preliminary Conference Agenda

April 18, 2007, 3.00 – 5.00 p.m. – Registration, Premier Palace Hotel (5*).

Address: 5-7/29 T. Shevchenka Blvd. /Pushkinska Str.   

April 18, 2007, 6.00 p.m. – Welcoming Dinner hosted by Glencore and Serna

April 19, 2007, 9.30 a.m. – 5.00 p.m. – Conference Day, Kyiv Academic Theatre    

8.30 – 9.30 – Registration, Kyiv Academic Theatre

Address: #1A, Grushevsky Str.

9.30 – 10.00 - Greetings from the Organizer, General Sponsor and Ukrainian authorities

SESSION 1: Prospects for Black Sea countries Grain Market

10.00 – 10.25 - Sergey Feofilov, UkrAgroConsult, Ukraine

Ukrainian new ag policy: who will be the winner? Perspectives for grain crop from Black Sea region in the 2007/08 season

10.25 – 10.50 - Dmitry Rylko, IKAR, Russia

Russia: ag sector development among other priority sectors

10.50 – 11.10 - Igor Burakovsky, Institute for Economic Research and Policy Consulting, Ukraine

Ag sector in Ukraine and Russia after joining the WTO

11.10 – 11.30 – Dmitry Kim, SGS Kazakhstan

Kazakhstan: ambitious strategy of growth in grain production and exports

11.30 – 12.15          Coffee/tea

12.15 - 12.40 - Charles Robertson, ING Bank N.V., The Netherlands

Important trends in emerging markets and the global economy

12.40 – 13.05 - James Dunsterville, AgriNews Geneva, Switzerland

Prospects of the 2007 grain crop in the EU and its export potential. Competitiveness of the main players in the market

13.10 – 14.30 Lunch

SESSION 2: Biofuel as a driver for oilseeds/vegoils market development

14.30 - 15.00 - Ludwig Striewe, Alfred C. Toepfer International GmbH, Germany

European biofuel industry as a driver for oilseeds/vegoils and grain market development

15.00 – 15.25 - George J. Galasso, US Wheat Associates, The Netherlands

World wheat and corn market (incl. US market) under the pressure of the bioethanol production

15.25 - 15.50 – Aziz Koseoglu, Turkish Crushers Association, Turkey

Turkish grains and oilseeds outlook for 2007/08 season

15.50 - 16.15 - Vladimir Petrichenko, WJ Interagro, Russia

Russia: grain and oilseeds market development. Trends, peculiarities and contradictions

16.15 - 16.40 - Dian Donev, Farin AD, Bulgaria

Bulgaria as new big oilseeds producer in Black Sea

April 19, 2007, 3.00 – 5.00 p.m. - round table in the framework of the Conference Ukraine: Towards an alternative energy

April 19, 2007, 6.00 p.m. - Friendly Dinner hosted by ING Wholesale Banking, The Netherlands and UkrAgroConsult, Ukraine