Draft conference program

11:45-13:00

Registration and welcome coffee

Conference opening

13:00-13:50

Session 1

Round table:
«Situation and outlook of the agricultural and crop insurance»

• Korney Bizhdov, President, National union of agricultural insurers
• Sergey Prostatin, General director, RSKB-Strakhovanie, JS

13:50-14:10

Coffee break

14:10-18:30

Session 2

Agro-technological update

Participants (in a random order): Liliani, Geomir, Agrosignal, BASF, Shchelkovo-Agrochem, Cognitive Pilot, Trimble, Digital Agro and their agricultural partners

Liliani
«Liliani's digital solutions: investments assessments in agricultural logistics and grain stocks management»

• Armen Nalbandyan, General director, Liliani LLC

BASF
«New challenges in soybean production. New BASF solutions and services»

• Pavel Vasilyev, Team Lead Seed Treatment Solutions, company «BASF»
• Yulia Kolesnikova, Marketing crop manager soybean, legumes & sugar beet, company «BASF»

Schelkovo Agrohim
«Soybeans - marginality element for effective agribusiness»

• Salis Karakotov, General director, Schelkovo Agrohim

15:20-15:40

Coffee break

14:10-18:30

Trimble

• Lavrentiy Plotnikov, Head of Digitalization and Software Products Department, Trimble Russia and CIS

Cognitive Pilot – Ekotechnika AG
«Artificial intelligence application for controlling agricultural machinery»

• Andrey Chernogorov, Co-founder, Cognitive Pilot
• Artem Novikov, Head of Smart Farming Department, Ekotechnika AG

Digital Agro - Mangazeya Agro

• Thomas Dorenwendt, President, Digital Agro
• Irina Meshkova, General director, «Mangazeya Agro»

Agrosignal

• Svetlana Mizera, Director, Business development, Agrosignal

GEOMIR - Rostagro

• Ilya Voronkov, Executive director, GEOMIR JS
• Maxim Nizhnik, IT director, Rostagro JS

18:10-18:30

Summing-up

18:30-19:30

Networking Buffet

08:00-09:15

Registration and welcome coffee

09:15-9:45

Conference opening

Welcome speech by First Deputy Minister of Agriculture of the Russian Federation Dzhambulat Khatuov

09:45-11:30

Session 1

The world and Russian agricultural and food markets: situation and outlook

Moderator: Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union

«World exporter wheat socks tighten on demand - Corn/Soy adds to world wheat bullishness»

• Dan Basse, President and CEO, Agresource, Chicago, IL

«Domestic agricultural and food markets: "automatic" and / or manual control»

• Dmitry Rylko, General director, IKAR LLC

«Key macroeconomic and industry trends in 2021»

• Dmitry Tarasov, Head, Department of macroeconomic analysis, Rosselkhozbank JS
• Andrey Dalnov, Head, Center for Branch expertise, Russian Agricultural Bank JS

11:30-12:00

Coffee break

12:00-13:00

Session 2

State support and financing of agriculture

Moderator: Natalia Shagaida, Director of Center of Agricultural and Food policy, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration

«State support of the agricultural sector at the present stage»

• Elena Fastova, Deputy Russian Minister of Agriculture

Q&A session with the Conference participants

• Irina Zhachkina, Member of the Board, First Deputy Chairman of the Board Russian Agricultural Bank

«Rosagroleasing JSC: responding to new challenges»

• Vladimir Balter, First deputy general director, Rosagroleasing JS

«New tools in pre-harvest finance»

• Ksenia Bolomatova, Deputy General Director, United Grains Company

13:00-14:00

Session 3

F-to-F in EU and Green Standard in Russia

Moderator: Nikolay Lychev, Managing Partner of Agrotrend.ru

• Tadzio Schilling, Chief Executive Officer, The Association of European Businesses
• Evgeny Kupreev, Deputy Chief of Staff, PhosAgro

14:00-15:00

Lunch

15:00-15:50

Session 4

Round table on the Law on Grain (signed on December 30 by the Russian President)

• Juliya Koroleva, Director, Federal Center of Grain Quality Control
• Sabina Sodikova, General director, Agrozan Commodities Russia
• Alexander Shenderjuk-Zhidkov, Director, Sodrugestvo Management Company

15:50-17:10

Session 5

Round table on Digitalization and AI for agriculture

Moderator: Alexey Ugarov, General director, Agrokultura LTD

• Bjoerne Drechsler, Member of BoD of EkoNiva; Chairman, Smart Farming Club

«AI in crop production: experience and future of Rostselmash, 2018-2030»

• Oleg Alexandrov, Head for innovations, Rostselmash Group of Companies

«Traceability system of mineral fertilizers. Challenges and opportunities»

• Maxim Zatochny, Director of Development, PhosAgro-Region
• Anna Kudinova, General director, ExactFarming

«Syngenta product + services: digital agronomy era begins»

• Roman Martynov, Director, Digital services, Syngenta (Cropio)

«AI walks through the fields»

• Sergey Romanov, Director for agriculture, SAS Institute, Ltd.
• Sergey Tkachenko, Director, R&D, IT Agroholding Steppe

Guests of session:

• Leonid Yakovlev, Project manager, CLAAS
• Denis Dudkin, Business Director for Agriculture, Trimble

17:10-17:20

Coffee break

17:20-18:30

Session 6

Round table of the leaders of domestic agribusiness associations «Domestic end-users and consumers protection vs. interests of domestic agribusiness: searching for equilibrium»

Moderator: Igor Abakumov, Producer of the program «Rural Hour»

• Artyom Belov, General director, Russian Dairy Union
• Andrey Bodin, Chairman, Russian Sugar Union
• Eduard Zernin, Chairman of the Board, Russian Union of grain exporters (possibly online)
• Yuri Kovalev, General director, Nation Union of Pig Growers
• Alexander Korbut, Vice-President, Russian grain union
• Mikhail Maltsev, Executive director, the Union of VegOil Crushers

18:20-18:30

Summing-up

18:30-20:00

«Feast in time of COVID-19»: traditional jazz-band and reception from the organizers (hotel guarantees maximum safety conditions of the participants)

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