Register for the S&P Global Energy RedThread Meridian Festival

S&P Global Energy RedThread Meridian Festival

One Year. One Globe. One Continuous Thread.

One year ago, S&P Global Energy RedThread launched with a simple goal: to connect the people, ideas, and conversations shaping global commodities markets.

Complete the form to register for the 24-hour global virtual experience and gain access to live sessions, interactive challenges, expert discussions, and festival content from around the world.

To celebrate our first anniversary on July 15, we're bringing that community together for the RedThread Meridian Festival, a 24-hour virtual journey following the sun across Oceania, Asia-Pacific, EMEA, and the Americas.

This is not your typical industry event. Across one global broadcast, you'll experience debates, documentary-style showcases, interactive challenges, market myth-busting, expert storytelling, and conversations that connect commodities, energy, trade, technology, and culture.

Whether you join for a single session or stay with us across regions, you'll become part of a global community bound by a single continuous thread.

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Oceania (AEST)

9:00-9:15 am	Festival opening ceremony	Dave Ernsberger President, S&P Global Energy
9:15-9:25 am	Beat Ben: The Market Masters Challenge	Benedict Wong Community Engagement Manager
9:25-9:45 am	Metal matters with Paul	Paul Bartholowmew Associate Director, Lead Ferrous Markets Jarek Mlodziejewski Senior Commercial Specialist, Metals
9:45-10:00 am	Festival pulse	Why Chinese EVs cost less The economics of CCUS
10:00-10:30 am	Drill or chill? The future of oil	Dex Wang Senior Director, Strategy Development & Benchmark Advocacy Nick Sharma Executive Director, Global Head of Insights, Upstream Solutions
10:30-11:00 am	Think you know markets?	Host: Ruchira Dudani Head of Commercial, APAC Quizzer - Stephanie Liew Director, Specialist Sales, FCRS (Chemical) APAC Timmy Ushijima Director, Relationship Management, Sales Max Heo Commercial Director, Sales Gue Yong Lee Associate Commercial Manager, Sales Abhishek Nambiar Director, Specialist Sales, Oil - APAC

Asia-Pacific (SST)

9:00-9:25 am	Inflation: What’s really hitting your wallet?	Nicholas Yew Director, Lead Asia & Middle East Fuels & Refining Aditya Kondalamahanty Senior Editor, Biofuels, Agriculture & Food Iman nur Salsabila Mohammad Zamri Analyst, APAC Proteins
9:25-9:30 am	Behind the scenes: Shipping with Zabeeh	Zabeeh Afaque Community Content Producer
9:30-9:50 am	Racing toward the future: F1 fuels	Olly Wroe Price Reporter, Biofuels Nathan Nguyen Principal Analyst, Biofuels Analytics
9:50-10:00 am	Threads versus treats: Asia meets USA	Jonathan Carl Wong Head of APAC Events Daphne Tan Associate Director Of Strategy Development, Benchmark Advocacy Melissa Leong Associate Director, Inbound
10:00-10:15 am	Market myth busters: Commodities edition	Zubair Juzar Commercial Specialist, LNG, Gas And Power Alvin Ang Director, Asia Inorganics & Vinyls
10:15-10:20 am	Behind the scenes: Shipping with Zabeeh episode 2	Zabeeh Afaque Community Content Producer
10:20-10:30 am	Beat Ben: The Market Masters Challenge	Benedict Wong Community Engagement Manager
10:30-10:40 am	Festival pulse	Food crisis 2026- The shock already unfolding Carbon capture utilization and storage
10:40-11:05 am	Critical minerals: What happens if we run short?	Rohan Somwanshi Managing Editor, APAC-EMEA Metals, Platts Shivam Prakash Editor, India Metals And Cement Alice Yu Associate Director, Co-lead Of Critical Minerals Markets
11:05-11:10 am	Behind the scenes: Shipping with Zabeeh episode 3	Zabeeh Afaque Community Content Producer
11:10-11:30 am	The hidden cost of beauty	Akul Gupta Price Reporter, Chemicals Mark Morgan Consulting Executive Director Kevin Micoine Director, Global Lead End Use Markets
11:30-11:40 am	Signals showdown
11:40 am - 12:00 pm	Are Africa and Asia new besties?	Sam Humphreys, Moderator Upstream Digital Lead

EMEA (BST)

