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Arrival: 7.30 AM, Presentation: 7.45-8.30 AM
Morning breakfast briefing: Fight volatility and mitigate risk with digitalization
Energy markets are volatile, threatening profits and increasing risk. Embracing digitalization (cloud, advanced analytics, mobility…) and new technology empowers energy companies to more profitably navigate volatile markets.
Learn how you can transform your value chain and take advantage of more sources of data and new applications to make better decisions. Join us for an interactive discussion and demonstration of how modern technology can fuel energy trading and reduce risk
Speakers:
Led by: Karen Lukacs, General Manager, Energy, EKA
Patrick Reames, Managing Partner, COMMODITY TECHNOLOGY ADVISORY
Britany Devlin, Vice President, Risk, TWIN EAGLE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Amber Storey, Director, VERITAS TOTAL SOLUTIONS
By invitation only. If interested in attending, please contact Rhea.Fenton@infopro-digital.com
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08:20
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Registration and refreshments
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08:50
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ENERGY RISK WELCOME ADDRESS: Stella Farrington, Head of content, ENERGY RISK
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09:00
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OPENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS: The changing nature of physical & derivatives market structures: The impact on end-users and market liquidity
Dan Berkovitz, Commissioner, U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION
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9.40 |
EXECUTIVE ADDRESS: Disentangling the impact of financial flows on oil markets
Ilia Bouchouev, Managing Director, Global Head of Derivatives, KOCH SUPPLY & TRADING |
10:20
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OPENING PANEL: Digitalization of energy markets: Harnessing new technologies to build the risk function of the future
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Understanding what’s out there and which products will best address your challenges
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What can artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation and natural language processing bring to the trading and risk functions?
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Building a business case and measuring ROI on new technologies
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AI: Build or buy – will energy companies need to become technology firms?
Moderator: Sid Dash, Research Director, CHARTIS RESEARCH
Partha Chatterjee, Program Directorate, Global LNG and Gas Trading Systems, SHELL
Glen Mackey, Chief Risk Officer, NRG ENERGY
Aiman El-Ramly, Chief Operations Officer, ZE POWER
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11:00
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Morning break and opportunity to network
KNOWLEDGE CAFÉ: Grab a coffee and join a table of your choice to share ideas and network with fellow industry professionals.
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Rethinking the ERM framework: Best practices and biggest challenges - Earl Burns, General Manager, Global Market Risk, Pricing & ERM, PHILLIPS 66
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Trade monitoring & analysis – Evolving into the trusted advisor – Led by: John Doran, Global Director, Trade Monitoring & Analysis, CONOCOPHILLIPS
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Qualitative reasoning & sentiment analysis: Documents dialogues & decisions - Led by: Akshay Singh, Quantitative Analytics Manager, WGL ENERGY
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Innovation in commodity structured financing: This is not your plain vanilla loan - Led by: Shabana Qaiser, Director, Assistant General Counsel, BANK OF AMERICA
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ERM, Credit, Operational & Market Risks
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Chair’s opening remarks
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11:40
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PANEL: Building a robust ERM program
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What are the trends and best practices?
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Deciding which risks to measure
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How best to communicate qualitative risk analysis
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What is the optimal interface between ERM and the traditional risk function?
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Best use of analytics
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Integrating ERM framework with strategic planning
Moderator: Jie Zhou, Director, ERM Analytics, EXELON
Philip North, Vice President, Global Risk Management, THE AES CORPORATION
Glenn Labhart, Partner, LABHART RISK ADVISORS
Alex Zhukovsky, Director, Energy Portfolio Risk Management, NATIONAL GRID
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12.20
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PRESENTATION: Focus on contract risk: Boosting profits by understanding and renegotiating your contracts
- What processes and resources you need to have in place to manage contract risk?
- Are you taking a full advantage of what is agreed in your contracts?
- Some practical examples
Glen Mackey, Chief Risk Officer, NRG ENERGY
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12.50
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FOCUS ON: Counterparty credit risk management: Best practices in a current environment
- Assessing counterparty risk and the latest trends in credit risk monitoring
- Have credit rating agencies regained the trust of their clients trust?
- How are Big Data and new analytics being used in the credit risk function?
- How to integrate counterparty risk management in the broader risk management function?
