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MOLECULE SOFTWARE

LEAD ETRM/CTRM PARTNER

Molecule is the modern and reliable ETRM/CTRM. Built in the cloud with an intuitive, easy-to-use experience at its core, Molecule is the alternative to the complex systems of the past. With near real-time reporting, 30-plus integrations, and headache-free implementations, Molecule gets your ETRM/CTRM out of your way – because you have more valuable things to do with your time.

Molecule provides next-generation P&L, and near real-time VaR and position reporting for companies that trade any kind of commodity. Molecule can be used for power, natural gas, crude oil, renewables, biofuels, liquids, metals, agricultural products, softs and FX futures/options.

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CLEARDOX

PARTNER

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.

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ASCEND ANALYTICS

SPONSOR

Ascend Analytics, an innovative leader at the forefront of the energy transition, offers advanced software and consulting services that capture the evolving and real-time dynamics of energy markets. Ascend Analytics provides its customers with optimized and comprehensive decision analysis that span long-term planning to real-time operations in the power industry.

Ascend provides critical and highly precise insights to steward capital investments and manage operations, and is an invaluable partner to utilities, developers, financiers, and corporate off-takers in managing the complexities of energy portfolios and markets. Ascend’s unique ecosystem – which includes planning, valuation, risk management, and power market operations – is trusted by more than 250 leading-edge businesses and is the platform-of-choice that fuels more than $6 billion in asset investments.

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S&P GLOBAL COMMODITY INSIGHTS

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)

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METDESK

EXHIBITOR

MetDesk specialises in providing comprehensive weather data and forecasting services tailored to the energy trading sector. Leveraging cutting-edge technology and a team of experienced meteorologists, we deliver accurate, timely, and actionable insights to optimise energy trading, asset management, and operational decision-making. With the new to market MDai model and customisable solutions that sit within the ‘Trading Weather’ platform, traders can seize opportunities in dynamic markets with confidence. From intraday to seasonal forecasting, we cater to each client’s unique needs. As the trusted partner to over 230 trading desks globally, we’re committed to innovation and reliability, helping energy trading desks navigate weather-related challenges and gain strategic advantages.

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OPENGAMMA

EVENT ASSOCIATE

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.

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ESSENTIA AN EPAM COMPANY

SPONSOR

Essentia is a leading commodity trading consulting firm committed to delivering comprehensive solutions to our clients’ complex marketing, trading, and risk management operations. Across energy, base and precious metals, dairy, and regulated and voluntary carbon markets, our track record of delivering quality outcomes for our customers has made our team a trusted advisor to clients ranging from the high growth emerging to the Fortune 500.

We provide management advisory, technology implementation, and daily run-and-maintain services to help our clients maximize trading opportunities, manage risk, optimize performance, and compete effectively in evolving markets. With deep expertise in moving trading, and operational systems to the cloud, we are a reliable managed services provider responsible for all aspects of commodity trading, risk management (CTRM), and related systems support.

Discover how Essentia has helped leading companies renew, expand, & enhance their market strategies, streamline & automate internal processes, and gain a competitive edge at www.essentiaap.com.

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ETR ADVISORY

SPONSOR

ETR Advisory provides expert advice, support and training in the application of regulations to the Energy, Commodities and Financial markets. Our detailed knowledge of the rules such as REMIT, MiFID II, EMIR, MAR, SFTR and the relevant parts of Brexit as well as the technology platforms and solutions around them permits us to help our clients navigate and implement the best solutions while being ready for the future. Since being founded in May 2013, ETR has advised over eighty market participants, software houses, trading platforms and repositories. We run the blog at www.energytradingregulation.com, which provides news and thoughts about regulatory developments in one place.

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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.

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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.

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FENICS MARKET DATA

EXHIBITOR

Fenics Market Data (“FMD”) is the exclusive distributor of data, including but not limited to, the flagship FMD packages for BGC Group, Inc. (NASDAQ:BGC) and its affiliates (“BGC Group Entities”), a leading global brokerage group of companies servicing the financial markets through many brands including, but not limited to: BGC, GFI, RP Martin, Amerex, Aurel BGC, Aurel, Sunrise, Remate, BGC Liquidez, Poten & Partners, Ginga and Perimeter Markets.

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capSpire

PARTNER

capSpire is a global consulting and solutions company that creates, customizes, and implements value-driving technology for commodity-focused organizations. Fueled by direct industry experience in commodities trading, risk management and analytics, they offer expertise in business process advisory, managed services and operations consulting.

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BroadPeak

SPONSOR

Gain an edge in Trading Firm Efficiency, Compliance, and Risk Management with BroadPeak. Business users drive trade data management, transaction surveillance, regulatory reporting, and position limits. Benefit from certified connections for trades and orders directly from venues, brokers, and trading systems.

