Annual User Meeting 21 & 22 May, 2019 Vienna, Austria
On 21 & 22 May the 16th Annual User Meeting took place in Vienna, Austria. This years' theme was Digitalisation. Please find below an outline of the programme.
Tuesday 21 May 2019
10.00 hrs Opening address
Introduction, challenges, changes
Hugh Brunswick, CEO, Equias
10.15 hrs Keynote: Trends in energy trading
10.45 hrs Digitalisation of Energy Sales
What is changing?
- Business impact
- Strategy & solutions
Dale Emmerson, Equias
11.30 hrs Coffee Break
12.00 hrs Trade Surveillance
- What is a good MAR setup (a market party's perspective)
- MAR brief overview
- Obligation on market participants
- Regulator view
- How to use eTM today?
- Assesment of tresholds
- Timely handling of flagged trades
- Investigation Process
David Trevallion, Regulation Assurance Manager, SSE
12.45 hrs Lunch Break
14.15 hrs How data insights can help your business
- Example insights
- EMI dashboards
Rob Palmer, Equias
14.45 hrs Settlement matching
- Update on EFET work and eSM early user group
- Work on implementation towards functioning
Joerg Reichelt, Head Settlement Trading, EnBW
15.15 hrs Coffee Break
15.45 hrs Interactive feedback session
Hugh Brunswick and Tilo Zimmerman, Managing Director Ponton
16.15 hrs Roadmap
- What are we doing, what are the dates?
- How do you get involved?
Liam Dunne, COO, Equias
16.45 hrs Closing speech
Wednesday 22 May 2019
On Wednesday 22 May 2019, from 09:00 – 15:00, there were 2 workshops to choose from and a training session.
Workshop: Market change and new developments in the energy market
09.00 hrs Opening address
Hugh Brunswick, CEO Equias
09.05 hrs Energy markets upside-down in the global energy transition!
Paul van Son, Executive, innogy
09.30 hrs Business compliance changes and regulation
Aygul Avtakhova, Manager Legal Committee, EFET
10.00 hrs How data will drive trading decision making of the future
Robert Minsaas, CEO Vega Insight
10:30 hrs Coffee Break
11:00 hrs Backoffice – key drivers
Hugh Brunswick, Equias
11:30 hrs The future of energy broking
Simon Davidson, CEO, Griffin Markets
12:30 hrs Lunch Break
13:30 hrs Blockchain implementation case study: trading wholesale products, flexibility and local energy
Michael Merz, Managing Director, Ponton
14:00 hrs Market developments in energy sales
Jens Hartmann, CEO, Enmacc
14:30 hrs Single energy marekt and regulatory fragmentation
- Learning lessons from Brexit
- REMIT reform issues
- Other regulation affecting physical energy traders in their diversity
Jan Haizmann, Managing Director CorreggioNET
14:55 hrs Closing
15:00 hrs End of session
Workshop: Trade Surveillance and Trade Monitoring - eTM
09.00 hrs Regulation
- Evolution for MAD to MAR
- Framework and scope
- Obligations on maket participants
- Control framework
- Regulator view
- Penalties imposed
10.30 hrs Coffee Break
11.00 hrs Overview of market abuse
- Forms of market abuse
- spoofing/layering
- wash trades
- marking the close
- off-market pricing
- insider trading (UMM's)
12.30 hrs Lunch break
Practical training
- Using the eTM tool to look for prohibited activity
- Integrating the eTM tool into a daily anti abuse routine
15.00 hrs End of session
David Trevallion, SSE and Juliane Bednarz, Ponton
User Training on Equias services; eCM, eRR for REMIT/EMIR
09.00 hrs Introduction
09.30 hrs Joint selection of ca. 4 modules (e.g. basic eCM, advanced eCM, EMIR, REMIT, eTM, CMS demo, X/P Messenger and Listener, Backend integration, Latest Changes.
10.00 hrs Module 1
11.00 hrs Coffee break
11.30 hrs Module 2
12.30 hrs Lunch
13.30 hrs Module 3
14.15 hrs Module 4
If you are interested in attending next years' event, please send an email to registration@equias.org