9:00-9:20 am	Trading: Then and now	Beth Evans Head of Upstream Regional Insights Adi Imsirovic Author
9:20-9:30 am	Beat Ben: The Market Masters challenge	Benedict Wong Community Engagement Manager
9:30-9:45 am	Why we follow the crowd	Bernice Lim Founder and Lead Psychologist, Asia Psychology Centre
9:45-9:50 am	Behind the scenes: Agriculture with Victoria	Victoria Pertusa Community Content Producer
9:50-10:00 am	Festival pulse	CBAM 2026- Everything you need to keep up Chemical markets under pressure: What's next?
10:00-10:20 am	The journey of your online order	Mark Szakonyi Executive Editor, The Journal of Commerce by S&P Steve Naude Principal Analyst, Africa Support Vessels Pradeep Ranjan Associate Director, Price Reporting - Shipping And Freight
10:20-10:35 am	AIRD World Cup live	Alex Frost Head of AI Commercialisation Strategy
10:35-10:40 am	Behind the scenes: Agriculture with Victoria episode 2	Victoria Pertusa Community Content Producer
10:40-10:55 am	The energy balancing act	Roman Kramarchuk Director, Head Of Energy Transition Narratives And Policy
10:55-11:20 am	Can we predict the unpredictable?
11:20-11:30 am	Festival pulse	Sustainable fertilizers, is it a feasible transition? South Africa data center boom challenges
11:30-11:50 am	Titan: Upstream	Sam Humphreys Upstream Digital Lead Paul Webber VP Product Management, Upstream
11:50 am - 12:10 pm	How humans and AI will succeed together by 2035	Anne Robba Associate Director, Cross Energy Transition Team Initiatives Simon Thorne Vice President, Cross Team Initiatives Zhiyee Teh Senior Analyst- Cross Energy Transition Team Initiatives
12:10 pm - 12:15 pm	Signals showdown

Americas (CDT)

9:00-9:20 am	Food versus fuel: The next big trade-off	Nick Edwards: Moderator Executive Director, Research and Analysis, Agriculture and Food Commodities Jessica Edinger Senior Analyst Lead, Sugar Vinicius Damazio Senior Price Reporter, Biofuels and Feedstocks Alexandre Melo Global Market Engagement Lead, Biofuels Priscila Simon Principal Analyst
9:20-9:35 am	Trade through time	Rob Perkins Global Managing Editor - Oil, Shipping And Chemicals News
9:35-9:40 am	Festival pulse	EU wheat production: Cost and profit trends Data centers: Powering AI, challenging grids
9:40-10:00 am	The scroll effect: How news consumption changes the game	Ramin Beheshti CEO & Co-founder of Caliber (The News Movement) Dominic Pilgrim Global Head of Content Design
10:00-10:20 am	Could nuclear power Coachella?	James Gutman Senior Analyst Mason Lester Research Analyst, North American Power
10:20-10:35 am	Thread versus treats: USA meets Asia	Maria Hatch Associate Director, Customer Success Sean Quirke Head of Business Performance & Operations Sarah de Lucia Hernanez Director of Relationship Manager, Global Accounts
10:35-10:40 am	Beat Ben: The Market Masters challenge	Benedict Wong Community Engagement Manager
10:40-11:00 am	Stories through data and graphics	Elsa Lima Design Director
11:00-11:05 am	Behind the scenes: Agriculture with Victoria episode 3	Victoria Pertusa Community Content Producer
11:05-11:10 am	Festival insights stream	U.S.-China summit signals managed stability
11:10-11:35 am	Startup spotlight: Tierra Climate and Tropic	Emma Konet CTO and Co-Founder at Tierra Climate Rory Hornby Chief Operating Officer. ALORA
11:35-11:40 am	Behind the scenes: Shipping with Zabeeh	Zabeeh Afaque Community Content Producer
11:40 am - 12:10 pm	Confessions of a commodity professional	Sam Humphries: Moderator Upstream Digital Lead Leanne Todd Senior Vice President of Horizons, Energy Expansion and Sustainability Beth Evans Head of Upstream Regional Insights Annette Hugh Global Head, Market Development & Engagement
12:10 pm - 12:20 pm	Last chance to compete!
12:20 pm - 12:30 pm	Festival finale	Lizzie Taylor Head of Customer Experience