Adriano Araújo

Finance Director and ESG, Agro Amazônia

16 years of experience in Finance, financial strategy, foreign exchange, derivatives, cash management, fundraising, investments, as well as extensive experience in relationships with financial institutions both domestic and international, with financial management in countries such as the Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, Argentina, and Paraguay.

Alexandre Dal Forno

IoT & 5G Director, TIM Brasil

Alexandre Pedro Schenkel

President, Abrapa

Comming Soon…

Amarildo Merotti

Director, Comercial da Roça

Bruno Wanderley Freitas

Content Leader, DATAGRO

Senior Economist at DATAGRO, where he has been working since 2006. As an associate at DATAGRO, he leads the company’s office in Recife-PE, managing a team responsible for report production and database maintenance and analysis. He holds a degree in Economics from UFPE, with a master’s degree in Finance from the same university.

Carolina Troster de Hollanda

Partner, DATAGRO Financial

Carolina Troster is a partner at DATAGRO Financial. She has over 20 years of experience in the financial market and has worked at institutions such as Banco ABC Brasil and Citi. Outside of Brazil, she was Director of Wealth Management at UBS Bank in Geneva, Switzerland, and Vice-Director of the structured operations distribution area at Cargill in Singapore.

Cidinho Santos

Former Senator

Cidinho Santos is a businessman in agribusiness and a politician. He served as the mayor of Nova Marilândia-MT for three terms, as Secretary of State for Strategic Projects of MT, and as a Senator of the Republic. He also served as vice-president of the Parliamentary Front for Agriculture (FPA) while in the Senate. He is the author of the project that led to Law No. 14,943, which extends the same tax treatment—exemption from social contributions (PIS/Pasep and Cofins) granted to soybeans—to corn bran and corn oil. With a strong focus on defending the Brazilian agribusiness and biofuels sector, he was the rapporteur of the National Biofuels Policy – RenovaBio in the Senate and worked intensively for the approval of the Regulatory Framework for Biodiesel.

He is the President of MC Empreendimentos e Participações Holding, which operates in agroindustry with poultry and pork processing plants, premium pet food production, and mineral feed and supplements, as well as biodiesel industries in the states of MT, PA, PI, and SP. He is currently the President of the Fiscal and Administrative Council of Nova Rota do Oeste, the concessionaire that manages BR 163/364 and the Rodovia dos Imigrantes in MT, and is also a Member of the Superior Council of Agribusiness (Cosag) of FIESP.

Cesar Redondo

Tax Consultant, Deloitte

Cleiton Gauer

Superintendent, IMEA

Cristiano Oliveira

Executive Director, Banco Pine

Daniel Goulart

Executive Manager of Biodiesel and Tallow Origination, Minerva Foods

Daniel Latorraca Ferreira

Founder and COO, Creditares

Economist, with an MBA in Agribusiness from ESALQ-USP and in Financial Investments and Private Banking from Ibmec. He is currently Chief Operating Officer (COO) at Creditares, a fintech company he founded in 2020 and owns the Agro Open Bank platform. He was superintendent of the Mato Grosso Institute of Agricultural Economy – IMEA, where he worked for 12 years. He was co-founder and head of one of the first innovation hub for agribusiness in Brazil, Agrihub. He was the creator and one of the coordinators of the Agroeconomic Alliance, which raises, processes and analyzes agribusiness data from the Midwest in a network between the research institutes of the region’s federations and the CNA. In addition, it has worked on large projects aimed at improving the business environment and fostering new agro markets in Brazil.

Daniel Sarmento

Commercial Manager, Inpasa

Donizete Tokarski

CEO, Ubrabio

Agronomist engineer from UFG.

Superintendent Director of the União Brasileira do Biodiesel e Bioquerosene (Ubrabio), where he has been active since the organization’s founding in 2007.

Member of the Advisory Committee of the MCTI-EMBRAPII Network for Innovation in Bioeconomy, Partner-Director of Lkt Consultores, and President of the Board of the Brazilian Agency for Environmental and Information Technology – ECODATA. He is a rural producer and bioeconomy consultant.

He was President of the Sectoral Chamber of the Oilseed and Biodiesel Production Chain at the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock – MAPA.

In the 1990s, he was Chief of Staff for Ministers of Justice, Agriculture and Land Reform, and the Special Secretariat for Regional Policies of the Presidency of the Republic. He served as a technical advisor in the Federal Senate and the Chamber of Deputies. He was Director of Settlement at the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform – INCRA. He also served as Secretary of State for the Surrounding Area and as Representative of the State of Goiás to the Federal Government. He was the first Executive Secretary of the Integrated Development Region of the Federal District and Surrounding Areas – RIDE/DF.

