Chairpersons:

Organizing Committee Co-chairs

B.Ch. Meskhi, Rector of DSTU	Yu.F. Lachuga, Academician-secretary of the Department of Agricultural Sciences of RAS, academician of RAS	Yu.A. Ivanov, Head of Research Direction “Livestock Technologization” FSBI FSAC VIM, academician of RAS
S.E. Treshkin, Deputy Director of the Department of Coordination of Organizations in the Field of Agricultural Sciences of the Russian Ministry of Education and Science	K.N. Rachalovsky, Minister of Agriculture and Food of the Rostov region	Viktor Buxmann, AMAZONE-WERKE, Deutschland

Organizing committee of the conference:

Yu. F. Lachuga  — member of presidium of Russian Academy of Sciences, secretary-academician of Agricultural Science Department of RAS, Russia
B.CH. Meskhi — Rector of Don State Technical University, Russia
L.V. Borisova – Head of the department of Management and Business Technologies; DSTU, D.Sc. in engineering, Prof.
D.V. Rudoy — Dean of the Agribusiness faculty; DSTU, Ph. D. in engineering
V.I. Pakhomov — deputy Director of Federal State Funded Research Institution «Agricultural Scientific Center «Donskoy», D.Sc. in engineering
G.A. Zhidkov — Director of the Federal State Budgetary Institution «North Caucasian Machine Testing Station», Ph. D. in engineering
T.I. Tupolskikh – Head of the Department of Food Production Technologies; DSTU
O.P. Cherednichenko – Head of the Department of Engineering and Computer Graphics; DSTU
A.V. Butochenko – Head of the Department of Engineering and Maintenance of Transporting and Manufacturing Systems, DSTU
N.P. Semenyuk — Head of the Department of Economic Analysis of Agribusiness and the Implementation of Priority Programs of the Ministry of Agriculture and Food of the Rostov Region;

Scientific committee of the conference

1. Mark Shamtsyan, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia
2. Mona Elena Popa, University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine of Bucharest, Faculty of Biotechnology, Full professor
3. Paola Pittia, Iseki-Food Assosiation, Vice-Rector of the University of Teramo, Italy
4. Rimantas Venskutonis, Professor, Kaunas University of Technology, Lithuania
5. Arkadiy Solovyev, Head of the Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Don State Technical University, Russia
6. Aleksey Beskopylny, Don State Technical University, Russia
7. Brian McKenna, Emeritus Professor of Food Science, University College Dublin, Scientific Coordinator, ETP Food for Life, Ireland
8. Chin-Kun Wang, President of International Society for Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods, , Honorary President of Nutrition Society of Taiwan, Director for International Life Science Institute, Taiwan
9. Vladimir Tishkin, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Federal Research Center «Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences RAS»
10. Diana Banati, Executive and Scientific Director. International Life Science Institute, Brussels, Belgium
11. Gaceu Liviu Professor, Transilvania University of Brasov, Romania
12. Ganesh Bora Professor, North Dakota State University, USA
13. Garabed Antranikian, Director of the Institute of Technical Microbiology, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany
14. Hubertus Lelieveld, EFFoST and EHEDG Executive Committee, GHI President, Netherlands
15. Henrik Zielinsky, Institute of Animal Reproduction and Food Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Olsztyn, Editor in Chief of Polish Journal of Food and Nutrition sciences, Poland
16. Ludwig Jozefsberg, EHEDG President, Sweden
17. Dumitru Mnerie, Professor, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania
18. Viktor Nedovic , Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia
19. Aleksandr Sukhinov, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Don State Technical University, Russia
20. Mikhail Iakobovskii, corr. member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Federal Research Center «Keldysh Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Russian Academy of Sciences RAS»
21. Patrizia Restani Professor, University of Milano, Italy
22. Stefan Stefanov, Professor, University of Food Technology, Bulgaria
23. Tita Ovidiu, Professor, University Lucian Blaga, Sibiu, Romania
24. Vladimir Kakurinov, Executive Director of Consulting and Training Center KEY.  Macedonia
25. Miomir Niksic, Professor, University of Belgrade, Serbia
26. Abdimanap Ospanov, Professor, Kazakh National Agrarian University
27. Angel Angelov, Professor, University of Food Technology, Bulgaria
28. Stanka Damianova, Director of Razgrad branch of Angel Kanchev University, Ruse, Bulgaria
29. Endre Mate, Professor, University of Debrecen
30. Genaro Melino, Progarmme  leader MRC Toxicology Unit,  Cambridge University, UK,    Director of Department of University Tor Vergata of Rome, Italy
31. Kiprushkina Yelena, Professor, ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
32. Volkova Olga, Professor, Dean of the Faculty,  ITMO University, St. Petersburg, Russia
33. Mikhail Pushkarev, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia
34. Boris Kolesnikov, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia
35. Dmitry Vinokhodov, Head of the Department, St. Petersburg State Institute of Technology, Russia
36. Ján Piteľ, Professor, Ph.D, Technical University of Košice, Slovakia
37. Dean Vučinić, Professor, Doctor of Engineering Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
38. Oleg Dvornikov, Professor, Doctor of Technical Science, Minsk Research Institute of Instrument Engineering, Belarus
39. Mariya Sysoyeva, Head of the Department, Kazan National Research Technical University, Russia
40. Yulia Bazarnova, Director, Graduate School of Biotechnology and Food Production,Piter the Great  Polytechnical University, St. Petersburg, Russia
41. Andrey Bratsikhin, Director, Institute of Life Sciences, North Caucases Federal University, Stavropol, Russia
42. H. Zou, Vice President of Ludong University, China
43. K. Shiyun, Vice President of Ludong University, China
44. A. Ermakov, Dean of the Faculty of Bioengineering and Veterinary Medicine, DSTU;
45. D. Dubover, Dean of the Faculty of Media Communications and Multimedia Technologies, DSTU;
46. V. Eremeev, Professor at Gdansk University of Technology (Poland);
47. I. Sevostyanov, Professor at New Mexico State University (USA);
48. D. Trautz, Professor at Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences and Landscape Architecture (AuL) , (Germany);
49. E. Barkanov, professor at Riga Technical University (Latvia);
50. F. Kaifash, professor at St. Stephen’s University (Hungary);
51. A. Berberian, Professor at Russian-Armenian (Slavonic) State University (Armenia);
52. O. Arifon, Professor at Free University of Brussels (Belgium);
53. K. Filk, Professor at European University of Flensburg (Germany);
54. Prof. Dr. Maria von Salisch, professor at Leuphana University of Lüneburg (Germany);
55. Nikolay Sorokin — Director of Federal State Funded Research Institution “All-Russian Research Institute of Mechanization and Informational Support of Agrochemical Maintenance of Agriculture”
56. Manfred Esser — CEO – GET Information Technology GmbH, Grevenbroich, Germany
57. Aleksander Kushnaryov — Head of the Department of Information Support of researches of Federal State Funded Research Institution «Agricultural Scientific Center «Donskoy»
58. Marco Pasetti — Università degli Studi di Brescia UNIBS, Italy
59. Mikhail Zalikhanov — Full member of Russian Academy of Sciences, Honorary Professor of Lomonosov Moscow State University
60. Askar Zhusupbekov — President of Kazakhstan Geotechnical Society, Director of the Geotechnical Institute at the L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, Astana, Kazakhstan