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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.

On 21 & 22 May the 16th Annual User Meeting took place in Vienna, Austria. This years' theme was Digitalisation. 
 

Time Topic Presenter
  10.00
Opening address

Introduction, challenges, changes
Hugh Brunswick, CEO, Equias
  10.15
Keynote: Trends in energy trading
  10.45
Digitalisation of Energy Sales

What is changing?

  • Business impact
  • Strategy & solutions
Dale Emmerson, Equias
  11.30
Coffee Break
  12.00
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
Lunch Break
  14.15
How data insights can help your business

  • Example insights
  • EMI dashboards
Rob Palmer, Equias
  14.45
Settlement matching

  • Update on EFET work and eSM early user group
  • Work on implementation towards functioning
Joerg Reichelt, Head Settlement Trading, EnBW
  15.15
Coffee Break
  15.45
Interactive feedback session
Hugh Brunswick and Tilo Zimmerman, Managing Director Ponton
  16.15
Roadmap

  • What are we doing, what are the dates?
  • How do you get involved?
Liam Dunne, COO, Equias
  16.45
Closing speech

Workshop: Market change and new developments in the energy market
Time Topic Presenter
  09.00
Opening address
Hugh Brunswick, CEO Equias
  09.05
Energy markets upside-down in the global energy transition!
Paul van Son, Executive, innogy
  09.30
Business compliance changes and regulation
Aygul Avtakhova, Manager Legal Committee, EFET
  10.00
How data will drive trading decision making of the future
Robert Minsaas, CEO Vega Insight
  10:30
Coffee Break
  11:00
Backoffice – key drivers
Hugh Brunswick, Equias
  11:30
The future of energy broking
Simon Davidson, CEO, Griffin Markets
  12:30
Lunch Break
  13:30
Blockchain implementation case study: trading wholesale products, flexibility and local energy
Michael Merz, Managing Director, Ponton
  14:00
Market developments in energy sales
Jens Hartmann, CEO, Enmacc
  14:30
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
Closing
  15:00
End of session

Workshop: Trade Surveillance and Trade Monitoring - eTM
Time Topic Presenter
  09.00
Regulation

  • Evolution for MAD to MAR                   
  • Framework and scope
  • Obligations on maket participants
  • Control framework
  • Regulator view
  • Penalties imposed
  10.30
Coffee Break
  11.00
Overview of market abuse

  • Forms of market abuse
  • spoofing/layering                       
  • wash trades
  • marking the close 
  • off-market pricing                        
  • insider trading (UMM's)
  12.30
Lunch break
  13:30
Practical training 

  • Using the eTM tool to look for prohibited activity
  • Integrating the eTM tool into a daily anti abuse routine
  15.00
End of session
David Trevallion, SSE and Juliane Bednarz, Ponton

User Training on Equias services; eCM, eRR for REMIT/EMIR
Time Topic Presenter
  09.00
Introduction
  09.30
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
Module 1
  11.00
Coffee break
  11.30
Module 2
  12.30
Lunch
  13.30
Module 3
  14.15
Module 4