Not an exhibition, but an online conference
Automatic translateOn June 10, Expo Solutions Group announced the forced postponement of the IV Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia 2020 to the summer of 2021. Despite the gradual lifting of quarantine measures and the decreasing activity of the coronavirus, the organizing committee of the event decided to postpone the Forum-Exhibition to next year. And on September 8, it became known that Expo Solutions Group, with the support of the Federal Fisheries Agency and the All-Russian Association of Fisheries Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Exporters (VARPE), will hold a closed conference “World Fish Market: International Cooperation against the Pandemic” on September 22. The event will be held online.
The organizers plan to discuss the current situation and the impact of the pandemic on the fish processing industry. Main topics of the conference:
- The impact of the pandemic on the fish market: assessment of the situation today
- Reduction of fishing: the scale of forced reduction and its reasons
- Decline in consumer demand: scale and reasons
- Prospects for a possible recession in the food market
- Logistics: broken links in the delivery chain
- What awaits HoReCa in the near future
Among the speakers planned: Ilya Shestakov (Ministry of Agriculture), Maria Elena M.K. Semedo (FAO), Drew Cherry (Intrafish), Fan Zubin (Beijing Seabridge Marketing & Consulting), Ragnar Arnason (University of Iceland), Alexander Panov (Sberbank), Igor Bukharov (Russian Federation of Restaurateurs and Hoteliers)
The organizers also plan to hold extra-program awards for outstanding specialists in the fishing and fish processing industry, such as production managers, leading technologists, shipowners and others. It is noteworthy that the award’s expert council also consists of industry representatives who are iconic figures. As part of the IV Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia 2020, the expert council included such experts as top manager for waste-free processing of fish products Alexander Tulupov, Senior Project Manager EUROFISH Ekaterina Tribilustova, General Director of the Maltat company Anton Okunev, head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution " Center for Fisheries Monitoring and Communication System” Artem Vilkin and others. The organizers assume that they will be able to quickly determine this year’s laureates.
Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia is an international B2B platform in which specialists from 38 countries take part. The event is held annually.
Author: Liliya Chekh