April 4. Day 1. KAZGRAIN MARKET

8:30-9:30 — Registration of participants, morning coffee

9:30-10:00 — Official opening of the conference

Welcoming speeches:

• New UPL (Arysta + UPL) — General Sponsor
• AgroMachHolding KZ JSC — Technology Sponsor
• Grain Union of Kazakhstan
• Union of Grain Processors and Bakers of Kazakhstan

Speech of the Vice-Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan, Gulmira Isayeva

10:00-11:30 — Session 1. Global market of grains

Moderator — Dauren Kaliaskarov, Managing Director - the Member of the Board, National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC

10:00-10:20 — Prospects for development of the global grain market in 2019/20 MY, in terms of the current macroeconomic situation and price formation

Alexander Karavaytsev, Economist, International Grains Council

10:20-10:40 — Kazakh grains on the global market: results of 2018/19 MY & prospects of 2019/20 MY

Sabit Kashkimbayev, Deputy Chairman of Board, National Company Food Contract Corporation JSC

10:40-11:00 — Russian grain market: results of 2018/19 MY & forecasts of 2019/20 MY

Vladimir Petrychenko, General Director, LLC ProZerno

11:00-11:20 — Role of Ukraine in the global grain exports. Market positions in Asia

Andrei Kupchenko, Grain market analyst, Head of the information department, APK-Inform Agency

11:20-11:30 — Questions to speakers

11:30-12:00 — Coffee-break

12:00-14:30 — Session 2. Features of development and performance of the Kazakh grain industry

Moderator — Nurlan Mukhamedzhanov, Chairman of the Board, KazAgroMarketing LLP

12:00-12:20 — Kazakh grain market. Progress analysis from the farmer's opinion: producer's point of view

Aidarbek Khojanazarov, General Director, Olzha Agro LLP

12:20-12:35 — Monitoring of transactions in terms of transfer pricing

Asemgul Aubakirova, Chief expert, Specialized department of the State revenue committee under the Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Kazakhstan

12:35-12:50 — Quality of Kazakh grains & export prospects

Jandos Esmagul, Business Development Manager, LLP FE “SGS Kazakhstan Ltd”

12:50-13:05 — Fumigation and control of fumigation efficiency in the discharge port

Marjan Kashani, AFL Manager, SGS Iran

13:05-13:25 — Current situation with grain quality in Altai Krai of Russia. Quality assessment system of grains

Mariya Shostak, Director, the Altai branch of the Federal State-Funded Institution "Federal Centre of Quality and Safety Assurance for Grain and Grain products"

13:25-13:45 — Photoseparation - effective solution of grain contamination and safety in agricultural production, processing and exports

Alexander Starkov, Head of foreign trade department, LLC CSort

13:45-14:05 — Highly efficient grain cleaning system

Kairat Iskakov, Director of LLC Trade House DYKAN

14:05-14:25 — Development of the domestic agricultural machinery as solution of the effective agricultural production in Kazakhstan

Dinara Shukizhanova, Deputy Chairman of the Board, AgroMachHolding KZ JSC

14:25-14:30 — Questions to speakers

14:30-15:30 — Lunch

15:30-18:00 — Session 3. Key elements of grain trading: finances, logistics & sales markets

Moderator — Yerkhat Iskaliyev, Member of the Supervisory board, the International Institute of Logistics and Business "Silk Way", Member of the Presidium of the Union of Kazakhstan transport workers KAZLOGISTICS, Chairman of the Transport logistics subcommittee under the National Chamber of Entrepreneurs Atameken

15:30-15:50 — Increasing the availability of financing of agricultural companies. Investment attractiveness of the Kazakh agro-industrial complex

Giovanni Capannelli, Regional Director, representative office in Kazakhstan, Asian Development Bank (ADB)

15:50-16:10 — Shipping of Kazakh cargoes in Novorossiysk Commercial Sea Port: features, possibilities & potential

