Portfolio Group’s Agricultural Conference is one of the most prestigious agricultural events of the year. Originally a two-day event, the conference has expanded to three days, with the main sessions on 3–4 December now preceded by an opening evening on 2 December. This makes the event unique among Hungarian agricultural gatherings, offering rich professional programme for participants. The conference provides an assessment of the current state of the agricultural sector, outlines the short- and long-term development and breakout opportunities ahead, and presents reliable forecasts to support business decision-making. The event will present the most topical issues affecting the agri-food sector in a comprehensive and detailed way, providing extensive information on the processes that are crucial to the fate of agriculture, and, in addition to summarising and evaluating annual agricultural events, will also provide participants with a longer-term vision for informed development and investment decisions. At the conference, top executives from Hungary’s public administration, banking sector, corporate sphere, and professional associations will provide first-hand, relevant information that can serve as valuable insight for all players in the agri-food economy – from producers and food manufacturers to retailers. In addition, the event offers extensive opportunities for visibility and market development for companies serving the agricultural sector – including input manufacturers, integrators, machinery distributors, financial institutions, and other service providers. Beyond its rich and insightful programme, the conference provides a valuable platform for professional networking and business negotiations. In addition to high-level presentations and panel discussions, the event also includes entertaining segments to help participants unwind and recharge. Highlights from the Agricultural Conference 2024:

The Agrofuture Conference is a pioneering thematic event in Hungarian agriculture organised by the Portfolio Group. The goal of the conference is to introduce industry stakeholders to the sustainability goals and regulations, as well as the innovation trends and results, that will fundamentally shape farmers' daily activities in the coming years and decades. With this event, the Portfolio Group aims to uniquely contribute to the swift and effective implementation of a sustainability-focused mindset in Hungarian agriculture, ensuring that market players can quickly adopt and apply innovative products and technologies that improve the efficiency of their farming operations. The conference provides comprehensive information on regulatory requirements and subsidies related to sustainable farming, products, technologies, and best practices that support sustainability and are useful for farmers, as well as the main directions of global and domestic agricultural innovation processes and the cost and profitability aspects of utilising innovation results. The event can provide valuable information and experiences for all stakeholders in the agricultural sector – including producers, input material manufacturers and distributors, machinery dealers, manufacturers and distributors of innovative products, and service companies supporting agriculture – who are looking to embrace modern farming practices or are committed to building a sustainable domestic agricultural sector. The conference could also fill a gap for organisations – financial institutions, interest groups, and professional associations – that consider achieving sustainability and innovation goals a key task and aspiration.

The Agrofood Conference is a high-quality professional event for the food industry sector, launched in 2024 by the Portfolio Group. The conference’s goal is to provide a thematic overview of the areas that most crucially define the operations and management of food industry companies. The event seeks to offer valuable information about various topics, including the current market, taxation, workforce management, regulations, support, financing, profitability, and investment, that can significantly contribute to the successful operations of the companies in the industry. The event aims to be the leading and most influential professional forum where the key topics affecting food industry companies will receive prominent public attention, and industry participants will have the opportunity to access relevant information and find comprehensive answers and solutions to their emerging questions. The conference will cover the agricultural producers' and food industry companies' opportunities for cultivation, integration, and contract agreements, the challenges faced by the service sector related to the industry, as well as the commercial supplier relationships within the food industry and the expectations of the commercial sector towards the industry. By focusing on the food industry perspective, the event can be valuable for the entire agri-food sector, as well as industries and sectors that serve processing companies, while also providing a fantastic opportunity for professional networking and relationship building.   ATTENTION CONSULTANTS! – EVENT RECOMMENDED BY THE HUNGARIAN CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE! You can earn 4 points by attending the event. (Separate registration at the venue is required for credit point validation!)

The Agricultural Conference is one of the most important and influential agricultural professional events of the spring. The event aims to review all the significant changes in funding, regulation, financing, market conditions and profitability and the prospects that will play a decisive role in shaping the successful economic and business activities of agribusinesses throughout the year. The conference will present and analyse the new regulations and measures regarding the food economy that came into effect at the beginning of the year while also providing forecasts for the entire year on economic processes that will fundamentally influence the operations of market players. Thus, conference participants will have access to exclusive and detailed information on all current topics in one place, enabling them to make successful operational, market, and investment decisions. The event's over ten years of experience prove that the conference provides one of the best opportunities for participants to gain reliable insights into the professional issues that concern them. The conference will be attended by top leaders from the business, corporate, financial, public administration, and advocacy sectors, who will provide first-hand relevant information to sector participants. Thus, the event can provide valuable information, as well as opportunities for presentation and exposure, to agricultural producers of all sizes, food industry companies, businesses engaged in trade, and companies involved in the sector, such as integrators, input material distributors, machinery dealers, financial institutions, and insurers. It also offers a great opportunity for professional networking and relationship-building. Here’s what the Agrárium 2024 conference looked like:

