The Programme
| Day One - 9 June 2006 | |
| 8:00am | RUBBER PLANTATION STUDY
TOUR Dau Tieng Rubber Corp Plantation Estate, Processing and Testing Laboratory (Board coach at the front entrance of Park Hyatt Saigon) |
| 5:00pm | ARC2006 Conference
Registration Begins Venue:Ballroom, Ground Floor, Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| 5:30pm | Exhibition Opens Venue:Ballroom, Ground Floor, Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| 6:00 - 8:30pm | ARC2006 WELCOME COCKTAIL
RECEPTION Venue:Ballroom, Ground Floor, Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| Day Two - 10 June 2006 | |
| 8:00am | ARC2006 Conference
Registration Resumes Venue:Ballroom, Ground Floor, Park Hyatt Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam |
| 8:00am | Exhibition Opens |
| 8:15am | Arrival of Guests |
| 8:30am | Arrival of Mr. Le Quang Thung, Chairman of Vietnam Rubber Association |
| 8:45am | Arrival of the
Guest-of-Honour Deputy Minister of Trade(Mr. Phan The Rue) |
| 8:50am | WELCOME REMARKS Mr.Stephen Lai, Chief Executive Officer of NextVIEW Group |
| 9:00am | OPENING ADDRESS Mr.Le Quang Thung, Chairman of Vietnam Rubber Association |
| 9:10am | KEYNOTE ADDRESS Deputy Minister of Trade (Invited) |
| 9:30am | Paper 1: RUBBER
DEMAND:WHAT TO EXPECT?WHO WILL SUPPLY?HOW TO COOPERATE? Dr.Hidde Smit, Secretary-General, International Rubber Study Group(IRSG) |
| 10:20am | Networking & Refreshment Break |
| 10:40am | Paper 2:DEVELOPMENT OF NR PRODUCTION & EXPORT FORECAST:A VIETNAM PERSPECTIVE Mr. Le Quang Thung, Chairman of Vietnam Rubber Association |
| 11:00am | Paper 3: NR PRODUCTION
AND SUPPLY FORECAST:A THAILAND PERSPECTIVE? Sang Udomjarumani, Chief Executive Officer, International Rubber Consortium Limited(IRCo) |
| 11:40am | Paper 4:INDIA'S
CONSUMPTION AND FORECAST FOR NR AND SR Sajen Peter, Chairman, Rubber Board of India |
| 12:10am | Luncheon for Panel Speakers and Delegates |
| 1:30pm | Paper 5:NR MARKET
OUTLOOK IN THE CONTEXT OF ANRPC MEMBER COUNTRIES Toms Joseph, Association of Natural Rubber Producing Countries (ANRPC) |
| 2:10pm | Paper 6:NR AND SR
PRODUCTION AND SUPPLY FORECAST:AN INDONESIA PERSPECTIVE Dr.AFS Budiman, Counselor for Indonesian Rubber Research Institute |
| 2:50pm | Paper 7:CHINA'S ECONOMIC
EFFECT ON NR & SR CONSUMPTION AND DEMAND PROSPECTS Chen Ke Xin, Ministry of International Trade & Logistics, People's Republic of China |
| 3:30pm | Networking & Refreshment & Break |
| 3:50pm | Paper 8:TOCOM RUBBER
PRICE TRENDS FORECAST FOR 2006/2007 Daryl Guppy, guppytraders.com |
| 4:20pm | Paper 9:SPECIAL INTEREST
- WORLD CLASS MANUFACTURING: THE OUTSOURCING PARADIGM FOR THE ASEAN RUBBER INDUSTRY Dr. R K Matthan, Revertex-KA Latex (India) |
| 4:50pm | Paper 10:SPECIAL INTEREST
- TRADING OPPORTUNITIES IN TOCOM Jinichi Matsunaga, The Tokyo Commodity Exchange |
| 5:15pm | OPEN FORUM |
| 5:45pm | -End of Conference- |