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BroadPeak

GOLD SPONSOR

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ALLIANZ TRADE

SPONSOR

Euler Hermes is now Allianz Trade. We are the global leader in trade credit insurance and a recognized specialist in the areas of surety, and structured trade credit. For over a century, we have been helping businesses like yours anticipate risks, act with speed, make informed decisions and grow securely. Headquartered in Paris, we are present in more than 50 countries with 5,500 employees. In 2021, our global business transactions represented 931 billion Euro in exposure. As a member of the Allianz Group, we are a strong global community committed to a culture where both people and performance matter.

Our unrivaled energy sector expertise in the credit insurance market has yielded tailored solutions to help your company manage receivables risk. We offer Energy Credit Insurance and Energy On-Demand Payment Bonds. Our programs help you to free up working capital while offering a better spread of risk without jeopardizing profitability.

Trade credit insurance for energy companies provides liquidity for wholesale commodity transactions by clearing credit. Allianz Trade helps businesses from traditional oil and gas to alternative solar and wind mitigate risks and maximize opportunities. Allianz Trade offers On-Demand Payment (ODP) bonds that provide collateral for assurance in the energy industry for three main areas: independent system operators, commodity supply, and pipeline and processing.

Why Allianz Trade?

• Highly rated
AM Best: A+ Outlook is stable, affirmed A+
Standard & Poor’s: Outlook is stable, affirmed AA
Moody’s: Aa3/Positive

• Strength of our balance sheet

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.

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NETRALITY DATA CENTERS

EXHIBITOR

Netrality Data Centers owns and operates strategic interconnection data centers and Meet Me Rooms, providing a mix of colocation, powered shell, and wholesale data center solutions driven by fiber-dense, network-rich interconnection environments. Today, Netrality’s eighteen properties span 3.3 million square feet and over 100 megawatts of capacity across North America.

Well-capitalized with a long-term investment from Macquarie Asset Management, Netrality is the largest privately held owner-operator of core interconnection facilities in the United States. Netrality acquires strategically located core network interconnection data centers that provide best in market network resiliency, ensuring always-on connectivity for latency-sensitive and mission-critical businesses. For more information: www.netrality.com,  LinkedIn,  Twitter.

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TOMORROW.IO

NETWORKER

Tomorrow.io is the world’s leading weather intelligence and climate adaptation platform.
Supercharged by next-generation space technology, cutting-edge generative AI, and proprietary modeling capabilities, global leaders including JetBlue, Fox Sports, The United States Air Force, Ford, and Uber rely on Tomorrow.io to solve their weather and climate-related challenges. From innovative early warning systems to actionable insights, organizations can predict impact, mitigate risk, and ensure operational resilience with Tomorrow.io. Join the weather intelligence revolution at www.tomorrow.io.

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BARINGA

SPONSOR

We set out to build the world’s most trusted consulting firm – creating lasting impact for clients and pioneering a positive, people-first way of working. We work with everyone from FTSE 100 names to bright new start-ups, in every sector.

You’ll find us collaborating shoulder-to-shoulder with our clients, from the big picture right down to the detail: helping them define their strategy, deliver complex change, spot the right commercial opportunities, manage risk or bring their purpose and sustainability goals to life.
Our clients love how we get to know what makes their organisations tick – slotting seamlessly into their teams and being proudly geeky about solving their challenges.

As a Certified B Corporation®, we’ve proven that we’ve built social and environmental good into every bit of what we do.

We have hubs in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, and we work all around the world – from a wind farm in Wyoming to a boardroom in Berlin. Find us wherever there’s a challenge to be tackled and an impact to be made.

Find out more at baringa.com or on LinkedIn and Twitter.

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TRELLIS ENERGY

SPONSOR

At Trellis, we believe that a modern natural gas supply chain should be digital, efficient, and easy to manage, ensuring the delivery of clean energy when and where it’s needed. We’re in business to make that a reality for natural gas in North America.

We help those tasked with modeling and ensuring natural gas supply, simplify their day-to-day work and rest easy at night, knowing that they have taken care of the most important tasks and minimized business risks by working within our unified data and transaction marketplace.

Trellis Responsible Energy brings transparency and automation to compliance with Net Zero strategies and regulations. We’re innovating at the intersection of SCADA and CI models, using real-time production data to generate High Integrity Carbon Credits. And, together with our partners, we’re extending our natural gas platform to manage RNG, hydrogen blending and CO2 pipelines for carbon tracking and accounting.

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THE VESSEL GROUP

NETWORKER

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GMI Capital Partners

SPONSOR

GMI Capital Partners is a trusted Private Capital firm focused on providing direct investment to small and middle market companies, through Private Credit, Equity, or Leverage Buyout. Our investment decisions are informed by empirical data analysis, diversity of thought, and exchange of ideas which form the cornerstones of our investment culture. We believe we do not have to compromise profit for impact; both objectives can be achieved through thorough understanding, problem solving, and creativity.

At GMI Capital Partners, we are leading for a better future. Our investment philosophy is driven by two key factors – Impact & Adding Value for investors creating a triple bottom line return (Profit, People, Planet). We achieve this by:

· Multi-Asset diversification to address uncertainty across asset classes

· Active management dedication to monitor market conditions anticipating future trends

· Leadership to build and drive strong governance, management, and technology

We consider stewardship to be an important part of our investment philosophy, and engage actively with the companies in which we are invested.

