Not an exhibition, but an online conference 
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On 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 reduced 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 Agency for Fisheries and the All-Russian Association of Fisheries Enterprises, Entrepreneurs and Exporters (VARPE), will hold a closed conference on September 22 "World Fish Market: International Cooperation Against the Pandemic". 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. The main topics of the conference:
- Impact of the pandemic on the fish market: assessment of the situation to date
- Reduction in fishing: the scale of the forced reduction and its causes
- Decline in consumer demand: scale and causes
- Prospects for a possible recession in the food market
- Logistics: broken links in the delivery chain
- What’s next for HoReCa?
Among the speakers are 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 an off-program awarding of outstanding specialists in the fishing and fish processing industry, such as production managers, leading technologists, shipowners and others. It is noteworthy that the expert council of the award also consists of representatives of the industry, who are iconic figures. As part of the IV Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia 2020, such experts as top manager for waste-free processing of fish products Alexander Tulupov, EUROFISH Senior Project Manager Ekaterina Tribilustova, General Director of the company Maltat Anton Okunev, head of the Federal State Budgetary Institution " Center for Fisheries Monitoring System and Communications” Artem Vilkin and others. The organizers assume that they will be able to determine the winners of this year as soon as possible.
The Global Fishery Forum & Seafood Expo Russia is an international B2B platform that brings together experts from 38 countries. The event is held annually.
Author: Lilia Chekh