On April 19, 2024, the Association of Deep Grain Processing Enterprises “Soyuzstarch” will organize the annual VIII international conference “ProStarch 2024: market trends for deep grain processing.” Also, as part of the conference, a webinar with the participation of foreign speakers will be held on March 19, 2024.
The ProStarch 2024 conference will be held in a hybrid format: online and offline. The conference is dedicated to professional discussion of strategic approaches and current business solutions in the development of the industry of deep processing of plant raw materials.
In recent years, Russia has been breaking records for grain harvests. The market for grain processing products is also developing dynamically: over the past 5 years, the volume of production of starch and its derivatives has increased by almost 40%, and the volume of exports has doubled.
At the conference on April 19, 2024, experts will discuss the impact of trends on the industry of deep processing of agricultural raw materials and the situation in consumer industries, summarize the results of the industry’s work in 2023 and outline development guidelines in 2024.
10:00 | Registration of participants, welcome coffee |
10:30 | Welcome speech from the conference organizers |
10:40 | First session “Global trends and their impact on the market for deep grain processing” Topics for discussion: Agroindustrial complex trends in Russia (Daria Snitko, Vice President, Head of the Center for Economic Forecasting, Gazprombank JSC); |
Russian grain market and its potential for industry development (Dmitry Rylko, General Director of the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies (IKAR); | |
Technologies, products, applications (speaker from a Chinese company); | |
State regulation measures and industry support mechanisms, etc. | |
12:30 | Coffee break |
13:00 | Expert panel "Directors' Club" - dialogue with top officials of leading companies in the industry Personal experience of representatives of companies implementing (implemented) projects; |
Manufacturer/investor opinion: what the industry lacks for development; | |
Can the deep grain processing industry repeat the experience of developing the grain industry; | |
Speakers' forecasts about the directions of industry development. | |
Experts: Roman Kozyrev, General Director of Rustark LLC. Sergey Mamontov, founder, Yubileiny Agroholding. Andrey Adamchuk, head of the project office of JSC Donbiotech. Vasily Byzov, director of the All-Russian Research Institute of Starch and Processing of Starch-Containing Raw Materials. | |
14:00 | Dinner |
15:00 | Second session “Market of high added value products – results 2023 / prospects 2024” Topics for discussion: Starch products market (Pavel Paramonov, market research manager, Cargill); |
Market of amino acids, vitamins (Lyubov Savkina, General Director, FEEDLOT); | |
Plant Protein Market (Sofya Murzina, Head of Research of Food Raw Materials and Ingredients Markets, Center for Investment and Industrial Analysis); | |
Food ingredients market (Polina Semenova, Executive Director, Union of Food Ingredient Manufacturers). | |
17:00 | Cocktail |
The audience of the event is key and potential market participants: investors, business executives, production directors, representatives of industry associations and analytical agencies, leading industry experts.
The conference will take place on April 19, 2024 at the Congress Center of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry at the address: Moscow, st. Ilyinka, 6/1, building 1. The event will take place from 10:00 to 18:00 hours. The conference is held with the support of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
The Association’s events have already been attended by more than 500 people from leading companies in the industry. The ProStarch 2023 conference was attended by 50 people from Russia, Germany, Sweden, the USA, China, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Also, on the eve of the conference on March 19, 2024, a free webinar will be organized for participants of “ProStarch 2024”.