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 […]
Nathan Cordier,Chief Analyst AgritelArgus Media Nathan Cordier, chief analyst at Agritel, presented the outlook for the key agricultural markets for the 2020-21 season. In the northern hemisphere, Agritel predicted European all-wheat availability (soft and durum) for the coming year would fall by nearly 12% to 136.5 million tonnes, the lowest since the 2012-13 season. Significant […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
This is a ZE Global Tech Summit Recap Blog. Vlasios Voudouris,Chief Data Officer,Argus Media Vlasios spoke about how Argus Media is leveraging data science to develop new products for its customers. He explained how individual prices for commodities are a reflection of a large number of influences; these different influences can become more or less […]
This is a ZE Global Tech Summit Recap Blog. Fabio Kuhn, Founder & CEO, Vortexa Fabio Kuhn presented Vortexa’s product, an aggregation of data representing waterborne energy cargo movements in real-time. The data cover more than 110,000 cargoes every year, each with an average value of $16.5 million. Insights into where these cargoes are headed, […]
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, […]