«AboutStarch 2025: Grain Processing Market Trends conference»

Time

Event program

10:00

Registration of participants, welcome coffee.

10:30

Session 1. “Agrotrends and their impact on the deep grain processing market”.

Discussion topics:

• Prospects and risks of the agro-industrial complex in 2025. Daria Snitko, Vice President, Head of the Center for Economic Forecasting, Gazprombank JSC;
• The Russian grain market and its development potential. Dmitry Rylko, CEO of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR);
• Analysis of the deep grain processing industry in Russia: results for 2024/forecasts for 2025. Natalia Smetanina, Strategic Marketing Manager, Cargill;
• Potential of the deep grain processing products market: organic acids, vegetable proteins, amino acids. Sofia Murzina, Head of Food Raw Materials and Ingredients Market Research, Center for Investment and Industrial Analysis (CIPAP).

12:20

Coffee break

12:50

Second session. Open dialogue with industry leaders.

Questions for discussion:

• In the first person: On solving complex technological problems in the implementation of industry projects. Dmitry Savkov, CEO of NewBio LLC;
• Implementation of the Organic Acids LLC project — pitfalls in the preparation and implementation of complex biotech startups. Andrey Krushinsky, CEO, Organic Acids LLC;
• A scientific perspective on the implementation of projects in the deep processing of starch-containing raw materials industry. Vasily Byzov, Director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Starch and Processing of Starch-Containing Raw Materials (ARRISP),
• Representatives of factories Closed Joint-Stock Company “Belarusian National Biotechnology Corporation” (ZAO “BNBC”) / AMYLCO LLC / Rustark LLC (Topics of reports are under approval).
• other top experts and top officials of the industry.

14:00

Lunch

14:45

Session 3. “Consumer Preferences: Development Vectors of Consumer Industries – Results for 2024 / Prospects for 2025”.

Discussion topics:

• Dairy industry: use of starch products as ingredients for dairy products. Alexey Gruzdev, CEO, Streda Consulting;
• Beverage industry: use of starch-and-molasses raw materials in production. Lyudmila Khomich, Vice President for Quality, Technical Regulation and Standardization, SOYUZNAPITKI; as well as:
• Confectionery market,
• Pulp and paper industry market,
• Food ingredients market.

12:30

Separate conference hall (parallel to the second and third sessions).

Practical seminar “Improving the efficiency of enterprises for deep processing of plant raw materials”.

Audience — technologists, heads of production lines, laboratory staff.

Discussion topics:

• Operational efficiency for enterprises for deep processing of plant grain. Application of tools of the continuous improvement system and lean production, main types of losses. Maxim Mishchenkov, Director of SMART Systems and Technologies LLC.

16:30

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