Led by: Eboni Troupe, Manager, Qualitative Risk and Compliance, NATIONAL GRID
Doug Adair, Senior Director, Credit Risk, DIRECT ENERGY
Nithya Venkatesan, Manager, Corporate Risk, HESS
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1.20
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Lunch and opportunity to network
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2.20
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PRESENTATION: Dynamic risk based approach to client screening
- Key divers behind client screening
- Evolution of counterparty risk analysis
- Building a dynamic risk matrix
- Analytic capabilities of a dynamic risk matrix
- Counterparty risk: Things to watch in 2019
Jennifer Plank, Senior Analyst, Global Trade Monitoring & Analysis, CONOCOPHILLIPS
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2.50
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PRESENTATION: Apply analytics to strategic risk management
- Traditional analytics
- Alternative approaches
- System Dynamics
- Game Theory
- Others
- Risk-informed capital allocation process
Jie Zhou, Director, ERM Analytics, EXELON
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3.20
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PANEL: When all hell breaks loose, is your business continuity management (BCM) framework ready for it?
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What is your BCM framework? What weaknesses have recent extreme weather events revealed in it?
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How to build a robust BCM strategy? What factors do you consider?
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Should firms plan for more frequent extreme weather events?
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How beneficial are cloud and other technologies in helping firms manage extreme events?
Moderator: Nitin Kumar, Senior Director, Market Risk, DIRECT ENERGY
Stuart Krohn, Head Global Market Risk Gas, Power & Energy Trading, SHELL TRADING & SUPPLY
Sarah McDowell, Head of Commodity Risk for Natural Gas, Valuations, NAGP, BP ENERGY COMPANY
Earl Burns, General Manager, Global Market Risk, Pricing & ERM, PHILLIPS 66
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Trading Surveillance, Compliance & Practical Case Studies
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Chair’s opening remarks
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11:40
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TRADE SURVEILANCE MASTERCLASS: Building an intelligent trade surveillance program that works for your organization
Kathryn Patton, Trading Compliance, CALPINE
Tom Lord, President, DYNAMIC COMMODITY MANAGEMENT
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12:50
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PANEL: Ecommunication: Beyond compliance to best practices in the industry
- Mitigating conduct, financial and reputational risks with effective e-communication program
- Key considerations for real-time surveillance of electronic communications
- How can communication surveillance help build more robust liaison between compliance and front-office
- Using AI to achieve e-communication compliance and more
Moderator: Tom Lord, President, DYNAMIC COMMODITY MANAGEMENT
John Clowney, Senior Vice President, Compliance, CITIGROUP
Justin Gilli, Director, Regulatory Compliance, NRG
Kathryn Patton, Senior Director, Trading Compliance, CALPINE
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1:20
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Lunch and opportunity to network
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2.20
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Update from the cleared futures world
- Futures and swaps market overview
- Clearing vs. Non-Clearing: What are the Issues in the evolving regulatory environment?
- How is risk manged by cleared futures?
- What can we learn from the power defaults in 2018?
Paul Cusenza, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, NODAL EXCHANGE
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2.50
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SPAN-2: A quantitative approach to risk management
- CME’s new quantitative risk management framework
- New framework advantages
- High level overview of the new methodology
- Overview of results
- Operational implementation
Nikhil Joshi, Senior Director, CME GROUP
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3.20
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CASE STUDY: Lessons from two commodity defaults
- The autopsy: What happened at Greenhat/PJM and Nasdaq?
- What do these defaults teaches us about electricity markets?
- What risk management failures have these events revealed?
- What regulators and exchanges need to learn from the Greenhat/PJM and Norwegian Nasdaq defaults?
Vince Kaminski, Professor, RICE UNIVERSITY'S JESSE H. JONES GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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4.00
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Afternoon break and opportunity to network
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4.30
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PRESENTATION: Human and the machine: The use of robotic process automation (RPA) in energy trading and risk management
Ahmad Farooqi, Senior Principal, Trading & Commercial Practice, ACCENTURE
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5:00
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RISING STARS PANEL: Energy risk management &trading 2.0: How do you see the sector changing while being a part of the change itself?
Hear what the next generation expect from a career in energy risk management!
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What made you decide to enter the energy world and was it as you expected?
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What motivates and excites you about energy risk management and trading?
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What do you find discouraging about pursuing a career in this sector? Is it considered a sector to stick around in or is it seen as a stepping stone to other asset classes?
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Is energy risk management keeping pace with technological advances?
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Do you think postgraduate qualifications (such as ERPs, MBAs, and PhDs) are of value in your day-to-day job?
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How do you see the industry and the role of the risk manager and trader evolving?
Moderator: Glenn Labhart, Partner, LABHART RISK ADVISORS
Ryan Barry, Energy Advisor, ENEL X NORTH AMERICA
Sarah Hayes, ERM Analyst, EXELON
William Recktenwald, Research Analyst, TRAFIGURA
Will O'Brien, Vice President, Commodity Trading Solutions, KWA ANALYTICS
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5.40
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ENERGY RISK closing remarks followed by drinks reception
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