He has been a member of the National Environmental Council – CONAMA and the National Water Resources Council – CNRH.

Edeon Vaz Ferreira

Executive Director of the Pro-Logistics Movement of Mato Grosso, Aprosoja

Eduardo Lourenço

Partner, Maneira Advogados and Tax Consultant, IPA.

Eudis Furtado Filho

Vice President of Commercial and Business Development, Rumo Logística

Fabio Mazzo

Partner - Investment Banking, XP Inc.

Felipe Soares

Climate and Geoprocessing Analyst, DATAGRO

Analyst at Datagro since 2010.

Responsible for the climate analysis and geoprocessing department at Datagro.

Graduated in Environmental Engineering from PUC Campinas – 2011.

Master’s degree in Agricultural Systems Engineering with an emphasis on agrometeorology from Esalq – Piracicaba – 2014.

Intern at Embrapa Agricultural Informatics from 2007 to 2009.

Fernando Pimentel

Emeritus President, ABIT

Emeritus President and Superintendent Director of Abit – Brazilian Association of Textile and Apparel Industry, originally from Rio de Janeiro, graduated in Economics and Business Administration from Faculdade Candido Mendes. He has been active in the Textile and Apparel Sector since 1977, both in the domestic and international markets.

He also holds the following positions:

President of the Coalition for Trade Facilitation and Barriers CFB/CNI;
Vice-President of CONSIN/CNI – Sectorial Advisory Council of Industry;
Member of the Board of ITMF – International Textile Manufacturers Federation;
Member of the Board of IAF – International Apparel Federation;
Member of CAL/CNI – Permanent Thematic Council on Legislative Affairs;
Member of CRT/CNI – Permanent Thematic Council on Labor Relations and Social Development;
Member of the Sectorial Chamber of Cotton and Derivatives/MAPA;
Member of COSEC – Superior Council of Economics;
Member of COMMODA – Fashion Production Chain Committee;
Member of COPIN/CNI – Thematic Council on Industrial Policy and Technological Development;
Consultant Member of CDMD – Fashion Law Commission of OAB/RJ;
Member of CEMBRAR/CNI – Brazil-Argentina Business Council.

Fernando Pauli de Bastiani

Analyst of Research, ESALQ-LOG

Fernando Rodrigues

Founder Partner, Rural Ventures

With more than 15 years’ experience in finance and agribusiness, he is the founder and managing partner of Rural Ventures, a venture capital firm dedicated to supporting agtech and foodtech startups. He also hosts the Rural Talks podcast, where he highlights industry innovations aimed at closing the gap between traditional agriculture and technology. He has a degree in Business Administration with an emphasis on Logistics, a postgraduate degree in Economics and an MBA in Exponential Business. He currently acts as an advisor to five agtech companies and, for the last 11 years, was the partner responsible for the agribusiness sector at XP Investimentos.

Flávio França Jr.

Economist and Head of Research Grains, DATAGRO

Fábio Júnior Maia Pereira

Deputy Municipal Secretary, Secretaria Municipal de Agricultura, Trabalho e Desenvolvimento Econômico

Francielle Tonietto Capilé Guedes

Regional Superintendent of Conab in Mato Grosso.

Regional Superintendent of Conab in Mato Grosso
Agricultural Engineer and career employee of Conab for 17 years.

Gabriel Fonseca

Commercial General Manager, VLI Logística

Professional with extensive experience in agribusiness logistics, specializing in the grain, fertilizer and sugar supply chains, working for the two largest logistics operators in Brazil. He has solid expertise in business development and marketing, with a focus on structuring and managing multimodal logistics solutions that integrate railroads, ports, roads and terminals.

In the corn ethanol segment, he was responsible for the first large-scale logistics solution for export using a multimodal system, and has been developing new solutions together with major players in the sector.

Giovana Cavalca

Grain Analyst, DATAGRO

Guilherme Nolasco

Executive President, UNEM

Rural producer, veterinarian with a long career in Agribusiness, Guilherme Linares Nolasco is executive president of the National Union of Corn Ethanol (UNEM). He has extensive experience as an executive and manager in the agricultural sector. He chaired the Mato Grosso Institute of Meat and the Institute of Agricultural Defense of Mato Grosso. He is currently Coordinator of the Bioenergy Commission of the Instituto Pensar Agro (IPA/ FPA), participates in the Productive Chambers of Sugar and Alcohol and Corn and Sorghum in the MAPA, is a founding member of the PCI Institute (Produce, Conserve and Include) and representative of the Corn Ethanol sector at the Ethanol Supply Monitoring Table coordinated by the Ministry of Mines and Energy (MME).

