Programme

Wednesday, 6^th November 2013

OPENING CEREMONY & MANAGEMENT SESSION

08:00 – 16:00

Registration

Movenpick Resort & Marine Spa Sousse, lobby

OPENING CEREMONY

09:00 – 09:05

Introductory Movie

Hadrumet Conference Room

Movenpick, lower ground floor

09:05 – 09:10

Mr. Kamel Belkhiria

CEO, La Rose Blanche (Tunisia)

Opening Speech

09:10 – 09:15

Mr. Merzad Jamshidi

District Director, IAOM Mideast & Africa District

Welcome Speech

09:15 – 09:20

Mr. Ridha Saidi

Tunisia's Minister of Economy

Introductory Speech

09:20 – 09:30

Mrs. Wided Bouchamaoui

President of the UTICA (Tunisian Union of Industry, Trade & Craft)

Country Focus

09:30 – 10:00

Group Photo

*Sponsored by Al Ghurair Resources

Movenpick Resort & Marine Spa Sousse, lobby

10:00 – 10:30

Expo Opening

Expo Marquee

Movenpick’s private beach

10:30 – 16:00

EXPO

10:30 – 11:00

Coffee Break

*Sponsored by CBH

Expo Marquee

Movenpick’s private beach

MANAGEMENT SESSION

Moderator: Mr. Martin Schlauri

Managing Director Business Unit Grain Milling, Buhler (Switzerland)

Hadrumet Conference Room

Movenpick, lower ground floor

11:00 – 11:20

Hassine Labaied

CEO, Saphon Energy (Tunisia)

Entrepreneurship in Green Economy

11:20 – 12:05

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mr. Mike Walsh

Bestselling author of Futuretainment 
CEO of innovation research lab, Tomorrow (USA)

Designing the 21^st Century Business

12:05 – 12:25

Dr. Hischam El Agamy

Executive Director, IMD (Switzerland)

Leading Businesses Today in the Emerging Economies

12:25 – 12:45

James Bannister

Wildfire, a division of Google (Germany)

Making Social Media Measurable

12:45– 13:05

Frank Braeken

Chief Investment Officer, Amatheon Agri Holding (UAE)

Former Executive Vice President for the Africa Region, Unilever

Unlocking the Potential of Africa

13:05 – 13:25

Panel Q&A Session

13:25 – 14:25

Lunch Break

*Sponsored by CWB & CIGI

Mosaique Restaurant

Movenpick, lower ground floor

19:00 – 22:30

TUNISIAN DINNER

*Hosted by La Rose Blanche Group

Jinene Khadija

*Tour options are available in our website or at the registration counters located in Movenpick Resort & Marine Spa Sousse’s lobby.

Thursday, 7^th November 2013

TECHNICAL & WHAT’S NEW SESSION

09:00 – 16:00

EXPO

Expo Marquee

Movenpick’s private beach

TECHNICAL SESSION

Hadrumet Conference Room

Movenpick, lower ground floor

Moderator: Melinda Farris

Executive Vice President, IAOM Headquarters (USA)

09:00 – 09:05

FFI Recognition Award

09:05 – 09:25

Peter Lloyd

Regional Technical Director , US Wheat Associates, Inc. (Morocco)

SRC in Functionality Testing for Flour

09:25 – 09:45

Philippe Taeschler

Buhler AG (Switzerland)

Efficient Milling: Premium Finished Products

09:45 –10:00

Dr. Irfan Hashmi

Technical Advisor, Grain Corp Operations Limited (Australia)

Heat Treated Flour

10:00 –10:20

Dr. Lutz Popper

Head R&D, Muelenchemie (Germany)

Grist Cost Optimization through Improvement of Rheological and Technological Properties of Flour for Noodle and Pasta Production

10:20 – 10:30

Panel Q&A Session

10:30 – 11:00

COFFEE BREAK

*Sponsored by Ugur Makine

Expo Marquee

Movenpick’s private beach

11:00 – 11:20

Pietro Barbalarga

Commercial Director Grain Milling, Omas (Italy)

The Mycotoxins on Wheat, their Impact on the Bakery

11:20 – 11:40

Matloob Ahmed

R&D Head and Plant head, Emirates Grain Product Company LLC (UAE)

Smart Milling: Miller Prismatic View

11:40 – 12:00

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Lamine Lahouasnia

Head of Packaged Food Research, Euromonitor International (UK)

The Changing Role of Wheat in our World

12:00 – 12:15

Quentin Johnson

Coordinator, Training & Technical Support Group, Flour Fortification Initiative (Canada)

Detection and Measurement of Iron Compounds in Fortified Flour

12:15– 12:30

Dr. Matveeva Irina

EMEA Baking Technology Manager, Novozymes A/S (Russia)

