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Energy conferences, exhibitions and publications are increasingly playing a pivotal role in connecting stakeholders in the industry to facilitate discussion, change and progress.

Cross-commodity trading, the development of dark and spark spreads in Europe and the impact of carbon will be discussed during the closing session of EMART Energy 2011 that is taking place from 23 November in Lyon, France.

Expertise and excellence in the European gas industry is to be acknowledged with the inaugural European Gas Conference Awards which will be announced during the event in Vienna in January next year.

Macmillan South Africa has announced its diamond sponsorship for the 6th annual African Education Week conference and exhibition taking place in Johannesburg in July next year.

Energy traders will have the unique opportunity to get real life and real time trading experience during the EFET Academy Simulation workshop during the upcoming EMART Energy 2011 in Lyon, France on 22 November.

Europe needs more transmission lines to reach the European target for a single energy market by 2014, but the main obstacle is to get permits to build power lines, says Jukka Ruusunen, Vice-President of ENTSO-E.

The European Gas Conference in Vienna in January next year will offer the first formal opportunity for the gas industry to come together and discuss the latest developments in the Southern Corridor following the Azerbaijan-Turkey gas deals.

Smart Money, the pioneering mobile commerce platform of wireless leader Smart Communications, Inc. (Smart) was awarded as Best Operator-led Mobile Money Program at the recent Mobile Money Global Awards held in Dubai.

The National Bank of Abu Dhabi has won the prestigious Mobile Money Award for offering the best IMT (international money transfer) programme in the industry.

Ausgrid MD George Maltabarow will deliver the opening keynote at the meeting of some 600 top utility professionals from around Australia and New Zealand in Sydney from Tuesday 8-10 November.