9:00-10:00 registration
10:00 Official opening ceremony
Greetings from organizers and sponsors
10:00 – 11:30 Session 1. The global grain market: 2017/18 challenges and prospects for 2018/19 MY
Moderator: Svetlana Sinkovskaya, Marketing Director, APK-Inform Agency
10:00 – 10:15 Grain logistics in Ukraine. Investment opportunities in the port sector
Raivis Veckagans, Head of the State Enterprise "Administration of Sea Ports of Ukraine"
10:15 – 10:30 World market of legumes, trends, new challenges
Sudhakar Tomar, Managing Director of HAKAN AGRO DMCC, President of the Indo-Middle Eastern Agro-Trade and Investment Forum (IMEA-TIIF), Honorary Chairman of the World Confederation of Pulses (CICILS)
10:30 – 11:00 World grain market and price risks hedging in the Black Sea region
Matt Ammerman, Vice-President of INTL FCStone, Eastern Europe and the Black Sea Markets
11:00 – 11:30 Competing interests in quality issues. How to find a legal balance?
Irina Moroz, Partner, AGA Partners Law Firm
11:30 – 12:00 Blockchain in grain trading and logistics
Alexander Varvarenko, President of SHIPNEX, Founder of VARAMAR
12:00 – 12:30 Coffee break
12:30 – 16:00 Session 2. Importers & Exporters: Key Players
Moderator: Ivanna Dorichenko, Integrites International Law Firm
12:30 – 12:45 Egyptian wheat market
Ashraf El Attal, President, Fortuna DMCC
12:45 – 13:00 Pakistan: market and trade in leguminous and other agricultural crops
Tayub Rafik Balagamvala, Seatrade Group
13:00 – 13:15 Iran's grain market: current situation and prospects
Kaveh Zargaran, Secretary General of the Food Confederation of Iran
13:15 – 13:30 Indian wheat market: the main challenges of the season 2017/18
Sumit Gupta, McDonald Pelz
13:30 – 13:45 French wheat on the world market in 2017/18 MG
Ismail Fahmy, Regional Manager for the Middle East, Groupe Soufflet
13:45 – 14:00 Legumes in Ukraine: Present and Future
Antonina Sklyarenko, President of the Community of Producers and Consumers of Pulses of Ukraine
14:00 – 15:00 Dinner
15:00 – 15:15 Black Sea grain: achieved results and development prospects.
Irina Sarycheva, Customer Relations and Technical Supervision Manager for Eastern Europe, SGS Vostok Limited
15:15 – 15:30 Russian grain on the market of the Middle East and North Africa. Pitfalls and export prospects
Oleg Kryukovsky, Head of Trading, GTCS Trading DMCC
15:30 – 15:45 Ukrainian grain market: opportunities and realities in the Middle East market
Oleg Levchenko, Director, Al Ghurair Resources Ukraine
15:45 – 16:00 Import-export relations and the main rules of trade in the wheat market in Turkey
Veysel Kaya, Sunseedman Independent Expert
16:30-18:00 Cocktail in honor of the participants
