Sponsors and partners
Founding sponsor
Established in 2004, Mercuria is one of the world’s largest independent energy and commodity groups, bringing efficiency to the commodity value chain with technology, expertise, and low-carbon solutions. The Company established itself as a leader in the energy transition by pledging more than 50 percent of new investments toward renewables and transitional energy. The Group has made significant investments in projects such as renewable power, energy storage, grid optimization or critical transition minerals recycling, and environmental products such as carbon certificates.
Mercuria’s business includes trading flows, strategic assets, and structuring activities that generate more than $120 billion in turnover. The Company has built upon a series of strategic acquisitions, including the physical commodities trading unit of JPMorgan Chase & Company, Noble Group’s U.S. gas and power business, and the Aegean Marine Petroleum Network, reorganized as Minerva Bunkering. Mercuria plays its part in the global energy transition, contributing to global efforts to combat climate change and helping the world achieve the goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Gold sponsor
CCI is a leading global energy commodity merchant and commodity infrastructure investment firm. CCI’s integrated merchant and asset investing platform is powered by its sophisticated risk management framework and data analytics which drive CCI’s ability to capture emerging opportunities across the global energy commodity value chain. Headquartered in the US, CCI participates in global energy markets through its presence across 8 offices and more than 500 employees.
Gold sponsor
Gunvor Group is one of the world’s largest independent commodities trading houses by turnover, creating logistics solutions that safely and efficiently move physical energy from where it is sourced and stored to where it is demanded most. With strategic investments in energy infrastructure—refineries, pipelines, storage, terminals, mining and upstream—Gunvor further generates sustainable value across the global supply chain for its customers.
Gold sponsor
Trafigura is a leading commodities group, owned by its employees and founded over 30 years ago. At the heart of global supply, Trafigura connects vital resources to power and build the world. We deploy infrastructure, market expertise and our worldwide logistics network to move oil and petroleum products, metals and minerals, gas and power from where they are produced to where they are needed, forming strong relationships that make supply chains more efficient, secure and sustainable. We invest in renewable energy projects and technologies to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy, including through MorGen Energy and joint venture Nala Renewables.
The Trafigura Group also comprises industrial assets and operating businesses including multi-metals producer Nyrstar, fuel storage and distribution company Puma Energy, the Impala Terminals joint venture and Greenergy, supplier and distributor of transportation fuels and biofuels. The Group employs over 13,000 people, of which over 1,400 are shareholders and is active in over 150 countries.
Gold sponsor
Vortexa provides market-leading real-time data and advanced analytics for energy and shipping markets, giving the most accurate and complete picture of waterborne energy flows and freight dynamics.
We provide an end-to-end granular view of global crude and condensate flows, providing comprehensive insights for over 500 unique crude and condensate grades globally. Vortexa also covers refined products, LPG and LNG, across all vessel classes, helping traders, analysts and shipping professionals gain a competitive edge in complex and opaque markets by making better trading decisions with confidence.
Vortexa is a multidisciplinary force of over 100 employees combining the best of energy and shipping expertise, data science and engineering across our offices in London, Singapore, New York, Houston, Dubai and Geneva.
Silver sponsor
Abaxx Commodity Futures Exchange and Clearinghouse (Abaxx Exchange) introduces centrally cleared, physically delivered futures contracts and derivatives to deliver better price signals, better risk management and an enhanced market ecosystem enabling energy and commodity markets to accelerate the energy transition.
Licensed as an Recognised Market Operator (RMO) and an Approved Clearinghouse (ACH) by the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Exchange's initial focus is global LNG and Carbon and Nickel benchmarks followed by continued solutions for Battery Metals.
Silver sponsor
Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 799,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
Silver sponsor
Axpo is driven by a single purpose – to enable a sustainable future through innovative energy solutions. Axpo is Switzerland's largest producer of renewable energy and an international leader in energy trading and the marketing of solar and wind power. Axpo combines the experience and expertise of more than 6,000 employees who are driven by a passion for innovation, collaboration and impactful change. Using cutting-edge technologies, Axpo innovates to meet the evolving needs of its customers in over 30 countries across Europe, North America and Asia.
Silver sponsor
Citadel are one of the largest alternative investment managers in the commodities markets.
Our investments are based on our deep understanding of commodity market fundamentals. We express our investment views through financial derivatives, physical supply and offtake, and financing.
Silver sponsor
D.Trading is a pan-European commodity trading company that combines a client-oriented business approach with cutting-edge technology.