Gustavo Herrmann

Commercial Director, Koppert

Isan Rezende

President, FEAGRO-MT

Rural Producer, Agricultural Engineer, Lawyer with specialization in Agribusiness Law, Agrarian Law, and Nonprofit Organization Management; journalist and host of the Program “Pensar Agro: Do Campo à Cidade”; author of the book “Terceiro Setor: A Nova Fronteira do Terceiro Milênio” – awarded as Literary Works of Ibero-American Countries by the Confederación Iberoamericana de Fundación (CIF/Spain/2003), and of the book “O Poder Público e o Agronegócio Brasileiro”; President of the Federation of Agricultural Engineers of the State of Mato Grosso; President of the Agribusiness Institute; Member of the Specialized Chamber of Agronomy of the CONFEA/CREA/MT system; Member of the Agribusiness Commission of OAB/MT; and Coordinator of the Agribusiness Chamber at the Association of Banks of the Central-West/Tocantins.

João Otávio de Assis Figueiredo

Research Leader, DATAGRO Livestock

Luciana Portellinha

Business Development Manager, Ipiranga

Luciane Bertinatto Copetti

Deputy Secretary of the Environment of Mato Grosso

Marcelo Duarte

Director of International Relations, Abrapa

Comming Soon…

Mário Campos Filho

Executive President, Siamig e Bioenergia Brasil

Mário Ferreira Campos Filho is 39 years old. He is an economist graduaded from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), with an MBA in Finance from IBMEC and Government Relations from FGV Brasília.

He has been active in the sector since 2003. Currently, he is the executive president of the Sugar-Ethanol Industries Association of Minas Gerais – SIAMIG – and the Unions of the Sugar and Alcohol Industry in the State of Minas Gerais.

In 2021, he assumed the role of Chairman of the Sugar and Alcohol Sector Chamber of the Ministry of Agriculture and Bioenergia Brasil.

He is also the president of the Environmental and Sustainable Development Council of the Federation of Industries of Minas Gerais.

Mayra Theis

Lider of TAX Agribusiness, PwC Brasil.

Extensive experience in tax and corporate consulting, with over 25 years in the field, including 19 years at PwC Brazil focusing on agribusiness. Currently, she leads the TAX practice for agribusiness at PwC Brazil from the Ribeirão Preto office and works with clients of various profiles, from family-owned businesses to large multinational groups. She holds a degree in Accounting from PUC São Paulo, a degree in Law from the University of Ribeirão Preto (Unaerp), and a Postgraduate degree in Tax Law from the Law School of the University of São Paulo – USP/Ribeirão Preto.

Pedro Regoto

Technical Manager, Climatempo

Graduated and Master’s degree in Meteorology from the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Currently a PhD candidate at the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE), specializing in climate modeling and climate change. Extensive experience in climate change research, focusing on detection and future projection of climate extremes for Brazil, South America, and globally. Currently holds the position of Technical Manager at Climatempo, specializing in climate and climate change, with a primary focus on the electricity, agricultural, and infrastructure sectors.

Plinio Nastari

President, DATAGRO

Dr. Nastari holds M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Agricultural Economics, from Iowa State University.
Phi Kappa Phi (1983), Gamma Sigma Delta (1983).

Was Professor of Economics at FGV – The Getúlio Vargas Foundation, in São Paulo, in undergraduate and graduate level courses (MBA, Masters and Doctoral programs) from 1984 to 2001.

Member of PAPSAC, the Private and Public, Scientific, Academic and Consumer Food Policy Group, at Harvard University, in Cambridge, MA, USA, since 2012.

Professor at the MBA in Agribusiness Joint Programme established between ESPM in São Paulo and Université de Nantes, France, since 2015.

Former Executive Director and President of the Board of the Brazilian Association of Automotive Engineers (AEA), from 2000 to 2002, during the 1980s he helped the design of ethanol specifications which enabled the use of ethanol in fuel injected engines.

He has served as member of the Technical Committees of Brazil’s Interministerial Council on Sugar and Alcohol, National Energy Commission, and Commission for Reexam of the Energy Matrix. He has assisted the Brazilian government in Energy Planning (1984-86 and 1991-93), industry deregulation (1997-1999), trade negotiations (1991-2004), and trade disputes.

Representative of the Civil Society Specialist in Energy at the National Council on Energy Policy, at the Federal Government of Brazil, designated for the period of 2016 to 2018, and reassigned until 2020.