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LeapXpert

NETWORKER

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VERITAS TOTAL SOLUTIONS

SPONSOR

Veritas was founded in 2011 as a consulting company focused on the energy industry with one goal in mind: Drive positive change and deliver business value.

In order to create impact, we approach problems from a unique perspective. We believe that our combination of deep energy industry knowledge, proprietary approaches, and unparalleled program delivery skills are the keys to creating true impact for our clients. Learn more at www.veritasts.com

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NASDAQ

NETWORKER

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.

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PUBLICIS SAPIENT

SPONSOR

Publicis Sapient was born in the digital age, so we’re perfectly placed to modernize and optimize the way companies work, or to change their business model completely. Our work enriches the experience of people who engage with their brand in either a B2B or B2C capacity.

Energy and commodities trading is where we started out, and we’re still going strong. We’ve disrupted a traditional industry, bringing it into the digital age and offering more choice when it comes to E/CTRM. Our digital utilities team ensures that new or existing services are modernized in ways that enrich the life of the business or the end consumer, whether that’s more efficient business processes or smarter interfaces to warm the home.

We’re big enough to lead, but small enough to empathize and take the time to demystify the jargon that creates hesitation around digital. The speed, quality and value of our work is unparalleled, harnessing an agile working method to ensure rapid, measurable and effective progress.

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RECLEVER.AI

EXHIBITOR

Reclever.ai is an AI-powered news alerts engine for commodity traders. It allows you to get real-time news related to your open positions.

Our news alerts are real-time and tailored with AI to each trader’s positions, so they can stay ahead of the market and make better decisions.
In addition we offer an AI-powered search engine for commodities analysts. It uses Generative AI to give you context-specific information from a variety of quality industry news sources and reports. See references to sources with bullish/bearish sentiment analysis for each source.
The benefits include saving time on reading and monitoring news and making better decisions with relevant information.

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KWA ANALYTICS

EXHIBITOR

Award-winning Technology Services and Advisory Firm KWA Analytics is a unique consultancy in its focus and experience in advising, implementing and supporting trading and risk management applications. KWA has unrivalled expertise in successful implementations across commodity and capital markets, and digital transformation projects, as well as defining market solutions that have become system industry standards. KWA has a global presence of over 200 consultants with offices in Houston, London, Madrid, Mexico City, New York City, Noida, Singapore, and Vancouver.

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SKYFI

EXHIBITOR

SkyFi is making Earth Observation data easily accessible to consumers and businesses worldwide through our ever-expanding network of satellites and aerial platforms. Our goal is to empower people to use this data to address real-world challenges.

We’ve established a consumer-friendly data marketplace, enabling anyone to purchase existing images or task a satellite to purchase a new image, offering valuable insights for better decision-making.

Additionally, our integration of analytics capabilities unlocks even more critical data. With our mobile and web apps, we’re providing a tool that has the potential to make a significant impact on our world.

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YES ENERGY

EXHIBITOR

Yes Energy provides the most comprehensive, robust, and high-quality power market data and analytics tools available, empowering companies to navigate highly complex and dynamic power markets to maximize their bottom line.
As the volume of data continues to rapidly expand, mining the data for actionable insight can be challenging. We put that data into the hands of our customers, enabling you to gain powerful insights, and ultimately make profitable decisions for your business.

We support traders & analysts, asset developers & managers, risk managers, IT & data scientists, and utility professionals.

Yes Energy aggregates and standardizes data from all Independent System Operators (ISOs), non-ISOs, and third-party partnerships, and that includes historical data from the inception of the markets. We offer this data in the format best suited for your business, whether that’s through our powerful user interface, an API, Cloud, or Lake. Together, we help you make game-changing power market decisions.

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GLOBAL LNG HUB

LNG MEDIA PARTNER

Global LNG Hub is an online platform for sharing analysis and information on Global and regional LNG markets. Our weekly newsletter with new content goes out each Wednesday.

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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.

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VALUE CREED

SPONSOR

Value Creed is a unique team of energy experts with deep expertise in every stage of the commodity value chain as well as CTRM platform ownership from process design & software selection through run/operate maturity. Specializing in both complex projects and day-to-day CTRM managed services, we support thousands of CTRM users/ energy market participants 24/7/365.
As an ISO 9001 certified company and member of Inc. 5000’s list of America’s fastest growing private companies, we adhere to the best quality management practices and you can rely on us to maintain our quality and stability in all advisory & CTRM services.

We are your partner as you contemplate business process improvement, platform implementations & upgrades, seek innovative ways to find solutions to complex problems, or look to take advantage of cloud hosting and CTRM automation solutions

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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.

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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.