Dmitry Persianov, Deputy General Director, LLC TBI

16:10-16:30 — Offers of the complex transport logistics of grains and by-products to the EU from the Group of Companies TRANSLOGSERVICE

Igor Romanovskiy, Commercial Director, TRANSLOGSERVICE

16:30-16:50 — Main trends in railway transportation of grain cargoes in Russia and Kazakhstan

Igor Pavenskiy, Head of strategic marketing and corporate communications department, JSC Rusagrotrans

16:50-17:10 — Legal aspects of international grain trade: GAFTA, FOSFA, LMAA

Artem Skorobogatov, Partner, International law firm Interlegal

17:10-17:30 — Chinese grain market. Enhancing cooperation between China and Kazakhstan

Fang Gang, CEO, Yihai Kerry (Shanghai) International Trading Co. Ltd.

17:30-17:50 — Afghanistan's role in Central Asia: resources of the country in the current geopolitical terms for development of agricultural trade, and infrastructural potential

Ulfatullah Atayee, First Deputy Chairman, representative office of the Afghanistan Chamber of Commerce & Industries (ACCI) in Kazakhstan

17:50-18:00 — Questions to speakers

18:00-18:30 — Summing up the conference work, discussions

18:30-21:00 — Gala-dinner for participants

April 5. Day 2. KAZGRAIN: grain storage and processing

Organizing partner: Union of Grain Processors and Bakers of Kazakhstan

09:00-10:00 — Registration of participants, morning coffee

10:00-10:30 — Opening of the second business day of the conference KAZGRAIN

10:30-13:00 — Session 1. Market of grain by-products

Moderator — Evgeny Gan, President, Union of Grain Processors of Kazakhstan

10:30-10:50 — Global market of flour and other grain by-products: developments of the market, transformations in the market segment. Forecast of the market development until 2027

Andrei Kupchenko, Grain market analyst, Head of the information department, APK-Inform Agency

10:50-11:10 — Flour market of Kazakhstan: current features, prospects of the production

Evgeny Gan, President, the Union of Grain Processors and Bakers of Kazakhstan

11:10-11:30 — Experience of the flour milling industry in Kazakhstan

Dos-Mukasan Taukebayev, General Director, Mutlu-Export LLC

11:30-11:50 — Russian flour market

Valery Gachman, General Director of GRANA JSC, President of the Union of grain processors of Altai

11:50-12:10 — Expansion of grain by-products line

Darigash Shaymerdenova, Senior Research Associate, LLP Research and Development enterprise Innovator

12:10-12:30 — Potential of the Kazakh advanced processing of grains

Nurlan Dautkhanov, Leading research associate, S. Seifullin Kazakh Agrotechnical University

12:30-12:45 — Export logistics of grain by-products from Kazakhstan in containers

Kamal Guseynov, company BTK Express

12:45-14:00 — Lunch

14:00-16:00 — Session 2. Infrastructure of the grain storage industry in Kazakhstan

Moderator — Andrei Kupchenko, Grain market analyst, Head of the information department, APK-Inform Agency

14:00-14:20— Current conditions and prospects of development of the elevator logistics

Andrei Stepura, Acting Managing Director, Olzha Holding LLC

14:20-14:40— Preparation of elevators for new crop grain storage. Phytosanitary requirements

Representative of the state inspection committee at the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Kazakhstan

14:40-15:00— Timely and high-quality processing of grains - basis for keeping the food safety, and successful fight against mycotoxins

Dauren Kassabekov, Head of the Representative Office in Astana, Bühler AG

15:00-15:20— Grain elevator as the basis of profitable business

Shukurbay Dilmagambetov, LLP TekhnoLogika-N

15:20-15:40— Review of the market of equipment for grain cleaning and drying in Kazakhstan

Hamza Abdrakhmanov, Senior researcher, LLP “Kazakh R&D institute of manufactured goods”

15:40-16:00 — Discussions with speakers

16:00-17:00 — Summing up the conference work. Discussions