The 2026 conference program is still under development.
Below is an example of the program for the previous conference.
8:45
Registration and morning coffee
9:30
Beginning
- Taras Vysotsky, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine
- Vadym Chagarovsky, Head of the Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine (SMPU)
- Alexander Anton, Secretary General, EDA
10:00
Session 1. Dairy industry of Ukraine — 2025: Prospects of development
Moderator: Arsen Didur, Executive Director, Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine
● Dairy sector of Ukraine – current state – Leonid Tulush, Head of the Expert and Analytical Department of the SMPU
● Strategic guidelines for the development of the dairy industry – Ihor Huzhva, Director of the State Research Institute for Informatisation and Modelling of the Economy
● Compensation of capital investments through taxes – Dmytro Kysylevskyy, Deputy Chairman of the VRU Committee on Economic Development
● European integration – roadmap: programs, agreements, certification – Elizabeth Sviatkivska, Coordinator of the European Integration Committee, SMPU
11:20
Coffee break
12:00
Panel discussion 1. Problems of the dairy business – ways to solve them. Development strategies
Moderator: Arsen Didur, Executive Director, Union of Dairy Enterprises of Ukraine
● State support for the dairy industry is a necessity
● How to balance the interests of producers, processors and retail chains
● Obstacles to the implementation of long-term contracts
● Strategy for the integration of Ukraine’s dairy industry into the EU
● Investment prospects
Experts:
Taras Vysotsky, Deputy Minister of Economy, Environment and Agriculture of Ukraine (tbc); Vadym
Chagarovsky, Head SMPU; Hanna Lavrenyuk, General Director AVM; Ruslan Illichov, General Director,
FEU; Valentyn Zaporoschuk, Chair Supervisory Board, ІСМС; Maks Fasteyev, Adviser to the European
Integration Committee, SMPU
13:00
Lunch
14:15
Session 2. Dairy business economics — markets, money, technology
Panel discussion 2. Domestic dairy market — production and consumption trends, the need for
modernisation
Moderator: Kyrylo Yezhov, New Business Director, KANTAR
● Modernisation of dairy processing plants – solutions from Tewes-BIS – Grzegorz Łokucjewski, Commercial Director, Tewes-BIS
● Dairy product sales: features and dynamics
● Domestic market trends: what to produce, how to sell, changes in consumer sentiment during the war
Experts:
Grzegorz Łokucjewski, Commercial Director, Tewes-BIS; Kyrylo Yezhov, New Business Director, KANTAR;
Vasyl Vintonyak, Director Infagro; Andriy Tuchak, Commercial Director, KOMO; Natalya Hryn, Marketing
Director, GC “Milk Alliance”; Tetyana Korovina, Marketing Director, Molokija; Anna Tarasevych, Marketing
Director, Danone Ukraine
15:45
Panel discussion 3. Prospects for foreign trade in dairy products: Is Ukraine an exporter or
an importer?
Moderator: Iryna Vysotska, Dairy Sector Component Coordinator, QFTP
● The future of the dairy market – Véronique Aguera, Senior Consultant, GIRA
● Details of the new Ukraine-EU trade agreement – Jukka Likitalo, Secretary General, EUCOLAIT
● Trends in foreign trade in dairy products – Maks Fasteyev, Project Partner, Infagro
● Promising markets for Ukrainian dairy products: Kazakhstan – Olga Gvozdyova, Adviser to Director of Office for Entrepreneurship and Export Development
17:00