| April 2, 2019 | Registration 8.00 – 9.00 |
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| The main stage | |
| 09.00 – 09.05 | Official greetings | Irina Kukhtina, President of Ukrainian Berries Association |
| 09.05 – 09.15 | Official greetings | Olga Trofimtseva, Acting Minister of Agrarian Policy and Food of Ukraine |
| 09.15 – 09.35 | Official greetings | Carolien Spaans, Agricultural Counselor of the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ukraine |
| 09.35 – 09.40 | Official greetings | Dmytryi Nykolaev, Manager of Ukrainian Horticultural Business Development Project (UHBDP) |
| 09.40 – 09.45 | Official greetings | Alex Tieermann, Honorary Consul of Ukraine in the Republic of Chile and President of the Ukrainian-Chilean Chamber of Commerce and Tourism |
| 09.45 – 09.50 | Official greetings | Vladimir Pechko, Chairman of the Public Union “UKRSADVINPROM” |
| 09.50 – 10.20 | Global trends for the fresh and frozen berries market | Cindy van Rijswick, Senior Industry Analyst Fresh Produce, Rabobank, The Netherlands |
| 10.20 – 10.45 | Global development of organic fruit | Tom van Hees, Tradin Organic, The Netherlands |
| 10.45 – 11.05 | Consumer trends – what does the buyer want? | Irina Kukhtina, President of Ukrainian Berries Association |
| 11.05 – 11.35 | Central Asian Market for berries and stone fruits | Shahlo Atabaeva, PhD, ECTAP, Tajikistan |
| 11.35 – 13.30 | Coffee – break | |
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Survey of varieties of blueberries: yesterday, today, tomorrow | Valery Lyashinsky, Rosetta Agro, LLC, Fall Creek Official Representative in Ukraine |
| 14.00 -14.30 | Modernization and mechanization of growing and picking of berries and stone fruits | Svilen Milev, RioAgro, Bulgaria |
| 14.30 -15.00 | Black currants worldwide: production, consumption, opportunities | Stefanie Sharma, President of the International Black Currant Association (IBA), France |
| 15.00 -15.30 | Strawberries: the main global trends | Peter Myslyviy, General Director of LLC “Agrana Fruit Ukraine” |
| 15.30 -16.00 | Raspberries: the main global trends | Slawomir Polkowski, CEO and Founder, Polko Group, Poland |
| 16.00 -16.30 | Sweet Cherries: the main global trends | Toon Vanrykel, consultant of DEPA-Fruit, Belgium |
| 16.30 -17.00 | Niche berry crops: honeysuckle and sea buckthorn, risks and opportunities | Tadeusz Kusibab, PLANTIN, Poland |
| | Farm. Technological stage | |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Quality of saplings under in vitro propagation | Tadeusz Kusibab, PLANTIN, Poland |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Protection of berries from pests and diseases | Voyevodin Volodymyr, PhD, Syngenta, Ukraine |
| 13.00 – 13.15 | Effective requirements in packaging, protection and enhancement of fruit and vegetable produce | Alessandro Mariani, INFIA, Italy / Official representative in Ukraine is HARVEST CENTER |
| 13.15 – 13.45 | How to protect soft and stone fruits for a successful business? | Ana Roscan and Mathew Ian Foster, VOEN Vöhringer GmbH & Co. KG |
| 13.45 – 14.00 | Best practices of growing apricots, peaches and nectarines of different varieties in the conditions of the Odessa region of Ukraine | Petro Dalakov, Director of FG “Prime Fruit», Odessa region, Ukraine |
| 14.00 – 14.30 | Raspberry and Strawberry Diseases: Warning and Protection | Andrey Osikovy, agronomist-consultant of Summit-Agro Ukraine LLC |
| 14.30 – 14.40 | Quick cleaning of irrigation systems, water tanks, disinfection of tools, equipment and premises using HUWA-SAN | Vasily Bondarovsky, EFT GROUP specialist, Ukraine |
| 14.40 – 15.30 | Coffee – break | |
| 15.30 – 15.40 | Methods of the quality control of the planting material using DNA at the stages of production and sales. Biotechnologies of mass plant propagation | Tatyana Kornya, biotechnologist for clonal propagation, LLC Scientific and Production Center In Vitro Plant |
| 15.40 – 16.00 | New and promising strawberry varieties and supply chain model from the Fresh Forward Breeding Company, Netherlands | Anton Dovganyuk, Official Representative of Fresh Forward in Ukraine |
| 16.00 -16.20 | Haygrove Tunnels and Growing Systems | Marek Jamry, Haygrove Regional Sales Manager, Poland |
| 16.20 -16.50 | Precise irrigation and fertigation. Humidity testers. | Vladislav Razkevich, Director of “Evkalipt R” company, Ukraine |
| | Factory. Technological stage | |
| 12.00 – 12.15 | Storage of fresh fruits and berries in the controlled atmosphere | Vladislav Medved, Representative of “STOREX Ukraine” company, subsidiary of the Dutch company “STOREX b.v.” |
