Thursday, 21.04.2016 PROGRAMME OF PARALLEL EVENTS DATE VENUE TIME EVENT Exhibition Working Hours: 11.00-19.00 1st SECTION: The proposals of Froutonea Magazine readers for the production and trade of the fresh produce sector. Pavilion 13 15.00 16.00 Summary presentation of magazine readers views, as published in its pages during the last year. Editorial team of Froutonea Magazine. Comments by the Publisher of FROUTONEA magazine, Takis Orfanos. 2nd SECTION: Fruit Attraction 2016: Where fruit meet people. Pavilion 13 16.00 16.45 Presentation of the European fresh fruit sector by Eucofel (European Fruit & Vegetables Trade Association) Eucofel representatives Contract Horticulture. Goals-Aims-Benefits Natassa Kartalidou, Junior Exports Manager, AGRIS Iran at FRESKON! Pavilion 15 17.00 18.30 A detailed presentation of the Iranian fresh fruit and vegetable sector. What is Iran asking of Greece and what does it have to offer? Froutonea Magazine and Iran Agri Magazine, the largest Iranian magazine on fresh produce, are undertaking an initiative to strengthen the commercial ties between the two countries. Mr Ali Golbaf, the owner of Iran Agri
Friday, 22.04.2016 Magazine, will present the Iranian fresh fruit and vegetable sector in detail, while major Iranian distributors will inform us of their views on the development of commercial relations between Iran and Greece. Pavilion 15 18.30 Opening Ceremony FRESKON 2016 'I. Vellidis' Congress Centre THESSALONIKI Hall Exhibition Working Hours: 10.00-19.00 09.00 20.00 1 st International Green Vegetables & Asparagus Congress 1st SECTION: The future of fresh fruit Pavilion 13 10.00 12.00 Get to know the new products that will justly win their place on the shelves of supermarkets. REDLOVE, the new apple cultivar by KIKU Hellas Georgios Poultsidis, General Director of Emphyton Group and Representative of the KIKU and REDLOVE apple cultivars for Greece SISSY, the new pear cultivar Sophia Kebapidou, Agricultural Engineer of Farm Hellas SORELI kiwi-fruit, ready to conquer the Greek market Christos Kolios, Director of Kolios S.A. SWEET : The new protected cherry cultivar of the University of Bologna and other new cultivars Aris Konstantinidis, Agronomist of Vitro Hellas SA Almond tree: A new late-bloom cultivar Michalis Tsesmelis, Agronomist of Tsesmeli Nurseries Apricot cultivar series highly resistant to the sharka disease Evangelos Glavakis, Technical Director of Glavaki Plants
1st SECTION: The structures of the Greek fresh fruit and vegetable sector today Does the fresh fruit and vegetable sector need a new structure in order to become a reliable interlocutor of the state? If yes, what form should this structure take? Coordinator: Panayiotis Orfanos, Publisher of FROUTONEA magazine Pavilion 15 12.00 13.00 Christos Yiannakakis, Advisor of the Venus Agricultural Cooperative, member of the Board of Directors of the Pan-Hellenic Confederation of Unions of Agricultural Cooperatives (PASEGES) and President of the Consortium of Producers Organisations of the Prefecture of Imathia Nikos Koutliabas, President of the Agricultural Cooperative of Processing and Horticulture Sales (ASEPOP) of Velventos Manolis Archontakis, Owner of Westland Fruit LLC Stelios Drys, Co-founder and CEO of Foodstandard 2nd SECTION: Packing House: Innovative products in the service of packagers Pavilion 13 13.00 15.00 ΤΕΧ presents Yiorgos Polychronopoulos, Export Manager of ΤΕΧ SA Dynamic freezing: A new technique for long-term preservation Yiorgos Dimopoulos, Director of Sales at ALFA COOL HELLAS Pre-freezing: Its crucial contribution to more effective preservation of fruit and vegetables Aris Tsatsarelis, Certified Mechanical Engineer, Head of the Research & Development of New Technologies Department at ALFA COOL HELLAS Dry Matter Non Destructive technique: An innovative tool, directly available to the fruit preservation industry Ioanna Petkopoulou, technical advisor for post-
