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Where the margin is 2025

Summer International Conference for agricultural producers
and suppliers of agricultural inputs and services

July 17-18, 2025

Moscow, Radisson Collection Hotel

Conference organizer:
IKAR
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Conference program



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February 13

10:30-11:45

Registration and welcome coffee

11:45-12:30

Conference opening

  • Dmitri Rylko, General Director, IKAR
  • Ksenia Bolomatova, Deputy General Director, OZK

12:30-13:00

Agricultural insurance: (un)learned?) lessons of weather disasters – 2024

Moderator: Olga Romanova, Managing Partner, Attorney-at-law, Ratum Law Group

Among the participants:

  • Korney Bizhdov, President, National Association of Agricultural Insurers
  • Sergey Prostatin, General Director, RSKB-Strakhovanie
  • Pavel Tsarev, General Director, AgroGard

13:00-13:20

The cost of money and cost of managerial mistakes are both up. How to improve profitability with legal tools and methods

  • Sergei Sotnikov, Attorney-at-law, Managing Partner, Head of Agribusiness Practice, Sotnikovs & Partners Law Firm

13:20-13:50

Coffee break

13:50-15:00

Digitalization and AI stewardship of agricultural sector: costs control and costs lowering

Moderator: Sergey Tkachenko, President, Sitronics Group

Among the participants:

  • Ilya Voronkov, General Director, Geomir Group
  • Sergei Knyazev, Executive Director of the Corporate Business Development Department, Sberbank
  • Mikhail Kopytin, Head of Digital Services in Russia, Syngenta
  • Maxim Zatochny, Executive Director, PhosAgro-Region

15:00-16:30

Round table of industry experts. Key crops’ seed breeding and multiplication in new conditions: short and longer term prospects

Moderator: Anatoly Mikhilev, General Director, National Union of breeders and seed producers

Session guest:

  • Maksim Seregin, Director, Adubos Vera Cruz (Brazil)
    «Advanced fertilizer application technologies in world key agricultural regions and potential lessons for Russia»

Among the participants:

  • Mark Geht, General Director / Managing Partner, RuSEED
  • Yuri Goncharov, First Deputy General Director, National Union of breeders and seed producers
  • Artyom Lukomets, Leading Research Scientist, Pustovoit All-Russian Research Institute of Oil Crops
  • Svetlana Petrova, Head of Department, PhosAgro-Region
  • Sergey Tuchin, General Director, Association of Rapeseed Producers and Processors “RASRAPS”

16:30-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:00

Domestic vertical federal agricultural traceability systems: current situation and prospects

Moderator: Alexey Ugarov, General Director, Prodimex Agro

Among the participants:

  • Dmitry Aveltsov, Head, Center for Agricultural Analytics
  • Olga Chebunina, General Director, Agropromcifra
  • Salis Karakotov, General Director, Schelkovo Agrohim
  • Mikhail Kopeykin, Head of the Grain Traceability System Operation Department, Center for Agricultural Analytics

18:00-18:10

Summing-up

18:15

Dinner in “Talavera” restaurant


February 14

8:00-9:15

Registration and welcome coffee

9:15-9:35

Conference opening

Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union

9:35-10:45

World agricultural and food markets: situation and outlook. USA new agricultural policies and its impact on the world agribusiness
China: the biggest (and the least predictable?) agricultural partner of Russia

  • Dan Basse, President and CEO, AgTResource
  • Fang Gang, Assistant General Manager Zhejiang Grain Group Co., Ltd. / General Manager Zhejiang Oils Co., Ltd.

10:45-11:30

Key domestic agricultural commodities and niche markets: situation and outlook. (Annual IKAR presentation) Cereals, oilseeds, sugar, vegetables, dairy, meat. Perspectives on niche crops. Part 1

  • Dmitri Rylko, General Director, IKAR

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-12:45

Key domestic agricultural commodities and niche markets: situation and outlook. (Annual IKAR presentation) Cereals, oilseeds, sugar, vegetables, dairy, meat. Perspectives on niche crops. Part 2

  • Dmitri Rylko, General Director, IKAR

12:45-13:45

State support of agriculture under worsening terms of finance, pressure of sanctions and growing “sovereignization” of domestic economy

Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union

Among the participants:

  • Elena Fastova, First Deputy Minister, Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation
  • Tatiana Antipova, Deputy General Director, Rosagroleasing
  • Alexey Shveytsov, First Deputy General Director – Director of Sales, Marketing and Service Center, Rostselmash

13:45-14:45

Lunch

14:45-15:45

Agricultural sector financing

Moderator: Vladislav Novoselov, Managing Director, BEFL

Round table of industry experts:

  • Evgenia Uvarkina, Member of the Budget and Financial Markets Committee, Federation Council
  • Sergey Andreev, Managing Director for Agribusiness and Food Industry, Alfa-Bank
  • Maria Romantsova, Managing Director - Debt Capital Markets, Finam
  • Roman Yuryev, Director, Agricultural Sector Department, Skolkovo Foundation

15:45-16.45

Stress test for survival

Moderator: Victoria Astafyeva, Executive Director, Russian Agro Group

Round table of Russian agrarians. Among the participants:

  • Alexander Dashchenko, Commercial Director, Goodness Foods Agro Group
  • Sergey Lyakhov, Regional Director for the Siberian Region, Sibirskaya Niva
  • Sergey Orobinsky, President, Agroteh-Garant Group of companies
  • Ruslan Mamchenkov, Deputy Director of Agricultural Production, Schelkovo Agrohim

16:45-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:00

Round table of agribusiness associations and company leaders. Key problems and solutions of the main vertical commodity sectors

Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union

Among the participants:

  • Andrey Klepach, Chair of the Supervisory Board - Chief Economist, Vnesheconombank Institute
  • Yuri Kovalev, General Director, Union of pig producers
  • Mikhail Maltsev, Executive Director, Fats and Oils Union of Russia
  • Mikhail Matveenko, Deputy General Director, EkoNiva-APK Holding
  • Natalia Zagvozdina, Head of Research - Managing Director, Sberbank CIB

18:00-18:10

Final Conference remarks

18:10

Cocktail



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See the materials of previous conferences "WHERE the MARGIN IS", results of the year in agricultural markets from IKAR

Institutional partner:

SOYUZROSSAHAR

Under support:

Ministry of Agriculture

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