Established in Ukraine in 2019, D.Trading started its international expansion in 2021 with the ambition of becoming one of the top European trading houses by 2030, with a focus on CESEE, including Ukraine. We operate in 21 European countries with four strategically located hubs in Amsterdam, Kyiv, Zagreb and Zug. Our main portfolio products include electricity, with a particular focus on renewable energy sources (RES), natural gas, and fuels. We put significant emphasis on our ability to provide individually tailored trading solutions.
D.Trading operates on 15 exchanges, leveraging advanced tools and technologies to maximise benefits for our clients and partners.
Silver sponsor
Frontier Commodities is a specialized commodity investor based in Switzerland. The team has more than 20 years of experience in the commodities sector, with an established track record of positive volatility-adjusted returns through various commodity cycles.
Frontier operates a long-short, absolute-return strategy in metals, energy, agricultural and environmental commodities.
The strategy employs a unique approach to commodities investing, applying a "quantamental" trading style, integrating high-conviction fundamental analysis and executed through AI-backed systematic solutions, with the aim of achieving superior returns.
The strategy is fully liquid and focused only on exchange products.
Silver sponsor
General Index (GX) is the commodity benchmark provider based on the most data. GX's daily energy prices and forward curves are calculated algorithmically using rigorous methodologies and thousands of trades from 200+ data partners—ensuring they are robust, consistent, and compliant with IOSCO and FCA standards. GX publishes over 4,000 daily prices across crude oil, refined products, biofuels, SAF, hydrogen, and carbon markets. Industry leaders—including Shell, BP, ExxonMobil, Glencore, TotalEnergies, Oxy, BASF, Rio Tinto, Wood Mackenzie, Bloomberg, Two Sigma, Man Group, and ADNOC—rely on GX benchmarks for analysis and trading, as well as ICE having listed six futures contracts settled on GX benchmarks.
Silver sponsor
ING is a leading European bank. Our more than 60,000 employees serve over 38 million customers, corporate clients and financial institutions in over 40 countries. Our purpose is to empower people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. Our products include savings, payments, investments, loans and mortgages in most of our retail markets. For our Wholesale Banking clients, we provide specialised lending, tailored corporate finance, debt and equity market solutions, sustainable finance solutions, payments & cash management and trade and treasury services. We aim to bring our customers value by making banking frictionless, removing barriers to progress and giving them confidence in their ability to make decisions and to move forward.
Silver sponsor
Kpler is a leading subscription-based data and analytics platform, providing intelligence tools for trade to help businesses trade smarter.
With real-time insights across 40+ markets—including liquids, gas, dry bulk, freight, and power—Kpler enables traders, analysts, and shipping professionals to make informed decisions, optimise operations, and seize new opportunities in global trade.
Since revolutionising the LNG market with the first cargo-tracking solution in 2014, Kpler has expanded to deliver comprehensive intelligence on commodity flows and vessel movements worldwide.
MarineTraffic, a Kpler brand, is the world’s leading provider of ship tracking and maritime intelligence, further empowering the maritime industry with greater visibility and efficiency.
Kpler simplifies complex data, helping businesses navigate global trade with confidence.
Silver sponsor
Rabobank is a cooperative bank with a mission: driving sustainable progress through collaboration. With over 125 years of experience, we combine our global network with deep local expertise to support clients in navigating industry transitions. In the Netherlands, we serve retail and corporate clients; globally, we focus on financing the shift to a sustainable food system and renewable energy. Guided by our cooperative mindset, we believe meaningful change happens when we work together—creating value for businesses, communities, and the world.
Silver sponsor
SEFE Securing Energy for Europe GmbH (SEFE) is an integrated midstream energy company headquartered in Berlin, Germany. SEFE is active in energy trading & portfolio management, sales, and storage operations and has its strongest presence in Germany and the United Kingdom. SEFE employs around 1.500 people and supplies more than 50.000 customers, in particular industrial customers, and municipal utilities in Germany and seven European markets. With sales volumes of more than 210 TWh gas SEFE plays a pivotal role in providing energy supply stability for Germany and Europe. SEFE is owned by the Federal Republic of Germany.
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Silver sponsor
At Six One Commodities, we are a dynamic global energy merchant specializing in the physical trade of energy commodities. Since our inception in 2018, we have carved out a distinctive presence in the market, backed by the expertise and financial acumen of Pinnacle Asset Management. With our headquarters in Stamford, CT, and strategic offices in Houston and Singapore, we are well-positioned to navigate the complexities of the global energy landscape.
Our ethos is anchored in delivering robust returns through disciplined risk management, fundamentals, and tapping into unique market opportunities. The Six One Commodities team is known for its deep market insights and strong client relationships, which enable us to offer tailored physical supply services and innovative structures that meet the diverse needs of our clientele.
