Conference Agenda
CONFERENCE AGENDA
The first day - April 18, 2012
Conference Centre, InterContinental Hotel,
- 2nd Floor (#2A, Bolshaya Zhytomirskaya Street, Kiev)
8.00 a.m. – 6.00 p.m. Registration, InterContinental Hotel
10.00 – 12.00 a.m. - ROUND TABLE: “Ukraine: Land market-2012. A year later”
Moderator - Bohdan Chomiac, Director on Strategy planning, UkrAgroConsult
• Government policies on land market regulation. Today and in the future.
Vladimir Fenenko, State Land Committee of Ukraine.
• Prospects of land moratorium lift.
Alexander Kovaliv, PhD, Institute of Agriecology and Environmental management
• The draft law on the land market: the second coming. Is it worth turning the land into a commodity with a limited turnover?
Maksim Oleksiyuk, law firm “KM Partners”
• Agricultural enterprises as an attractive investment.
Bohdan Chomiak, Director on Strategy planning, UkrAgroConsult
• Land lease. If the land market opens, will the contracts be valid?
Dr. Julian Ries - partner, BEITEN BURKHARDT Ukraine
• Protecting the rights of land users in the light of Ukrainian land legislation: reality and prospects.
Ruslana Muzichko – partner, “Aleksandrov and Partners”
• Who and why dissolves the land lease agreements in Ukraine? The main drawbacks of land lease agreements 2012
Nikolay Orlov – partner, Law firm OMP
Sponsor : UkrAgroConsult Company
12.00 a.m – 1.00 p.m. – Presentation
Moderator - Jean -Jacques Herve, councellor to the board for agriculture Credit Agricole Bank
Presentations of "Grain Alliance" company and "Industrial dairy company" will cover the following issues:
- Large-scale ag enterprises in Ukraine. Case study.
- Experience of agri holding operation during unstable regulation of grain exports.
- Ukraine: vertical integration and increase inprofitability of agricultural production. Answers to investors who plan to expand their agricultural investments
- Yields maximization withbetter agricultural technology
- Ways of agri holdingmanagement optimization and increasing transparency of its activities
- Partnership in the entire inputs supply chain logistics (seeds, fertilizers, plant protection)
1.00-2.15 p.m. – Lunch
2.15 – 4.15 p.m. - round table: “Black Sea region: export regulation or deregulation?”
Moderator - Sergey Feofilov, Director general, UkrAgroConsult
• Ukraine: Reforms needed in the agrarian sector to attract investments while world reshaping
Sergey Kvasha, Ministry of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
• Launching the agricultural exchange market in Ukraine
Alexandr Marukhnich - Director, Agrarian Exchange
• What will Ukraine trade in the new season
Elizaveta Malyshko - Analyst, UkrAgroConsult
• Crop Tour 2012: winter crop conditions and grain production estimate
Mark Lindeman - Agricultural specialist, FAS
• Will the rules of the oilseed market change?
Yulia Garkavenko - Analyst, UkrAgroConsult
• Will the Black Sea Region keep its position in the world market?
Elena Loshkareva - Analyst, UkrAgroConsult
• Market and Infrastructure: reforms zigzags
Svetlana Malysh - Analyst, UkrAgroConsul
Sponsor : UkrAgroConsult Company
4.15 – 4.30 p.m. – CME Group: Challenges and Opportunities in Managing Price Risk in the Black Sea Region
Moderator - Tim Andriesen, CME Group
4.30 – 5.30 p.m. – Company Presentation INTL/FC Stone
Moderator - Daniel Hofstad, Vice President CIS and Black Sea Region
Matt Ammermann, Risk Management Consultant – CIS and Black Sea Region
• Benefits of hedging to clients who are seeking IPOs and investments
Representrative of an Investment Bank
• Large scale farms of Ukraine and Russia: their hedging experience
Andrey Mikhailyuk, Financial Director, Nibulon
• New Black Sea wheat futures contract
Alexandre Bobylov, CME Group
• Evolution of hedging in the Black Sea Region
Matt Ammermann, Risk Management Consultant – CIS and Black Sea Region
6.00 p.m. – Welcoming Cocktail hosted by Glencore Grain B.V. and Serna Company
InterContinentalHotel,Grand Ballroom, - 2nd Floor
The second day - April 19, 2012
Conference Centre, InterContinental Hotel, - 2nd Floor
8.30 – 9.15 a.m. - Registration
9.15 a.m. – Conference Opening
SESSION 1: GLOBAL ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE AND AGRICULTURAL MARKETS
MODERATOR - Peter Blog, NYSE Liffe, United Kingdom
9.30 - 9.50 a.m. - Agricultural Commodities: Still the Place to Be? Agricultural Outlook for 2012/13
Wayne Gordon, Global Agricultural Strategist, UBS
9.50 - 10.15 a.m. - How can Ukraine achieve its potential in the Agribusiness sector?
Peter Bryde, EBRD
10.15 - 10.45 a.m. - Feeding the Dragon: Chinese Implications for Agri Markets
Nicholas Higgins, Rabobank International, United Kingdom
10.50 - 11.10 a.m. - Coffee Break
11.40 - 12.10 a.m. - Ukraine: Weather factor and export potential in 2012/13
Sergey Feofilov, UkrAgroConsult, Ukraine
12.10 - 12.40 a.m. - Russian Grain in the Global Market, season of 2012/13.
Dmitry Rylko, IKAR, Russia
12.40 - 1.00 p.m. - Kazakh Grain in the Global Market
Zhanna Baitemirova, Kazagromarketing, Kazakhstan
1.00 - 2.30 p.m. – Lunch
SESSION 2: MEASURING IMPACT OF BLACK SEA REGOIN ON GLOBAL S&D
MODERATOR - Leonid Kozachenko, President of Ukrainian Agrarian Confederation
2.30 - 3.00 p.m. – Volatility of the Food Prices. Global Integration and Increasing Investments in Agriculture
Dmytro Prykhodko, FAO Investment Center
3.00 - 3.30 p.m. – Farmland Investment opportunities in Ukraine
Bohdan Chomiak, UkrAgroConsult
3.30 - 4.00 p.m. - Fat and oil sector of Russia: prospects for development in the current season, outlook for 2012/13.
Vladimir Petrichenko, MICEX-RTS, Russia
4.00 - 4.30 p.m. - Comodity Derivatives Contracts as the Price Risk Hedging Tool and Importance of Correlation
Elena Patimova, NYSE Liffe, United kingdom
4.30 - 5.00 p.m. - Role of Inspection Industry in food security and sustainability challenges
Gennadiy Shulga, SGS Group Management, Switzerland
5.00 - 5.20 p.m. - Risk transfer solutions along the agribusiness value chain
Oleksandr Artyushin, Swiss Reinsurance Company Ltd
5.30 p.m. - Friendly Dinner hosted by UkrAgroConsult Commodity Market Analyst
InterContinentalHotel, - 2nd Floor
