EnergyEvolutionLaw.com
Paul B. Turner, Principal – Turner Commodities Law, PLLC

Conferences & Meetings

Many of the themes discussed on this site—energy evolution, the role of intermediaries, and the practical management of risk in changing markets—are explored in live settings through conferences, working groups, and industry meetings.

The listings below include a mix of roles: in some cases I serve as a speaker or panelist; in others I participate as an attendee, board member, or working group contributor. Where relevant, the role is noted for each entry.

Unless specifically noted as “Speaker” or “Panelist,” listings should be understood as participation rather than a speaking engagement.

CCRO Member Meetings (2025 – anchor set)

  • May 20–21, 2025 – CCRO Liquidity and Credit Intermediation Summit
    Houston, Texas
    Two-day summit for CROs and senior risk staff focused on how credit intermediation is evolving in energy trading: central clearing versus bilateral structures, collateral and margining practices, emerging credit products, and regulatory expectations in volatile markets.
  • August 20–22, 2025 – CCRO Members Meeting (Summer 2025)
    New York, New York
    Three-day members’ meeting hosted at Moody’s in lower Manhattan, combining updates on CCRO initiatives (credit standards, financial liquidity, energy-transition risk, scenario work) with member roundtables and workshop-style discussions.
  • October 8–9, 2025 – CCRO Members Meeting (Fall in Houston)
    Houston, Texas
    Two-day U.S. members’ meeting in Houston picking up themes from the liquidity summit and New York meeting: cross-initiative updates on credit, scenario risk, and new products, plus open discussion of “new challenges” the CRO community should prioritize for future CCRO workstreams.
  • November 5–6, 2025 – CCRO Members Meeting (London)
    London, United Kingdom
    Regional members’ meeting focused heavily on AI as a risk-management tool and for scenario modeling, including sessions on an AI risk framework and a scenario-modeling workshop building on the successful New York workshop earlier in 2025.

CCRO forward look: as of now, no 2026 in-person member meetings are posted on the CCRO events page. For upcoming CCRO events, “check back for 2026 schedule.”

Non-CCRO Conferences – Recently Completed (U.S.)

  • October 6–8, 2025 – FIA Commodities Conference 2025
    Houston, Texas
    Three-day Houston conference positioned as the premier forum for navigating the forces reshaping commodity derivatives markets, with tracks on CFTC and FERC enforcement priorities, trade surveillance and position limits, market-structure and clearing issues, and product trends across energy, ags, and metals, drawing significant in-house counsel, risk, and compliance participation.

Non-CCRO Conferences – Upcoming Focus Set (U.S.-centric)

These conferences form the go-forward anchors for EnergyEvolutionLaw.com: trading, transition, and hydrogen-focused events that are either U.S.-based or highly relevant to U.S. markets.

  • February 25–26, 2026 – 6th American Hydrogen Forum
    Houston, Texas
    Two-day Houston forum on the American hydrogen and CCUS landscape, bringing together industry leaders, policymakers, and project developers for sessions on hydrogen production technologies, infrastructure build-out, CCUS, policy frameworks, and the role of hydrogen in decarbonizing heavy industry and transport.
  • March 10–12, 2026 – World Hydrogen & Carbon Americas 2026
    Houston, Texas
    Conference merging World Hydrogen North America with a carbon-management event to create a single hydrogen and carbon markets summit, focused on scaling hydrogen supply, infrastructure and offtake, carbon capture and storage, low-carbon fuels, and the policy and investment tools needed to build durable hydrogen and carbon markets in the Americas.
  • March 23–27, 2026 – CERAWeek 2026
    Houston, Texas
    Flagship global energy conference with the 2026 theme “Convergence and Competition: Energy, Technology and Geopolitics,” spanning upstream, LNG, power and renewables, grids and storage, and featuring substantial content on the energy transition, capital allocation, policy risk, and how geopolitics—including LNG supply tightness through 2026—interacts with U.S. energy investment and regulation.
  • June 25–27, 2026 – Reuters Events: Global Energy Transition / Global Energy Forum 2026
    New York, New York
    New York summit bringing together senior leaders from energy, heavy industry, finance, and government around the global energy transition, with sessions on net-zero strategy, electrification and data-center load growth, grid and storage investment, hydrogen and low-carbon fuels, and how policy and ESG pressures are reshaping capital flows into U.S. energy infrastructure.
  • September 28–30, 2026 – FIA Commodities Conference 2026
    City to be announced (recent editions have been held in Houston, Texas)
    Follow-on to the 2025 Houston event, again focused on commodity derivatives markets—regulation and enforcement, clearing and margin, risk management, and product trends in energy and other commodities. FIA’s upcoming-events page confirms the dates; the city has not yet been formally posted but the conference has been consistently tied to Houston.