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BEACON PLATFORM

SPONSOR

Beacon is a financial technology firm that provides everything quantitative developers need to rapidly build, test, deploy, and share trading and risk applications, analytics, and models. Developed by a team with unmatched financial markets experience, Beacon’s unified platform includes the apps, tools and infrastructure firms need to migrate their software and infrastructure to the cloud, manage risk across all asset classes, and focus on building innovative strategies that provide a competitive edge.

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CARL MCCAIN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

CHARITY PARTNER

The Carl McCain Memorial Foundation’s mission is to relieve oil and gas industry colleagues facing medical expenses beyond their ability to pay. No one in our business should have to choose between paying medical bills and providing for their family’s basic needs. Insurance prices rise steeply each year, and together with skyrocketing medical costs create a huge drain on the resources of many of our co-workers. Medical expenses can devastate a family’s finances, and even delay treatment and recovery. Our mission is to help with the financial burden of medical expenses allowing individuals and families in our industry to focus their energy on facing their medical challenges.

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AVALARA

SPONSOR

Avalara helps businesses of all sizes get tax compliance right. AvaTax Excise provides real-time identification and calculation of excise and value-based taxes for a broad range of fuel and energy product transactions. Tax compliance software designed for the largest oil, gas, and chemical companies to the smallest fuel distributors, energy traders, mobile refuelers, and more. Headquartered in Seattle, Avalara has offices across the U.S. and around the world in Brazil, Europe, and India.

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EKA

EXHIBITOR

Eka Software Solutions s a leading provider of cloud-based commodity trading and risk management solutions, for global businesses. Eka’s platform-driven approach helps customers overcome complex challenges and stay ahead of the curve in an environment of constant change. Eka’s solutions are modular, customizable, and designed to deliver continuous support while maintaining enterprise-level security.

One of Eka’s core offerings is their Commodity Trading and Risk Management (CTRM) solution, which enables businesses to make faster decisions through quick access to a single data model and customizable analytics. The system is highly scalable and can handle large amounts of data, making it well-suited for businesses with complex trading and risk management needs.

Eka’s CTRM solution includes over 50 applications, covering areas such as Position M2M, Value at Risk (VaR), Settlement, Derivatives Management, Hedge Accounting, Supply Chain Management, and Procurement Analysis. Each application is designed to help businesses solve specific challenges and achieve their goals, whether that’s reducing risk, improving efficiency, or increasing profitability.

In 2022, the company was recognized by Risk Market as the best commodities trading system and best vendor for support and implementation. They were also named the category leader in Risk Quadrant and CTRM Solutions by Chartis. These accolades are a testament to Eka’s commitment to providing top-notch solutions and support to its customers.

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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.

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NAEMA

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

The North American Energy Markets Association (NAEMA) is an independent, nonprofit trade association representing entities involved in the marketing of energy or in providing services to the energy industry.
Members work together to promote an informed, efficient and open energy marketplace throughout North America.
NAEMA membership includes over 140 members with energy trading operations in 48 states and numerous Canadian Provinces. NAEMA members own and operate over 500,000 megawatts of generating capacity and serve over 100 million electric and gas customers.

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ENVERUS

SPONSOR

Commodity Data is complex and growing at unprecedented rates. It requires constant nurturing and attention. Enverus solves the complexity of data, allowing you to focus on what generates profits for your organization. Confidently build your trading strategies on real-time, accurate commodity data from 500+ disparate sources, all in one platform, even on-the-go with mobile. A single source of truth, which fosters transparency from front to back office and provides you with the ability to measure, evaluate and prioritize your crucial financial and compliance trading risks. Enverus Trading & Risk solutions are fully dedicated to the energy industry providing you and your team with the intelligent connections needed to confidently take action.

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WOMEN’S ENERGY NETWORK (WEN)

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

The Women’s Energy Network (WEN) is a global organization of professionals who work across the energy value chain. WEN’s vision is to be the premier global organization that educates, attracts, retains, and develops professionals working across the energy value chain. Our mission is to provide networking opportunities and foster the career and leadership development of women who work in the energy industries.

WEN Houston was founded in 1994 by Karyl White with the purpose of fostering the development and advancement of women in energy by developing a strong network. After years of being the sole woman on energy transactions, Karyl believed that many women energy professionals were in the same position, but unable to connect with each other.

More than 25 years later, WEN remains committed to providing high caliber events and networking to its diverse membership from across the energy value chain.

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DLA/PIPER

SPONSOR

The DLA Piper Commodities practice is involved in many of the commodity projects currently undertaken worldwide. Given our 30 plus years of experience in every aspect of the commodity industry, the commodities team is quite successful and active in, commodities and commercial legal and regulatory work, from project development to international trade to finance to markets and trading to commodities and commercial assets, including but not limited to carbon assets, sustainable assets, and chemicals.

