‘Committed to development of economic integration on an international level’

‘EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL SUMMIT’

25-28 October 2009, Town Hall, St. Aldate’s Street, Oxford, UK

PROGRAMME

Sunday 25th October

Transfer and arrival of delegates.
Accommodation at the five star Randolph Hotel
Beaumont Street, Oxford

18:30 Reception participants’ gathering in the lobby of ‘Randolph’ hotel
(A walking tour to Oxford Town Hall to the venue of reception, 5 minutes).

19:00–21:00 Welcome reception at Oxford Town Hall.
Finger buffet and drinks
Dress code: business suit

Monday 26th October

Business

09:50 Business reception participants’ gathering in the lobby of ‘Randolph’ hotel
(transfer – approximate time on the way 15 – 20 min.)

10:30–11:30 Business reception. Hosted by Blake Lapthorn –
Commercial and Private Law firm
Meeting between international delegation and British businesses

Participants:
CEOs, Managing directors, owners and entrepreneurs from Austria, Armenia, Azerbaijan,
Georgia, Baltic states, Central Asia, Central/Eastern Europe and CIS countries
Chair: Christina Howell, Head of External Affairs, Thames Valley Chamber
of Commerce Group, United Kingdom
Ahmed S.Gaara, Gaara Establishment Import-Export, Egypt
Berik Zhangirbayev, Doctor of alternative medicine, Republic of Kazakhstan

11:30–12:30 Networking lunch

12:30–15:30 Production facility tour (BMW Mini site proposed).

15:30–16:00 Return to ‘Randolph’ hotel

Education
Town Hall, St Aldates, OX1 1BX

10:00 Education session participants’ gathering in the lobby of ‘Randolph’ hotel
(A walking tour to Oxford Town Hall to the venue of reception, 5 minutes).

10:30–12:30 International cooperation in the education sector

Topics
Establishment of specialized corporate education centres on university campus
New product and service offerings to the education sector
Cooperation in the field of education, education programme exchange, student exchange.
Joint diplomas
Research and business model development (delegate reports)
English language for foreign students
Advantages of British education
Positioning and branding your university
Investiture of the new members to the Club of Rectors of Europe (CRE)
Chair: Prof Wil Goodheer, President of the Club of Rectors of Europe, Austria
Speakesr:
John Netting, Director General, Europe Business Assembly, United Kingdom
Mark Fritz, Managing Director of Procedor, an international consulting company, USA
Viktor Andrushenko, Rector, National Pedagogical Dragomanov University, Ukraine
Peter Meli, ‘Malta Enterprises’, Director of the strategic investments department, Malta
Jessica Woodman, Acting Principal, Regent Language School, Oxford,United Kingdom
Mario Peters, Principal Oxford International College, Oxford,United Kingdom
A. Bahgerzadeh, Vice Chancellor, Azad University,United Kingdom
Jude A Mbanasor, Prof. Dean of the College of Agribusiness and Financial Management, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Nigeria

Participants:
Vice-Chancellors/Rectors, representatives of higher education, scientists, businessmen

12:30–13:30 Networking lunch
13:30–15:30 A walking Oxford colleges tour

17:30 Ceremony participants’ gathering in the lobby of ‘Randolph’ hotel
(A walking tour to Oxford Town Hall to the venue of ceremony, 5 minutes)

XLV Socrates Awards Ceremony
Ceremony master: Alan Riddick

18:00–18:30 Welcome speeches:

John Netting, Director General, Europe Business Assembly,
United Kingdom
Prof Wil Goodheer, President of the Club of Rectors of Europe, Austria
Paul Briggs, Chief Executive, Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce &
President of the International Club of Leaders (ICL), United Kingdom
Representative, Syngenta, United Kingdom

18.30–20.30 Awards Ceremony
Dress code: Gentlemen – black tie
Ladies – evening dress

20.30–22.30 Gala dinner in honour of the award winners and the summit’s guests

Tuesday 27th October

INTERNATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CONFERENCE

Hosted by Syngenta International Research Jealott’s Hill,
Berkshire, United Kingdom

09:00 Conference participants’ gathering in the lobby of ‘Randolph’ hotel
(transfer – approximate time on the way 60 min.)

10:30 am – 3:00 pm

Welcome to Europe Business Assembly delegation and members
Paul Briggs, Chief Executive, Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce

Paul is Chief Executive of the Thames Valley Chamber of Commerce Group, now one of the largest chambers in the UK. The Chamber achieved national recognition in 2007 when it was voted ‘National Chamber of the Year’ by UK business. Paul uses his role at the Chamber to promote better understanding of opportunities for transnational business, including those in Russia, CIS Countries, Eastern Europe. Now as President of The Windsor Debates and the EBA’s International Club of Leaders, he continues his vision to deal with important issues and opportunities impacting on the UK.

Welcome to Syngenta International Research
Dr Mike Bushell, Director, Jealott’s Hill International Research
Centre Syngenta

Syngenta is a leading company in the world agro industrial market aiming to provide stable agricultural production by means of innovative researches and technologies. The company is a leader in production of plant protection substances and claims the third place in the world market of high quality seeds. Syngenta sales were on the level of US$ 8,1 billions per year. Syngenta employs around 21,000 employees in more than 90 countries.

