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This week, we continue our Weathering Decarbonization series by welcoming Mike Prokop back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Mike is Executive Consultant at the Clean Hydrogen Buyers Alliance. David Greely sits down with Mike to discuss the challenges and the progress that's been made building U.S. Gulf Coast hydrogen and ammonia markets – and what comes next.

We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from S&P Global’s CERAWeek 2026.

SmarterMarkets™ was in Houston last week for CERAWeek to partner with S&P Global. We sat down with participants at the energy industry's most influential annual conference. The theme for this year's conference was Convergence and Competition: Energy, Technology, and Geopolitics – and the implications of the conflict in Iran were on everyone's mind.

We’ve compiled a selection of those interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal. They’re also available on our second podcast channel, SmarterMarkets™ Presents.

Our guests are:

Arjun Murti – Partner at Veriten & Publisher of "Super-Spiked" on Substack

Susan Sakmar – Visiting Professor at University of Houston Law Center & Board Member of Flex LNG

Jeff Currie – Chief Strategy Officer of Energy Pathways, Carlyle

Radhika Krishnan – Chief Product and Technology Officer, Quorum Software

Michael Greenstone – Director, Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC)

David Keith – Founding Faculty Director, Climate Systems Engineering Initiative, University of Chicago

We present a Special Episode recorded this past week at S&P Global’s CERAWeek 2026 in Houston, TX, where the theme was Convergence and Competition: Energy, Technology and Geopolitics.

 

David Greely sat down with Aldo Flores-Quiroga in the Podcast Studio in the Nexus Ballroom at CERAWeek. Aldo is Non Resident Fellow for Latin America Energy Studies at the Center for Energy Studies (CES) at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy.

 

David and Aldo discuss the role of convergence and competition in the North American energy industry, as well as global geopolitics following the U.S. military actions in Venezuela and Iran.

We present a Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™, bringing you exclusive interviews from BOCA 2026 – the FIA Global Cleared Markets Conference.

SmarterMarkets™ returned to the conference, where we partnered with the FIA for our third year, sitting down with who you need to meet to bring you what you need to know.

We’ve compiled a selection of those 13 interviews into this Special Episode of SmarterMarkets™. If you would like to listen to the full interviews, they are available on the SmarterMarkets™ Presents media portal. They’re also available on our second podcast channel, SmarterMarkets™ Presents.

Our guests in order of appearance are:

Walt Lukken – President & CEO, FIA

Yuval Rooz – Co-Founder & CEO, Digital Asset

D Shahrawat – Crypto & Digital Assets Lead, Bloomberg Intelligence

Stuart Connolly – CEO, CloudMargin

Travis Schwab – CEO, Eventus

Alun Green – EVP & Managing Director, Futures & Options, Trading Technologies

Anthony Crudele – SVP, NinjaTrader

Joe Raia – CCO, Abaxx Exchange

Chris Tripp – GM International, NinjaTrader

Adrienne Muir – CEO, Avenir

Alan Guarino – Vice Chairman, Korn Ferry

Keith Todd & Joe Schroeter – Chairman & Chief Business Transformation Officer, Sapphire Technology Group 

Josh Crumb – CEO, Abaxx Technologies

We continue our Weathering Decarbonization series this week by welcoming Samantha Dart back into the SmarterMarkets™ studio. Samantha is Co-Head of Global Commodities Research at Goldman Sachs. David Greely sits down with Samantha to discuss how our changing energy system is weathering the conflict in Iran at the same time as its weathering decarbonization.