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.