Day 1, May 26

08:30-09:30 Registration of participants, morning coffee break
09:45-10:00 Official opening

10:00-11:30 Grain section I. Global trends and Ukrainian realities
(conference hall Windsor Grand Ball room)
Moderator - Mykola Gorbachev, President, Ukrainian Grain Association
- Ukrainian grain market: 20 years of development. Key long-term trends
- Ukrainian economy 2021: raise after hitting the ground? Investment climate and agricultural complex
- Global climate changes, GREEN DEAL, changes of consumers’ preferences: challenges for Ukraine in the new realities
- Global food market outlook: AMIS perspective
Speakers:
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Volodymyr Klymenko, former President, UGA
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Rodion Rybchinskiy, Director, Millers of Ukraine
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Olexsander Zhemoyda, Director of the Department for Multilateral and Bilateral Trade Agreements at the Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine
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Dimitar Bogov, Regional Lead Economist, EBRD
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Mikhail Malkov, FAO Development Program Coordinator in Ukraine
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Denis Drechsler, Project Manager, Agricultural Market Information System (AMIS), FAO

11:30-12:00 Coffee break

12:00-14:00 Grain section II. Results of 2020/21 MY, prospects for 2021/22 MY
(conference hall Windsor Grand Ball room)
Moderator - Rodion Rybchinskiy, Director, Millers of Ukraine
Global
- Trends of the global grain market
- China as the key factor of market trends
- Grain market of MENA countries
Speakers:
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Alexandre Bobylov, Senior specialist on commodities derivatives, Agricultural division, EMEA S&P Global Platts
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Bogdan Kostetskiy, Partner, Barva Invest
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Hesham Soliman, General manager, United Grain (Egypt)
Ukrainian grain market
- Surprises of quarantine seasons on the grain market of Black Sea region
- Forecasts for 2021/22 MY - whether the tough grain balance will ease
- Basic risks while hedging prices of wheat, corn and rapeseed in Ukraine
- Grain quality and phytosanitary norms
- Prospects of organic products in Ukraine
- How will we transport grain in 2021/22 MY
- Defaults: why it is more profitable to find common ground…
Speakers:
- Andriy Kupchenko, Head of Business project unit, APK-Inform
- Yuriy Ruban, Business Development Manager, Syngenta
- Vladyslav Sedyk, Independent Expert
- Kostyantyn Zhytnetskyy, Head of Certification Department, Organic Standard
- Vsevolod Velykodnyi, Chief Analyst, BGS Rail
- Artem Skorobogatov, Partner, Interlegal

14:00-15:00 Lunch

15:00-17:00 Marine section: Maritime business in a new light. Section sponsor The Charterers
Со-moderators:
Arthur Nitsevych, Partner, Interlegal
Alexander Glushchenko, Director of the "Ports of Ukraine" publishing house
- Freight trends of the Mediterranean and Black seas
Peter Sand, Chief Shipping Analyst, BIMCO
Panel discussion: Business at sea or maritime business: prospects 2030
- Fleet handling
- Investing in shipping
- Technical management of the fleet
- Crewing of a new type
- Grain transportation (river, sea)
- Prospects of Ukrainian shiprepairing
- Trends in the purchase and sale of ships in the Black Sea region
Participants of discussion:
- Gennady Ivanov, Director, KRONOS BULKERS
- Bogdan Zelensky, Founder, Alpha Navigation
- Maxim Sheremet, Freight and Operation Manager, Baywa
- Volodymyr Kozakevych, General director, AP Marin
- Maxim Khaulin, Director, INTRESCO LIMITED
- Oleg Solodukhov, founder, The Charterers

17:00-18:00 Discussions with speakers, completion of the first day of the conference

19:00-22:00 Gala dinner (М1 Club Hotel)

Optional roundtable discussions, May 26
(parallel to the main sections, small hall)

12:00-13:00 Companies, invoices and taxes
Speakers:
- Irina Voyevodina, partner, Interlegal
- Marta Sverdlykivska, associate attorney, Interlegal
- Daria Liashenko, associate attorney, Interlegal
- Dmitro Tychynskyy, associate attorney, Interlegal

