Tender Dashboards and Data trends for agriculture and soft commodities

Tim Worledge,Editorial Director at FastmarketsAgriCensus Tim spoke about the role of price reporting agencies (PRAs) and the advantages they bring to modern markets. PRAs rely more on “old-school” methods rather than technological solutions. The primary role of PRAs is to “research, write and distribute original market-moving news and trade intelligence, and to provide reliable physical […]

Hyperconverged Business Operations: Visual Analytics, Data Science & Streaming for Real-Time Decisions

Dr. Michael O’Connell,Chief Analytics OfficerTibco Dr. O’Connell opened the second day of the Summit with a presentation on using data in real-time to assist in decision-making. “We believe that if you can compress the time between the business event, getting the data ready for the analysis, completing an analysis and taking an action, that this […]

How the Chemical Industry is digitalizing to create a resilient Supply Chain

Simon Hardy,Head of Supply Chain Commercial StrategyICIS Simon Hardy’s presentation focused on digitalizing supply chain management. He described the chemical industry’s early steps into digital technology to manage the flow of products. These early efforts focused on streamlining individual bilateral supply chain relationships, connecting the supplier to shippers, importers, warehouses to the consumer, but not […]

Rise of the Data Cloud

This is a ZE Global Tech Summit Recap Blog. Kent Graziano,Chief Technical Evangelist,Snowflake Kent Graziano’s presentation dealt with the emergence of the “data cloud”, the system in which data is held remotely but at the same time, easily accessible to organizations and individuals. The data cloud “removes the need for data pipelines and copying data, […]

Leveraging data to optimize trading, risk management, operational and business strategy in midst of market disruption and restructuring

This is a ZE Global Tech Summit Recap Blog. Keynote presentationSid Dash, Senior Research DirectorChartis Research Sid Dash’s keynote presentation focused on the proliferation of data and the challenge of leveraging that data effectively. The energy sector is experiencing rapid change as well as tumultuous events: Covid-19 the growth of renewables, the emergence of LNG, […]