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25-26 APRIL 2023

THE QEII CENTRE, LONDON


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DIGICOM RETURNS TO LONDON ON THE 25TH – 26TH APRIL 2023 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!


YOU'LL GET THE LOWDOWN FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS ON TOPICS INCLUDING:



DIGICOM RETURNS TO LONDON ON THE 25TH – 26TH APRIL 2023 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!

YOU'LL GET THE LOWDOWN FROM INDUSTRY LEADERS ON TOPICS INCLUDING:

Trends in digitalisation, disruptions and implementation priorities


Data and decarbonisation – assessing your carbon footprint through data


Artificial Intelligence and real life application in commodities


The evolution of CTRMs - what are the trends in 2022 and going into 2023?

Blockchain and commodities – is now the time?


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The impact of war on the global trade

Thumbnail Moderator: Maryana Stober, President, Wista Switzerland

Thumbnail Anna Malamen, Finance Director, PMG Holding

Thumbnail Ilya Medvedenko, Director, Barens Group

Thumbnail Bjarke Nissen, Managing Director, Stolt Tankers

Thumbnail 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

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Digitalising commodity trading to drive success - The business perspective

Thumbnail Moderator: Kevin Kindall, Senior Data Scientist, Hartree Partners

Thumbnail Hugo Brodie, Head of Product Development & Innovation, London Metal Exchange

Thumbnail Gordon Allott, President & CEO, BroadPeak Partners Inc.

Thumbnail Adrian Carr, Business Development Manager, Nasdaq Risk Platform

Thumbnail Dirk Robers, Digital Ventures EMEA, Cargill

Thumbnail 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'

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Morning Coffee Break

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“It’s the economy, stupid”... global macro insights and trends in 2023 and beyond

Thumbnail Moderator: Marc Ostwald, Chief Economist & Global Strategist, ADM ISI

Thumbnail Scott Wellcome, Director - Grains Risk Management, Goodmills Group

Thumbnail Kona Haque, Head of Research, ED&F Man

Thumbnail 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

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An impending global food crisis?

Thumbnail Moderator: Eddie Tofpik, Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst, ADM Investor Services International Ltd.

Thumbnail Kona Haque, Head of Research, ED&F Man

Thumbnail Scott Wellcome, Director - Grains Risk Management, Goodmills Group

Thumbnail 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?

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Lunch

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I spy with my little AI

Thumbnail 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.

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Implementing risk management technology to drive efficiency: Challenges and opportunities

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Deep dive: What digital and data driven business models are we seeing, and how can you assess what is best for your organisation?

Thumbnail Moderator: Eddie Tofpik, Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst, ADM Investor Services International Ltd.

Thumbnail Alvaro Mariani, Senior Risk Consultant, RadarRadar

Thumbnail Luke Humphrey, Global Head - CIO Digital Technology and Analytics, Louis Dreyfus Company

Thumbnail 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

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CTRMs in exceptional times - friend or foe?

Thumbnail Moderator: Guy Barnes, Director, CapSpire

Thumbnail Luke Humphrey, Global Head - CIO Digital Technology and Analytics, Louis Dreyfus Company

Thumbnail Alex Whittaker, General Manager, Bonroy Petchem Co

Thumbnail 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

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Data driven sustainability

Thumbnail Moderator: Julian Gray, Former VP of Digital Science and Digital Innovation in Energy Industry

Thumbnail Mark Hankins, Director Enterprise Architecture, ADM

Thumbnail Léa Yue Xu, Project Manager - Global Digital Innovation, Louis Dreyfus Company

Thumbnail 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

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Drinks Reception

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Advancing data science in commodity trading

Thumbnail Moderator: Sajindra Jayasena, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Targray

Thumbnail Alex Rykhva, Head of Data Science, Louis Dreyfus Company

Thumbnail Dr Amaury Magnin, Product Manager / Financial Trading, Predictive Layer

Thumbnail 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

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CANCELLED: Defending your business in the golden age of cyber attacks

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• 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

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Coffee Break

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Where next for RPA? Exploring intelligent and hyper automation

Thumbnail Moderator: Sajindra Jayasena, Chief Information and Digital Officer, Targray

Thumbnail Guy-Laurent Arpino, CIO, Louis Dreyfus Company

Thumbnail István Czilik, CEO, Revenue.ai

Thumbnail Marc Lefebvre, CTO, ClearDox

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?

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Exploring future digital business models

Thumbnail Moderator: Eddie Tofpik, Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst, ADM Investor Services International Ltd.

Thumbnail Dirk Robers, Digital Ventures EMEA, Cargill

Thumbnail 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?

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Lunch

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Drink Reception & Networking

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Workshop

Thumbnail Mathilde de Mareuil, Headhunter - Executive Search, Shipping and Trading Network

Thumbnail 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.


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Chief - Transport Section of Trade Logistics Branch

Frida Youssef

UNCTAD

Business Development Manager

Adrian Carr

Nasdaq Risk Platform

Former VP of Digital Science and Digital Innovation in Energy Industry

Julian Gray

Global Head - CIO Digital Technology and Analytics

Luke Humphrey

Louis Dreyfus Company

Project Manager - Global Digital Innovation

Léa Yue Xu

Louis Dreyfus Company

Head of Product Development & Innovation

Hugo Brodie

London Metal Exchange

Head of Technical Analysis & Senior Markets Analyst

Eddie Tofpik

ADM Investor Services International Ltd.


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