowering the carry cost of derivatives.
Cassini’s platform provides the only full front-to-back solution covering margin, collateral and cost analytics for all classes of cleared and uncleared over-the-counter derivatives as well as futures and options. It integrates into post-trade collateral management, treasury and risk systems – enabling clients to bring post-trade cost analytics into the pre-trade process. Cassini is also integrated into key asset management platforms to facilitate leveraging analytics with little implementation overhead.
BizPro
EXHIBITOR
BizPro is a leading transactions monitoring software for the detection of suspicious conducts under MAR and REMIT and several leading companies already rely on it.
BizPro is able to detect the abusive practices defined in MAR and REMIT through a wide range of algorithms for each pattern, constantly improved in effectiveness and efficiency. The tool provides an “end-to-end” automated process from data source to reporting and case management. BizPro includes also extensive data analytics functionalities.
BizPro has been developed since 2015 leveraging on the combination of methodologies, models and algorithms developed by Protiviti and software solutions developed by Bizmatica.
Volue
EXHIBITOR
Volue is one of Europe’s largest enterprise software companies and has pioneered green technology for five decades.
Volue is the result of the fusion of four companies: Powel, Markedskraft, Scanmatic and Wattsight. The companies were rebranded in January 2021. Two additional companies have been added to Volue since: Likron and ProCom GmbH.
Volue delivers software, insight and services for energy production, trading and distribution. It was created to fast track the green transition while securing the availability of the core services society relies on – energy, power grid, water and infrastructure.
Volue enables new and existing players to prepare for the future of energy, water supply and infrastructure building. It is a reliable partner for anyone committed to sustainably managing the challenges of the climate crisis.
In Europe, more than 350 TWh of annual power generation is planned and optimized using Volue solutions. Getting the most out of existing power plants is a serious contribution to sustainability.
TokWise
SPONSOR
TokWise provides an innovative technology to maximize the return of renewable energy portfolio.
The solution combines big data and advanced analytics, offered as Software-as-a-Service. Leveraging resilient technology and proprietary AI models, TokWise is adding an extra intelligence layer to your trading operations to reflect all market dynamics and maximise profit.
We support the growth of renewable energy by providing solid services to manage efficiently the green energy portfolio:
1) Tailor-made Commercial and Forecast(C&F) Optimization Service designed to enhance trading and increase the return of each MWh renewable energy.
2) Software-as-a-Service Portfolio Management Suite connecting assets and markets in one centralized place to easily orchestrate all portfolio management and trading activities.
TokWise services are incorporated in the daily operations of leading European renewable aggregators, large producers and green energy suppliers.
Commodity
MEDIA PARTNER
Commodity is an international search boutique that specialises in talent acquisition, retained search, competitive intelligence and advisory across the commodity markets. Our HQ and in-house research is based in the UK. We have offices in Singapore, Houston and Geneva. Regardless of colleague location, we operate as a cohesive unit.
Our client base is made up of a select few partners globally. These relationships are well established and underpinned by trust, delivery, confidentiality, speed, respect for process and value of data. Longevity in search matters. Commodity was born in 1977, hence celebrating its first 40 years in 2017.
ARGUS
EXHIBITOR
About Argus Media
Argus is an independent media organisation with almost 1100 staff. It is headquartered in London and has 26 offices in the world’s principal commodity trading and production centres. Argus produces price assessments and analysis of international energy and other commodity markets, and offers bespoke consulting services and industry-leading conferences. Companies in 140 countries around the world use Argus data to index physical trade and as benchmarks in financial derivative markets as well as for analysis and planning purposes. Argus was founded in 1970 and is a privately held UK-registered company. It is owned by employee shareholders, global growth equity firm General Atlantic and Hg, the specialist software and technology services investor.
Website Link: Argus Media
WORLDOILS
MEDIA PARTNER
Worldoils is a company that combines the power of marketing as well as the in-house expertise for the Oil, Gas, Offshore and Maritime industries. Worldoils’ web portal www.worldoils.com has become a truly central platform for visitors who need information regarding oil and gas products and services, research, training, conferences, news and events as well as a popular advertising base for providers of Oil, Gas, Marine and Offshore services. Worldoils has also launched the jobs system and a marketplace. In the recent months, Worldoils has strengthened its position as a fast developing central place for buying and selling of land rigs, offshore rigs, barge rigs and other oilfield and subsea equipment.
WORLD BIOENERGY ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
World Bioenergy Association is an international member organization with a mission to promote the sustainable development of bioenergy on a global level and to support the business environment for bioenergy. With a member base of bioenergy companies, associations, research institutes and individuals from more than 65 countries, WBA represents the voice of the global bioenergy community.
