Agenda
- Registration Opens
- Lunch | Sponsored by California Dairies Inc and Valley Queen Cheese
Location: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
- Registration
Location: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
- Fundamentals of Dairy Price Risk Management • Session 1
Jared MorganLocation: White City Ballroom, 8th Floor
Jared Morgan
Vice President, Global Education at StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
- Fundamentals of Dairy Price Risk Management • Session 2
Katie BurgessLocation: White City Ballroom, 8th Floor
Katie Burgess
Director, Risk Management of Ever.Ag
- Refreshment Break
- Fundamentals of Dairy Price Management • Session 3
Patrick SchillingLocation: White City Ballroom, 8th Floor
Patrick Schilling
VP Commodity Products at Wells Fargo Bank
- Reception | Sponsored by Ever.Ag
Location: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
- Risk Mitigation • Purchasing & Sales Risk and Legal Risk
Jon Spainhour•Mike TomlinsonLocation: Madison Ballroom, 8th Floor
Jon Spainhour
Senior Commercial Advisor at Ever.Ag
Mike Tomlinson
Tomlinson & Shapiro, P.C.
- Risk Mitigation • Product Risk and Insurance Risk
Ben DuCharme•Justin Larsen•Jen Pino-Gallagher•Ashwini VashishtLocation: Madison Ballroom, 8th Floor
Product Risk will be presented by Justin Larsen & Ashwini Vashisht of Mars Wrigley
Insurance Risk: Protecting your Property, Products & People will be presented by Jen Pino-Gallagher & Ben DuCharme of M3 Insurance
Ben DuCharme
Client Executive - Food & Agribusiness at M3 Insurance
Justin Larsen
Global SQA Lead - Dairy at Mars Wrigley
Jen Pino-Gallagher
Director, Food & Agribusiness Practice of M3 Insurance
Ashwini Vashisht
Global SQA lead- micro at Mars Wrigley
- Refreshment Break
- Risk Mitigation • Financial Risk
Eric Kroll•Troy MatternLocation: Madison Ballroom, 8th Floor
Eric Kroll
Principal at Baker Tilly Virchow Krause, LLP
Troy Mattern
Chief Information Security OFficer at StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
- Reception | Sponsored by Ever.Ag
Location: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
- Breakfast | Sponsored by Clofine Dairy Products
Location: The Tank, Ground Floor
- Welcome & Introductions
Blake Anderson•Anne KremaLocation: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
Blake Anderson
President & CEO of ADPI
Anne Krema
Director of CME Group
- Outlook Panel
Eric Adamchick•Stephen Cain•Dan Conrath•Jim Matthews•Eric MeyerLocation: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
A world dairy, grain and energy outlook and how weather and climate impact them moderated by Eric Meyer of HighGround Dairy.
Eric Adamchick
Senior Meteorological Consultant at Everstream Analytics
Stephen Cain
Director, Economic Research and Analysis of National Milk Producers Federation
Dan Conrath
Senior Market Analyst at StoneX Financial Inc. - FCM Division
Jim Matthews
Senior Director, Global Grain and Feed of Ever.Ag
Eric Meyer
President at HighGround Dairy
- Refreshment Break
- Dairy Policies/Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO)
Dana Coale•Alexandra GamboniniLocation: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
Dana Coale
Deputy Administrator at U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Marketing Service
Alexandra Gambonini
Senior Manager, Advisory Services at HighGround Dairy
- Lunch | Sponsored by StoneX
Location: The Tank, Ground Floor
- Outlook, Purchasing & Hedging and Impacts on Risk Management from Policy Changes
Sara Dorland•Steve Galbraith•Mike McCully•Dan StaufferLocation: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
Moderated by Dan Stauffer, Sr. Vice President Commodities & Risk Management at California Dairies.
Sara Dorland
Managing Partner at Ceres Dairy Risk Management LLC
Steve Galbraith
VP Procurement & Commodity Risk Management at SAPUTO DAIRY FOODS USA
Mike McCully
President at McCully Consulting
Dan Stauffer
Sr. Vice President Commodities & Risk Management at California Dairies Inc.
- Perspective from Market Participants Across the Dairy Trading Ecosystem
Thomas Cono•Leon Gressel•Christopher Herlache•Prince Jibunor•Adnan MikatiLocation: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
Moderated by Prince Jibunor, Cargill Risk Management
Thomas Cono
Director of Sourcing and Risk Management at Great Lakes Cheese Co., Inc.
Leon Gressel
Gressel Produce & Commodities
Christopher Herlache
Risk Strategies Manager at Schreiber Foods Inc.
Prince Jibunor
Senior Director, Food & Dairy Ingredients of Cargill Inc
Adnan Mikati
Director- HTM Americas of Hoogwegt
- Refreshment Break
- Overview of the Beef Cattle Market
Michael MoroneyLocation: Stagg Court, 4th Floor
Michael Moroney
CI Hedging
- CME Overview: Dairy from a Buyside Investor Perspective and SPAN 2 Overview
Brett Kovarik•John Ricci
Brett Kovarik
Executive Director of CME Group
John Ricci
Managing Director and Global Head of Agricultural Products at CME Group
- Reception | Hosted by HighGround Dairy
Location: 2Twenty2 Tavern
222 S Wabash Ave, Chicago (approx. 5 min walk)