Program

8:30-9:00

Participants Registration – Coffee and Snacks

9:00-9:15

Opening remarks

James Scriven, Vice-President, International Finance Corporation

Oleksiy Pavlenko, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Michael T. Scuse, Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Jonathan Katz, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia of USAID

9:15- 9:25

Keynote Speaker

Paul E. Schickler, President, DuPont Pioneer, Johnston, Iowa

9:30-11:00

Panel 1:

Global Food Security: Contribution of the USA and Ukraine

Confirmed speakers:

Oleksiy Pavlenko, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Taras Kytovyi, Chair, Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine,

Kyiv, Ukraine

Michael T. Scuse, Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services, the U.S. Department of Agriculture

Oleksiy Vadaturskyi, General Director, NIBULON Agricultural Limited Liability Company, Hero of Ukraine; Mykolayiv, Ukraine

Leonid Kozachenko, Chair, Interfactional Agrarian Caucus, Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] of Ukraine; President, Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation

Gladkyi Viktor Chief financial officer, Astarta-Kyiv Agro-Industrial Holding, Kyiv, Ukraine

Priscila Vansetti, Director, Strategic Planning, DuPont, Wilmington, Delaware

Chair: Morgan Williams, Director, Government Affairs, Washington Office, SigmaBleyzer; President/CEO, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), Washington, D.C.

11:00-11:30

Networking break

11:30-13:00

Panel 2:

Investments into Ukraine’s Agribusiness: Investors’ Perspective

Aitor Ezcurra, Chief Investment Officer, Global Manufacturing, Agribusiness & Services, IFC

Jason Gheissari, President, Structured Trade Finance Corporation, Washington, D.C.

John Shmorhun, CEO, AgroGeneration, Kyiv, Ukraine

John Didiuk, Senior Investment Officer, Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), Washington, D.C.

Michael Dykes, Vice-President, Government Affairs, Monsanto, Washington, D.C.

Howard Dahl, Founder and CEO, Amity Technology

Chair: Morgan Williams, Director, Government Affairs, Washington Office, SigmaBleyzer; President/CEO, U.S.-Ukraine Business Council (USUBC), Washington, D.C.

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:00-15:30

Panel 3:

Improving Investment Climate in Ukraine’s Agribusiness: Regulations, Etc.

Confirmed speakers:

Heinz-Wilhelm Strubenhoff, Agribusiness Program Manager, World Bank Group

Vladyslava Rutytska, Deputy Minister on European Integration, Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Ivan Miroshnychenko, Member, Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] of Ukraine

Peter J. Christianson, President/COO, Titan Machinery, Inc., Fargo, North Dakota

Taras Kachka, Acting President, the American Chamber of Commerce in Ukraine, Kyiv, Ukraine

Mykola Gorbachov, Director, New World Grain (Soufflet Group); European Business Association, Kyiv, Ukraine

Chair: Eugeniu Osmochescu, Operations Officer, Project Manager, Investment Climate for Agribusiness in Ukraine, World Bank Group

15:30-16:00

Networking break

16:00-17:30

Panel 4:

Agricultural Infrastructure/Logistics in Ukraine: Key Priorities

Confirmed speakers:

Maurizio Guadagni, Senior Rural Development Specialist, World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.

Maria Claudia Pachon, Senior Transport Specialist, World Bank Group, Washington, D.C.

Thomas F. Welke, Senior Vice-President, Global Grain and Protein, AGCO / GSI, Decatur, Illinois

Yuri Skichko , Director  of "Hermes-Trading" LLC

David Sweere, Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer, Kiev-Atlantic Ukraine, Fargo, North Dakota / Kyiv, Ukraine

Volodymyr Klymenko, President, Ukrainian Grain Association, Kyiv, Ukraine

Chair: Dina Umali-Deininger, Practice Manager, World Bank Group

17:30

Wrap-up of Day 1 discussions

18:00

Reception

9:00-11:00

Panel 5:

Land Market and Agricultural Technologies

Confirmed speakers:

Felix Kogan, Lead Expert, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C.

Sergiy Khlan, Member, Committee on Agrarian Policy and Land Relations, Verkhovna Rada [Parliament] of Ukraine

Denys Nizalov, Project Director, World Bank Project “Capacity Development for Evidence-Based Land & Agricultural Policy Making in Ukraine”, Kyiv

Borys Sorochynskyi, Coordinator, AgBiotech Committee, ‘Ukrainian Club of Agrarian Business’ Association, Kyiv, Ukraine

Jeff Rowe, Regional Director (Europe), DuPont Pioneer, Manno, Switzerland

Dana Brooks, Director of U.S. and Canada Government Relations, Elanco, Washington, D.C.

Howard Dahl, Founder and CEO, Amity Technology, Fargo, North Dakota

Representative of Deere & Company – To Be Determined

Chair: Dmytro Prikhodko, Agricultural Economist, FAO’s Investment Centre Division, Rome, Italy

11:00-11:30

Networking break

11:30-13:00

Panel 6:

International Grain Markets Development: Key Priorities

Confirmed speakers:

The U.S. Grains Council Experience. Prospects of Development

Thomas Sleight, President and CEO, U.S. Grains Council, Washington, D.C.

Current State and Prospects of Global Grain Trade

Dmytro Prikhodko, Agricultural Economist, FAO’s Investment Centre Division, Rome, Italy

Ukrainian Grain Market in the Medium Term

Edward Allen, Economist, Economic Research Service, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.

The potential of Ukrainian exports to the US market

Denis Krasnikov, Vice-President of the Ukrainian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Deregulation of Ukrainian Grain Market

Andrew Zablotskyi, Senior Associate, SAYENKO KHARENKO Law Firm, Kyiv, Ukraine

Eric Trachtenberg, Director - Food & Agriculture Sector, McLarty Associates, Washington, D.C.

Chair: Mykola Gorbachov, Director, New World Grain (Soufflet Group); European Business Association, Kyiv, Ukraine

Closing of the Ukrainian-American Agrarian Congress

13:00-14:00

Lunch