WBA activities include publishing factsheets, statistics reports, market reports and position papers on various aspects of bioenergy including policies, technologies, markets, finance etc. WBA also has organized numerous events in the past including workshops, webinars, conferences, and study trips to discuss and debate issues surrounding bioenergy including land use, biodiversity, carbon neutrality, clean energy etc. Moreover, WBA collaborates with various international organizations working in the renewable energy sector via partnerships including IRENA, IEA, REN21, REN Alliance, CPLC, FAO and others.
OXFORD BUSINESS GROUP
RESEARCH PARTNER
Oxford Business Group (OBG) is a global research and advisory company with a presence in over 30 countries, spanning Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. It is recognised internationally as a distinctive and respected provider of on-the-ground intelligence on world’s fastest-growing markets, termed The Yellow Slice, in reference to OBG’s corporate colour.
Through its range of products – Economic News and Views; OBG CEO Surveys; OBG Events and Conferences; Global Platform, which hosts exclusive video interviews; and The Report publications – as well as its Advisory division, OBG offers comprehensive and accurate analysis of macroeconomic and sector-level developments for sound investment opportunities and business decisions.
OBG provides business intelligence to its subscribers through multiple platforms, including its direct 6 million verified subscribers, Dow Jones Factiva subscribers, the Bloomberg Professional Services subscribers, Refinitiv’s (previously Thomson Reuters) Eikon subscribers, and more.
For more information, please contact:
Marc-André de Blois
Director of PR and Video Content, Oxford Business Group
E-mail: [email protected]
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VOXSMART
SPONSOR
VoxSmart is a SaaS surveillance technology provider that designs, develops and deploys software to better manage business risk and meet regulatory requirements. Our team includes experts in finance, regulation and business analytics that can help to find and fix the problems encountered by regulated firms in the financial space and beyond.
Our technology captures your employee communications, wherever they are working, and turns the data this generates into useful information about your business conduct and operations. We help connect a firm’s people, processes, and technology to deliver operational efficiencies and enable smarter business decisions.
VoxSmart recently secured a $25M investment from Toscafund to accelerate our vision for an integrated surveillance model to capture and supervise all communications and trade data under one platform.
AEBIG
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
AEBIG (Asociación Española de Biogás) was founded in 2009.
The main mission is to represent the interests of the sector, promoting renewable gases and raising awareness of its benefits. Collaborates with Public Administration and other institutions, being recognized as the voice of the spanish biogas sector at national and international level
Pursues the development of biomethane injection into the network of natural gas and its use as fuel for transport.
The companies that develop their activities in the biogas sector, agroindustrial, landfills, sewage, gasification, etc., can apply for membership in AEBIG.
AEBIG is founding member of EBA (European Biogas Association)
C/ Rafael Calvo, 18
28010 – Madrid – SPAIN
Website: www.aebig.org
Mail: [email protected]
SCALEFOCUS
SPONSOR
Scalefocus is a software development and digital services company helping businesses grow by leveraging cutting-edge technology and employing top talent.
Our team delivers custom software solutions and integrates existing leading products (IBM, AWS, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Appian) with proven consultancy and implementation methodologies.
We guide clients through the technology maze of their digital transformation and allow them to make informed decisions based on their own data.
Our key differentiator is the agile development approach with an unwavering focus on long-term results.
HITACHI
EXHIBITOR
About Hitachi ABB Power Grids
Hitachi ABB Power Grids is global technology leader with a combined heritage of almost 250 years, employing around 36,000 people in 90 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, the business serves utility, industry and infrastructure customers across the value chain, and emerging areas like sustainable mobility, smart cities, energy storage and data centers. With a proven track record, global footprint and unparalleled installed base, Hitachi ABB Power Grids balances social, environmental and economic values. It is committed to powering good for a sustainable energy future, with pioneering and digital technologies, as the partner of choice for enabling a stronger, smarter and greener grid.
The Energy Planning and Trading business unit provides integrated software solutions, energy markets intelligence and strategic advisory services that enable industry professionals to make better economic and strategic decisions, including:
Energy Planning and Trading: https://www.hitachiabb-powergrids.com/offering/product-and-system/energy-planning-trading
Corporate: https://www.hitachiabb-powergrids.com
EGSSIS
EXHIBITOR
EGSSIS offers operations teams the most proactive energy management platform that supports them in achieving operational excellence.
Active since 2008 we offer innovative Software-as-a-Service platforms for gas and power operations and market communication, as well as dispatching services.
Our team of Butlers & Whizzkids serve 24/7 with a smile and ensure your peace of mind with smart solutions.
