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08.00 Registration and breakfast
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08.50 ENERGY RISK welcome address: Peter Petkov, Publisher, ENERGY RISK
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08.55 Chairperson's opening remarks: Lynda Clemmons, Principal, NRG ENERGY
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09.00 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Commodities, non-fundamentals and sentiment - Applications to trading
- The role of non-fundamentals on commodity markets
- The SG sentiment indicator - Applications and influences on commodity markets
- Bringing it together: How to trade on non-fundamentals/sentiment
Michael Haigh, Managing Director, Global Head of Commodities Research, SOCIETE GENERALE
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09.40 Dodd Frank impacts and considerations for end users
- Assessing Dodd-Frank statutes from the end user perspective
- End user exemptions
- What are the requirements for end users and how to ensure compliance?
Shelley Hurley, Managing Director, Risk Management, ACCENTURE
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10.20 PANEL DISCUSSION: Best practices for the ETRM system implementation: Assessing trading technology and how it aligns with risk management practices
- Identifying and defining the business requirements
- How are energy trading systems changing?
- How will real-time reporting affect trading operations?
- How might systems change in the future?
Mark Allan Smith, Partner, PWC
Chris David, Vice President, Portfolio Management and Structuring, REPSOL ENERGY NORTH AMERICA
Gary Dorris, President and Co-founder ASCEND ANALYTICS
Marty Makulski, Market Operations Technology - Global Physical Oil, MACQUARIE
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11.00 Morning break
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11.30 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Dodd-Frank regulatory framework: What questions remain unanswered?
- Review of CFTC's Dodd-Frank implementation and rulemaking processes
- Embracing the changing market structure
- Assessing unfolding trends in the OTC market
- Outlook for energy markets
Scott O'Malia, Commissioner, COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
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12.10 PANEL DISCUSSION: Technology solutions for regulatory compliance: Managing obligations imposed by new regulatory monitoring and reporting requirements
- Data and information challenges presented by the new derivatives regulation
- Systems and tools available to meet regulatory requirements (Dodd-Frank, FERC, SEC, EMIR, REMIT, Local Market Operators)
- Additional steps to ensure compliance and regulatory oversight - trading surveillance
- Lessons learned from Dodd-Frank
- What is on the horizon?
Moderator: Austin Morris, Managing Partner, SUNGARD GLOBAL SERVICES
Patrick Woody, Senior Strategist, Regulatory Risk Compliance, SAS RISKADVISORY
Ann Marie Hanley, Foremer Dodd Frank Project Lead, DIRECT ENERGY
Vlady Gorny, Vice President, Enterprise Risk and Risk Control, EXELON
Further speakers to be confirmed, please visit energyriskusa.com for further updates
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12.50 Lunch and opportunity to visit the exhibition
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STREAM TWO
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Chairperson's opening remarks: Frank Verducci , Managing Director, Structured Products Americas,
BP ENERGY COMPANY
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Chairperson's opening remarks: Lynda Clemmons, Principal, NRG ENERGY
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Developments in hedging strategies under imposed capital requirements
- Adjusting hedging practices given limited opportunities
- How to overcome existing hedging limits?
- Addressing liquidity concerns
- Credit support for exploration and production (E&P) hedging via structured products
Frank Verducci , Managing Director, Structured Products Americas,
BP ENERGY COMPANY
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The outlook for energy trading in the altered marketplace
- Energy markets as a global, integrated system
- Technological and geopolitical developments change the landscape of energy trading
- Shale gas and oil revolution
- Climate change
- Integration of renewable electricity sources with the existing transmission / generation system
- High frequency and algorithmic trading
- Growing international tensions
- Challenges to risk management
- Education of future energy traders and risk management. Are the business schools up to the task?
Vince Kaminski, Professor, RICE UNIVERSITY'S JESSE H. JONES GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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Incorporating a comprehensive weather ecosystem into risk strategies
- Recent developments in weather-based technologies
- Recent developments in both short- and long-term forecasting
- Extreme weather trends and their impact on energy markets
- Accommodating weather risk into trading strategies
Mark Gildersleeve, President, WSI
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The rise of correlation
- Introduction to correlation
- Correlation and you
- Assessing correlation
- Correlation pitfalls
Anguel Grigorov, Director, North America, Risk Data Services, PLATTS
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Corporate hedger's perspective on changing energy landscape
- Ever changing face of risk
- Revisiting hedging objectives, strategies and constraints
- Navigating new and old risks in the evolving energy marketplace
Alejandro Gonzalez, Price Risk Management Advisor, MOTIVA ENTERPRISES
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The ERCOT market: a participant's perspective
- Coping with risk in today's energy-only market as a retailer and as a generator
- Developing new, smart products for consumers
- Considering implications of potential future changes
David Hindman, Head of ERCOT Desk, DIRECT ENERGY
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3.50 Afternoon break
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4.20 Reviewing developments in North American LNG export projects and how these align with the global LNG market
- Regulatory update on LNG trade agreements
- What are the implications of LNG exports on the energy industry participants?
- Assessing risks to the US natural gas markets associated with the foreign demand
- What are the risks associated with long term contracts?
- How can the US LNG market compete in the global arena?
- Can the Opec halt the LNG boom in the US?
Moderator: Chris David, Vice President, Portfolio Management and Structuring, REPSOL ENERGY NORTH AMERICA
Kevin Kremke, Vice President Strategic Planning, CHENIERE ENERGY
Jagadish Mendu, LNG Trading Head, EXCELERATE ENERGY
Biliana Pehlivanova, Head of Global Gas Research, BARCLAYS CAPITAL
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5.00 CLOSING GUEST ADDRESS: Future of the growth and structure of competitive markets: All eyes on Texas
Andrew Sunderman, Chief Financial Officer, DIRECT ENERGY
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5.30 Closing chairman's remarks
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Drinks reception followed by Energy Risk Awards dinner
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