Forum Społeczności Mleczarskiej 2024

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

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21st INTERNATIONAL DAIRY COMMUNITY FORUM

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Gołębiewski Hotel
Białystok, Poland

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Gołębiewski Hotel
Białystok, Poland

DAY 1

DAY 1
SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Gołębiewski Hotel
Białystok, Poland

Registration

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OPENING CEREMONY

Janusz Wojciechowski - European Commissioner for Agriculture

Future of farmers role in the supply chain

Agnieszka Maliszewska – Organiser of the International Dairy Community Forum, Director of the Polish Chamber of Milk, First Vice President of COGECA

Polish dairy sector against the background of global agricultural policy and discussion with sector representatives - from field to table

1st DISCUSSION PANEL
Discussion with representatives of agricultural and processing organisations
Challenges for the Polish dairy sector - opportunities and threats

Moderator: Agnieszka Maliszewska

The panel will be attended by:

  • Janusz Wojciechowski
  • Marcin Hydzik
  • Arkadiusz Pisarek
  • Dorota Grabarczyk
  • Leszek Gosk
  • Magdalena Szabłowska
Press briefing
LUNCH
1 st SESSION
Development strategy for the Polish dairy sector - facts and expectations.

Is Polish dairying prepared for global changes on the milk market?

Jerzy Plewa - Ekspert Team Europe Direct

From Difficulty to Stability: Sustainable Dairying in Poland

Piotr Szajner - Head of the Market Research Department of IERiGŻ-PIB

Challenges of the national dairy industry in an environment of increasing production and commercial risks

Jakub Olipra - Senior Economist at Credit Agricole Bank Polska S.A.

What is happening to the competitiveness of Polish dairying?

Patryk Kaczynski - Managing Director of SIG Poland and Krzysztof Starzyk - Expert in reporting and managing the carbon footprint of companies

The importance of reducing the carbon footprint of packaging under the challenges of the CSRD and dairy farms decarbonisation.

Aneta Saramak - Tax Managing Partner at Arena Advisory Group

Tax benefits in the dairy industry

COFFEE BREAK
2nd PANEL DISCUSSION
PANEL WITH EXPERTS
WPROWADZENIE - Łukasz Wyrzykowski – Dyrektor Generalny IFCN – The Dairy Research Network -
The strategy of the Polish dairy sector
Is the Polish dairy sector ready for change?

Moderator: Łukasz Wyrzykowski

The panel will be attended by:

  • Piotr Szajner,
  • Jacek Węgorowski,
  • Patryk Kaczyński,
  • Jerzy Plewa,
  • Jakub Olipra,
  • Kamil Borowski
Outdoor event

DAY 2

DAY 2
SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Gołębiewski Hotel
Białystok, Poland

2nd SESSION
Global milk trade in the face of growing unrest in the global economy.

Political change and the milk market, how the global milk market will change.

Can artificial intelligence and global digitisation support the development of the milk sector?

Global challenges for the milk sector, how consumer markets will change in the coming years, where milk production and processing will grow. Ukraine - opportunity or threat?

Jukka Likitalo - Secretary General in Eucolait

Barriers to the dairy trade

Laurens Van Delft - Director Trade & Economics European Dairy Association

European Dairy Strategy 2030

Carlos Martín Óvilo - Deputy Head of Unit, DG Agriculture and Rural Development Unit E.3 Animal products - European Commission

The key challenges for the EU dairy sector

Oliver Hendrickson - Agriculture Counsellor in the New Zealand Permanent Mission to the EU in Brussels

New Zealand dairy system overview and trade with the EU under the new NZ-EU Free Trade Agreement

Tjitske Bolt – Dutch Dairy Association – the representation of the Dutch Dairy Processors

Situation on the dairy market in the Netherlands

Callum Lott - General Manager, Trade Strategy, Sustainability & Stakeholder Affairs – EMEA

Key issues impacting the global dairy industry

Elisabeth Svyatkivska - Secretary of the EU Integration Committee of the Union of Ukrainian Dairy Enterprises

Ukrainian dairy sector on its way to the EU

LUNCH
Settlement of the competition

Czesław Siekierski - Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development tbc

Milk market - Situation in relation to China

3rd PANEL DISCUSSION
PANEL WITH EXPERTS
World milk market situation

Moderator: Tomasz Sajewicz

The panel will be attended by:

  • Jukka Likitalo
  • Laurens Van Delft
  • Tjitske Bolt
  • Callum Lott
  • Elisabeth Svyatkivska
  • François VIEL
Apperitif
Apperitif starting the Gala for the selection of the 17th Ranking of Dairy Cooperatives
Gala
Gala to select the winners of the 17th Ranking of Dairy Cooperatives