Tom James is CIO & CEO and a co-founder of the Trade Flow Funds the innovative digitised trade finance solution for bulk physical commodity transactions being shipped or stored around the world. After 2 years+ of FinTech development and planning the Digital Trade Finance Fund for USD deals went live in 2018, operating the new approach to physical commodity trade & Inventory finance. This was followed by the launch of a Euro fund in February 2020. He is the business and system architect for the solution which meets both industry needs and investor appetites combining a unique business model with proven risk management approaches, a fund platform, and Fintech for scalability. His co-founders complete the cross-discipline team necessary to develop and operate the trade finance solution and fund, coming from a legal, maritime, and I.T. background.
He has over 30 years of commercial exposure gained through a broad range of senior executive roles in trading, investment management, commodity finance (Trade and Project) & advisory. He is called upon by governments & multinationals for advice & insight on market developments. In 2014 he was called upon to serve as a Senior Energy Advisor to the United States Department of Defense (TFBSO) and he currently sits on the “Financing Advisory Resources” panel for Enterprise Singapore, the trade development body of the Singapore Government.
Tom is a serial Commodity FinTech entrepreneur with a history of combining technology with best practices in order to create innovative industry services & solutions within the Commodity Industry. He is also a successful published author, having documented and shared his deep industry expertise through a series of 9 books and publications with Wiley Finance, Palgrave Macmillan, and Springer.

Gen10 focuses on making the day-to-day tasks of commodity trading faster and simpler through automation and collaboration. Our technology empowers clients to Work Better. Together – completing the feedback loop between trading and finance to support smarter, safer trading decisions.

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 believes 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.

SAP is one of the world’s leading producers of software for the management of business processes, developing solutions that facilitate effective data processing and information flow across organizations.

SAP’s Commodity Solutions manage the entire lifecycle of a commodity contract, leveraging the fundamental operations of SAP’s digital core for finance and logistics to meet the business requirements for all commodity classes. Processing orders and call-offs, pricing strategies that mirror market movement, flexible and accurate invoicing, and comprehensive commodity risk reporting – are all managed from a single source of the truth – deployed on-premise or in the Cloud.

Launched in 2010, SAP Commodity Solutions has grown consistently and predictably each year, into what is now a true market-leading suite of applications in the commodity space. Our global customer base covers the entire spectrum of industry, including Hydrocarbons, Metals and Mining, Agribusiness, Chemicals, Consumer Product Groups, Manufacturing, and Automotive to name a few.

We look forward to seeing you all during Commodity Trading Week.

Contour is a leading digital trade finance network that is building the global standard for trade by bringing together the world’s banks, corporates and ecosystem partners, onto a common, digital, and trusted network.

Powered by innovation, trust, and collaboration, Contour uses decentralised technology to offer seamless integration with market-leading digital document systems and other digital networks, enabling the instant flow of trusted data across the world’s trade routes and current fragmented ecosystems.

Rolf Peters, Co-founder and CEO, began his career at The Pillsbury Company as a commodity trader
after graduating with a BA from Carleton College, Northfield, MN, in 1986. He left Pillsbury in 1988
to found R. S. Peters, Inc., a trading firm whose operations became Viking Ag Commodities, Inc. and
are housed today within AgMotion.
Along the way, Rolf dropped in and out of William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, MN, an
experience he found academically and intellectually enriching, but not enough to actually graduate.
Rolf has also held functions within GAFTA, , the Grain and Feed Trade Association, London, UK,
including past President (2016) and Council Member 2012 – 2018.

​The CTA Commodity Trading Association is the leading international Network of Commodity Trading, Shipping and Financing professionals.

​CTA ADVISORY is an international group of commodity professionals with expertise dedicated to serving the global trading industry. Leveraging on our experts’ fieldwork experience, our mission is to set up flexible, dynamic, and cost-efficient trading solutions. Our services include outsourcing, financing, education, and recruitment.