With extensive experience in trade negotiations and trade disputes at the International Trade Commission and the World Trade Organization, Dr. Nastari has acted before the Brazilian Government as Chief Economist in the trade disputes involving ethanol exports to the United States (US ITC), and subsidized sugar exports from the European Union, European Union bananas import regime, and Brazilian regime for the import of used and retreaded tires (WTO).

He is Arbitrator at the “Camara FGV de Arbitragem” (Arbitration Chamber of the Getulio Vargas Foundation), and at “Camara de Conciliação e Arbitragem da Sociedade Rural Brasileira”) and has acted as Expert Testimony in many cases, at this Chamber and at ICC, the International Chamber of Commerce, in Paris.

Lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) – Second Assessment Report (2AR), and Consultant for Biomass Energy other than Wood, to the World Energy Council.

Co-founder and Member of the Sustainable Biofuels Consensus (Bellagio Consensus), Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center, Bellagio, Italy, 2008, and Participant of the Bled Strategic Forum, since 2008 in Bled, Slovenia.
Dr. Nastari is Member of the World Sugar Committee, at ICE Futures (Intercontinental Exchange) in New York, where recommendations are made for improvements in contract rules and other matters related to the world trade of sugar.

Member of the Council on Infrastructure of ACSP – Commerce Association of São Paulo, in São Paulo, since 2012.
Member of the Scientific Advisory Committee, National Laboratory for Science and Technology of Bioethanol, National Research Center on Energy and Materials, Brazil´s Ministry of Science, Technology, Inovation and Communication, Federative Republico f Brazil, since 2018.

President and CEO of DATAGRO Consulting Ltd., one of the world’s leading consulting company specialized in agricultural markets, serving clients in 41 countries, since 1984.

He leads a team of 97 collaborators at Datagro, housed in seven offices (Alphaville, Sao Paulo/Capital, Ribeirao Preto, Santos, Recife, Piracicaba, and New York), assisting a host of companies in market analysis, investments in production and logistics assets related to sugar, ethanol and other agrindustrial activities, in countries in the Americas, Africa, Europe, and Asia.

Throughout the years, Dr. Nastari established a fruitful cooperation between Datagro and the International Sugar Organization (ISO), jointly organizing the prestigious Sugar & Ethanol Conference that precedes the Person of the Year Award (BrazilCham) and the New York Sugar Dinner for the last ten years. He was Chairman of the 19th ISO Annual Seminar in London.

Organizer of the Sugar & Ethanol Summit – Brazil Day, for five consecutive years in London, in cooperation with Brazil’s Ministry of External Relations. Organizer for seventeen consecutive years of the traditional Datagro International Conference in São Paulo that precedes the São Paulo Sugar Dinner, and the Datagro Ceise Br Fenasucro Conference in Sertãozinho, SP, the largest equipment fair for sugar & ethanol in the world. Organizer of the Global Agribusiness Forum, in partnership with the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), ABRAMILHO (corn producers), ABCZ (cattle producers),Citrus BR (orange juice producers) and Forum Nacional Sucroenergetico (sugar & ethanol producers) a biannual venue which has the official support of the USDA, the European Commission, and the governments of France, Germany, Portugal, Italy, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Israel, Turkey and Cuba.

Dr. Nastari is a frequent speaker at energy, biofuels and agribusiness conferences around the globe, with frequent attendance in London, Paris, Brussels, New York, Washington, Delhi, Bangkok, Tokyo, Barcelona, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Bled, Orlando, São Paulo, Singapore, Amsterdam and Dubai.

Honorary Citizen of the State of Nebraska, State Assembly of the State of Nebraska, USA (1998).
Honorary Citizen of the State of Pernambuco, State Assembly of the State of Pernambuco, Brazil (2016).
Scholarship President Ernesto Geisel, by the American Chamber of Commerce in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro (1978)

Prize Canassauro Rex (2002).

Keynote Speaker, New York Sugar Dinner 2013, New York, NY, USA (2013).

Prize Top Ethanol (2014), Unica, Union of the Sugar Cane Industry.

Prize Merit of Agroenergy (2018), UDOP, União dos Produtores de Bioenergia.

100 Most Influential in Energy, Full Energy (2016, 2017, 2018, 2019).

Ethanol Man of the Year, Mastercana International (2019).

Keynote Speaker, Sugar & Ethanol Dinner Brazil 2019, Bienal Pavillion Sao Paulo (2019).

Grand Official of the Order of Merit of Anhanguera, State Government of Goiás, 2017.