harvest preservation, DIMTECH SA; Grigoris Tsinonis, Director of Sales at DIMTECH SA. 2nd SECTION: Is the new CAP a tool for the growth of the fresh fruit & vegetable sector? Banking products and rural production. Pavilion 15 14.00 15.00 Dimitrios Melas, former Alternate Minister of Reconstruction of Production, Environment & Energy Alexios Polytakis, Head of Rural Sector Work Development and Rural Entrepreneurship, Piraeus Bank Modern banking thinking for rural sector financing 3rd SECTION: Innovative ideas for the production, packaging and transport of fresh produce. The fresh fruit and vegetable sector is facing numerous challenges. Innovative ideas and practical issues comprise a new business environment for the production, packaging and transport of fresh produce. Pavilion 13 16.00 17.15 Software applications for fresh fruit and vegetables Iordanis Petridis, Co-owner of MENTOR The codification of fresh fruit and vegetables' Dimitrios Christou, Manager Market Development, GS1 Association Greece Climacteric - non-climacteric products and the effect of Ethylene and Carbon Dioxide on long-term preservation Pavlos Fotiadis, Special Advisor of ISO FRUIT. Mechanical Engineer (Technological Education) New Technologies for the Production of Grafted Plants Damianos Kintzonidis, Director of Production, AGRIS 3rd SECTION: What the consumers of tomorrow want How aware are consumers of the relationship between the environment and food production? How do they receive
Saturday, 23.04.2016 information on food safety and how important is the role of the label in this interchange of information between producer and consumer? Pavilion 15 17.00 18.00 Whom does the carbon footprint affect? Georgios Michalopoulos, Director of RodaxAgro LLC Food Certification or Safety? Athanassios Kalyvas, Chief Executive Manager of Modus DCS Ltd. Packaging and adhesive labels. A means for developing communication and trust between producers and consumers. Avgerinos Hatzichryssos, Owner of Forlabels BRC Food & Safety Issue 7: The new requirements for the standardisation of fresh fruit and vegetables Georgios Margaritopoulos, Director of Quality at GENECON, Agronomist MSc QA Exhibition Working Hours: 10.00-18:00 1st SECTION: Conclusions of the 1st International Green Vegetables & Asparagus Congress (22-23 April, Thessaloniki) Pavilion 13 11.00-12.00 Pavilion 13 12.00 13.30 Christos Katsanos, award-winning Brand Strategist and Advisor on the Total Management of Greenhouses and Farms, Executive Director of the DKG GROUP Conclusions of the World Congress on Sustainable management and production of high-quality cherries (4-8 April, Naoussa) Athanassios Molassiotis, Assistant Professor of Pomology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki 2nd SECTION: In the beginning was the seed The top seed production and transport companies present tomorrow s stars of the shelves and fields.
Syngenta presents its dynamic products Manolis Delibaltadakis, Campaign Manager for the Horticulture range of Syngenta Hellas SA The new generation of lettuce with the innovation of KNOX Diamantis Tsiatouras, CEO of Rijk Zwaan Hellas Obla and Lobello are, justifiably, market leaders Georgios Tsiardakas, Owner of Agrosem Geognosi LLC: High-quality, reliable seeds in the service of producers Angelos Anastassiadis, Agronomist and Manager of Geognosi LLC AGRIS Advancing Horticulture, corporate presentation Ioannis Koumoundouros, Commercial Director, AGRIS 'The policy of the Ministry of Agriculture for the development of the fresh fruit and vegetable sector' Pavilion 15 10.00-11:30 Pavilion 15 12.00-13.00 Pavilion 15 15.00 17.00 Anastassia Makri, Executive of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food Product promotion: Europe and Greece facing new challenges in a changing society. Evangelia Kourenta, head of the Directorate of Agricultural Policy, International Affairs and Products Promotion of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food Athanassios Tambaropoulos, Co-founder of Novacert LLC Pandelis Skarlatos, Founder and CEO of Economotechniki LLC 3rd SECTION: The new stone fruit season Estimates concerning the new season s production of peaches, nectarines, cherries and apricots. Coordinator: Vassilis Kourkouyiannis
Representations of the top production centres of Thessaly, Macedonia and Peloponnesus. Events recorded until Tuesday, 19 April 2016 by the Directorate for Congresses & Events of TIF-HELEXPO S.A. Tel. No: 2310 291.213, 2310 291.572