Currently we’re supporting 55+ gas and power traders, shippers, and BRPs, across more than 25 European grids to help them keep a grip on their energy portfolio.
Come by our booth during the Energy Trading Week and find out what we can do for you!
GLOBAL RISK COMMUNITY
MEDIA PARTNER
The Global Risk Community is a thriving community of risk managers and associated service providers. Our purpose is to foster business, networking and educational explorations among members. Our goal is to be the worlds’ premier Risk forum and contribute to a better understanding of the complex world of risk.
ENERGY TRADERS ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
Energy Traders Association (ETD) was founded by leading energy trading companies holding Electricity Wholesale Licenses in 2010 to promote liberal energy trading and development of sustainable, transparent and liquid markets in Turkey. The Istanbul-based Association currently has 54 members.
ETD is mandated to facilitate and promote universal rules, regulations and standards enabling a fair trading environment towards a liberal energy market. ETD’s functions include not only the establishment of preliminary infrastructure ensuring transparent and accessible prices and market information for all, but also the introduction of a widely accepted standard contract and defining and establishment of an ethical code. In order to fulfil its objectives, ETD cooperates with many national and international Governmental and Non-Governmental institutions.
In terms of national connections and works, ETD participates in and organizes joint working groups including both members of ETD and Institutions with Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, Energy Markets Regulation Authority, Competition Board, TEİAŞ (Turkish System Operator), EPİAŞ (Energy Markets Operation Company), Istanbul Exchange etc. Main subjects of this joint work are liberalization and competition, standardization, legal infrastructure of both wholesale and retail trade issues, transparency. We are proud of being very active during process of foundation of EPİAŞ, structuring products transacted in Istanbul Exchange and development of volume and operational enhancement of OTC markets in Turkey.
In terms of international connections, ETD and EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders) organized multiple meetings introducing the EFET Agreement to market participants and created a working group on the adaptation of the EFET Agreement into the Turkish market. Finally, EFET General Agreement Turkey version (EFET TR) was launched on 22 July 2011, which was followed by the execution of the first agreement by two leading companies in Turkey. Our efforts and studies towards introducing demand response management to the Turkish energy market in cooperation with some European companies and institutions came to a visible level in regulatory frameworks. We are one of the energy sector organisations, which is invited to consultation meetings and interviews for various reports on the Turkish energy market, prepared by international organisations such as The World Bank Group and International Energy Agency.
COMMODITY TRADING ADVISORY
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
CTA ADVISORY is an international group of commodity professionals with expertise dedicated to serving the global trading industry. Leveraging on our experts’ fieldwork experience, our mission is to set up flexible, dynamic, and cost-efficient trading solutions. Our services include outsourcing structures, financing facilities, and professional recruitment.
ION COMMODITIES
SPONSOR
ION Commodities: The world’s largest portfolio of energy and commodities trading and risk management solutions.
ION Commodities accelerates your success with a data-driven approach and powerful, award-winning energy and commodities (ETRM and CTRM) trading and risk management solutions. Regardless of your industry, our solutions put you in complete control of energy and commodities value chains, from production and processing through to distribution. We provide full support and transparency for procurement, supply and trading, with continuous risk controls throughout the trade lifecycle. That’s why many of the world’s biggest and best-known companies partner with us to sharpen decision-making and boost productivity.
BJSS
SPONSOR
BJSS is the leading technology and engineering consultancy for business. Trusted by our clients, we collaborate to deliver complex, innovative technology, engineering, and industry solutions that millions of people use every day.
Our team is made up of over 1,600 talented people across 15 locations in the UK, Europe, USA, and Australia. We make digital transformation and user engagement a reality. Passionate about design, we engineer world-class technology solutions embracing strategy, software, cloud, data, AI, and Automation. Our teams of talented technologists and consultants use our Enterprise Agile approach to build dynamic technology platforms that scale and accelerate time to value.
NASDAQ
SPONSOR
With over 20 years of proven experience providing mission-critical technology in some of the most demanding and highly-regulated markets, Nasdaq is the world’s largest capital markets infrastructure technology provider, with its technology powering 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions globally.
Nasdaq has 10+ years of experience in regulatory and risk management technology, making the Nasdaq Risk Platform a proven solution enabling firms to monitor and manage their aggregate risk exposure across markets, asset classes, regions, and accounts in real-time through flexible pre-, at-, and post-trade controls.
The solution operates off a centralized hub that provides a single point of awareness and control across all risk silos and various systems monitored by the Nasdaq Risk Platform. Nasdaq Risk Platform provides firms with tools that can provide actionable intelligence through this holistic layer of control across trading activity.
