October 3
8:30-9:30 — Registration. Morning coffee
9:30-11:40 — Session 1. Market of grain by-products: trends & forecasts
9:30-9:50 — Ukrainian market of wheat and groat crops in 2018/19 MY
Andrei Kupchenko, Head of the information department, APK-Inform Agency
9:50-10:20 — Global market of flour and prospects for Ukrainian flour millers
Rodion Rybchinskiy, Director, Union "Millers of Ukraine"
10:20-10:50 — Ukrainian flour market: production, consumption & exports
Sergei Sakirkin, Chairman of the auditing committee, Union "Millers of Ukraine"
10:50-11:10 — Belarusian market of rye and rye flour. Prospects of work with Ukraine
Representative of the Republic of Belarus
11:10-11:40 — Global trends in the grain processing industry. Future technologies
Andriy Sharan, Head of the representative office of Bühler AG in Ukraine, General Director of Bühler Service
11:40-12:00 — Coffee-break
12:00-12:20 — Potential of the Ukrainian market of groats and flakes. Key assumptions for groats exports
Speaker TBA
12:20-12:40 — Ukrainian consumer-2019 and his preferences on the market of bread, flour & groats
Marina Zabarilo, GFK Ukraine
12:40-13:00 — Baking industry in Ukraine: challenges & development prospects
Olexandr Vasylchenko, General Director, association Ukrhlibprom
13:00-13:20 — Improvement of the efficiency of grain processing enterprises using the modern control methods
Natalia Savosina, Sales manager, SocTrade LLC
13:20-14:20 — Lunch
14:20-15:30 — Panel discussion "Perspective directions of grain products processing"
Discussion topics:
— perspective directions of grain deep processing
— global trends in the baking industry. Analysis of the sales market of frozen bread and semi-finished products
— production of alternative types of flour from grains and pulses
— production of flour milling mixes and flour products: application experience
— production of grain by-products: trends & preferences
Speakers:
Vadim Pogrebnyak, Director of RODALS, official representative of Brabender GmbH & Co. KG in Ukraine
Darya Lysikova, Technologist on food industry, Stern Ingredients Ukraine
Alexander Alexandrov, Head of the holding, VEKTOR Company Group
15:30-15:50 — Coffee-break
15:50-16:50 — Session 2. Technical and technological aspects in the flour and groats industry
15:50-16:10 — The Mill Truck, or How to become a mobile miller
Karsten Thies, Marketing Manager, Kastenmüller Polska
16:10-16:30 — Modernization of the effective grain processing business, with the purpose of improving of the products quality
Representative of OLIS LLC (Odessa)
16:30-16:50 — Improving of the energy efficiency of flour and groats producing enterprises
Representative of grain processing enterprise
16:50-17:50 — Panel discussion "Work of flour mills in terms of cancellation of the standards for the methodology of quality definition of grains and its by-products"
Discussion topics:
— cancellation of the GOST standards on quality assessment methods of flour and wheat bran
— cancellation of the GOST standards on quality assessment methods of groats and specifications for groats production
— new requirements on product labelling
Panel members:
Iryna Toporash, Director, SE Agmintest
Svetlana Fesenko, Director on food quality and safety, Shevchenkove Plant of Foodstuffs LLC
Dmitry Zhigunov, Doctor of engineering sciences, Odessa National Academy of Food Technologies
17:50-18:00 — Completion of the conference, summing up
19:00-21:00 — Drinks and buffet for conference participants
October 4
Guided tour for the conference participants to Shabo (Odessa oblast) to the unique cheese dairy with authentic Dutch equipment "European cheese factory"
8:00-8:30 — Meeting of participants at the parking lot of Atlantic Garden Resort Hotel (24A Henuezka Street)
8:30 — Bus departing the hotel
10:45 — Arrival to Shabo
11:00-12:30 — Guided tour of the cheese factory. Cheese & wine tasting
12:30-13:10 — Spare time, opportunity to purchase products of the cheese factory
13:30 — Departure to Odessa