We are proud to say that our Commodities practice is using its legal skills and experience in commodities markets as a force for good. For example, companies turn to us for guidance when they are seeking commercially friendly, practical legal, and regulatory advice regarding commodities assets and transactions and we help clients to create value for their companies in the commodities markets in a regulatory compliant framework. The Commodities practice team assisted multiple clients in the establishment, and/or growth, of their commodities marketing and trading businesses, including the maritime (vessel, truck, railroad transportation), international trade (customs, tariffs), construction, transacting, processing and other commercial aspects to such business, such as advising upon swaps from a transactional and regulatory perspective. Additionally, the team is currently working on ten to fifteen renewable energy, emission reduction and sustainable development projects, which includes emission reduction and sustainable development project finance (including any corresponding marketing, emission reduction purchase and sale, and donation agreements), and green real estate projects (including the development of real estate agreements for solar projects). Further, the team assists clients in with commodities, natural gas and power enforcement matters.

To get a hold of us, they write to [email protected].

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TRIARC SOLUTIONS

SPONSOR

For more than a decade, Triarc Solutions has helped its customers conduct industry leading RightAngle implementations, upgrades, managed support, and process improvements in the sectors of Retail Fuel, Refined Products, Crude & Lease, NGLs, Agriculture and Metals. With customers ranging from the largest RightAngle client to the smallest, Triarc’s mission is to help customers love RightAngle again. As the only consulting and managed support services organization solely focused on RightAngle, Triarc’s offerings assist customers on all versions of RightAngle. Triarc exists to improve the lives of everyone in the RightAngle community through a commitment to continued innovation, business-specific expertise, and building relationships to better serve the industry for years to come.

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NAVITAS

SPONSOR

Created for an evolving market and bringing over 100 years of operational development and risk management experience from the energy and insurance industries, Navitas is built to know the market and focus the resources of the insurance industry to streamline capital and credit risk management.
Launched in 2022, Navitas is by no means a “startup” organization. The people involved were the genesis of the alternative assurance markets and fostered an industry that has delivered billions in new liquidity to the energy markets. Our team’s broad experience in both energy and insurance, the team at Navitas has the expertise to partner with you at every level to intelligently, accurately, and quickly address your requirements.

Navitas is a managing general underwriter (MGU) that represents some of the strongest balance sheets in North America; Navitas acts as the leading conduit in between the energy markets, their broker partners and carrier partners.

Partnering with Navitas provides:

Customers with insight only available through experience to accurately underwrite and create value

Broker partners with unparalleled service, flexibility, and dedicated expertise to meet your clients needs

Carriers with expertise, and access to one of the fastest growing North American markets

Adopting a pro-active approach, Navitas is “flipping the script” for energy assurance

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CLEARDOX

SPONSOR

Digital commodity solutions by commodities experts

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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 is a team of senior quantitative model developers, experienced energy analysts, software developers and cloud infrastructure experts. Leveraging decades of energy experience, cQuant 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 is dedicated to offering the latest advantages to their customers.

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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.

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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.

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ETRMSERVICES

NETWORKER

ETRMServices is a global team of experts in energy trading and risk management systems focused on providing program delivery and 24/7 managed services to energy trading companies. Our customers depend on our specialists’ deep market knowledge and technical capabilities to provide committed service across all ETRM systems, compliance and data management solutions, trading and clearing platforms, forecasting and analytical tools, and interfaces between these systems and the market. We also offer end-to-end connectivity solutions across the trading stack through our proprietary interfacing technology and certified adapters to external exchanges, grids and back-office systems. Our dedication to the energy trading community and a flexible approach allows us to maintain enduring partnerships with leading energy trading companies across the globe, bringing substantial expertise and experience to help meet your challenges.

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Ernst & Young U.S. LLP

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MOONLIGHT IQ

PR PARTNER

Moonlight IQ is a highly specialised, global B2B strategic PR and marketing agency delivering results for our clients in the global financial and technology sectors. For over 20 years we’ve played a key role in clients’ growth and dominance of their market sectors, and in becoming stand-out award-winners. Moonlight IQ provides proven messaging, branding, and communication strategies, ensuring that your messages are clearly heard in the market. Our strategy is to establish our clients as market leaders in the industry and to highlight the unique values each brand brings to the market.

We use our expertise in the industry and wide network of relationships to get businesses in front of leading finance and technology publications as well as key industry players, your prospects, and clients.

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LUCIDO GROUP

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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.

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S&P GLOBAL COMMODITY INSIGHTS

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OPENGAMMA

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ORCHESTRADE

EXHIBITOR

Orchestrade provides one integrated, cross-product platform to manage the full lifecycle of your physical and financial energy trading.

Energy producers and asset optimisers, utilities and traders are challenged by increased volatility, diminishing margins, inability to hedge and manage risk in real-time and demands for new products and ways of operating to support decarbonisation. Teams across the front, middle and back office are running up against hurdles in managing the full trade lifecycle effectively as trade volumes increase and high levels of automation are required to support business as usual.

These are the challenges that Orchestrade’s ETRM solution solves.

With Orchestrade our clients can embrace disruptive technology that can keep pace with their business requirements, delivering value to their customers and shareholders. Our clients can rapidly launch new products, including the most complex energy derivatives and structured products, whilst improving end-to-end STP processing and risk management. The Orchestrade solution is cloud based, event-driven, offering real-time calculations and a modern, open architecture to enable our clients to quickly evolve with market, business and technology needs.

