September 23
9:00-10:00 Registration. Morning coffee
10:00-10:10 Opening of the conference
10:10-13:30 Session 1. Global trends and challenges
- 10:10-10:30 Agrarian policy on the grain market in 2021/22 MY
Taras Vysotskyi, First Deputy Minister for Agrarian Policy of Ukraine
- 10:30-11:00 Macroeconomic development of Ukrainian economy in short- and long-term prospects
Mikhail Kukhar, Managing partner and Senior economist of Ukraine Economic Outlook, lecturer on macroeconomic in MIM-Kyiv business school
- 11:00-11:20 Global market of wheat and prospects for Ukraine in 2021/22 MY
Alexander Bobylev, Senior specialist on commodities derivatives of the Agricultural division, EMEA S&P Global Platts
- 11:20-11:40 Prospects of Agri-Food segment. Processing, production, food start-ups
Boris Schestopalov, co-owner and CEO, HD-group and GFS group
- 11:40-12:00 Global trends of grain processing
Andriy Sharan, Cand.Sc. Engineering, Head of the Representative Office Buhler AG in Ukraine
- 12:00-12:20 Coffee break
- 12:20-12:40 Impact of green tax on production cost and technology adaptation in accordance with the law: challenges and possibilities
Representative of UBTA
- 12:40-12:55 Prefect services for grain processing
Ruslan Walther, commercial director, WAITES
- 12:55-13:10 Solutions of LUBNYMASH for grain processing enterprises
Sergey Bereza, head of technical department, LUBNYMASH
- 13:10-13:20 Electricity cost optimization - challenge of our time
Sergey Lotokhov, commercial director, Energum
13:20-13:40 Formation of long-term complex development strategy for agricultural sector
Vladimir Demydenko, Sivershchina coalition
13:40-14:20 Lunch. Mini-exhibition attending
14:20-15:30 Round table “Rye market. Use of rye feedstock: new products”
Topics:
- Rye market: current trends and prospects
- Rye and rye flour quality evaluation under current conditions
- Use of rye flour for production of new bakery products
- Rye flour quality control
Speakers:
- Eugeny Stanko, director of grain department, KWS-Ukraine
- Dmitriy Zhigunov, Doctor of Engineering, head of department of grain processing technologies, Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies
- Alexander Bondarchuk, director, Stern Ingredients Ukraine (office of Muhlenchemie in Ukraine)
- Mikhail Yatkovskiy, commercial director, Zernari
15:30-17:30 Session 2. Ukrainian market of grain processing: is there any light at the end of the tunnel…
- 15:30-16:00 Preliminary results of grains and cereals harvesting campaign in 2021
Andriy Kupchenko, Head of Business project unit, APK-Inform
- 16:00-16:20 Quality of Ukrainian wheat of the harvest-2021
Oleg Onishchenko, Technical and complaining manager, SGS Ukraine
- 16:20-16:40 Current state of Ukrainian bakery industry
Yuriy Dudchenko, president of All Ukrainian Bakers Association, director of Kyiv Khlib
- 16:40-17:10 Ukrainian flour market: long-lasting stagnation is worse than a crisis
Rodion Rybchinskiy, Cand.Sc. Engineering, Head of Millers of Ukraine
- 17:10-17:30 Where to draw strength from, Or what can help Ukrainian millers?
Sergiy Sakirkin, Head of Processing, Agrarian Fund
17:30-18:00 Summing-up
18:30-22:00 Cocktails
September 24-25
Excursion to “Ukrainian Venice” Vilkovo town REGISTRATION IS CLOSED
September 24
- 9:00 Departure from the hotel (Odessa)
- 12:00 Check-in (to be paid separately) on hotel Delta (Vilkovo, Tatarbunarskogo vosstaniya str., 164)
- 13:00 Lunch
- 14:00 Excursion to Ankudinov island, where the monument 0 km is located - a place, where Danube flows into the Black Sea
Visit to Old Believers settlement, old island district Lipovanie, wine tasting
- 19:00 Back to the hotel. Evening cocktail
September 25
- 8:00-9:00 Breakfast at the hotel
- 9:00 Vilkovo tour. Visit to museum, rice bays.
- 13:00 Lunch
- Departure to Odessa