2024 Sponsors

Ascend Analytics is an industry-leading software and consulting firm supporting storage valuation and strategic operations. Ascend’s innovative weather-derived and sub-hourly analytic tools, unique in the marketplace, serve as a critical bridge between today’s highly volatile physical and financial markets. Our client base includes Duke, LADWP, Ameren, and a host of other developers, utilities, and grid planning entities. Ascend’s decision analysis tools are designed to maximize investment and operational profitability.

Nodal Exchange is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management solutions to participants in the North American energy markets. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world's largest set of electric power locational (nodal) futures contracts. Nodal Exchange currently offers over 1,000 contracts on hundreds of unique locations, providing the most effective basis risk management available to market participants. In addition, Nodal Exchange offers a Henry Hub natural gas contract providing cross-margining benefits with participant's power portfolios. All Nodal Exchange contracts are cleared by Nodal Clear which is a CFTC registered derivatives clearing organization. Nodal Exchange is a designated contract market regulated by the CFTC.

Nasdaq is a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries. Its data, analytics, software and services offerings enable clients to optimise and execute their business visions with confidence. Nasdaq is the world’s largest capital markets infrastructure technology provider, powering one in 10 of securities transactions globally. Nasdaq's market technology powers more than 250 market infrastructure organisations and market participants – including broker-dealers, exchanges, clearing houses, central securities depositories and regulators – in over 50 countries with end-to-end mission-critical technology solutions. 

Beacon Platform 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.  Its platform addresses a wide range of needs, from energy and commodity trading to portfolio and multi-asset management, backed by the foundational components needed for a comprehensive view of risk and performance across all assets.