Use of New Xylanase Family GH8 in Milling and Baking

12:30 – 12:40

Panel Q&A Session

WHAT’S NEW SESSION

 Hadrumet Conference Room

Movenpick, lower ground floor

Moderator: Prof. Dr. M. Hikmet Boyacioglu

IAOM MEA Education Committee Chairman

Group R&D Coordinator & Cereal Food Institute Director, Doruk Group Holding | Head of Food Engineering Department, Okan University (Turkey)

12:40– 12:50

Habeeb Azmath

Technical Sales Manager, Millrite Ltd. (UAE)

Use of Technical Fibers in Preventing Dust Explosions

12:50 – 13:00

Ralf Neumann

Customer Solutions Director Baking Enzymes, AB Enzymes (Germany)

Enzymes for Wheat Conditioning

13:00 – 13:10

Dr. Irfan Hashmi

Technical Advisor, GrainCorp Operations Limited (Australia)

Recent Developments in Wheat Quality & Classification in Australia

13:10 – 13:20

Andrea Nicolini

Area Manager for North Africa, Europe & Latin America, Ocrim SpA (Italy)

Build the Mill

13:20 – 13:30

Markus Löns

Senior Sales Director Food, Brabender GmbH & Co. KG (Germany)

Rheology : Smaller, Quicker, Precise

13:30 – 13:40

Stéphane Cochet

Export Director, Chopin Technologies (France)

Rheo F4

13:40 – 13:50

René Bontemps

General Manager, Fischbein S A N V-Bruxelles (Belgium)

Sewing System

13:50 – 14:00

Mark Wild

Sales Manager for Africa & the Middle East, Fawema (Germany)

New Fawema Flour Packing Machines

14:00 – 14:10

Charles Loubersac D'Hotel

Director General/ Managing Director, Perten Instruments (France)

Whole Grain & Wheat Flour in One Instrument

14:10 – 14:20

Marcel Ramseyer

Product Manager Grain Milling, Bühler AG (Switzerland)

New Atta Flour Process

14:20– 15:20

Lunch Break

*Sponsored by Louis Dreyfus Commodities

Mosaique Restaurant

Movenpick, lower ground floor

19:00 – 22:30

BORA-BORA NIGHT OUT (TRADERS’ DINNER)

*Sponsored by Bunge, Cargill, Glencore, Noble Resources, Ameropa and Olam

Bora-Bora Night Club, El Kasr Hotel

Friday, 8^th November 2013

TRADING SESSION

Moderator: Mr. Simon Arnold

President & CEO, Seagrain SA (Switzerland)

09:00 – 16:00

EXPO

Expo Marquee

Movenpick’s private beach

09:00 – 09:15

Chris Whitwell
International Sales & Marketing Manager, GrainCorp (Australia) 

Australian Market Outlook

09:15 – 09:45

PIONEER OF LONG-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTING

American Thinker Magazine’s 2010 Climate Predictor

Piers Corbyn

Founder & Managing Director, WeatherAction (UK)

09:45 – 10:05

Vincent Peterson

VP of Overseas Operations, US Wheat Associates Inc. (USA)

US Market Outlook

10:05 – 10:50

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Mr. Paul Roberts

American journalist and author of two critically acclaimed non-fiction books, The End of Oil and The End of Food. (USA)

Exporting Anxiety: what the changing food politics of the US, Europe, and other big grain exporters mean for the Middle East and Africa 

10:50 – 11:05

Jean-Benoit Gauthier

Director, Trading & Sales (EU, Africa & ME) Canadian Wheat Board (Canada)

Canadian Market Outlook

11:05 – 11:25

Panel Q&A Session

11:25  – 11:55

COFFEE BREAK

*Sponsored by Alapala

Expo Marquee

Movenpick’s private beach

11:55 – 12:10

Jean-Pierre Langlois-Berthelot
President, France Export Céréales (France)

French Market Outlook

12:10 – 12:25

Hans Stoldt

Director of Black Sea Trading, Ameropa (Switzerland)

Central Europe Market Outlook

12:25 – 12:40

Colin Tutt

General Manager Global Food Supply Chain,

CBH Group (Australia)

Port Access & Shipping of Australian Grain—an Insight

12:40 – 13:00

Panel Q&A Session

13:00 – 13:05

Damon Sidles

Vice President, IAOM (USA)

13:05 – 13:10

Mr. Kamel Belkhiria

CEO, La Rose Blanche Group (Tunisia)

Closing Speech

13:10 – 13:20

Mr. Mounir Bakhresa

Managing Director, Bakhresa Grain Milling (Rwanda/ Burundi) at Bakhresa Group

Announcement of the 25^th Annual IAOM MEA District Conference & Expo 2014: KIGALI, RWANDA

13:20– 14:20

Lunch Break

*Sponsored by Elhamama Flour Mills

Mosaique Restaurant

Movenpick, lower ground floor

18:30 – 22:00

CULTURAL COCKTAIL DINNER

*Sponsored by US Wheat Associates

Sousse Archeological Museum

*Tour options are available in our website or at the registration counters located in Movenpick Resort & Marine Spa Sousse’s lobby.