The Pinnacle Group International together with the China Decision Makers Consultancy (CDMC) is hosting China's first and largest conference, the "Commodities Trading & Investment Conference 2008" to be held on the 24 & 25 September in the Crown Plaza Century Park, in Shanghai. Commodities which was a once forgotten investment is now the most talked about investments today and continues to be on the uptrend with no signs of abating. The rapid surge in commodities prices hold tremendous implications for commodities consuming and producing countries as well as the financial markets and the wider economy as a whole. China holds a unique position in the current commodities environment; both being a major producer/supplier and consumer of commodities in the world. It is therefore a natural progression that China financial markets should position itself correctly and rapidly to take advantage of the current opportunities in commodities investment and develop the necessary expertise to develop the risk involved in movements in the commodities sector. It has been seen that the creation of a large conference held on a yearly basis where global and regional players including regulators converge at a single location for the purpose of networking, exchange of ideas can help in a large part in facilitating market development. Bringing together the region's most reputed conference managers from Singapore and China to establishing a large industry wide conference attracting players from China and the rest of the world.