Syngenta Site Tour
Tour – Formulation Robot
Tour – Glass Houses
Tour – Research and Development Facility

Global Forces which will affect Agricultural Supply and Demand
Jonathan Shoham, Head of Business Intelligence,
Global Business Strategy Group, Syngenta

Jonathan is a Senior Agricultural Economist, working for Syngenta. Over the last 30 years he has worked in a variety of functions for ICI, Zeneca and Syngenta. These positions have included corporate strategy, product development, product management and market research. Prior to that Jonathan completed a PhD in Environmental Economics and a BSc in Chemical Physics.

The Impact of Climate Change on Agriculture
Professor Richard Ellis, Dean of the faculty of Life Science,
University of Reading

Professor Richard Ellis is Dean of the Faculty of Life Sciences having previously been Head of the Department of Agriculture and Head of the School of Agriculture, Policy and Development. He read Agriculture at UCNW Wales and completed his PhD on plant genetic resources conservation (now known as biodiversity conservation) by long-term seed storage at Reading. After an initial period as a Research Fellow in Biology at Stirling, he joined the staff at Reading in 1977 as Research Fellow and progressed to Senior Research Fellow to Lecturer (under the national ‘New Blood’ scheme) to Reader to Professor of Crop Production. He has 326 research outputs, two thirds of which are international refereed journal papers. His research covers reproductive plant biology and the effect of environment on seeds, plants and crops. His seed research has been widely applied in over a thousand gene banks worldwide, both for crops and wild species. Research on flowering has been concerned with global crop adaptation across tropical to temperate regions. The related climate change impacts research began in the 1980s. It highlighted the vulnerability of crop production to extreme climate events during seed set and seed and grain development.

Lunch and networking

Developments within Agriculture and Strategic Leadership
Dr Chris Garforth

His current research interests are in two main areas: communication, and the reform of public sector extension services. A key focus in the former is on the uptake and use of the outputs of natural resources research, and in particular on information and knowledge constraints which make it difficult for people to develop their production systems in support of their livelihoods. He is conducting research in the UK, for the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, on farmers’ response to new knowledge and technologies. In partnership with overseas researchers, he is involved in research on these issues for five of DFID’s research programmes – the Livestock Production, Crop Protection, Natural Resources Systems, Fisheries Management Science, and Animal Health Research Programmes. Recent consultancy assignments in Uganda and Nepal, for DFID and The World Bank, have contributed to the debate on what role the public sector should continue to play in advisory and other support services for farmers. Before joining the university in 1980, he taught at the University of Nigeria, and worked as a Research Officer for Newcastle upon Tyne City Council and as an Action Research Officer in the Agricultural Information Services of the Botswana Ministry of Agriculture. He studied Land Economy at Cambridge for both his first degree and his PhD on land tenure and agricultural land use in Nigeria.

The impact of ecologically pure biologically active substances
on soil sanation and products quality
Mykhailo Chernysh, President, PE “Serviceagrotrade”,
PE “Agro Leader”, Ukraine

Candidate of Agrarian Sciences of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy, expert in modern agro technologies of the Kherson State Agrarian University.
“Agro Leader” is engaged in promotion and sale of micro mineral fertilizers “Sizam”. It holds educational seminars, trainings, consultations. It also provides control of a technological process of crops growing within the whole period of growth

Participant Open Discussion and Conclusion

Dr Ray Elliott, Strategic Projects, Syngenta

Dr Ray Elliott leads teams in the UK and Switzerland that provides analytical support to the Research & Development of chemicals and the products of biotechnology for Syngenta, through the provision of expert advice and a highly skilled problem solving resource and by harnessing new and emerging analytical technologies. He is a member of the Global Analytical Leadership Team (GALT) to develop and implement a long term strategy for enhancing the services provided by Analytical Development to R&D, manufacturing and Sales.

The following participants participate in the debates:

– Mykhailo Chernysh, President, PE ‘Serviceagrotrade’, PE ‘Agro Leader’,
Ukraine
– Sandjar Saidjanov, Head of the project, Uzbekistan scientific-research
institute of market reforms in the agroindustrial complex,
Uzbekistan scientific production center
of the Ministry of Agriculture of Uzbekistan, Republic of Uzbekistan
– Nataliia Pogozheva, Director General of ‘DUCATT’ Ltd., Ukraine

The programme includes an excursion around Syngenta.

The participants will get an opportunity to visit the largest in Europe international research center “Syngenta,” where more than 800 scientists work, as well as to visit scientific and research computing complex where potential plants protection means efficiency is researched and also where one of the newest robots is located. This robot has been recently launched by her Royal Highness Princess Ann, where she has made the first experiment. A completely automated robot is a breakthrough in innovations. It is capable to develop and test hundreds of potential plants protection means a day with the speed that the majority of scientists can only dream. The robot has been a culmination of five years joint work of scientists, engineers and programmers. It is capable to produce any liquid agrochemical substance in small dozes and carry out a series of tests for determining expediency of conducting further researches.

15:00–16:00 Return to ‘Randolph’ hotel

Wednesday 28th October

Departure