2013 Conference Agenda

March 4, 2013 – Day 1

09:00 — 12:00 Conference participants registration
12:00 — 13:00 Meetings with colleagues. Getting aquainted with new colleagues and specialists from CIS, Europe & Asia.

13:00 — 13:30 Official conference opening ceremony. Welcome notes from organizers, sponsors and special conference guests.

13:30 — 15:30 Section: General overview of international agricultural insurance markets – CIS, Europe & Asia.

1. Agricultural Insurance Market in Ukraine – Nataliia Gudyma (President of the Ukrainian Insurers League)

2. Agricultural Insurance Market in Russia – Korney Bizhdov (CEO of the Russian National Agroinsurers Union)

3. Agricultural insurance business development prospectives in Georgia – Ksenia Semiokhina (Deputy CEO Insurance Company Aldagi-BCI, Tbilisi, Georgia)

15:30 — 16:00 Coffee-break
16:00 — 18:00 Section: Agricultural insurance markets and practice.

1. Agricultural Insurance in Eastern Europe – Olena Sosenko (Senior Agricultural Underwriter at SCOR), Co-Speaker – Piotr Narloch ( CEO at Concordia Poland TUW )

2. Catastrophic insurance and reinsurance in agriculture. Insurance and reinsurance experience – drought events over large areas. – Delyara Sangadzhieva (Agricultural Division Director at Ingosstrakh, Moscow, Russia)

3. The role of broker and loss adjuster. Ukrainian experience and practice. – Ibragim Gabidulin (Operational Director of Gras Savoye Ukraine)

 

March 5, 2013 Day 2

09:30 — 11:30 Section: Agricultural Insurance underwriting and technologies. 

1. Agricultural underwriting standards and pricing. Systematic use of data and the actuarial principles. – Reto J. Schneider (Head of Agricultural Reinsurance for Americas, Africa & Asia at SWISS RE)

2. Development of new technology driven, crop insurance underwriting and assessing processes in South Africa – Louis de Wet (Manager Product Development, Absa Agri Production Insurance, South Africa)

3. The use of satellite technologies in support of the agricultural risk underwriters and loss adjusters work. – Pierre Rolland (Member of Executive Board at GEOSYS, France)

11:30 — 12:00 Coffee-break

12:00 — 12:30

1. Agricultural finance for farmers and producers. IFC practice for regional markets. – Elena Voloshina (Head of Operations International Finance Corporation in Ukraine)[/event]

12:30 — 13:30 Panel Discussion:  State regulation of agricultural insurance – licensing, certification, program administration.  Role of government subsidies in developing agricultural insurance programs. Panel Commeetee:

David Ginzburg (CEO – KANAT, Israel) 

Kurt Weinberger (CEO of the Austrian Hail Insurance Company, President of the AIAG)

Roman Shynkarenko (Agricultural insurance expert /consultant)[/event]

13:30 — 14:30 Lunch Time 

14:30 — 15:30 Section: State support programs and subsidized crop insurance. 

1. Turkish Experience in Public-Private Risk Management in Agriculture. – Necati İÇER (Technical Manager at the Turkish Agricultural Insurance Pool Management Company – TARSIM)

2. Israeli Crop Insurance System. IFNRA. Insurance Fund for Natural risks in Agriculture. – David Ginzburg (CEO – KANAT, Israel)

Coffee-break

16:00 — 17:00 Presentations: Introduction of the AIAG. Risks and opportunities for crop and revenue insurers worldwide. – Kurt Weinberger (CEO of the Austrian Hail Insurance Company, President of the AIAG)

19:30 — 22:30 Conference official reception.

March 6, 2013 Day 3

10:00 — 11:30 Section: Agricultural Insurance programs development and trainings for loss adjusters.

1. Insurance products development specifics. – Roman Shynkarenko (Agricultural insurance expert /consultant)

2. State certification program for loss adjusters and surveyors in Ukraine. Opportunities and influence on business results. – Natalia Gerasymenko (PhD in Economics, Ukraine)

11:30 — 12:00 Coffee-break

12:00 — 13:30 Presentations:

1. The system of agricultural insurance with state support in Russian Federation. Main conclusions and results on the new law implementation. – Alla Fedorinova (Deputy Director of the «Agricultural Insurance State Support Federal Agency» of the Ministry of Agriculture of Russian Federation)

2. Worldwide analytics on agricultural risk management – www.AgroInsurance.com. Reaching the customer with Social Media and PR techniques. – Yan V. Shynkarenko (CEO, Agroinsurance International LLC.

13:30 — 14:30 Lunch Time 

14:30 — 15:30 Official conference closing ceremony.