Traders talking in small groups at Tradeflow Summit Madrid

Second edition. Dubai, 6 and 7 November 2026. 100 seats, every one vetted.

One handshake in this room can be worth millions.

100 physical commodity traders, SME founders and trade financiers from 20+ countries. You come for one thing: the buyer, lender or supplier you did not have yesterday. A ticket costs a few hundred euros. The right counterparty inside pays for it many times over.

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Madrid, June 2026. This is what the room looked like.

Sixty seats, sold out before registration closed. Traders, financiers and operators talking to each other, not to a stage. Dubai keeps the same filter and opens a bigger room.

60
seats in Madrid, all sold
20+
countries in the room
100%
physical commodity focus
Two attendees shaking hands at Tradeflow Summit Madrid
Where most of the value happened: between sessions.
Cocktail networking at Tradeflow Summit Madrid
The cocktail. Dubai's address stays secret until you hold a ticket.
An operator presenting a case study to the Madrid audience
Operators sharing real trades.
Speaker addressing the Tradeflow Summit Madrid room

You only need one. This room has 99 others.

Two days is enough to find the person your next flow depends on. That is the whole point of the format.

  • A buyer or a supplier you can actually call

    Niche operators moving real cargo, from West Africa to the Gulf to Europe. Not a directory: people, in a room, ready to talk volumes.

  • A financier who understands a 10-person trading house

    Trade finance lenders, credit insurers and brokers who work with SMEs, not only the majors. Bring your deal; they came to hear it.

  • The corridor idea nobody has published

    Trade flow breakdowns with real numbers. You leave with a plan, and the contacts to run it.

Half day Friday. Full day Saturday. One secret address.

Fewer talks, more of the reason you actually come: the people. Every session ends in a conversation, and Friday ends at a cocktail whose location goes out with your ticket, and to nobody else.

DMCC Convention Centre, Almas Tower, Jumeirah Lakes Towers. The heart of Dubai's commodity trade district. Closed-door, decision-makers only.

Friday 6 November

14:00 to 18:00
Opening sessions at the DMCC Convention CentreTrade flow breakdowns and trade finance, with the people who ran them
From 18:00
Cocktail networkingSecret location, disclosed with your ticket

Saturday 7 November

09:00 to 18:00
Full day: sessions, round tables and curated networking blocksBuilt for deals, not business cards

Three topics. Zero filler.

Everything on stage is chosen for one reason: it helps you close a trade faster.

Networking

Direct access to operators, traders and financiers who move real cargo. Curated rooms built for deals, not business cards.

Trade finance

How to actually get financed. LCs, pre-export, offtake: the mechanics most practitioners only learn on live deals, explained plainly.

Trade flow breakdown

Real numbers, real corridors. How niche operators find, build and defend trade flows that larger players overlook.

The more hands you shake, the more money you make.
Damien W., founder, Tradeflow Summit. Physical commodity trader, 50+ countries traded.

I built this event because the conferences I attended were full of people who talk about trade and empty of people who do it. Madrid proved a small, vetted room works. Dubai is the same room, in the city where the cargo actually changes hands.

How a seat gets sold

  1. Leave your email below

    That is the whole form. No phone number, no company field, no ten-question survey.

  2. We check you belong in the room

    Traders, SME founders, trade financiers and supply chain operators moving physical cargo get a seat. Pure service vendors are pointed to the sponsorship page instead. This keeps the room worth your two days.

  3. The ticket link lands in your inbox

    Buy your ticket, and the cocktail address comes with it on the Friday.

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Two days. One room. The people who move the cargo.

Madrid sold out with 60. Dubai has 100 seats. Leave your email and the ticket link is in your inbox in minutes.

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