Briefing day
Separately bookable sessions and how to book your place:
Day 1 - Tuesday, 10th November, 09:00 - 16:45
Middle East & North Africa Briefing Day
09:00 Registration and morning refreshments
09:45 Chairman’s opening remarks
10:00 Middle East and North Africa grains and oilseeds outlook
- Outlook for wheat, corn and soy import and export
- Analysing evolving MENA grain consumption patterns and applications
- Food security, self-sufficiency and importing: What are the production expectations for the region in the next decade and what does this mean for importing volumes?
Dr. Peter Talks, Consultant, FAO
10:45 Middle East and North Africa procurement strategies roundtable: How are end users and purchasers securing long term supply for the region?
- Challenges of securing supply: bottlenecks, regulations and conflict
- Are long term procurement strategies for food security viable?
- How do public and private procurement strategies differ in the region? Can governments and the private grain industry cooperate in securing supply?
- Origination strategies: Little and often or bulk?
Moderator: Serife Dayi, President, MerGrain
Seyed Moineddin Ahmadi, Trader, Al Ghurair Resources
Jad Wakileh, Business Development Manager, Aqaba Manufacturing and Refining Vegetable Oils Company
Mandeep Singh Bindra, Head-Procurement (Grains), IFFCO
Scott Wellcome, Grain Trader, Hakan Agro DMCC
11:30 Profiling Iran’s prospective agri-trading activities
- Understanding how sanctions, banking and shipping restrictions stalled grain trade to Iran?
- Is the international trading community ready to capitalise on Iran’s re-entry into the global agri-trading world
- Profiling Iran’s wheat production and export capabilities
- Will Iran look to import more compound feed ingredients to become a significant protein exporter in the region?
Sharif Nezam-Mafi, Chairman of the Board, Iran-Switzerland Chamber of Commerce
12:15 Networking lunch
13:30 Grain logistics, handling and storage: How costly is poor infrastructure to the region?
- Understanding the costs of post-harvest and post-import grain losses
- Warehouse and storage availability and requirements
- What are the opportunities for modernisation to mitigate losses?
David Blumberg, CEO, Middle East and Africa, Blumberg Grain
14:00 Origination markets for MENA grain
- Black Sea production update
- European production update
- Can the Baltic and South American countries gain a foothold in grain trade with the region?
Guillaume Duchesne, Trader, InVivo Trading
Oleg Kryukovskiy, Head of Trading, GTCS Trading DMCC
14:45 Afternoon refreshments and networking break
15:15 Understanding end-user requirements and challenges
- What are quality requirements of MENA end-users?
- Balancing price and quality with different origins
- Analysing flour trends in the region
Merzad Jamshidi , CEO / Managing Director, KFF Mills and District Chairman, IAOM Middle East Africa
15:45 Spotlight on the flour and feed milling industries
- How is flour and feed production expanding?
- Understanding the quality requirements of MENA millers
- Is there a continued trend of processing in-country rather than at the origin?
Moderator: Merzad Jamshidi , CEO / Managing Director, KFF Mills and District Chairman, IAOM Middle East Africa
Erol Yahya , Executive Director, Intermil-Un
Gaurav Nanda , Procurement Manager, Bahrain Flour Mills Company B.S.C.
16:30 Chairman’s closing remarks followed by close of briefing day
17:30 Champagne Welcome Reception