Commodities People
Level 39
One Canada Square
Canary Wharf
London E14 5AB
+44 20 7111 1615
STEPHANE GUY
Head of Business Development and Strategy
KPLER
KPLER
Gold Sponsor
HUGH BRUNSWICK
CEO
Equias
Hugh Brunswick was appointed Managing Director in 2003 when EFET established EFETnet. In November 2017, EFET divested its ownership interest in EFETnet B.V. In June 2018 EFETnet changed its name to become Equias B.V. and Hugh was appointed as CEO.
Hugh has overseen the introduction and development of services to implement the EFET Standards and the steady growth of the user community with a focus on automation of operational and regulatory reporting processes. Hugh has over 20 years of experience in energy and commodity markets.
Prior to Equias, Hugh worked in business and IT consultancy for various consulting organisations. His work with EFET, EFETnet and now Equias provides Hugh with an opportunity to work in Europe and internationally with traders, brokers, exchanges, clearers and regulatory repositories and to develop a deep understanding of the energy and commodity markets from the strategic, regulatory, commercial, operational and technical perspectives.
He is a graduate of the University of Manchester with BSc (Hons) Physics and MSc Computer Science.
EDDIE TOFPIK
Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst
ADM Investor Services International Ltd.
YASMINE LI
Head of EMEA Surveillance
Macquarie
NAZIM OSMANCIK
Chief Risk Officer
Centrica EM&T
KARL-PETER HORSTMANN
Head of Markets Regulation
RWE Supply & Trading
Enverus Trading & Risk
Silver Sponsor
GERFRIED KRÖMER
Senior Compliance Advisor
Shell Trading
KASPER WALET
AI Expert
AI Energizer
ROB PRINGLE
Chief Technology Officer
SmartestEnergy
JAN VOETMANN
Head of Analytics
Ørsted
JEAN-MARC BONNEFOUS
Managing Partner
Tellurian Capital
MARTIJN VAN GEMERT
Director Market Insights
Vattenfall
ALEXANDER RAGUZ
Head of Algorithmic Trading
4seee GmbH / ElbOil GmbH
AIGET: Associazione Italiana di Grossisti di Energia e Trader
The Italian Association of Energy Traders & Suppliers
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.
SONIA GHOSH
Varo Energy
ETRM Specialist
The European Energy Retailers
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
TOM BENT
Principle And Commercial Energy Services
GEN10
GOLD SPONSOR
The cloud apps provide complete commodity management, with enhanced operational risk controls and powerful workflow and pricing engines that automate many of the manual, time-intensive commodity processes. Workflows facilitate enhanced collaboration whilst improving control and governance, driving safe efficiencies and visibility across your business for confident data-driven decision-making.
Gen10’s CTRM platform, Commodity.ManagerTM, includes end–to-end transaction processing and analytics, covering everything from fast trade capture, origination, PnL and sample management through export, trading, import, distribution, to final settlement and risk management.
Gen10 believe 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.
EQUIAS
GOLD SPONSOR
HENRIETTE ANZBÖCK
Head of Back Office
Alpiq
DIRK DAVELUY
Brokers & Exchange Relationship Manager – Trading Operations & Affairs
RWE Supply & Trading
MIKE BOSTAN
Coordinator, EFET Covid-19 Response
EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders
ELEVEN RECRUITMENT
MEDIA PARTNER
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SCALEFOCUS
SILVER SPONSOR
POWER WORLD ANALYSIS
MEDIA PARTNER
Power World Analysis is dedicated to bringing you the latest news and updates under Energy and Power Sector. We keep industry professionals and decision makers informed about this fast and dynamic Energy and Power market and enable them to make strategic decisions.
Variety of online marketing services and promotional activities through Power World Analysis help companies to reach their target audience and creates brand awareness. We also deliver weekly newsletter to our subscribers.
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ENERGY TRADERS ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION PARTNER
ETD is mandated to facilitate and promote universal rules, regulations and standards enabling 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 introduction of a widely accepted standard contract and defining and establishment of ethical code. In order to fulfill 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 Turkish energy market in cooperation with some European companies and institutions came to a visible level in regulatory frameworks. We are one of energy sector organisations, which is invited to consultation meetings and interviews for various reports on Turkish energy market, prepared by international organisations such as The World Bank Group and International Energy Acency.