T: +44 207 814 9666
E: post@gafta.com

Jonathan Waters is Gafta’s, General Counsel. He is a barrister, arbitrator, and Civil Mediation Council Registered Mediator and has held a number of senior in-house positions in a variety of business sectors, including retail and leisure, healthcare, and insurance. Jonathan has over 30 years PQE, having advised clients, ranging from those listed on the London Stock Exchange to small-medium enterprises, and specializes in international arbitration, dispute resolution, and commercial contracts. He has been involved in a number of key reported legal cases involving company law and directors’ duties. He is a member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and has a Master’s Degree in Economic Relations and Employment Law.
He presents at international conferences and spent twelve years as a part-time Law lecturer. Jonathan is the 2020 winner of International Arbitration Advisory Expert of the Year in the UK (Global Advisory Experts), the Alternative Dispute Resolution UK award (Finance Monthly M&A Awards), International Arbitration Expert of the year in the United Kingdom 2021 (Corporate INTL) and Best Mediator and barrister of the year 2021 (EMG Publishing). He has also been included in Lawyer Magazine’s ‘Hot 100’lawyers.

Fusion CTRM is an analytics-driven, end-to-end commodity management platform that enables Metals trading companies to efficiently and profitably meet the challenges of complex and volatile commodity markets.

Designed to meet the complex requirements of Metals and Metal Concentrates, Ags, and Energy trading businesses Fusion provides greater levels of automation and task management than ever before, allowing for the digitisation of previously manual business processes.

Fusion manages; Trade Entry, Pricing, Contract Management, Market Data Integration, Electronic Exchange Integration, Enterprise Risk, Logistics, Freight, INTTRA Container management, Bulk Handling, Blending, Processing, Assay Exchanges, Decision Support, Automated Task Management, Forecasting, and Reporting. The solution supports the functional trading and risk management requirements of metals trading businesses, mining companies, processors, producers, and manufacturers.

Etienne Amic is the CEO of VAKT, a blockchain-based platform designed to streamline physical energy post-trade processes. He is also the Chairman and a co-founder of Vortexa, a cargo tracking and analytics company delivering market intelligence on crude oil and refined products trade in real-time. Etienne has over 20 years of experience in commodities trading. He was Head of European Energy at Mercuria Energy Group. Before that, he was a Managing Director at J.P. Morgan and held a number of senior roles in trading, sales, and principal investments over a period of 9 years at the bank. Prior to that, Etienne was the Global Head of Commodities at Credit Agricole CIB. Etienne started his career at TOTAL as a power and oil trader.

Etienne holds an MSc. In Quantum Physics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Universite Pierre et Marie Curie, an MSc. In Financial Markets from Universite Paris Dauphine and M. Sc. in Engineering from Mines ParisTech. He is a former student from Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris.

Ms. Cholewa has had an extensive career in both private and public sectors, combining expertise in the metals and mining business with high-level experience in foreign policy, international relations as well as broader geostrategic and societal trends analysis.
Being highly experienced in managing industrially driven projects and supervision of the exploration and mining assets, she is responsible for the management and coordination of the Luma Group international projects run in Central and East Europe as well as in Africa with a special focus on ESG aspects as well as usage of blockchain technology for the responsible minerals sourcing.
Aleksandra has vast experience in the mining sector, especially in the mining machinery equipment, as well as the use of modern industrial explosives for mining. She has been active in the mining sector for more than ten years, gained her experience while working for leading mining companies, focusing on the copper and coal sector. Previously engaged in diplomacy, Ms. Cholewa is in charge of communicating with EU Representatives regarding the European Raw Material Policy as well as representatives from different levels of the governmental institutions. She is a participant in EU economic missions, and as an active member of International Women in Mining, she contributes to several global mining initiatives.

Maritime Professionals is the preferred source of information for the global maritime community when it comes to relevant jobs, news, events,  freelancers and companies. The portal is closely integrated into MARPRO´s social media channels, with the largest being the LinkedIn groups Maritime Professionals and Maritime Deck Officers with more than 60.000 members. Maritime Professionals broadcast a weekly newsletter to an audience of approx. 21.000 subscribers. The portal attracts approx. 20.000 unique maritime and marine professionals every month. 

