September 28
Marlin hotel (Odessa, 13 Poliskyi descent)
8:30-9:30 — Registration. Morning coffee
9:30-10:10 — Official opening of the conference
Welcoming speeches:
- Rodion Rybchinskiy, Union "Millers of Ukraine"
- Olena Kovalova, Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
- Erhan Özmen, Southeast Flour Industrialists Association (GUSAD)
- Ali İhsan Özkaşıkçı, Association of Anatolian Flour Industrialists (AUSD) & Emek Flour Ci̇han Soyalp
- Eugen Osmochescu, International Finance Corporation (World Bank Group)
- Dmitry Prikhodko, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
- Cihan Soyalp, Director of purchasing and conservation department, Turkish Grain Board (TMO)
- Ferhat Çolak, Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
10:10-12:20 — Session "Global market of grain by-products: trends and forecasts. Main players"
Moderator — Edip H. Aktas, Chairman, Anatolian Starch and Glucose Industrialists Association (ANGSAD)
10:10-10:30 — Global flour market: current condition & prospects
Dmitry Prikhodko, Economist, the FAO Investment Centre
10:30-11:00 — Global challenges turning into big business opportunities
Stefan Schneider, Bühler Switzerland, Andrei Sharan, Bühler Ukraine
11:00-11:20 — Flour exports to the Middle East
Mesut Cakmak, CEO, BESLER Group, Gaziantep (Turkey)
11:20-11:40 — Flour market of Central Asia
Evgeny Gan, President, the Union of Grain Processors and Bakers of Kazakhstan
11:40-12:00 — Flour exports to the Far East
Gursel Erbap, CEO, Doruk Flour, İstanbul (Turkey)
12:00-12:20 — Exports of flour products from Ukraine: features, prospects & new markets
Sergei Sakirkin, Director of Production operations department, Agrarian Fund PJSC
12:20-12:40 — Coffee break
12:40-17:30 — Session "Ukrainian market of grains and flour milling products"
Moderator — Rodion Rybchinskiy, Director, Union "Millers of Ukraine"
12:40-13:00 — Development trends of the Ukrainian grain market influenced by the global trends
Olena Kovalova, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
13:00-13:20 — Estimations of the medium-term potential of the Ukrainian grain market, and the problems of its realization
Mykola Gorbachev, President, Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA)
13:20-13:40 — Importance of Ukrainian grain exports on the Turkish milling market
Oguz Kırtız, CEO, Angoram Grain Products, İstanbul (Turkey)
13:40-14:00 — TMO and grain policy
Cihan Soyalp, Director of purchasing and conservation department, Turkish Grain Board (TMO)
14:00-14:20 — Major trends of the flour and groats market in the current season, forecasts for a new season
Andrei Kupchenko, Grain market analyst, APK-Inform Agency
14:20-15:20 — Lunch
15:20-15:40 — Definition of the quality parameters in the trading activities with grains and flour
Natalia Savosina, Sales manager, LLC SocTrade
15:40-16:00 — Flour enrichment with micronutrients
Darya Lysikova, Technologist on food industry, Stern Ingredients Ukraine LLC
16:00-16:20 — Prospects of the production and exports of organic flour and groats
Tatyana Druz, Analyst, APK-Inform Agency
16:20-16:40 — Certification of organic food products. Global demand for organic grain products
Sergiy Galashevskyy, General Manager, Organic Standard Ltd.
16:40-17:20 — Topical quality issues of Ukrainian grains of the harvest-2018
Oleg Onischenko, SGS Ukraine
17:20-17:40 — Cooperation as the tool for effective selling and purchasing: case of the First Ukrainian Agriculture Cooperative
Alexander Boukli, Executive Director, Cooperative PUSK
17:40-18:00 — Completion of the first conference day, summing up
19:30-22:00 — Gala-dinner in the restaurant "Maristella Marine Residence", 2A Bernardini Street (Krasnykh Zor Street)
September 29
Il Decameron Clubhouse (Odessa, 10 Kachinskogo street (Polska))
9:00-9:30 — Registration. Morning coffee
9:30-12:30 — Training course on the exports of grain by-products by the FAO (UN) and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), under support of the EU4Business initiative
Looking for niches for grain by-products. Global trends in trading and consumption of grain by-products
Dmitry Prikhodko, Economist, FAO Investment Centre (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations)
Potential of the most prospective grain by-products
Oleksandr Sikachyna, International consultant, FAO Investment Centre, market analyst
Master-class "Tools for the market analysis"
Diana Dobriy, Expert, International Trade Centre (ITC)
Export logistics of grain by-products. Potential markets: Asia vs Africa
Vladimir Kalashlinskiy, Logistics and trade expert, Global Foods Trading Inc., USA
Quality of the export batches of wheat flour, in accordance with the statistics of SGS Ukraine
Oleg Onischenko, Technical & Claims Questions Manager, SGS Ukraine
Cooperation of grain producers and processors to provide the complete the export logistics chain
Vasily Govgera, Economist of the agribusiness department, European Bank for reconstruction and development (EBRD)
Interactive session "Development strategy of the flour and groats industry of Ukraine"
Andriy Pankratov, International consultant at the FAO Investment Centre, Agricultural Market Expert
Presentation of the information platform on prices of the global commodity market AgFlow
Igor Tinkov, Regional Sales Manager for Black Sea, AgFlow
12:30-13:00 — Completion of the course. Delivery of the certificates
13:00-14:00 — Lunch
