Program
Euronext trading floor, 39 rue Cambon, Paris
September 8
8:30-09:30 - Registration of the participants. Morning coffee
09:30-10:00 – Start of the Congress. Welcoming speeches of the organizers and sponsors
Vladimir Klimenko, President of the Ukrainian Grain Association
Anthony Attia, Chief Executive Officer of Euronext Paris
Jean-Francois Lepy, General Director of SOUFFLET NEGOCE
Philippe Mitko, Business development manager for Eastern Europe, InVivo
Jean-Jacques Herve, Credit Agricole Group
Section 1. Grain production and exports: world, the EU, France, Ukraine
Moderator – Pierre-Olivier Drège, Director General of AGPB
10:00-10:30 - World grain market: trends and forecasts for 2014/15 MY
Véronique Fradin, wheat market analyst, Strategie Grains
10:30-10:50 – Global forecast of grain market development up to 2022: prospects of the Black Sea and EU countries
Dmitry Prikhodko, Economist at the Investment Centre Division of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO)
10:50-11:20 - Production and prospects of Ukrainian grain exports in 2014/15 MY
Rodion Rybchinskiy, Head of Business Projects Division of APK-Inform Agency
11:20-11:40 - Agrarian policy of Ukraine in modern terms
Andriy Dykun, Deputy Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
11:40-12:00 - Markets for French milling wheat: Domestic and exports to the EU and third countries
Jean-Pierre Langlois-Berthelot, President of France Export Céréales
12:00-14:00 – Lunch
Section 2. Investments in the agrarian sector
Moderator – Jean-Jacques Herve, Credit Agricole Group
14:00-14:20 - Business development through investments of the EBRD
Gilles Mettetal, Director for Agribusiness at the EBRD
14:20-14:40 - Bank, as the partner for agricultural commodities producers
Philippe Chapuis, Credіt Agrіcole Group
14:40-15:10 – Effective hedging tools using Euronext commodity futures and options contracts
Lionel Porte, Head of Product Development, Commodities at Euronext
15:10-15:20 – Presentation of the company Groupe Soufflet
Jean-Francois Lepy, General Director at Groupe Soufflet
15:20-15:40 - Features of the grain season-2014/15 in France
Jean-Francois Lapie, Trader at Groupe Soufflet
15:40-16:00 - System of co-operatives in France: success story
Philippe Mitko, Business development manager for Eastern Europe, InVivo
16:00-16:15 - Summing up the first day of the Congress
18:00-21:00 - Boat ride on the Seine, and the cocktail-party from the Congress sponsor InVivo Grains
September 9
9:00-10:00 - Morning coffee and registration
Section 3. Grain market of Ukraine: prospects and opportunities
Moderator – Vladimir Klimenko, President of the Ukrainian Grain Association
10:00-10:20 - Strategy of development of agriculture in Ukraine up to 2030
Leonid Kozachenko, President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation
10:20-10:40 - Grain production structure in Ukraine: role of various categories of grain producers
Volodymyr Lapa, General Director at the Association "Ukrainian Agribusiness Club"
10:40-11:00 - Growth opportunities of the Ukrainian grain exports
Vladimir Klimenko, President of the Ukrainian Grain Association
11:00-11:20 - Profitability of grain production in Ukraine
Olga Sikachina, Deputy Director of the Department of statistics of agriculture and environment of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine
11:20-11:40 - Practice of making of the nationwide supply and demand forecasting balances on grains in Ukraine
Oksana Makarchuk, Deputy Chief of the markets development department of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade of Ukraine
11:40-12.00 - Volatile prices on the agricultural market
Ronald Heisman, Professor of Finance at Erasmus University, in Erasmus School of Economics, and Rotterdam School of Management
12:00-12:20 - Legislative regulation of the Ukrainian grain market: current condition and new challenges for the market
Andriy Zablotskiy, Legal Adviser of the Ukrainian Grain Association, Head of the International Trade Law Department of JSC Volkov&Partners
12:20-14:00 – Lunch
14:00-17:00 – Roundtable discussion “Franco-Ukrainian Agrarian Dialogue”
Moderator – Leonid Kozachenko, President of the Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation
Main issues:
• Supporting of the effective dialogue between the authorities and business
• Role of the state and non-governmental organizations in forming the dialogue
• Development prospects of the agroindustrial complexes of France and Ukraine
Roundtable speakers are presented by the following organizations:
• European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD)
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)
• Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood, and Forestry of France
• Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
• FranceAgrimer
• General Association of growers of wheat and other cereals of France
• Ukrainian Grain Association
• Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation
• Ukrainian Agribusiness Club
• CreditAgricole Group
• Groupe Soufflet
• EURONEXT
• InVivo Grains
• Club DEMETER
• Movement of the Enterprises of France (MEDEF International)
17:00-17:20 - Summing up of the second day of the Congress
September 10
9:30-15:00 - Visiting the grain terminal in the port of Rouen
