Where the Margin Is 2026 — summer. Summer International Conference for Agricultural Producers and Suppliers of Agricultural Inputs and Services
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Where the margin is 2026

Summer International Conference for agricultural producers
and suppliers of agricultural inputs and services

July 23-24, 2026

Radisson Collection Hotel, Moscow

Conference organizer:
IKAR
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PROGRAM
Summer Agricultural Conference «WHERE THE MARGIN IS»


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July 23

18:00

Registration

18:00-22:00

Cocktail

Traditionally accompanied by jazz music

July 24

8:00-9:00

Registration and welcome coffee

9:00-9:15

Conference opening

9:15-11:00

Russian and Global Agricultural and Food Markets (1)

  • Dan Basse, President and CEO, Agresource
    Key global agricultural and food markets: current state and prospects
  • Donier Djamaldinov, Broker, Copenhagen Merchants
    Black Sea and global wheat markets in the current season
  • Cem Bogusoglu, Sales director, Prograin
    Global pulses markets: season prospects

11:00-11:30

Coffee break

11:30-13:30

Russian and Global Agricultural and Food Markets (2)

  • Mikhail Maltsev, Executive director, Fats and Oils Union of Russia
    Oilseed markets and their regulation in 2026/27
  • Daria Gushchina, Professor of the Department of Meteorology and Climatology at the Faculty of Geography of Lomonosov Moscow State University
    El Niño in 2026/27 and its impact on global agriculture
  • Dmitri Rylko, General director, IKAR
    Russian agricultural and food markets in 2026/27

13:30-14:30

Lunch

14:30-15:15

Macroeconomic Situation and Its Impact on Agribusiness

Moderator: Salis Karakotov, general director, Shchelkovo Agrokhim

  • Petr Grishin, Head of the Department of macroeconomic analysis and debt markets, Euler Analytical Technologies JSC
  • Yuri Tulinov, Head of Bond Market Analytics Department, T-Bank Investments

15:15-16:30

Current Issues in Agro-Logistics: 2026/27 Season

Moderator: Alexey Ugarov, General director, Prodimex Agro

  • Dmitry Antonov, Senior Vice President, director of External Relations and GR, Resource Agribusiness Group, Chairman of the Working Group on Agrologistics of the Public Council under The Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
  • Yuri Kozlov, Chief State Inspector of the Center for Automated Recording of Administrative Offenses, Rostransnadzor Interregional Administration for Central Russia
  • Ivan Petrov, General director, Analytical Center for Forestry and Agriculture
  • Natalia Soboleva, Executive Director for electronic transport documents, Kaluga Astral operator
  • Artem Yurenkov, Director of the Department of Digital Development, Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation
    Digitalization of transportation in Russia
  • Yuri Zavarnakin, Acting Deputy Head of the Department, Rostransnadzor Interregional Administration for Central Russia

16:30-16:50

Coffee break

16:50-18:10

Technology Session (1): How to Expand and Deepen the Implementation of Digitalization and Technological Transformation in Agribusiness

Moderator: Vladislav Novoselov, Executive director, BEFL

  • Evgeny Lobanov, Director of the digital transformation department, Cherkizovo Group
  • Alexey Mastrakov, Head of the agribusiness complex practice, Axenix
  • Natalia Chernysheva, Managing Director for Technological Development of the agribusiness, Rosselkhozbank

Technology Session (2): Practical Experience of Using AI in (Agro) Business

  • Sergey Knyazev, Director of the Customer Success Department, Salute for Business, Sber
  • Oleg Sychugov, Senior Consultant, Salute for Business, Sber

18:10

Cocktail


The program of the past years: 2026-winter, 2025-summer, 2025-winter, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013-summer, 2013-winter, 2012

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