Draft conference program

9:00

Registration opening

9:15-9:45

Conference opening

Sergey Levin, deputy Minister, Russian Ministry of agriculture «Government regulation of agri-food markets in 2016» (principal agreement on speech)

9:45-11:30

Session 1. Global and domestic agri-food markets

• «Weather trading». Global monitoring of weather and climate changes and operational shifts on ag markets»
  Karen Brown, global agriculture markets columnist, Thomson Reuters
• «The contraction of the price universe continues. To what extent? Current state and outlook for global agri-food markets»
  Matt Ammermann, commodity Risk Manager- Vice President Eastern Europe / Black Sea Region, INTL FCStone Financial Inc.
• «Crisis and/or incentive for the development. Current state and outlook for major Russian agri-food markets»
  Dmitry Rylko, general director, IKAR

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:00

Session 2. «Innovative boost for Russian agriculture: from ideas to implementation». Part 1. Ag machinery market: prospects after the changes of macroeconomic proportions

Moderator: Аlexander Gaivoronskiy, Director, Unia-Vostok, LLC

Discussants:

• Evgeny Korchevoi, Director, Rosagromash association
• Alexander Haus, Director of the international projects department, VDMA Agricultural Machinery
• Dirk Seelig, deputy general director, CLAAS Vostok
• Agricultural producer -to be updated

13:00-14:00

Lunch

14:15-15:45

Session 3. «Innovative boost for Russian agriculture: from ideas to implementation». Part 2. «Big data», precision farming: at the cutting edge…

Moderator: Viktor Semenov, Chairman, Agribusiness committee of the Russian Chamber of Industry and Commerce / Founder of Belaya Dacha Group

Discussants:

• Howard Dahl, President, Amity Technology LLC
• Dan Hodgson, President at FarmQA.
• Maxim Seregin, Director, Russia and CIS, EuroChem Group AG
• Alexander Pupynin, Oracle Applications
• Guzel Fayzullina, technical expert, Oracle
• Yuri Vasilkov, Marketing director in Russia, Syngenta

Session guests:

• Andrey Kuleshov, Senior project manager, Common Fund for Commodities
• Oleg Korzinov, Executive Director, “Northern” BioPharm Cluster

15:45-15:55

Coffee break

15:55-16:25

Evgeniy Gromyko, first deputy Minister, Russian Ministry of agriculture. «Key issues on government regulation of the Russian agriculture. The viewpoint from the Ministry» (principal agreement on speech)

16:25-18:15

«Russian agribusiness under crisis conditions». Leaders of companies and associations in agribusiness discussion and closing remarks.

Discussants:

• Sergey Balan, President, National Association of Exporters of Agricultural Products
• Arteom Belov, Executive Director, National Union of Milk Producers
• Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union
• Pavel Grudinin, Director, Sovkhoz imeni Lenina, JS
• Igor Kaluzhskiy, Executive Director, Russian Association of Fertilizer Manufacturers
• Yuri Kovalev, General Director, National Pig Growers Union
• Sergey Korolev, President, National Union of Vegetables Producers
• Evgenia Uvarkina, Chairman, TRIO Group of Companies, Chairman, Commission on the Agricultural Sector and Development of Rural Areas of the Civic Chamber

18:15

Closing remarks and Сocktail