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On Monday evening I attended the SolArc After Hours event in London. In fact, I said a few words there too which was fun and gave away a copy of Trends in ETRM Software 2009 – 2010: A Primer to an attendee who first correctly guessed the amount of years SolArc will be celebrating in business this year (would you believe its 20?). The event was fun and it was good to catch up with a variety of friends and colleagues in the industry including Brad Anderson (CEO of SolArc) and his team, Marty Makulski of Opportune, Guy Isherwood of Commodities Now and many more.

The Prague CTRM Technical Conference is rapidly taking shape. The final major sponsor was added this week in the form of consulting firm Opportune while Transgraph Consulting will sponsor the evening cocktail reception on the 22nd May and TradePaq will sponsor the afternoon coffee break.

On the agenda front, we already have Mr. Rob Pringle, Global Head of IT at GazProm Marketing & Trading delivering the keynote and Mr. Michal Skalka, Head of Trading at CEZ Trading talking about his experiences with ETRM software solutions. Other speakers confirmed include Mr. Nagaraj Meda, Founder & Chairman of Transgraph Consulting and Mr. Aviv Handler of Sirius Solutions.

The CTRM Technical Conference to be held in Prague on May 23rd is rapidly taking shape. The complete agenda should be available in a week or so but it now also includes Mr. Michal Skalka who is Director of the Trading group at CEZ in addition to Mr. Rob Pringle, Head of IT for Gazprom Marketing and Trading. Other speakers include Mr. Aviv Handler of Sirius Solutions.

Finally, the event is pretty much fully sponsored too with SolArc and Eka signing up as full sponsors and Pioneer Solutions agreed to sponsor one of the coffee breaks.

Last week I was invited to be the Keynote speaker for Contigo at their inaugural user group meeting in Birmingham, England.

If you are not familiar with Contigo then they describe themselves as…”Contigo is a leading provider of trading and logistics software products for the energy industry. Based in the UK, it has developed the innovative and flexible enTrader family of products that deliver significant business value to its customers. It utilizes agile delivery methods and state of the art technologies to deliver and implement those solutions both rapidly and cost effectively.”

A new white paper from CommodityPoint is now available. The paper is titled CTRM in an SAP Environment: Triple Point’s Commodity SL and it is available on the reports page of this blog.