Predictive layer is a leading software company focused on the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to forecast time series.
The company has developed a unique solution to produce automatically the most accurate short-term forecasts for almost any signal.
The Predictive Layer solution is already connected to thousands of public data sources to which additional proprietary data and business knowledge can easily be added in a secure manner. The Predictive Layer solution can be hosted in a client’s own data center or in a secure private cloud to build predictive signals automatically, without requiring any specific AI expertise.
The solution is being used successfully today in several financial areas including pricing, trading in commodities, stocks, bonds, and maritime freight.
Through its professional services team, Predictive Layer also leverages its AI platform to develop specific custom forecasts or trading strategies for clients, depending on their own unique needs.

Veson Nautical is the global market leader in developing, implementing, and supporting the solutions that propel maritime commerce. We deliver the best commercial platform on the market, but we aren’t just a technology company. We are a digital transformation company. Driven by a commitment to continual innovation, a spirit of collaboration, and an unwavering focus on client success, Veson is a trusted partner to our clients as they navigate new possibilities in a digital age.

The Veson IMOS Platform (VIP) is the maritime world’s leading solution for the commercial management of marine voyages and freight. Every day, more than 18,000 maritime professionals at more than 300 of the world’s leading vessel owners, operators, commodities traders, and tonnage charterers use VIP to transform the way they work and make decisions.

The Commodity Club Switzerland is an interdisciplinary competence centre and think-tank which brings together commodity experts along the whole value chain. The main purposes are the know-how exchange amongst experts and the dialogue with the public, to foster and perform academic research and support the transition to a more sustainable resource sector.

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Established six years ago, Financial IT is the venue where the FinTech community makes itself heard. Innovation is the common feature of the companies that we work with. Some are FinTech disruptors, posing a direct challenge to established institutions. Others are technology companies, providing solutions that produce positive outcomes for the institutions and their clients. We provide a digital platform for multimedia and editorial content, rankings and overviews of major industry events.
Financial IT magazine is published four or six times a year in digital form. It is also available in print form at trade events through media partnerships. We believe that our competitive edge comes from our established relationships with financial IT companies and institutions, the breadth of the solutions described and the quality of content. Financial IT provides a detailed map of the ever-changing space where the broadly defined financial services sector meets the IT sector. 
Website: https://financialit.net

The Mining Executive Magazine is a premium, daily dose of executive centred news and discussion platform for the resources industry. The Magazine monitors and distil executives’ pulse to create a 21st century Industry 4.0 adaptive knowledge ecosystem for sustainability within mining, oil, and gas fields. With thousands of executives on our radar, we are truly a global executive leader hence are viewed as the authoritative voice of reason. Our content comes from Technical journalists, Mining Executives, Subject Matter Experts, Academics, Analysts, and seasoned professionals and is regulated by a dedicated team of Editors across Oceania, Asia, Europe, North America and South America.
Website: www.theminingexecutive.com
Email: info@theminingexecutive.com

The CTRMCenter™ is your source for everything ‘CTRM’. This online portal, sponsored by Commodity Technology Advisory, features the latest news, opinions, information and insights on commodity markets technologies delivered by some of the industry’s leading experts and thought leaders.

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.

Founded in 1972, ANRA is the Italian Corporate Risk and Insurance Managers Association. The main goal of the Association is to promote the establishment and development of risk management knowledge in Italy and to strengthen its own reputation of privileged interlocutor as well as institutional representative for matters concerning risk management. ANRA intends to offer to its members professional update programmes and the opportunity of exchanging experiences.

About Gafta

Gafta is the international trade association representing over 1900 member companies in 100 countries who trade in agricultural commodities, spices and general produce. Gafta is headquartered in London and has offices in Geneva, Kiev, Beijing and Singapore. More than 90% of Gafta’s membership is outside the UK. With origins dating back to 1878, Gafta provides a range of important services that facilitate the movement of bulk commodities and other produce around the world.

It is estimated that around 80% of all grain traded internationally is shipped on Gafta standard forms of contract and Gafta’s arbitration service, based on English law, is highly respected around the world. Gafta also runs training and education courses, manages Approved Registers for technical trade services and provides trade policy information, and events and networking opportunities for members.

Gafta promotes free trade in agricultural commodities and works with international governments to promote the reduction of tariffs and the removal of non-tariff barriers to trade, as well as a science and evidence-based approach to international trade policy and regulatory decision making.

