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In renewables origination leadership, Lena Lehmeier can count the women at her level on one hand. At conferences, around 90% of the people in the room are men. Lena has...

Sydney and London: two very different markets. Rarely do commodities leaders get an intimate view inside both. Twenty-five years in technology leadership across firms including Lehman Brothers, RBS, and Macquarie...

The conversation around data centres and the grid usually runs one way. Power demand is rising at a pace the network wasn’t built for. Grid operators are stretched. Connection queues...

Most enterprises entered 2026 believing they had an AI strategy. David Garrett, a data and AI advisor with decades of experience across financial services, energy, and commodities, thinks the more...

Alphabet has committed $80 billion to AI infrastructure. US data centre construction is running at an annualised rate of $50.7 billion. Nvidia’s Blackwell infrastructure has attracted $1.6 billion in investment....

In many energy and commodities organisations, sophisticated CTRM and ETRM systems confidently tell the business what has happened or what should have happened. Yet the physical world often tells a...

As we close out December 2025, the landscape looks fundamentally different than it did twelve months ago. This is the year we gave AI autonomy. If 2024 was the year...

The world of generative AI is awash with bold claims and contrasting narratives. While a recent MIT study found that 95% of enterprise AI initiatives generate no measurable returns, it...

In this article, Michael Slater, Chief Business Technologist at ION Commodities, shares his perspective on how the next generation of technologists will define the future of energy and commodities markets....