As a global energy merchant and optimization company, we pride ourselves on our proven track record of execution excellence. We are committed to leveraging our extensive knowledge to provide unparalleled service and exceptional value, making Six One Commodities a trusted and reliable partner in the energy sector. We don't just trade energy; we optimize and innovate, ensuring that each transaction is executed with precision and foresight for sustained success.
Silver sponsor
Headquartered in Geneva, SOCAR Trading is the international marketing and development arm of SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic. SOCAR Trading benefits from a presence across the value chain, with assets and activity in exploration and production, pipelines and exports, refining and petrochemicals, logistics and wholesale, and retail and distribution. SOCAR Trading has established partnerships and business relationships worldwide, including those with other state-owned entities. With a long-term view, the Company has invested in several physical infrastructure projects to enable it to generate trading flows.
Silver sponsor
Watr is the common digital home for commodities. Cofounded by giants of technology and cryptography, it opens up alternative liquidity toward new financing, pricing and trading profit models. The ecosystem is built on a backbone of fully digitized compliance solutions with transferable KYC, immutable, blockchain-based cargo, asset and reputation tracking; which enable enhanced risk and counterparty management so market participants can confidently take part in these new models.
Silver sponsor
Sparta enables traders to identify opportunities with complete clarity and conviction. We are built by traders, for traders, so we know the competitive advantage you need is to be able to identify and capture opportunities first. We know that your current processes make that difficult. We know that maximising your speed to market will give you the edge. We know that you need intelligence and insights, not just data. We know that you want to trade, not just populate spreadsheets. That’s why we built the first and only all-in-one pricing, forecasting and live intelligence platform to deliver actionable, tradable market insights. Sparta sources and cleans high-quality data from world-leading brokerages and data houses, then analyses and interprets that data for you in real-time, enabling you to confidently determine where opportunities exist, maximise your speed to market and, ultimately, trade with conviction.
Knowledge partner
McKinsey is a global management consulting firm committed to helping organizations accelerate sustainable and inclusive growth. We work with clients across the private, public, and social sectors to solve complex problems and create positive change for all their stakeholders. We combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.
Welcome drinks sponsor
With a legacy spanning more than six decades, BB Energy is one of the world’s leading independent energy trading companies – with expertise spanning energy trading, operations, logistics, storage, and downstream retail. BB Energy supports the global energy system by responsibly trading traditional, transitional and renewable energy, trading in excess of 25 million metric tonnes (MT) of crude oil, petroleum products, and gas in the last financial year.
BB Energy Renewables was established at the beginning of the decade to diversify the business and help facilitate the energy transition by investing and financing in renewable projects. In alignment with BBE’s focus on decarbonized energy sources, a Carbon Trading desk and Environmental Projects Team has also been established to create and trade in environmental credits.
BB Energy employs around 500 people in offices across the globe and continues to benefit from a strong knowledge of the markets where it operates.
Pre-dinner drinks reception sponsor
Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (NYSE: ICE) is a Fortune 500 company that designs, builds and operates digital networks to connect people to opportunity. We provide financial technology and data services across major asset classes that offer our customers access to mission-critical workflow tools that increase transparency and operational efficiencies. We operate exchanges, including the New York Stock Exchange, and clearing houses that help people invest, raise capital and manage risk across multiple asset classes. Our comprehensive fixed income data services and execution capabilities provide information, analytics and platforms that help our customers capitalize on opportunities and operate more efficiently. At ICE Mortgage Technology, we are transforming and digitizing the U.S. residential mortgage process, from consumer engagement through loan registration. Together, we transform, streamline and automate industries to connect our customers to opportunity.
Evening nightcap sponsor
Vitol is a leader in the energy sector with a presence across the spectrum: from oil through to power, renewables and carbon. It trades 7.3mbpd of crude oil and products, and charters circa 6,000 sea voyages every year.
Vitol's clients include national oil companies, multinationals, leading industrial companies and utilities. Founded in Rotterdam in 1966, today Vitol serves clients from some 40 offices worldwide and is invested in energy assets globally including: 18mm3 of storage globally, circa 850kbd of refining capacity, over 8,700 service stations and a growing portfolio of transitional and renewable energy assets. Revenues in 2023 were $400bn.
Networking lunch sponsor
Headquartered in London and New York, BGC Group (NASDAQ: BGC) is a premier brokerage and financial technology firm offering trade execution, broker-dealer services, and market data solutions. We provide access to a broad range of asset classes, including Rates, Credit, Foreign Exchange, Equities, and our ECS division: Energy, Commodities, and Shipping, serving top financial institutions through cutting-edge technology and expertise.
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Refreshment breaks sponsor
As the world's leading derivatives marketplace, CME Group 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.
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