The Society of Technical Analysts (STA) www.technicalanalysts.com  is one the largest not-for-profit Technical Analysis Society in the world. The STA’s main objective is to promote greater use and understanding of Technical Analysis and its role within behavioural finance as the most vital investment tool available. Joining us gains access to meetings, webinars, educational training, research and an international, professional network. Whether you are looking to boost your career or just your capabilities – the STA will be by your side equipping you with the tools and confidence to make better informed trading and investment decisions in any asset class anywhere in the world. For more details email info@technicalanalysts.com  or visit www.technicalanalysts.com

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.

Descartes Labs specializes in geospatial data science across the agricultural supply chain. Launching out of Los Alamos National Laboratory in 2014, we create quant price forecasting models and provide a SaaS platform for bespoke signal development.

Our solutions create new sources of trading and operational advantage for customers in the agricultural supply chain. We enable our clients to quantify and forecast market dynamics in corn, soy, sugar, palm oil, and more.

We work with major CPGs and merchant traders. In a time where new forms of alternative data and algorithmic trading drive increasingly volatile prices, our tools
reliably generate profits with consistency and transparency across all time horizons. And we go further by making this capability operational, enabling firms to apply differentiated, proven trading alpha in as little as 12 weeks.

We help customer answer questions such as:

● “How do I distinguish when markets are driven by fundamental factors versus macro factors?”
● “How do I make my trading or purchasing strategies more responsive to market or environmental
disruption?”
● “How do I determine local weather and acreage to better understand commodity prices?”
● “How do I ensure no data leakage or overfitting in my forecasting models?”

Nasdaq Trade Surveillance Product Description

With over 20 years of proven experience providing mission-critical technology in some of the most demanding and highly-regulated markets, Nasdaq is the world’s largest capital markets infrastructure technology provider, with its technology powering 1 in 10 of the world’s securities transactions globally.

Our Financial Crime solutions bring transparency, efficiency and integrity to the financial ecosystem with a mission to help root out and eradicate illegal money in the financial system. As the industry leader in trade and market surveillance, our technology has proven results in fighting financial crime with 169 banks, brokers and buy-side organizations as well as 60 exchanges and regulatory authorities leveraging our solutions to detect market manipulation and abuse.

For 25+ years, through its Nasdaq (SMARTS) Trade Surveillance offering, Nasdaq has combined its unparalleled ability to integrate the end-to-end trading flow across all asset classes and trading channels with the delivery of advanced visualizations and detection models.

In parallel with delivering the leading surveillance solution, Nasdaq continues to innovate and expand its platform and solution. The application of AI and advanced statistical analytics to market abuse detection is well advanced – either deployed in a Nasdaq surveillance solution or in advanced research as part of a customer co-development project.

A fully-hosted (SaaS) solution, Nasdaq Trade Surveillance’s market coverage spans 180+ markets with functionality to monitor all venue-traded and OTC asset classes across global trading venues with 210+ market manipulation scenarios.

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.

Jagdish is Ex Chief Risk & Compliance Officer at Olam International which is a leading global agribusiness spanning over 65 countries, with an integrated value chain in food .

Jagdish has over 30 years of experience in developing Global Agri Commodity businesses out of emerging markets with a focus on Supply chain , Agri Processing , Trading and Risk Management . He has been member of Olam ExCo and Investment Committee as well as heading the Executive Risk Committee. He is actively engaged with the Board level Committees for Risk and Corporate Governance . He has keen professional interests in areas of Agri Food Strategy ,private equity and C- Suite and Board Level advisory engagements.

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Trade Finance Global – Trade Finance Without Barriers

Trade Finance Global (TFG) is the leading trade finance platform. We assist companies to access trade and receivables finance facilities through our relationships with 270+ banks, funds and alternative finance houses.

Our award winning educational resources serve an audience of 160k+ monthly readers (6.2m+ impressions) in print & digital formats across 187 countries, covering insights, guides, research, magazines, podcasts, tradecasts (webinars) and video.

The Global Risk Community is a thriving community of risk managers and associated service providers. Our purpose is to foster business, networking and educational explorations among members. Our goal is to be the worlds’ premier Risk forum and contribute to better understanding of the complex world of risk.