Orchestrade delivers comprehensive energy product coverage and functionality out-of-the-box, covering physical and financial power and natural gas, renewable power purchase agreements and certificates (EUA, GoO, Energy Savings) as well as weather, coal, crude and refined products, and freight financial instruments, FX, interest rates and fixed income.

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ENSPIRED

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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.

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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.

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Trellis Energy Cloud

EXHIBITOR

Trellis energy cloud, a digital B2B marketplace, is transforming the way natural gas industry participants transact mission-critical business along with aggregated market data, analytics, and actionable operational intelligence. Energy companies are able to transition to the cloud, digitalize, and automate business transactions with ease. In addition, they are also able to manage commercials, logistics, actualization, settlement, and compliance requirements. It reduces disorder and barriers, enabling organizations to reduce costs and increase margins.

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POTENT & PARTNERS

STRATEGIC LNG CONTENT PARTNER

Poten & Partners is the authoritative source of business intelligence on the global LNG industry. Backed by years of experience and unrivalled technical and commercial expertise, Poten’s multiclient LNG products provide a critical edge. Our dedicated experts produce in-depth research reports that offer unique market insight.

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JP Morgan Center for Commodities

EDUCATION PARTNER

The J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities at the University of Colorado Denver Business School is the first center of its kind focused on a broad range of commodities, including agriculture, energy and mining. Established in 2012, this innovative center provides educational programs and research in commodities markets, regulation, trading, financial fundamentals, investing, risk management and ethics. Online courses are available for a graduate-level. Commodity Certificate and we also offer online professional education courses in commodity trading, data analysis, ESG, sustainability and more.

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OIL & GAS GLOBAL NETWORK

MEDIA PARTNER

Oil and Gas Global Network™ (OGGN™) is the world’s largest network of oil and gas podcasts. We produce a wide variety of podcasts bring out the stories of the companies and people behind the oil and energy industry. Over the years we have become a platform for entrepreneurs, industry stalwarts, and trailblazers to voice their opinions and share their inspiring stories.

Through honest reporting and journalistic integrity, we aim to transform the world’s view of the oil and energy industry. We have earned appreciation and recognition from leading organizations in the industry and is considered a trendsetter for some of the most fun and meaningful conversations.

We use podcasting to tell the good and truthful stories of the oil and energy industry in an educational way that helps make our planet a better place—while having fun, taking care of our people, and keeping our industry informed.

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SYNMAX

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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.

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NATURAL GAS INTELLIGENCE

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.

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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.

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Join us at 24/7 Renewables: Is it possible? with

Seenu Kaliamurthy, Managing Director of Power Solutions, Enuit

NATGASHUB.COM

SPONSOR

‘NatGasHub.com’ is a Multi-Pipeline Dashboard from where natural gas shippers can automatically submit all their noms to 100+ pipes! Nom one & done! Gas worth over $750 million per month is nominated by America’s largest gas shippers using our software. The software also provides pipeline tariffs, capacity releases, and flow data in one clean standardized format from all inter-state, intra-state, U.S. and Canadian pipes.

Our software streamlines the entire Gas Nominations process from start to finish. Automatically receive your scheduled quantities back from pipelines in digital format. Get critical notices and open space available on every pipeline in real-time without doing anything! Don’t waste time scraping gas flow data from each pipeline’s website. No manual data entry, No spreadsheets! Make everyday manual repetitive tasks easier. Save time to focus on revenue generation.

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WOMEN’S ENERGY NETWORK

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

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OILWOMAN MAGAZINE

MEDIA PARTNER

OILWOMAN is the only magazine dedicated solely to highlighting the achievements of women across the energy spectrum covering the upstream value chain, including exploration, drilling and production. The magazine’s insightful content covering women in the industry, extends to the midstream pipeline and transportation market, and the downstream petrochemical and refinery segment.

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ENERGIES MAGAZINE

MEDIA PARTNER

ENERGIES Magazine is an alternative energy trade journal published four times per year. Our engaging content covers the renewable energy industry around the world. Each edition includes feature articles, Q&A interviews, energy scene highlights, emerging technology, and columns from our regular contributors.

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OILMAN MAGAZINE

MEDIA PARTNER

OILMAN is an oil and gas business magazine covering the upstream value chain, including exploration, drilling and production. Our coverage extends to the midstream pipeline and transportation market, and reports on developments in the downstream petrochemical and refinery segment.

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ELEVEN

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.

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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.