BEACON
SILVER SPONSOR
The Beacon Platform is the only commodity and energy platform to provide access to all source code within an integrated development environment, together with front-to-back trading and risk management applications. Beacon’s open architecture model provides access to all source code, which enables the client –- not the vendor –- to own the full stack in a modern, cloud-based platform with automated elastic compute services. This transparency and flexibility empower clients to securely build, iteratively test, tweak and integrate proprietary models and analytics, and to extend end-user applications easily. Beacon removes the pain of designing new applications and strategies by streamlining the development and deployment process, enabling teams to rapidly experiment with new solutions and business models, all on the cloud.Unlike black-box solutions, Beacon gives commodity and energy companies and their developers the flexibility and scale they need to gain a competitive edge. This approach empowers clients to make the most out of Beacon and create their own enterprise intellectual property. This makes the Beacon Platform the only “Buy and Build on top of” commodity and energy enterprise innovative platform solution in the industry.
BROADPEAK
SPONSOR
BroadPeak’s flagship software K3 is the most used regulatory compliance platform. K3 is used by compliance and risk teams to automate regulatory reporting, monitor position limits and provide trade / trader surveillance.
Intuitively designed for non-technical users, K3 seamlessly connects to over 30 global exchanges, 25 trading systems and Trade Repositories/SDRs. K3 visualizes all data processed, gives the user instant error alerts.
FIDECTUS
GOLD SPONSOR
Fidectus is a Swiss service provider specializing in post-trade services for OTC energy and commodity trading. The Fidectus “Global Energy Network” (GEN) is the only cross-company and -provider post-trade processing and collaboration SaaS solution. Our unique open architecture model enables traders to not just own their data but their process at any point in time. Innovation, security, and cost-efficiency to all our clients are considered throughout the entire solution. Fidectus’ razor-sharp focus, thought leadership and neutrality amplify our first mover position for EFET’s electronic Settlement Matching (eSM).
GEN is fully EFET eSM compliant and enables traders to improve business process, efficiency, scalability and collaboration, to reduce operational risk and to use new tools for managing liquidity and settlement risk. It connects traders with energy and commodity trading market participants enabling them to
• instantly start eSM utilizing GEN’s OCR and enrichment rules for fully eSM compliant documents,
• be agnostic to connectivity and file formats for easy and quick integration (i.a. CSV, XML, JSON, Email, RESTful API, SFTP, ebXML, etc.),
• export and use your data in many different formats as PDF, CSV, XML, JSON etc.
• collaborate and solve disputes in real-time and across communication protocols,
• make audits easy and be fully compliant through an immutable audit-trail,
• provide eSM XML and PDF out-of-the-box to your counterparties addressing today’s regulatory needs,
• reduce operational risk and cost by > 50% allowing your staff to focus on more value-adding tasks,
• settle even close to real-time after delivery for settlement risk reduction and freeing up cash earlier,
• reduce cashflows via automated bilateral and multilateral netting, further unlocking cash for trading,
• track and apply incoming and outgoing payments to get the full end-to-end benefit,
• benefit of a rich variety of settlement and financial KPI’s for better decision making.
Experience the future of energy settlement, today!
MIKAEL KREINER
Head of Back Office
Ørsted
Pioneer Solutions is a global provider of award-winning C/ETRM, environmental management and financial and regulatory compliance solutions. Since 2003, Pioneer has been serving some of the largest energy companies, utilities and midstream producers in the US and Europe.
Pioneer’s innovative and flexible solutions have been organically built for rapid implementation and superior services at an overall lower cost of ownership.
Pioneer’s suite of ETRM solutions are based on its web-based FARRMS platform and offer comprehensive front, middle, and back office process management for both physical and financial trades of all asset classes and commodity types.
