Draft conference program

13:00

Registration and welcome coffee

14:00

Conference opening

14:10-15:00

Session 1

Agricultural risks insurance’s novelties: changes in legislation and agricultural insurance programs

• Korney Bizhdov, President, National Association of Agricultural Insurers
• Sergey Prostatin, General Director, RSHB Insurance
• Vasiliy Pavlov, Risk management director, Agroholding STEPPE
• Aleksandr Artiushyn, Head of Food and Agriculture Business Origination Europe, the Middle East and Africa, Swiss Re Corporate Solutions Ltd.

15:00-15:30

Coffee break

15:30-16:30

Session 2

Round table on the agricultural machinery

• «Rostselmash» presentation (TBD)
• Corporate branch of John Deere Agricultural Holdings, Inc. To present joint product in collaboration with CenterProgramSystem copmany: AG-DATA INTEGRATOR – new and unique system for accounting and management at the agricultural enterprise
  • Denis Vasyukov, Precision agriculture and sprayers specialist
  • Natalya Golik, Marketing manager for care farming and precision agriculture products in CIS

16:30-16:45

Coffee break

16:45-18:00

Session 3

Round table on the issues of agrologistics and precision agriculture

• «Cargo technologies. Tender platform for shipments and ag products sales»
  • Ilya Tsarev, General Director, Cargo Technologies Ltd.
• «New trends in harvesting and storage technologies»
  • Armen Nalbandyan, General Director, Liliani
• «Crop production margin growth with on-line control technology»
  • Ekaterina Cherednichenko, Head of Sales department, Agrosignal
  • Anastasia Kalyagina, Deputy General director for development, GUSP MTS Centralnaya, republic of Bashkortostan
• «Precission agriculture – practical application experience»
  • Alexey Trubnikov, Director for R&D, AgroDigital
• Cloud service “History of the field”
  • Ilya Voronkov, head of division, GEOMIR JS

18:00-18:30

Summing-up

18:30

Cocktail

7:45-9:15

Registration and welcome coffee

9:15

Conference opening

9:30-11:15

Session 1

Round table “Key global and domestic agricultural and food markets: «the period of downswing/downturn/decline is replaced by a period of instability/volatility?“

Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman of the Board, Russian Sugar Union

• Swithun Still, President, Grain and Feed Trade Association (GAFTA)
• «Global agricultural markets: the era of instability and innovation»
  • Dr. William W. Wilson, Professor at North Dakota State University (USA)
• «Global agricultural markets and factor of the weather»
  • Daniel Redo, Head of Agriculture Research, Refinitiv
• «Key agricultural and food markets in Russia: overview and prospects for the period of instability»
  • Dmitry Rylko, General Director, IKAR LLC
• «New opportunities for price projection and price risk management for Black Sea region»
  • Aleksandre Bobylov, Senior price formation specialist, department of agriculture, S&P Global Platts

11:15-11:45

Coffee break

11:45-12:45

Session 2

Round table “New trends and approaches for financing in agricultural industry”

Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman of the Board, Russian Sugar Union

• Elena Fastova, Deputy Russian Minister of Agriculture
• Tatyana Kreytor, Director of agro-industrial projects, Sberbank of Russia
• Vasiliy Veselovsky, Executive director, Department of Industry and Agriculture financing, Sberbank of Russia
• Aleksandr Haus, Director of international projects department, VDMA
• Q&A and discussion

12:45-13:45

Lunch

13:45-14:45

Session 3

Actual issues of seed breeding and plants genome editing

Moderator: Igor Bruevich, General Manager, KWS RUS

• Esteban Alcalde, Head of Seeds and Traits Regulatory Affairs for Europe, Africa and Middle East, Syngenta
• Sergey Dolgov, Dr. of biological sciences, Head of plants genome modification, BIOTRON
• Ivan Savchenko, General Manager, Agrofirm Pavlovskaya Niva, member of the National council of plant breeders and seed producers

14:45-16:30

Session 4

Round table “Calm revolution” in fertilizers utilization, precision agriculture and ag sector digitalization: is there any synergy?

Moderator: Vitaly Buzu, General Director, IntTerra LLC

• Maxim Seregin, CEO, EuroChem Trading RUS
• Roman Martynov, Manager for Development of Commercial Projects, Syngenta LLC
• Nikolay Green, Area Sales Manager CIS, Lechler GmbH
• Winfrid Muller, managing director, RAUCH GmbH
• Dmitry Garnov, General Director, Rusagro-Invest
• Thomas Dorenvendt, Head of Farming, AgrtoTerra

16:30-17:00

Coffee break

17:00-18:30

Session 5

Round table of the leaders of the key domestic agribusiness associations: “Opportunities and threats of agriculture transition to the export basis in Russia”

Moderator: Vitaly Sheremet, Partner, Agribusiness Center of Excellence, Russia and CIS

• Dmitry Krasnov, Директор Департамента информационной политики и специальных проектов Министерства сельского хозяйства РФ
• Artyom Belov, Executive Director, National Union of milk producers
• Andrey Bodin, Chairman of the Board, Russian Sugar Union
• Andrey Klepach, Deputy Chairman of the Board, VEB
• Yuri Kovalev, General Director, National Union of pig producers
• Alexander Korbut, Vice President, Russian Grain Union
• Mikhail Maltsev, Executive Director, Fats and Oils Union of Russia
• Evgenia Uvarkina, Chairman, Agroindustrial Commission of the Public Chamber, Chairman of the Board, Trio Group of Companies
• Dmitry Yuriev, Deputy General Director, United Grain Company

18:30-19:00

Summing-up

19:00

Сocktail, live music

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