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Agenda 2022

JUNE 8

Wednesday
08 June 2022
Houston, Texas

Markets in Focus:
Agricultural Commodities

08:55

Ben Hillary

Managing Director
Commodities People

Opening Comments

09:00

Executive Panel

Howard Walper

CEO Americas, Commodities People

Ernie Thrasher

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Xcoal

Melisa Culbertson

Executive Director OTC Structured Product, RJO'Brien

Gregory Broussard

Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Trading, Cargill

Witches brew (Geopolitics, ESG initiatives and the lingering impact of COVID-19)

How are company leaders positioning themselves in an era of high prices and extreme volatility?
How has the war on Ukraine impacted different markets? How will this impact markets in the long term?
What are the lingering impacts of COVID-19? Are supply chains springing back, and if not, how long until we are back to"normal?"
How has the focus on ESG changed the way companies operate, particularly carbon-intensive industries?

09:45

Presentation

Dr. Craig Pirrong

Professor of Finance, Bauer College of Business,
University of Houston

Impact of extreme volatility on large trading companies

The impact of volatility on funding needs/costs: variation margins
The impact of volatility on funding needs/costs: initial margin
The impact of volatility and price levels on funding needs: financing inventories
The impact of volatility on trading risk and opportunities

10:15

Presentation

Keith Barnett

President,
Barnhill Energy

Ukraine invasion exposes weakness of global integration of commodities

Impact of invasion on commodity markets
Interrelationship between oil, natural gas, fertilizers, ag commodities, FX, inflation, etc.
Need for top notch data sources, analytics and risk management systems

10:45

Exhibition Area

Break

11:30

Presentation

Katie Whalen

Sr. Manager Global Commodity Research & North American Chocolate, Mars Inc.

Impact of climate change on ags markets

An objective look at the past – weather shocks and market reactions
What lies ahead – IPCC climate trends and potential market risks
Considerations for managing future price risk in a changing climate

12:00

Presentation

Alexis Maxwell

Research Director, Green Markets, Bloomberg

Fertilizer Tied To Energy Shift as Supply Shocks Mount

Fertilizers too big to ignore amid Ukraine crisis
Record prices - how can farmers adjust?
Energy crunch to dictate nitrogen supply availability

12:30

Exhibition Area

Lunch

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.

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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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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.

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ELEOX

SPONSOR

Eleox was formed and funded as a joint venture between six of the world’s leading companies that trade natural gas in North America. Its goal is to re-imagine commodity post-trade processing through the creation of an enterprise-grade application based on distributed ledger technology (DLT) to replace many existing, siloed post-trade systems with a unified, full lifecycle platform. Eleox is creating this secure, real-time digital approach to manage transactions from post-trade through settlements, replacing paper-based contracts and manual reconciliation processes, and will initially focus on enhancing the post-trade process for North American physical natural gas. The platform will be designed by Eleox and tested by its founding members, which will constitute a key segment of its projected user base, and is expected to be available for use by all market participants in late 2022.

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CCRO

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

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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

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ENSPIRED

EXHIBITOR

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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.

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KWA Analytics

SPONSOR

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.

For further information about KWA and ways we can work with you, please visit us at kwa-analytics.com

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NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT

SPONSOR

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MORNINGSTAR

EXHIBITOR

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The Company offers an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers and owners, retirement plan providers and sponsors, and institutional investors in the debt and private capital markets. Morningstar provides data and research insights on a wide range of investment offerings, including managed investment products, publicly listed companies, private capital markets, debt securities, and real-time global market data.

Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with approximately $265.0 billion in assets under advisement and management as of March 31, 2022. The Company has operations in 29 countries. For more information, visit www.morningstar.com/company.

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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.

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COMMODITY CLUB SWITZERLAND

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

The Commodity Club Switzerland provides a platform for business professionals and leaders in the commodity business. The initiative aims to drive further the transition to a responsible resource sector and brings together commodity professionals in Switzerland.

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MARPRO MARITIME PROFESSIONALS

MEDIA PARTNER

Maritime Professionals is the preferred source of information for the global maritime community regarding relevant news, jobs, events, and companies. It is our job to empower and give a voice to shipping and maritime companies, maritime organizations, and individual maritime professionals.

Maritime Professionals is operated by MARPRO, the recruitment partner of choice for companies in the shipping and maritime industry worldwide.

Established in 2013, Maritime Professionals broadcast an up-to-date weekly worth-reading newsletter consisting of maritime business intelligence, including featured articles, blogs, a global job board and access to worldwide maritime events.

Maritime Professionals’ newsletter has an audience of +15.900 maritime professionals, and the portal attracts 10.000 unique maritime professionals every month.

The portal is integrated into MARPRO´s social media channels, with the largest being MARPRO’s LinkedIn company page and groups Maritime Professionals and Maritime Deck Officers with more than 80.800 members.

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JP Morgan Center for Commodities

EDUCATION PARTNER

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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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ITFA

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

The International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA) is the worldwide trade association for companies, financial institutions and intermediaries engaged in trade and the origination, structuring, risk mitigation and distribution of trade debt. ITFA also represents the wider trade finance syndication and secondary market for trade assets. ITFA prides itself in being the voice of the secondary market for trade finance, whilst also focusing on matters that are relevant to the whole trade finance spectrum.