Developed from the back to the front, resulting in industry-leading data processing and reporting capability, Pioneer’s modern easy-to-use applications deliver ready “out-of-the-box” or tailored functionality designed for ease of implementation and integration with existing systems. With a user-configurable environment for less reliance on vendor services, and with deployment options including a cloud-based Software-as-a-Service offering via www.trmtracker.com, Pioneer offers a fresh alternative to legacy C/ETRM systems
ZOE HALL
VP – Teal Lead for Process Automation
Castleton Commodities International
JAKOB BLOCH
CEO
Commodity Appointments
EREN ERMAN
Compliance Technology Lead – Trade & Business Communication Surveillance
TP ICAP
ERDEM SEZER
Manager – Analysis and Trading Strategies
AKSA Enerji
KEN HAN
CEO
Enuit
JÖRG REICHELT
Head of Settlement
EnBW
PABLO CÓRCOLES
Tech Project Manager –
Back Office
Endesa
GARY VASEY
Partner & Managing Director
ComTech Advisory
He is a noted expert on the commodity trading, transaction and risk management software industry and an accomplished industry analyst and thought leader.
Gary has published more than 200 articles on energy and commodities industry trends in a variety of publications, is a regular speaker at industry conferences, and is the co-author of the books Trends in Energy Trading, Transaction and Risk Management Software – A Primer and Selecting and Implementing ETRM Software – A Primer (with Patrick Reames). He also contributed two chapters to The Professional Risk Managers‘ Guide to Energy and Environmental Markets published by PRMIA and two chapters, co-written with Peter C. Fusaro, to Weather, Energy and Environmental Hedging – An Introduction (ICFAI University Press, 2007) edited by Amando F C Da Silva.
Gary is also the co-author of Energy & Environmental Hedge Funds – The New Investment Paradigm (Wiley, 2006) with Peter C. Fusaro, and of many trade press articles on hedge funds in the energy, commodities and environmental industry.
Gary holds a B.Sc. (Hons.) degree in Geological Sciences from the University of Aston in Birmingham, England and a Ph.D. in Geology from the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
ANTONIO SEVILLA CERVANTES
Head of Back Office
Endesa
Electronic Engineer by the Polytechnic University of Madrid, he began to work in Endesa in 1992 at the Energy Dispatching Center for Power Generation. He moved to the Back Office Department in 1995. He was responsible for the Energy Metering Unit from 2001 to 2007, and, since 2007, he is Head of Endesa’s Energy Management Back Office.
He is involved in different projects for the automation of Back Office’s processes, the improvement of the information management in the business and the implementation of the new regulations.
GAVIN FERGUSON
Head of Standardisation Workstream
EFET – European Federation of Energy Traders
Gavin has worked within the Gas and Power industry for nearly 40 years. He spent the first 15 years in IT. For much of the last 15 years, he served as Back Office Manager at Centrica, before moving into Business Change where he had the responsibility for implementing EMIR, REMIT Phase I and REMIT Phase II transaction reporting for British Gas Trading and Centrica Energy.
He has worked on many initiatives and served on industry Committees led by OFGEM, FIA, EFET and National Grid. He recently retired from his role at Centrica, but is keeping very active in the industry. He now heads EFET’s standardisation workstream, whose current main focus is Electronic Settlement Matching (eSM).
DR. JENS BARTENSCHLAGER
CEO & FOUNDER
FIDECTUS AG
Dr. Jens Bartenschlager is co-founder and CEO of Fidectus, a first mover for electronic Settlement Matching (eSM) in the European OTC energy trading industry. He has spent the past years working with leading European Energy trading companies to define a path to eSM. During this time, he was Head of Energy & Utilities Consulting Switzerland at a global audit firm and Associate Partner of a Swiss management consulting boutique. He brings 15+ years’ extensive experience in OTC settlements, energy trading and risk management especially in back and middle office, trading IT, innovation and energy sales. He is a business information systems scientist and holds a doctorate in strategy implementation from the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management.
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 sent bill.
SILVER SPONSOR
Morningstar is a trusted source in data management solutions that provide clients with actionable information in the energy, commodities and financial sectors. Our enterprise-level software enables you to access and analyze proprietary and market data to facilitate collaboration and help make better investment decisions. Traders, risk managers, IT, analysts, and executives look to us to power their enterprise and take action with confidence.