Commander, Order of Rio Branco, Brazilian Government, 2018.

From his contribution to the development of biofuels in the US Dr. Nastari was awarded and recognized at the White House for his contribution to the development of biofuels use in aviation (2003).

Married to Rute, the couple has three children, Francisco Guilherme (36), Louise (34) and Luiz Felipe (33), and four grandchildren, Carolina (6), José (5), Anna Sophie (4) and Francisco Luiz (3).

Renata Brito

Director, Control Union

Lawyer graduated from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, with a postgraduate degree in Business Law from Fundação Getúlio Vargas and a specialization course in Agribusiness Law from Insper. She has been with Control Union for 15 years, currently serving as Director. She recently participated in discussions on changes to agribusiness laws involving guarantees, with a focus on CDA/WA.

Rodrigo Prosdócimo Pansera Guerra

President Director, Bio Óleo, President, Sindicato dos Produtores de Biodiesel do Estado do Mato Grosso (Sindibio-MT)

Graduated in Business Administration from the Faculdade Católica de Administração e Economia – FAE PR, graduated in Law from the Universidade de Rio Verde – FESURV GO, and holds a postgraduate degree in Public Law from the Instituto Cuiabano de Educação – ICE. He served as President for two terms of SINDIBIO-MT and is currently the Vice-President of the Union of Biodiesel Industries in the State of Mato Grosso (SindiBio-MT). He is the Managing Partner of Indústria Bio Óleo – Biodiesel, based in Cuiabá – MT, a Director and Advisor of the National Association of Biodiesel Producers of Brazil (APROBIO), VICE PRESIDENT of the Federation of Industries of the State of Mato Grosso – FIEMT, a Board Member of SENAI-MT, a Board Member of the Interdisciplinary Energy Planning Studies Center – NIEPE / UFMT, and a full member of the Innovation and Technology Council (Cointec) of the Federation of Industries of the State of Mato Grosso – FIEMT

Rodrigo Santiago

President of the Cotton Brokers Board, BBM

Rogério Luiz Gallo

State Secretary of Mato Grosso

Samuel Rocha

Analyst, DATAGRO Markets

An economist at DATAGRO, he works in the area of production costs. He is responsible for monitoring the brazilian and world fertilizer and crop protection markets, as well as other factors that affect the cost of production, in addition to lecturing at events organized by DATAGRO. He has been working in the market intelligence area for over two years. He has a degree in Economics from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco.

Sávio Ferreira

Country Manager Brasil, Aminochem

Sávio Ferreira is an experienced agronomist with over 20 years of experience in national and multinational companies. He has a background in both commercial and technical areas, including agricultural pesticides, conventional and specialty fertilizers, biofertilizers, soil conditioners, technical consulting, agricultural expertise, port and industrial operations, personnel management, digital marketing, and sales.

Currently, Sávio serves as the Country Manager of Aminochem Brazil, where he leads all company operations in the country. His career includes roles in renowned companies such as Champion Saúde Animal, VETBR Saúde Animal, Fertilizantes Heringer, and Bayer Cropscience, where he achieved significant market growth and implemented various innovations. He also has international experience in the fertilizer markets of Paraguay, Chile, and Argentina.

Sávio holds a Master’s degree in Soil and Plant Nutrition from the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, and MBAs in areas such as Marketing, Negotiation and Strategy, and Capital Markets.

Thomé Luiz Guth

Operational Logistics Superintendent, Conab

Agronomist Engineer, graduated from the University of Brasília – UNB in 1997, with an MBA in Agribusiness Management with an Emphasis on Risk Management from the Federal University of Lavras – UFLA/MG (2009/2010) and a specialization in Agricultural Policy Management from the National School of Public Administration – ENAP (2020). He is currently completing a Master’s degree in Agribusiness with a research focus on Logistics and Operations Research at the University of Brasília. He has worked with crop production and plant protection at the Agriculture Department of the Federal District, as a technical manager and irrigation designer at agricultural dealerships, and at multinational companies such as Dow AgroSciences, Monsanto do Brasil, and Compo do Brasil. He has been a career employee at the National Supply Company (Conab) since 2008, initially serving as a crop analyst and later as a market analyst. He has been a corn market analyst since 2009 and has also served as the Manager of the Agricultural Products Division, responsible for monitoring markets and proposing public policies for corn, soybeans, wheat, cassava, and meats. Since August 2020, he has been the Superintendent of Operational Logistics at Conab, focusing on the planning and operation of logistics activities as well as producing logistics information for the agribusiness sector.