Nasdaq Risk Platform can also help reduce operational risk across the enterprise. Firms can use the Nasdaq Risk Platform to set global limits across all of their systems to proactively manage aggregate exposure, instead of trying to address the problem through disparate or retroactive measures. Nasdaq Risk Platform process over 130 data handlers daily. The sophisticated solution is able to standardize data, enabling firms to gain additional business insight, better manage regulatory compliance and leverage additional business applications.
EUROPEAN ENERGY RETAILERS
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
The European Energy Retailers (EER) represent the voice of Independent Energy & Solution Providers in EU-wide policy discussions. In order to achieve a well-functioning retail energy market, new suppliers and service providers must be able to enter into and compete in the market on equal terms.
GENERAL INDEX
EXHIBITOR
ENUIT
EXHIBITOR
Enuit provides leading enterprise risk management solutions for energy and commodities trading companies worldwide.
We give our customers complete visibility, insights, control and management over their business operations helping them to have peace of mind to make quick and informed decisions that affect the bottom line.
Enuit was founded in 2008 with a single goal in mind: To bring to market affordable, functional trade management software. The core solution Entrade is all of this and more. And, it really works. It can help your company track its transactions through the entire deal life cycle: From done deal through a sent bill.
CTRMCENTER
GOLD MEDIA PARTNER
CTRMCenter™ is your source for everything ‘CTRM’. This online portal, managed by leading CTRM analysts – Commodity Technology Advisory LLC (ComTech), features the latest news, opinions, information, and insights on commodity markets technologies delivered by some of the industry’s leading experts and thought leaders. The site is visited by more than 1500 unique visitors per week. CTRMCenter also includes free access to all of ComTech’s research in the form of reports, white papers, interviews, videos, podcasts, blogs, and newsletters.
ROITI
EXHIBITOR
ROITI is a Full-Service Consultancy for energy trading companies that demand the best value for money technology advisory across their IT landscape. ROITI stands for providing you with a combination of very sound market know-how and an approach of challenging assumptions and stakeholders in order to achieve a sensible and working solution. We develop experts with solid market know-how and a broad tech skillset. We are always committed to getting to the background of the requirements, defining clear business cases, and looking for a win-win solution that will be easy to use for the end-users and easy to maintain for the support teams. We can offer dedicated technical support and project teams as well as experts in the entire energy value chain, both on-site and off-site
Our headquarters are located at the centre of Europe‘s fastest-growing IT-Hub, with a globally appreciated Talent-Pool.
KWA Analytics
SPONSOR
KWA Analytics is an award-winning global consultancy, delivery business, technology, and support solutions for the energy, commodity, shipping, and treasury markets. At KWA, we believe in delivering the highest quality solutions to our clients, regardless of short-term profits or vested interests. Our commitment to client fulfilment is core to our company values. We provide a range of service offerings to deliver an integrated end to end capability to solve our clients’ most complex and challenging issues.
To achieve this we have, under one roof, the best subject matter experts providing an unparalleled level of market and TRM knowledge.
With offices in the UK, US, Canada, Mexico, India and Singapore we work with clients globally and have implemented and provided bespoke solutions to commodity traders, insurance companies, investment banks, oil and gas majors and utilities.
We provide clients with an integrated end to end capability across our core service offerings:
EEX
SPONSOR
The European Energy Exchange (EEX) is the leading energy exchange in Europe which develops, operates and connects secure, liquid and transparent markets for energy and related products. As part of EEX Group, a group of companies serving international commodity markets, EEX offers contracts on Power, Natural Gas and Emission Allowances, and Freight and Agricultural Products. EEX also provides registry services as well as auctions for Guarantees of Origin, on behalf of the French State.
CATALYST COMMODITIES
SPONSOR
Launched in 2014, Catalyst Commodities focus solely on commercial and credible UK power price formation and have become the benchmark for traders and analysts active in UK power wholesale markets. Market participants like our services as we constantly report the results of our model against outturn, replicating a “skin in the game” type outlook. Catalyst collaborates with customers directly, answering questions using our deep commercial knowledge and that which is coded into our model – Centaur – via our analyst team. Our products include emailed subscription reports and a dynamic online portal with API covering the next half hour to the next five years.
EQUIAS
SPONSOR
Equias is a proven partner that provides innovative, cost-effective solutions and services for the energy trading community. We develop advanced solutions for the automation of energy trading processes, based on open market standards. We focus on optimisation and adding value through technical insights and innovations that are equitable and accessible to all our clients.
At ETW Online you will hear more about Equias eTM, electronic Trade Monitoring and Equias eSM, electronic Settlement Matching.