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Summary
Stretches of continued volatility in markets and key industries have pushed firms to adjust the way they invest, operate, and innovate. New trends are emerging amid these waves of change, highlighting the need to understand what comes next.
Join a panel of market experts for our Big Picture 2024 webinar as they discuss key findings from the past year and analyze what lies ahead.
Discussion topics will include:
- Generative AI's impacts and key questions surrounding the technology
- Prospects of increased capital market issuance and dealmaking amid higher rates
- The cross-industry ripple effects of extreme climate events and energy transition
- Potential impacts from government interventions and new regulations
Speakers
S&P Global Commodity Insights
Mark Ferguson
S&P Global Commodity Insights
Director, Metals & Mining Research
Mark Ferguson is the Research Director for the Metals & Mining Research group at S&P Global Commodity Insights. Having worked for previous iterations of the division since 2004, he has extensive experience in producing exploration and supply-side studies and topical research for the mining sector.
Increasingly focused on energy transition-related needs pertinent to the metals & mining sector, the Research team tracks the industry’s upstream efforts while assessing demand and price expectations for key industrial and battery metals.
Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Geology/Geography from Saint Mary’s University, and an MSc in Earth Sciences from Dalhousie University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Joe Mantone
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Financial Institutions News Desk Editor, Americas
Joe Mantone is the News Desk Manager for the U.S. financial institutions group at S&P Global Market Intelligence and the author of a quarterly white paper on M&A and equity capital markets activity. He also hosts the new podcast The Pipeline: M&A and IPO Insights.
Joe joined the U.S. FIG team in 2008 and covered investment banks for more than 10 years before moving into his current role. Joe has been working as a business journalist for nearly 20 years and previously worked for The Wall Street Journal and the Crain Communications magazine, Modern Healthcare. Joe is based in New York.
He holds a master’s degree in journalism from Roosevelt University and a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Arizona State University.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Nick Patience
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Research Director
Nick Patience is a Managing Analyst with S&P Global Market Intelligence, with responsibility for 451 Research’s coverage of Data, AI, Analytics, Information Security and Risk.
Nick Patience is lead analyst for AI and machine learning for 451 Research, a part of S&P Global Market Intelligence. He is part of the company's Data, AI & Analytics research channel but also works across the entire research team to uncover and understand use cases for machine learning, an area he has been researching since 2001. Nick also oversees 451's Workforce Productivity & Collaboration research and is a member of 451 Research's Center of Excellence for Quantum Technologies.
Nick is a frequent speaker on the industry use cases for AI and the infrastructure that underpins its development and deployment.
Nick has a long background in research into how applications can take advantage of data – in particular unstructured data – using AI and machine learning. He is a cofounder of 451 Research and rejoined the team in 2015 after almost three years running product marketing at machine learning-driven eDiscovery software company Recommind (now part of OpenText). He has held various senior management roles at 451 Research in both in New York and London since 1999.
Prior to starting 451 Research, Nick was a financial and technology journalist with ComputerWire (now part of Datamonitor) in London and New York. Nick has a master's degree in computing science from the University of London, and a BA in Philosophy and Music from Middlesex University.
Veronica Retamales Burford
Senior Research Analyst, Country Risk
Veronica is a Latin America Senior Research Analyst covering political, commercial, operational, and security risk issues for a variety of sectors in the region, including energy, mining, retail, and insurance.
Veronica is a Latin America Senior Research Analyst covering political, commercial, operational, and security risk issues for a variety of sectors in the region, including energy, mining, retail, and insurance. She is responsible for the generation of commercially relevant political and violent risks forecasts for Peru, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and El Salvador.
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Nathan Stovall
Director of FIG Research
Nathan Stovall, with 17 years' experience covering the banking sector, is a principal analyst for the FIG Research offering of S&P Global Market Intelligence. His primary responsibilities include covering and analyzing financial institutions, with a focus on the banking industry.
He is the author of the banking blog, Street Talk, and host of the podcast by the same name. His in-depth analysis of the banking industry, including a focus on community banks, can be found on SPGMI's Research & Analysis feature, which includes historical and forward-looking performance figures.
During his tenure, he has regularly covered and participated on the conference circuit, moderating panels and webinars focused on major issues facing banks. He has spoken as industry events as well, offering updates on bank fundamentals, market conditions and forecasts for what lies ahead. He has been quoted in a number of trade publications and the national press, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times and has appeared on Fox Business News and NPR's Planet Money.
Nathan holds a Bachelor of Arts degrees from Washington & Lee University, where he majored in business journalism
Moderator
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Sarah Cottle
S&P Global Market Intelligence
Global Head of Research
Sarah Cottle is Head of Research, Advisory and Specialty Solutions for S&P Global Market Intelligence.
Sarah joined S&P Global in 2012 and served in leadership roles in Platts and Market Intelligence as a member of the Operating Committees in London, Singapore and Toronto. She has led numerous global teams creating pricing benchmarks, data, news and research in the energy, commodities and financial markets. Most recently she led the MI Insight organization and the corporates product management team.
In a career spanning twenty-five years, Sarah has held leadership positions at financial services providers in Europe, Asia and North America, including Reed Elsevier, Bloomberg, Dow Jones/Wall Street Journal and produced award-winning programming for CNBC.
Sarah also works in a number of capacities to help women leaders advance in their careers, serving on the board of the “Women’s Initiative for Networking & Success,” speaking at external networking events and actively contributing to the diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives of S&P Global.
Through her experience of working in Paris and Milan, Sarah speaks French and Italian. She holds a degree in French Language and Literature from the University of Sheffield, UK.
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