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Opening Address
Tom Keene, GTA Chairman
Session One - Outlook for the Global Grains Industry
Joseph Healy, Group Executive Business Banking, National Australia Bank Global economic crisis: Paving the road ahead (no presentation)
Richard Gilmore, President GIC Group, United States Global overview of supply, demand and the investment outlook for the agriculture sector
Michael Iwaniw, Managing Director, ABB Grain Developments in the Australian market: challenges and opportunities and implications for the industry's marketing approach
Session Two - Focus on Australian opportunities
Jammie Penm, ABARE's Chief Commodity Analyst ABARE Australian grains outlook, market prospects and performance
Sanjeev Asthana, President & Chief Executive of Agri & Food Supply Chain, Reliance Retail Limited Market and demand trends for pulses and oilseeds and long term potential
Daniel Cooper Australian Future Grain Leaders Program Asia Bound - investigating bag and container trade opportunities into Asia
Research and Development Update
Louise van Meurs, General Manager, Biosecurity Services Group Update on AQIS Reform Agenda
Peter Reading, Managing Director Grains Research and Development Corporation The changing face of Australian grains research, development and extension
Session Three - Risk Management
Alex Weddell, Associate Director - Agricultural Commodities, Macquarie Bank Limited It's all about volatility - grain and freight
Rebecca Willson, Marketing Manager Cargill Risk Management Emotional Influences, risk management behaviour and impact on participants in commodity markets
Session Four - Consumer Roundtable
Ron Storey, Australian Crop Forecasters The voice of the customer
Joe Chan Managing Director, Harvest Gain Singapore A customer perspective
Dr Neoh Soon Bin, Managing Director, Soon Soon Group Position of Australian wheat in Malaysia post deregulation
Session Five - Aligning value chains to future growth opportunities
John McKillop, CEO, Clyde Agriculture Profitability of Large Scale Grain Production
Mel Taylor, Australian Future Grain Leaders Program NGR On-farm - Developing an industry wide traceability tool for improving the quality and saleability of Australian grain
John Murray, CEO, Ridley Corporation Limited The Changing Supply Chain Landscape for Australia's Food/Feed Industries - A Stockfeed Perspective
Session Six - Performance of the grains sector in Australia and Canada
Paul Jensz, Research Strategy, Team Leader: Agribusiness & Chemicals Austock Securities Limited Australasian Grain Game - Investor Update
Dennis Stephens, Secretary, Canada Grains Council Recent trends in Canada's grain industry and the Grains Innovation Roundtable
Session Seven - Managing quality in a deregulated market
Pat Wilson,Technical Services and Quality Manager GrainCorp Operations GrainCorp's approach to managing quality
Geoff Masters, Quality & Technical Services Manager, ABB Grain ABB Grain's approach to managing quality
Richard Williams, Quality Manager - Logistics, CBH Group CBH's approach to managing quality
David Thomas, Chair Barley Australia An industry approach to quality accreditation (no presentation)
Robert Sewell, Chairman, Wheat Classification Council A new approach to wheat classification (no presentation)
Session Eight - Making sense of freight markets
Anthony Randall, Sales Director, Maersk Australia Grain shipping trends and how the freight market is coping
Peter Malpas, Director Group Research Manager, Braemar Seascape Outlook for the dry bulk freight market to 2011/Beyond FOB
Josh Taylor Australian Future Grain Leaders Program National Supply Chain - Establishing national supply chain efficiencies within the deregulated grains industry
Geoff Farnsworth, Partner, Norton White Freight contracts from a legal perspective