GOLD SPONSOR
BroadPeak’s flagship software K3 is the most used regulatory compliance platform. K3 is used by compliance and risk teams to automate regulatory reporting, monitor position limits and provide trade / trader surveillance.
Intuitively designed for non-technical users, K3 seamlessly connects to over 30 global exchanges, 25 trading systems and Trade Repositories/SDRs. K3 visualizes all data processed, gives the user instant error alerts.
GOLD SPONSOR
Established in 1995, ZE’s sole purpose is to help organizations that are data driven to be more efficient through end-to-end data automation and superior services.
ZE is the developer of ZEMA, a comprehensive platform for data aggregation, validation, modelling, automation and integration. By providing unrivaled data collection, analytics, curve management, and integration capabilities, ZEMA offers robust data solutions for clients in all markets and industries. ZE also provides a full range of support and implementation services ensuring full success across all elements of the organization’s needs. ZEMA is available a on premise, as a cloud solution via the ZE Cloud, Software as a Service, or Data-as-a-Service.
STRATEGIC PARTNER
Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation partner helping established organizations get to their future, digitally-enabled state, both in the way they work and the way they serve their customers. We help unlock value through a start-up mindset and modern methods, fusing strategy, consulting and customer experience with agile engineering and problem-solving creativity.
As digital pioneers with 20,000 people and 53 offices around the globe, our experience spanning technology, data sciences, consulting and customer obsession – combined with our culture of curiosity and relentlessness – enables us to accelerate our clients’ businesses through designing the products and services their customers truly value. Publicis Sapient is the digital business transformation hub of Publicis Groupe.
GOLD SPONSOR
Equias is a proven partner that provides innovative, cost effective solutions and services for the energy trading community. We focus on optimisation and adding value through technical insights and innovations that are equitable and accessible to all our clients. Specifically, we develop advanced solutions for automation of energy trading processes, based on open market standards.
There’s more to Equias than technology. We are sensitive to human and business needs when solving problems for our customers. By finding new ways to connect, collaborate and create a vibrant community, we bring out the best of what we all have to offer, for our common benefit.
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, SMCR 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 sixty 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.
SPONSOR
We’re Igloo Trading Solutions, we are disrupting the CTRM solution industry through smarter technology and innovation.
Multi commodity, multi exchange
Igloo is a set of cloud enabled technology components that provide client’s with multi commodity, multi exchange execution, front, middle and back office functionality.
Cloud based, modular and scalable with no implementation fees
Our SaaS offering is subscription based with no implementation fees and priced to allow small to medium sized market participants to access high end ETRM functionality cost effectively.
Our solutions help clients to increase P&L and reduce operational costs and risk. Our largest client has been able reduce operational overheads by 75pc, utilising Igloo technology.
SPONSOR
Molecule melds bleeding-edge tech, finance, the commodities industry, operations, and design into bulletproof software. It’s light, fast, and easy to use. Integrations take about 90 days, with no additional integration fees.
We provide next-generation P&L, near-time VaR, position, and risk analytics to commodity traders, hedge funds, and world-scale financial services institutions. We help risk and operations managers go home earlier by automating routine tasks and complex calculations.
Our true cloud product delivers data security and reliability, a SaaS pricing model, and regular product upgrades with minimal interruptions. Molecule handles options and futures on electricity, natural gas, crude, liquids, metals, ags, softs, FX, bitcoin, and equities.
SILVER SPONSOR
Eka is a global leader in providing digital commodity management solutions driven by Cloud, Blockchain, Machine Learning and Analytics. The company’s best-of-breed solutions serve the entire trading value chain across agriculture, energy, metals and mining and manufacturing markets.
Eka is reimagining commodity management with a new age architecture that breaks monolithic CTRM and ETRM systems into bite sized chunks of powerful, enterprise grade apps, thereby enabling faster implementation, adoption and decision making. Eka’s mobile-first, enterprise apps are embedded with commodity specific algorithms that empower businesses to stay on top of volatile markets by letting them scale at will, go live faster, and achieve better value for their investments.
