09:45-12:15

Session 1. Global grain market: trends and forecasts. Key players

Moderator: Svitlana Synkovska, Marketing Director, APK-Inform Agency

Global grain market development – FAPRI forecast till 2026: drivers and uncertainties

William H. Meyers, Emeritus Professor of Agricultural & Applied Economics of the Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute at the University of Missouri (FAPRI)

Black Sea region on the global grain market: achievements and challenges of 2017/18 MY. Prospects – 2018

Daryna Kovalska, Strategist, Agricultural Trading Desk, MACQUARIE GROUP

European grain market trends: results of the season-2017/18, production and trade forecasts in 2018/19 MY

Natalya Skuratovich, Senior trader, Alfagra

Chinese grain market: forecast of development in 2018/19 MY, prospects of Ukrainian-Chinese trade

Nie Fengying, Deputy General Director, Center for International Agricultural Research, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences

India on the grain market: export and import trends in 2018/19 MY, quality requirements to the imported grains

Siddharth R.Amin, Director, inspection company Dr. Amin Controllers Pvt. Ltd.

Prospects of the Black Sea grain trade in the MENA region in 2018/19 MY

Roman Rusakov, Black Sea trader, Olam Ukraine

Grain freight: prospects and challenges

Alex Younevitch, Managing Editor, Freight Markets, S&P Global Platts

12:15-13:00

Coffee-break

13:00-14:00

Panel discussion "Grain trade – 2018: key trends"

Moderator — Mykola Gorbachev, President, Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA)

• - Macroeconomics and agrarian policy: impact factors on grain trading; Oleg Ustenko, Executive Director, The Bleyzer Foundation
• - Estimations of trends of the grain market, trade prospects in the season-2018/19, foreseeable risks, by traders

Panel members:

• - Andrei Grigorov, Co-founder and CEO ceREALIA
• - Vladimir Osadchuk, General Manager, COFCO Agri Resources Ukraine
• - Timur Shishlov, Trader, RisOil Ukraine
• - Olena Neroba, Head of the analytical department, Marcoрolo Commodities SA

14:00-15:00

Lunch

15:00-18:00 Parallel sessions 

15:00-17:00

Large conference hall

Session 2. International grain sea carriages

Moderator: Arthur Nitsevych, Partner, lawyer, Interlegal, Member of LMAA and SCMA, FNI

Tomorrow’s maritime professionals: what does the future look like?

Despina Panayiotou Theodosiou, President, Wista

Is the dry bulk industry still on track for profitability in 2019?

Peter Sand, Chief Shipping Analyst, BIMCO

Round tour in the documentary world of BIMCO

Soren Larsen, Deputy Secretary General, BIMCO

Adjusting the sails in resolving cargo sea carriage disputes

Daniella Horton, Honorary Secretary, LMAA

16:00-17:30

ART-Hall

Round table: Pricing mechanisms and price risk management in the Black Sea region

Moderator — Alexandr Bobylov, Commodities derivatives specialist, EMEA S&P Global Platts
- New CME Black Sea wheat and corn futures contract — why trade them
Eric Hasham, Senior Director, CME GROUP
- Black sea pricing: use of Platts’ price assessment both in physical and futures markets of wheat and corn
Alexander Bobylev, Commodities derivatives specialist, Department of Agriculture, EMEA S&P Global Platts

17:00-18:00

Panel discussion “What factors facilitate (not impede) the maritime business development in Ukraine”

Moderators: Arthur Nitsevych (partner, Interlegal), Vladimir Torskiy (Honorary Secretary of Nautical Institute of Ukraine)

Panel members:

• - Vladimir Koval, Vice-President, the International Ship Suppliers Association (ISSA)
• - Vladimir Rabotnev, Expert
• - Sergey Nedyak, President, the Association of International Freight Forwarders of Ukraine (AIFFU)
• - Yuri Vaskov, Expert, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine in 2015-2016
• - Vyacheslav Kislovskiy, Vice-President of the Maritime Chamber of Ukraine

18:00-19:00

Discussions, negotiations of participants

19:00-23:00

Gala-dinner in the restaurant "Maristella Marine Residence",  Bernardazzi St., 2A (Krasnykh Zor St.)

