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DIGICOM RETURNS TO LONDON ON THE 24TH – 25TH APRIL 2024 WITH THE STATE-OF-THE-ART NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ULTIMATE DIGICOM EXPERIENCE!
The event will give a 360° view of all digital matters for commodity trading companies, including innovation and best practices around CTRMs, algo trading, blockchain, data journey, digital transition, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, data analytics, and many more!
KEY TOPICS INCLUDE:
DIGICOM RETURNS TO LONDON ON THE 24TH – 25TH APRIL 2024 WITH THE STATE-OF-THE-ART NETWORKING TECHNOLOGY FOR THE ULTIMATE DIGICOM EXPERIENCE!
The event will give a 360° view of all digital matters for commodity trading companies, including innovation and best practices around CTRMs, algo trading, blockchain, data journey, digital transition, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, data analytics, and many more!
KEY TOPICS INCLUDE:
You'll get the lowdown from industry leaders on topics including:
The agenda currently presented is representative of the 2023 event. The forthcoming event's agenda for 2024 will be officially announced at a later date.
Moderator: Maryana Stober, President, Wista Switzerland
Anna Malamen, Finance Director, PMG Holding
Ilya Medvedenko, Director, Barens Group
Bjarke Nissen, Managing Director, Stolt Tankers
Robert Soban, Senior Account Manager - Financial Markets / CAMS, Pole Star Global
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Assessing further risks and consequences of Russia's attacks on Ukraine
• The status of the grain corridor
• Considering food security and disruptions to the global grain trade
• Addressing solutions and a look into the future
Moderator: Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
Hugo Brodie, Head of Product Development & Innovation, London Metal Exchange
Gordon Allott, President & CEO, BroadPeak Partners Inc.
Adrian Carr, Business Development Manager, Nasdaq Risk Platform
Dirk Robers, Digital Ventures EMEA, Cargill
Richard Reid, Head of Risk Strategy & Integration, Marex
PANEL DISCUSSION
• How are the global trends influencing strategic decisions in the digitisation space?
• Different departments, different needs: How do you create coherent approach across the board?
• How do you achieve such a deep transformation from the top to the bottom?
• Success stories: 'How we transformed our business through digitalisation'
Moderator: Marc Ostwald, Chief Economist & Global Strategist, ADM ISI
Scott Wellcome, Director - Grains Risk Management, Goodmills Group
Kona Haque, Head of Research, ED&F Man
Saad Rahim, Chief Economist, Trafigura
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Market dynamics, pressures, cycles, mitigation strategies
• Industry confidence for the year ahead
• How the commodity trading industry is adapting to high inflation
Kona Haque, Head of Research, ED&F Man
Scott Wellcome, Director - Grains Risk Management, Goodmills Group
Ana Yaluff, Director - Sustainability EMEA, ADM
PANEL DISCUSSION
• The ongoing impact of Russia's invasion of Ukraine
• Global food supply: shortages and price impacts
• Weather outlook and ongoing impact of global warming
• Crops for energy vs crops for food - debate
• Global food supply chain - is a rethink needed?
Kelly Vaughan, Director of Digital Strategy, Mercuria
KEYNOTE
This keynote will give an overview of remote sensing data and how it can be used in conjunction with AI to create competitive advantage and differentiation in commodity trading.
Alvaro Mariani, Senior Risk Consultant, RadarRadar
Luke Humphrey, Global Head - CIO Digital Technology and Analytics, Louis Dreyfus Company
Georges Panaghoulis, Head of Price Risk and Hegding, Island Oil
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Mini case studies: exploring a variety of trading firms' digital journeys
• Understanding your wider business culture and ensuring it can support the necessary change
• Striking the right balance between technology as a service vs ownership
• Exploring digital ethics and ensuring internal and external data privacy and safety
• Being realistic about budgets, timeframes and expectations
Moderator: Guy Barnes, Director, CapSpire
Luke Humphrey, Global Head - CIO Digital Technology and Analytics, Louis Dreyfus Company
Alex Whittaker, General Manager, Bonroy Petchem Co
Ben van der Laan, Consultant, DycoTrade
PANEL DISCUSSION
• What is expected from CTRM software in highly volatile environments and times - are they standing up to the challenge?
• Cloud vs on premises - exploring pros and cons
• Commodity price risk management, liquidity risk and treasury tools; one system fits all?
• Architectural and interoperability challenges
Moderator: Julian Gray, Former VP of Digital Science and Digital Innovation in Energy Industry
Mark Hankins, Director Enterprise Architecture, ADM
Léa Yue Xu, Project Manager - Global Digital Innovation, Louis Dreyfus Company
Bruce Tozer, Strategy & Business Development, GEN 10
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Utilising new technologies to ensure transparency in calculating your carbon footprint; exploring carbon accounting and tracking tools and systems
• Developing existing architectures to collect, manage and analyse new sustainability data sources
• Understanding the value of carbon footprint in your daily trading operations and influence on product positions
Moderator: Sajindra Jayasena, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Targray
Alex Rykhva, Head of Data Science, Louis Dreyfus Company
Dr Amaury Magnin, Product Manager / Financial Trading, Predictive Layer
Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners
PANEL DISCUSSION
• Integrating prescriptive analytics into your business strategy
• Getting more from your data - what is existing technology capable of?
• New approaches to data management and security
• Machine learning, AI ..managing increased complexity
PRESENTATION
• Moving from infrastructure to application security
• Developing a pre emptive post breach containment strategy to reduce disruption
• The CIOs nightmare: what lessons have been learnt from Colonial Pipeline and where do we expect future threats to come from?
• Understanding the cyber vendor landscape and ensuring interoperability across your existing tech ecosystem
Moderator: Sajindra Jayasena, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Targray
Guy-Laurent Arpino, CIO, Louis Dreyfus Company
István Czilik, CEO, Revenue.ai
PANEL DISCUSSION
Where are we seeing as the most valuable use cases for this technology?
· Back office
· Credit
· What are the opportunities for the front office and why have we not seen widespread uptake?
• RPA + AI = Intelligent Automation
• How scalable and sustainable is hyper automation?
• Combining hyper automation with deep learning… What might the future hold?
Dirk Robers, Digital Ventures EMEA, Cargill
Mike Banks, EMEA Price Risk Solutions lead, Cargill
PANEL DISCUSSION
• The role of the metaverse and transitioning from the analogue world
• How far your data journey can take you and where will it end?
• Perspectives on how trading companies can exploit quantum computing
• Digital ethics… what will this mean for trading firms now and in the future?
Mathilde de Mareuil, Headhunter - Executive Search, Shipping and Trading Network
Maryana Stober, President, Wista Switzerland
Women in Commodities workshop is a 2-hour event designed to not only celebrate gender diversity in the commodity trade industry but also to highlight ongoing issues. The workshop will feature distinguished speakers who will share their practical experience, knowledge and insights. This workshop is built upon the success of the 2022 edition and will focus on how women can break the glass ceiling, create and foster diversity, advocate for themselves and strengthen business networks.