Eka has offices across the Americas, Asia, Australia, and EMEA serving 100+ customers globally across multiple commodity segments.
GOLD SPONSOR
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GOLD SPONSOR
Drillinginfo delivers business-critical insights to the energy, power, and commodities markets. Its state of the art SaaS platform offers sophisticated technology, powerful analytics, and industry-leading data.
Drillinginfo’s solutions deliver value across upstream, midstream and downstream markets, empowering exploration and production (E&P), oilfield services, midstream, utilities, trading and risk, and capital markets companies to be more collaborative, efficient, and competitive. Drillinginfo delivers actionable intelligence over mobile, web, and desktop to analyze and reduce risk, conduct competitive benchmarking, and uncover market insights.
Drillinginfo serves over 5,000 companies globally from its Austin, Texas headquarters and has more than 1,000 employees.
GOLD SPONSOR
BJSS is the UK’s leading privately-owned IT and Business Consultancy. As the winner of a Queen’s Award for Enterprise, we work with the world’s largest organisations, delivering the IT solutions that millions of people use every day.
GOLD SPONSOR
NorthGravity helps clients progress on their advanced analytics journey, offering technology, data science, and data engineering services to help clients derive prescriptive value from their data. NorthGravity enables clients to put advanced AI models into production, using NorthGravity’s Model Management platform.
NorthGravity was founded with deep commodity markets and cloud technology foundations with offices in Chicago, Austin, and Krakow.
GOLD SPONSOR
European Commodity Clearing (ECC) is the leading clearing house for energy and commodity products in Europe.
ECC assumes the counterparty risk and guarantees the physical and financial settlement of transactions, providing security and cross-margining benefits for its customers. As part of EEX Group, ECC provides clearing services for CLTX, EEX, EPEX SPOT, Powernext and Power Exchange Central Europe (PXE) as well as the partner exchanges HUPX, HUDEX, NOREXECO, SEEPEX and SEMOpx.
GOLD SPONSOR
Digiterre provides Financial Investment Management CRM and Trading Solutions software development services, to over one hundred clients globally, including many of the world’s largest banks, hedge funds, asset managers, fund of funds, fund administrators, prime brokers, energy and commodities trading firms.
Digiterre’s Communica platform allows organisations to centralise, categorise and analyse data on clients, fund holdings and fees. Centralising all your key business knowledge for you to maximise in the operation of your business, including for compliance and regulation purposes (such as for KYC and AIFMD).
Digiterre’s Agility Team offers solutions to managing technological and organizational change for the world’s leading trading organizations – be they commodity or energy traders, banks and investment managers-by designing and delivering software that our clients want, need and use. We are specialists in building custom systems for risk and portfolio management, real time reporting, data routing, Big Data and master data management.
GOLD SPONSOR
Aquilon Energy Services Inc. develops innovative software and service solutions for the energy industry. The Aquilon team combines deep industry insights with advanced technology to bring reliable, collaborative solutions to the energy market. The firm’s Energy Settlement Network® is an enterprise-grade settlement network powered by digital technology. ESN® enables energy participants of all sizes to manage, access and settle large volumes of power, crude oil and natural gas transactions with their counterparties. The company is based in Lisle, Illinois, and has an office in Houston. For more information, visit www.aquiloninc.com.
PLATINUM RPA SPONSOR
As the pioneer, innovator and market leader in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), Blue Prism delivers the world’s most successful Digital Workforce. The company’s intelligent digital workers provide government and business leaders with new operational capacity and intelligent skills to automate mission critical business processes, while meeting the requirements of the most demanding IT environments, where security, compliance and scalability are paramount.
Blue Prism provides a scalable and robust execution platform for best-of-breed AI and cognitive technologies and has emerged as the trusted and secure RPA platform of choice for the Fortune 500 and public-sector market. Billions of transactions and hundreds of millions of hours of work are executed on Blue Prism software robots. For more information about Blue Prism (AIM: PRSM) follow the company on LinkedIn and Twitter.