Why sponsor

Ascend Analytics is an industry-leading software and consulting firm supporting storage valuation and strategic operations. Ascend’s innovative weather-derived and sub-hourly analytic tools, unique in the marketplace, serve as a critical bridge between today’s highly volatile physical and financial markets. Our client base includes Duke, LADWP, Ameren, and a host of other developers, utilities, and grid planning entities. Ascend’s decision analysis tools are designed to maximize investment and operational profitability.

Nodal Exchange is a derivatives exchange providing price, credit and liquidity risk management solutions to participants in the North American energy markets. Nodal Exchange is a leader in innovation, having introduced the world's largest set of electric power locational (nodal) futures contracts. Nodal Exchange currently offers over 1,000 contracts on hundreds of unique locations, providing the most effective basis risk management available to market participants. In addition, Nodal Exchange offers a Henry Hub natural gas contract providing cross-margining benefits with participant's power portfolios. All Nodal Exchange contracts are cleared by Nodal Clear which is a CFTC registered derivatives clearing organization. Nodal Exchange is a designated contract market regulated by the CFTC.

Beaconは、世界トップクラスの金融機関で開発・構築された門外不出プラットフォームのDNAを受け継ぐ市場初のエンタープライズイノベーションプラットフォームです。これらのプラットフォームの構築と展開における当社の経験を活かして、今日の規制環境で必要とされる厳格な制御と動的で量的に重点を置いた市場形成ビジネスを実行するために必要な柔軟性のバランスを提供するようBeaconは設計されました。オンデマンドで拡張することができない「ブラックボックス」を提供するほとんどのベンダーとは異なり、クライアントはソースコードにアクセスできるため、コラボレーティブでスケーラブルなプラットフォームで迅速にビジネスニーズに対応できます。

As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group (www.cmegroup.com) enables clients to trade futures, options, cash and OTC markets, optimize portfolios, and analyze data – empowering market participants worldwide to efficiently manage risk and capture opportunities. CME Group exchanges offer the widest range of global benchmark products across all major asset classes based on interest rates, equity indexes, foreign exchange, energy, agricultural products and metals.  The company offers futures and options on futures trading through the CME Globex^® platform, fixed income trading via BrokerTec and foreign exchange trading on the EBS platform.  In addition, it operates one of the world's leading central counterparty clearing providers, CME Clearing. 

KWA Analytics is a consultancy with a focus on and experience in implementing trading, risk and treasury management solutions. It is experienced in implementations, upgrades and solution architecture across a range of organisations, and has established itself as a trusted implementation consulting services provider.

Hitachi Energy serves customers in the utility, industry and infrastructure sectors with innovative solutions and services across the value chain. Together with customers and partners, we pioneer technologies and enable the digital transformation required to accelerate the energy transition towards a carbon-neutral future. 

We are advancing the world’s energy system to become more sustainable, flexible and secure whilst balancing social, environmental and economic value. Hitachi Energy has a proven track record and unparalleled installed base in more than 140 countries. Headquartered in Switzerland, we employ around 38,000 people in 90 countries and generate business volumes of approximately $10 billion USD.