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On April 19, 2024, the Association of Grain Deep Processing Enterprises Soyuzkrachmal will organize the annual VIII International Conference «ProStarch 2024: Grain Deep Processing Market Trends». A webinar with foreign speakers will also be held as part of the conference on March 19, 2024.
«The ProStarch 2024» conference will be held in a hybrid format: online and offline. The conference is dedicated to professional discussion of strategic approaches and actual business solutions in the development of the industry of deep processing of vegetable raw materials.
In recent years, Russia has been breaking records in terms of grain harvest, reaching 150 million tons. The market of grain processing products is also developing dynamically: over the last 5 years, the production of starch and its derivatives has increased by almost 40%, and exports have doubled.
At the conference on April 19, 2024, experts will discuss the impact of trends on the industry of deep processing of agricultural raw materials and the situation in consumer industries, summarize the results of the industry in 2023 and outline the benchmarks for development in 2024.
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10:00 |
Registration of participants, welcome coffee |
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10:30 |
Welcome speech of the conference organizers |
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10:40 |
First session «Global Trends and Their Impact on the Grain Processing Market»
Topics for discussion:
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AIC trends in Russia (Darya Snitko, Vice President, Head of the Center for Economic Forecasting, JSC Gazprombank);
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Russian grain market and its potential for the development of the industry (Dmitry Rylko, General Director of the Institute of Agricultural Market Conditions (ICAR);
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Technologies, products, applications (Speaker from a Chinese company);
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State regulation measures and mechanisms to support the industry, etc.
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12:30 |
Coffee break |
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13:00 |
Expert panel «Directors' Club» — dialog with top executives of leading companies in the industry
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Personal experience of representatives of companies that have realized (implemented) projects;
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Producer/investor opinion: what the industry lacks for development;
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Whether the deep grain processing industry can repeat the experience of the grain industry development;
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Speakers' forecasts on the directions of the industry development.
Experts:
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Roman Kozyrev, CEO of Rustark Ltd.
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Sergey Mamontov, founder, Agroholding «Yubileiny».
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Andrey Adamchuk, Head of the project office of JSC «Donbiotech».
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Vasily Byzov, Director, All-Russian Research Institute of Starch and Processing of Starch-containing Raw Materials.
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14:00 |
Lunch |
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15:00 |
Second session «Market for High Value Added Products - Results 2023 / Prospects 2024»
Topics for discussion:
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Starch products market (Pavel Paramonov, Market Research Manager, Cargill);
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Market of amino acids, vitamins (Lyubov Savkina, General Director, FEEDLOT);
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Vegetable Protein Market (Sofya Murzina, Head of Food Raw Materials and Ingredients Market Research, Center for Investment and Industrial Analysis);
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Food Ingredients Market (Polina Semenova, Executive Director, Union of Food Ingredient Producers).
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17:00 |
Fourchette |
The audience of the event — key players and potential companies: investors, heads of enterprises, production directors, representatives of industry associations and analytical agencies, leading industry experts.
The conference will be held on April 19, 2024 in the Congress Center of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation at the address: Moscow, Ilyinka St., 6/1, page 1.
The event will be held from 10:00 to 18:00 hours.
The conference is supported by the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
More than 500 people from the leading companies of the industry have already attended the events of the Association. The conference «ProStarch 2023» was attended by 50 people from Russia, Germany, Sweden, USA, China, Belgium, Switzerland.
Also, in anticipation of the conference, a free webinar for «ProStarch 2024»participants will be organized on March 19, 2024.