Monday – November 2, 2015

12.00

CME Group (CBOT) Grain Risk Management Workshop

05.00

Opening Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Swiss Re Corporate Solutions

Tuesday – November 3, 2015

07.00

Registration/Breakfast

08.30

Conference Opening
Honourable Ron Kostyshyn – Minister, Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Development

08.45

Canadian Crop Outcome
Bruce Burnett – Weather and Crop Specialist, CWB Market Research/G3 Canada Limited

09.30

“Pardon the Interruption”
Dr. Bill Tierney – Chief Economist, AgResource Company
Pedro H Dejneka – Managing Partner, AGR Brasil

10.00

Networking Break

10.30

Predicting the Unpredictable
Kyle Tapley – Senior Ag Meteorologist, MDA Weather Services
Scott Yuknis – President, Climate Impact Company

11.30

A New Era in Agriculture
Dan Basse – President, AgResource Company

12.15

Lunch
Erik Norland – Executive Director and Senior Economist, CME Group

01.30

Canola Power Hour:  Sponsored by Manitoba Canola Growers Association
Nick Kennedy – Director and Head of Business Development Commodities for Euronext
Gord Nystuen – VP of Market Development, Input Capital
Shaun Wildman – Sr. Trader Grains and Oilseeds, Seaboard Corporation

02.30

A Discussion with Karl Gerrand – CEO, G3 Canada Limited
Moderator – Laura Rance – Editorial Director Farm Business Communications, Glacier FarmMedia

03.00

Networking Break

03.30

Panel of Day 1 Speakers

04.00

Josh Schonwald – Journalist and Author, The Taste of Tomorrow

05.00

Cocktail Party Sponsored by G3 Canada Limited

Wednesday – November 4, 2015

07.00

Breakfast

08.30

Can China Save Us…Again?
Bell Chen – Senior VP of Asian Markets, R J O’Brien & Associates

09.15

Macro Economics and Outlook for Demand
Douglas Porter – Chief Economist, BMO Capital Markets

10.00

Networking Break

10.30

Future Shock? Production Trends in Key Demand Markets
Corey Cherr, Head of Agriculture and Weather Research & Forecasts, Thompson Reuters

11.15

Transportation – Trucks, Trains, and Boats
Bruce McFadden Director, Research and Analysis, Quorum Corporation
Mark Dyck, Director, Logistics, G3 Canada Limited
Pedro Dejneka, Managing Partner at AGR Brasil
Moderator – Chuck Penner, Leftfield Commodity Research

12.15

Final Questions/Conference Closing

12.30

Closing Lunch

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