| 12.15 – 12.30 | Lines for shock-freezing of berries | Andrey Maruschak, the Director of the representative office of the company INCOOLS Engineering |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | IQF freezing and technology for the sublimation of berries | Goran Obradovich, director of PIGO – Food Processing Machinery, Italy |
| 13.00 – 13.30 | Cooling and storage technology for sweet cherries | Vladislav Perminov, Deputy Director of the Polish-Ukrainian company MAS Systems |
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Tips for corrugated packaging: how to deliver berries and fruits safely? | Andrei Rebro, PJSC “Kyiv Cardboard and Paper Mill” , Ukraine |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Coffee – break | |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Complete IQF processing line for berries | Ruben Larsson, Founder of Company OctoFrost AB |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Innovative drying technologies for berries and soft fruit | Krzysztof Rutkowski, Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, POLAND |
| 16.00 – 16.30 | Food safety in fresh and IQF produce, the water quality and new norms to avoid the usage of chlorine in cleaning of the berries and fruits | Camilla Khrulova, Primozone Production AB., Sweden |
| 16.30 – 17.00 | Next generation of optical laser sorting for the IQF Fruit industry | Dries De Block, Sales Director at Optimum Sorting, The Netherlands |
| 17.00 – 17.30 | Sorting Solutions for blueberry, cherry and cherry tomato | Fabricio Santos President at Elifab Solutions, Spain |
| | Market/Marketing/Export Technological stage | |
| 12.00 – 12.30 | Entry into EU market | Tetyana Shpyta, senior analyst of Government Office “Export Promotion Office” |
| 12.30 – 13.00 | Entry into the German market. Export opportunities | Hermann Intemann, Agricultural Counselor of the Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 13.00 – 13.30 | Launching berry products to the Japanese market | Yury Lutsenko, COIN Agency, Ukraine |
| 13.30 – 14.00 | Commercial opportunities between Tradin Organic and agriculture sector Ukraine, focus on berries import | Loek Vesters, Tradin Organic, The Netherlands |
| 14.00 – 15.00 | Coffee – break | |
| 15.00 – 15.30 | Creating a brand and its positioning | Alexzander Pavlovskyi, independent expert |
| 15.30 – 16.00 | Prices, quality, volume – how to sale more fresh berries through wholesale markets in Ukraine | Tatyana Hetman, Head of “Marketing -Analytics” Department at the Shuvar Wholesale Market |
| April 3, 2019 | Registration 9.00 – 10.00 |
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| 10.00 – 13.00 | Part 1 | |
| Post-harvest technologies for stone and soft fruits – harvesting, storage and transport | Krzysztof Rutkowski Research Institute of Horticulture, Skierniewice, POLAND |
| Implementation of a quality and food safety system at a processing plant | Hryftsova Yulyia, International Food Safety Auditor, LLC Global Certifik Group |
| VOEN Protection systems for stone and soft fruits (rain, hail, frost, insects and birds) | Ana Roscan and Mathew Ian Foster, VOEN Vöhringer GmbH & Co. KG |
| Blueberries: mistakes that lead to loss of productivity | Oleg Bazyuk, head of the enterprise and in-vitro laboratory Dolyna Agro LLC, Ukraine |
| 13.00 – 14.00 | Coffee- break | |
| 14.00 – 17.00 | Part 2 | |
| System of pre-cooling and cooling supply for the blueberry storage / sorting / packing complex | Vladislav Perminov, Deputy Director of the Polish-Ukrainian company MAS Systems |
| Technology for Stone Fruits Growing | Toon Vanrykel, consultant for DEPA-Fruit, Belgium |
| IQF freezing and technology for the sublimation of berries | Goran Obradovich, director of PIGO – Food Processing Machinery, Italy |
| Growing berries under cover | Yuri Bondarev, independent expert on the cultivation of berries and vegetables under cover, Ukraine |
| April 4, 2019 | Business tour to Cherkasy region |
| 6.45 – 07.00 | Gathering near TC “Gorodok” | Kiev, Stepan Bandera Avenue, 23, TC “Gorodok” |
| 07.00-11.00 | Traveling | Kyiv – Smila, Cherkasy region |
| 11.00-13.00 | Visit to SMILYANSKA HLODNYA – one of the largest enterprises in Ukraine to produce frozen vegetables, fruits and berries | Smila, Cherkasy region |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch | Smila, Cherkasy region |
| 14.00-14.30 | Traveling | Smila – Kovaliha village in Smila district |
| 14.30 -17.30 | Guided tour to the Nursery and experimental garden of Matsenko Aleksandr Vasilievich. Visit to the sweet cherry gardens on the rootstock VSL. Features of the cherry formation using UFO and KGB methods. Intensive gardens for peaches, apple trees and pear trees. | Kovaliha village, Smila district, Cherkasy region |
| 17.30 – 21.00 | Traveling | Kovaliha village – Kyiv |