13:00-14:00 Arbitrage LMAA, LCIА, MAC, ICAC
Speakers:
- Karyna Gorovaya, senior associate, Interlegal
- Mykola Kozachenko, lawyer, Interlegal
- Igor Kostov, associate attorney, Interlegal
- Alexey Remeslo, partner, Interlegal

15:00-16:00 Yachting for everyone
- Purchase of new or second-hand yacht
- Registration of yachts under flags of convenience
- Investments into charter company
- Temporary import issues
Speakers:
- Kirina Riashentseva, senior associate, Interlegal
- Valeria Fetysenko, lawyer, Interlegal
- Nikolay Melnykov, partner, Interlegal

Day 2, May 27

09:30-10:00 Morning coffee break

10:00-13:00 Section 1. Market of grain processing. Section sponsors: Buhler, Mühlenchemie
(conference hall Windsor Grand Ball room)
Under the support :
- Union Millers of Ukraine
- Ukrainian Bakers Association
Moderator - Rodion Rybchinskiy, Director, Millers of Ukraine
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Global trends of flour and groats market
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Bread market: desires of bread producers and harsh reality…
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Trendy products of Mühlenchemie for Ukrainian flour market
- Modern technologies of flour quality improvement
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Agricultural policy of Ukraine in 2021/22 MY
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Development prospects for export of value-added products
Speakers:
- Rodion Rybchinskiy, Director, Millers of Ukraine
- Sergiy Sakirkin, Head of Processing, Agrarian Fund
- Alexander Taranenko, Director, Ukrainian Bakers’ Association
- Alexander Bondarchuk, Director Stern Ingredients Ukraine
- Andriy Sharan, Head of representative office of Bühler AG in Ukraine, General Director of Bühler Service
- Roman Leshchenko, Minister of Agricultural Policy of Ukraine
- Alexander Zhemoyda, Head of Department of multilateral and bilateral trade agreements at Ministry for Development of Economy, Trade and Agriculture of Ukraine

13:00-13:30 Coffee break

13:30-15:00 Open joint meeting of Logistic committee of ЕВА and Transport working group of South Ukrainian office of ЕВА: “Infrastructure reforms 2021: challenges and expectations”
Moderator – Natalya Gudkova, Executive Partner of Advisers, head of Transport working group of South Ukrainian office of ЕВА
- Infrastructure reforms, business vision
- Reform of JSC Ukrzaliznytsia
- Towards river reform
- Corporatisation of USPA and calculation methodology of port charges rates
- Influence of harmonisation of legislation on customs clearance of Ukraine and the EU (implementation of AEO, NCTS)
- Development prospects of multimodal transportation in Ukraine
- Assurance of P&I clubs
- Dry ports: policy management problems
Participants of discussion:
- Daria Sichkar, Manager of Logistic committee, ЕВА
- Natalya Gudkova, Executive Partner of Advisers, Head of Transport working group of South Ukrainian office of ЕВА
- Alexander Lazarev, Director LAMARIN LLC, Co-Head of ЕВА Customs committee, Head of coordination board of South Ukrainian office of ЕВА
- Olga Kopiyka, Key Advisor on legal issues and government agencies cooperation of Bunge Ukraine LLC, Head of Logistic committee of ЕВА
- Valeriy Tkachev, Deputy commercial, Ukrzaliznytsia (to be confirmed)
Representative of USPA (to be confirmed)
- Sergey Nedelko, Head of Odessa office of Ilyashev and partners
- Karyna Gorovaya, Senior associate, Interlegal

15:00-16:00 Completion of the conference, closing drinks

May 28
Special roundtable discussions from Interlegal
(conference hall Interlegal)

11:00 I. Arrest and release of vessels
- Arrest of a vessel as a mean of control recovery
- Differences of arrests of vessels in countries of the Black Sea region
- Arrest of a vessel for terminal: profit and risks
- Release of a vessel – procedures, time, legislation
- Overview of successful cases from the Black Sea practice of Interlegal
13:00 II. Visitation and protection against actions of inspection authorities

15:00 III. Cyber-fraud: how to get yours back?

*Agenda is subject to change