10:00-12:20

Session 3. Ukrainian grain market

Moderator: Rodion Rybchinskiy, Head of Business project unit, APK-Inform Agency

Development trends of the Ukrainian grain market influenced by the global trends

Representative of Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine

Agro Sector is ready to be disrupted by blockchain

Henry Shterenberg, President, SUNTRI INC

Blockchain platform for trade, financing, and hedging for small- and medium-scale enterprises in the grain business

Andrei Grigorov, Co-founder and CEO at the blockchain grain trade start-up - ceREALIA

Results of the grain season-2017/18. Harvest forecasts for the main grains in 2018/19 MY

Andrei Kupchenko, Grain market analyst, APK-Inform Agency

Development prospects of the market of alternate crops and by-products (buckwheat, millet, oats, peas, chickpeas)

Anna Tanskaya, Head of the grain market department, APK-Inform Agency

Agricultural production in Ukraine and weather factor

Tetyana Adamenko, Head of the Agrometeorology department, Ukrainian Hydrometeorological Center

Quality issues of Ukrainian grains

Oleg Onischenko, Technical & Claims Questions Manager, SGS Ukraine

Ins and outs of the effective elevator construction: stages from the pre-design to operation

Alexei Grushko, Director, Variant Agro Stroy LLC

12:20-13:00

Coffee-break

13:00-14:00

Panel discussion "Logistics — Achilles heel of the Ukrainian agricultural exports"

Moderator: Heinz Strubenhoff, Senior Private Sector Specialist, World Bank Group| IFC 

- The «Pain points» of agricultural logistics in Ukraine

- Promising projects to improve agricultural logistics

- Delivery of Ukrainian grain to the ports: truck shipment, railway, river. Tariffs for transportation VS conditions and quality of services

- Public-private partnership in the port sector as an effective mechanism for overcoming bottle necks in the transport infrastructure

Panel members:

• - Mykola Gorbachev, President, Ukrainian Grain Association (UGA)
• - Oleg Nivievskyi, Agricultural policy adviser, World Bank Group
• - Representative of the Committee on transport issues, Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine
• - Representative of PJSC Ukrainian Railways (Ukrzaliznytsia)
• - Yuriy Shuklin, Owner of a transport and logistics company Alex Rail
• - Oksana Gyrba, Logistics and execution manager, NWGU Soufflet Group
• - Taras Boychuk, Head of the Project Office on public-private partnership in infrastructure "SPILNO" under the Ministry of Infrastructure of Ukraine
• - Vyacheslav Voronoy, Ukrainian Sea Ports Authority (USPA)

14:00-15:00

Lunch

15:00-17:00

Parallel sessions

Conference hall

ART-Hall

Round table by Kyiv-Mohyla Business School (kmbs)

Evolution of agribusiness in Ukraine: from raw materials to product logic

• How can Ukrainian agribusiness escape the penalty of average profitability?
• What technologies and organizational transformations do large companies miss to make a breakthrough?
• What experience can we get from international companies, and what strengths does the Ukrainian business have in the production of goods for exports?

Speakers:

• - Iryna Chernyshova, Founder, СhangeImpulse, Expert on change management
• - Alexei Pakhomov, General Manager, Olam International Limited
• - Inna Sosnovskaya, Project manager on international business development, STRATEGIC
• - Gleb Lukyanenko, СЕО, PE Agroecology

Large conference hall

Session 4. Grain sea carriages in the Black Sea region

Moderators — Nikolay Melnykov (partner, Interlegal), Boris Khrebtov (director, Maxmarine)

Panamax market in the Black Sea region

Vitaliy Smilyk, Aquavita International SA

Maersk: business in Ukraine and new solutions in the multimodal freight

Roman Koloianov, MAERSK Ukraine

River-sea vessels

Alex Tarazanov, Soylu Shipping SA

Recommendations upon vessel chartering in a new season

Alex Sysoev, Interlegal

Charterer’s liability insurance

Valentin Melkis, Head of the department of maritime perils insurance, Marine Insurance Services

Features of grain shipment from the Azov Sea ports

Anton Shapran, Maritime Logistic

When someone is wrong in the trade dispute, while the cargo is en route: how to save goods, money and relationship

Andrey Perepelitsa, Interlegal

Dnieper-Danube-Black Sea logistics

Volodymyr Kozakevich, AP-Marine

New market players

Gennadiy Ivanov, BPG

17:00-18:00

Discussions, negotiations of participants. Closing cocktail