This is reported by the organizers of the event – the company IdeasFirst.

The first persons of the grain market, logistics business, food market and financial sector will meet in Kyiv to discuss the future of the grain industry, to study the impact of military risks and climate change on the economy of the agricultural sector and to find solutions that will help Ukrainian agricultural companies adapt better. A separate focus of attention is on the marginality of promising crops that will determine the structure of Ukrainian agricultural production in the coming years.

Among the important topics this year:

• The search for a new marginality of the agricultural sector through the prism of global challenges.
• How the logistics business can maintain margins in conditions of high competition and low demand.
• Echoes of the past and challenges of the future: the path to strengthening the global positions of Ukrainian grain.
• From competition to cooperation: how to build an effective marginal chain from supply to foreign consumer.
• Oilseed market: global trends and Ukraine’s place.
• Restoring investment financing: should there be a Marshall Plan?
• From fields to ports: how EUDR is changing Ukrainian grain supply chains.
• Models of farmer competitiveness in Europe and Ukraine.

Grain Ukraine 2025 will feature over 50 speakers who are experts in trade, logistics and finance in the agricultural market. Ukrainian and international experts and analysts will take part in the event. The organizers expect over 500 specialized participants.

Among the conference speakers:

• Jonathan Grange, partner at Sunstone Brokers
• Petr Krogman, owner of Agromino, president of the Ukrainian-Czech Chamber of Commerce
• Vitaly Koval, Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine
• Iain Dykes, CEO of JTZE Horní Moštěnice s.r.o.
• Valeriy Tkachev, Deputy Director of the Commercial Department of JSC “Ukrzaliznytsia”
• Mykola Gorbachev, President of the Ukrainian Grain Association (UZA)
• Helen Fairlamb, Head of the Agri Hubs Project at the World Food Program
• Viktoria Blazhko, Head of Editorial Content and Analytics Department at ASAP Agri
• Ahmed Amin, Founder and CEO of Sprint Trading
• Bogdan Kostetsky, Operating Partner of the Barva Invest Trade and Analytics Company
• Oksana Prosolenko, Founder and CEO of I.P.Cert
• Shamil Khakirov, Commercial Director of the Delta Wilmar Ukraine Oil Extraction Plant
• Nazar Malynyak, Managing Partner of SmartFarming
• Dr. Keith Dawson, Chairman of the Central Plains Group, Chairman of the Scottish Crop Research Society

The conference will feature an exhibition area where logistics companies, suppliers of equipment for agricultural producers and agro-processors, banks, law and insurance companies. Participants will also be treated to a special evening networking program dedicated to the 10th anniversary of Grain Ukraine.

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For reference: the general partner is Atria Brokers. The partners of the annual conference are the investment company SD Capital and the TIS terminal group, the content partner of the conference is Trend & Hedge Club.

The GRAIN UKRAINE conference is an international industry platform for dialogue between the largest representatives of the agricultural market, heads of agri-food companies, commercial and investment banks, as well as technological trendsetters in the agricultural sector, which has existed since 2016. The latest trends in the agricultural market are discussed here, as well as the development of sustainable business models and the implementation of technological agricultural innovations.