ITFA presently has close to 300 members, located in over 50 different countries. These are classified under a variety of business sectors, with the most predominant being the banking industry. Others include forfaiting, insurance underwriters, law firms, fintechs as well as other institutions having a business interest in the areas of Trade Finance and Forfaiting.

To find out more about ITFA, please visit www.itfa.org or send an email on [email protected]

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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.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN IN MINING

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

IWiM is a leading global women’s organisation pursuing gender equality and promoting women’s voices, access to opportunities, and leadership in mining. We connect with over 11,000 members and followers worldwide and collaborate with women in mining organisations in over 40 countries. IWiM is a not-for-profit organisation, founded in 2007 and registered as a community interest company in the UK. Our aims are to lead global change towards gender equality in mining by acting as:

Industry Change Agent, to make mining a better industry through diversity, gender equality, and inclusion; We achieve this via projects and campaigns like our mentoring programme
WIM Champion, to strengthen women in mining organisations to achieve global cohesion and leverage their game-changing collective strength; as well as celebrating individual women in mining – and
Diversity Trend Setter, to collect and dispense knowledge supporting the enhancement of women’s role and participation.

We operate with the support of sponsors and partners, and rely on a team of volunteers without whom we could not achieve our goals; Our volunteers and directors are based all over the world and bring different perspectives to the organisation.

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COMMODITY CONVERSATIONS

MEDIA PARTNER

Jonathan Kingsman is a writer and blogger on the agricultural commodity sector. After nearly 40 years in the business, he founded commodityconversations.com as a platform where agricultural commodity professionals can join in the conversation.

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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.

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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.

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CTRM CENTER

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.

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GAFTA

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

Gafta is the international trade association representing over 1900 member companies in 100 countries who trade in agricultural commodities, spices and general produce. Gafta is headquartered in London and has offices in Geneva, Kiev, Beijing and Singapore. More than 90% of Gafta’s membership is outside the UK. With origins dating back to 1878, Gafta provides a range of important services that facilitate the movement of bulk commodities and other produce around the world.

It is estimated that around 80% of all grain traded internationally is shipped on Gafta standard forms of contract and Gafta’s arbitration service, based on English law, is highly respected around the world. Gafta also runs training and education courses, manages Approved Registers for technical trade services and provides trade policy information, and events and networking opportunities for members.

Gafta promotes free trade in agricultural commodities and works with international governments to promote the reduction of tariffs and the removal of non-tariff barriers to trade, as well as a science and evidence-based approach to international trade policy and regulatory decision making.

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CCRO

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

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ANEC

ASSOCIATION PARTNER

ANEC’s mission is to develop the best scenario for the export and commercialization of soy, corn and delivery. The association conducts research on the sector in the national and international market, by meeting the needs of members, always with ethics, transparency and commitment.

In order to promote the development of activities related to grains and cereals, as well as defend the interests of its associates before private and public authorities, ANEC – Associação Nacional dos Exportadores de Cereais began its history on June 22, 1965.

Today, with half a century of experience, we have 50 associated companies. Among them are those qualified for being the largest and the best in Brazil and the world.

The high capacity of the management team, made up of representatives from effective associate companies, coupled with the market positioning of companies, provides greater representation of the Association with the Government.

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CASSINI

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.

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VERIDAPT

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;

Real-time monitoring of hard and soft commodities and that means 24/7 access to in-depth inventory data in tanks, silos and stockpiles to mitigate theft & fraud
Up-to-the minute measurements of CO2 emissions to verify carbon offsets
One-stop workflow management tool to simplify even the most complex of deals

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CubeLogic

EXHIBITOR

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.

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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.

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Agenda 2023

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Register for the EMWA Opening Reception

OCTOBER 29-30, 2024 Houston Red Oak Ballroom, Texas, USA

Agenda 2022

JUNE 8

Wednesday 08 June 2022 Houston, Texas

Markets in Focus: Agricultural Commodities

08:55

Ben Hillary

Managing Director Commodities People

09:00

Executive Panel

Howard Walper

CEO Americas, Commodities People

Ernie Thrasher

Chief Executive Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, Xcoal

Melisa Culbertson

Executive Director OTC Structured Product, RJO'Brien

Gregory Broussard

Managing Director and Global Head of Financial Trading, Cargill

09:45

Presentation

Dr. Craig Pirrong

Professor of Finance, Bauer College of Business, University of Houston

10:15

Presentation

Keith Barnett

President, Barnhill Energy

10:45

Exhibition Area

11:30

Presentation

Katie Whalen

Sr. Manager Global Commodity Research & North American Chocolate, Mars Inc.

12:00

Presentation

Alexis Maxwell

Research Director, Green Markets, Bloomberg

12:30

Exhibition Area

Find out more at
americas.environmentalmarketsweek.com

OCTOBER 29-30, 2024

Houston Red Oak Ballroom, Texas, USA

Wednesday
08 June 2022
Houston, Texas

Markets in Focus:
Agricultural Commodities

Managing Director
Commodities People

Professor of Finance, Bauer College of Business,
University of Houston

President,
Barnhill Energy