Portfolio Group’s Agricultural Conference, held at the end of the year, has become one of the largest and most important agricultural professional events in the Hungarian agricultural economy. The two-day event gets its exclusivity and uniqueness from the fact that it presents the most current topics concerning the agricultural and food economy in a comprehensive and detailed way. Therefore, the conference provides the most comprehensive information possible on the processes impacting agriculture in a determining way, and, in addition to summarising and evaluating the year’s events in agriculture, it outlines a longer-term vision of the future for participants’ development and investment decisions. At the conference, top leaders of domestic public administration, bank, corporate, and advocacy sectors provide first-hand, relevant information, which can be useful for all actors in the agricultural economy: farmers, food producers, and traders. Besides, the event provides a wide range of possibilities for businesses serving agriculture – input producers, integrators, machinery distributors, financing and other service providers – to present themselves and for market building. In addition to the rich programme, the conference offers a possibility for professional networking and business negotiations, and after the first day’s technical presentations and roundtable discussions, it will allow participants to recharge and relax with an entertaining show.  

The Portfolio Group’s Agrofuture Conference summarises the sustainability requirements and innovation possibilities of the domestic agricultural economy in a unique, thematic format. The European Union’s agricultural regulations and provisions, the fight against climate change, and altering social and consumer expectations towards agriculture are creating a situation that requires a fundamentally new approach and production practices in the domestic agricultural economy. The conference wishes to contribute to introducing the new challenges to the actors in agriculture, and thus to help them meet the increasingly demanding sustainability criteria. This is now a major issue in terms of accessing funds as the European Union is linking an increasing share of agricultural and rural development support to environmental and sustainability requirements; thus, the conference will also discuss in detail how farmers can access the most resources under the new conditions. The event will further present innovation trends, products, and technologies which Hungarian agricultural players must be familiar with and utilise to increase their competitiveness. Modernisation has accelerated in agriculture to such an extent that agribusinesses must follow up with innovation changes more seriously and faster. The conference aims to present agricultural innovation results with the highest economic benefits to the actors in the sector and help them to be up-to-date in the applicability of innovative products and technologies, and to achieve better farming results with their use for their successful economic and business activities. ATTENTION CONSULTANTS – EVENT RECOMMENDED BY THE HUNGARIAN CHAMBER OF AGRICULTURE! You can get 4 points for participating in the event. (Registration is required on-site to validate the credit point!)

Portfolio Agrofood 2024 Conference is Portfolio Group’s new event of national importance for food industry businesses and agricultural producers, service providers, and food retailers associated with the industry. The conference looks at the food industry’s market, support, financing and regulation situation in detail, with a particular focus on development and investment possibilities for increasing the industry’s efficiency. The event aims to provide specific farming and business information for the successful operation of food industry businesses and contribute to strengthening their production and market positions and implementing the developments needed. The conference will also touch upon the opportunities for farmers and food businesses to integrate production, as well as the food industry's relationships with commercial suppliers and the expectations of the commercial sector towards the industry. It will analyse the short- and long-term access to credit for food businesses, their investment requirements for energy efficiency improvements, robotisation and digitalisation trends, and their labour and packaging market opportunities. The event will review the situation of food businesses in foreign and domestic markets, possible ways to increase product sales and tools for export development and financing. In addition, it will present the newest food consumption trends, the ever-changing consumer needs towards food, and the best company and community marketing opportunities for market presence.

Portfolio Group’s Agrarium 2024 is one of the most prestigious professional conferences among the spring events on the agricultural economy. The fundamental goal of the conference is to provide information on all the crucial changes effective as of the beginning of the year, which will determine a fruitful farming and business operation for agricultural market players in 2024. Accordingly, the event will discuss the important funding, legislative, financing, market and profitability changes creating new conditions and circumstances for agriculture. The event aims to present the new regulations and trends affecting farming and supply participants with additional information and explanations that can provide practical help in making farming and business decisions for the year. The event will shed light on a broad spectrum of key issues and provide useful information, visibility, and appearance opportunities for farmers of all sizes, food companies, traders and companies serving the sector – integrators, input distributors, machinery dealers, financial institutions and insurers. The conference will focus on presenting the most relevant changes with high-quality presentations and roundtable discussions featuring the most competent experts and top executives from government, business, finance and advocacy.

The Agricultural Conference of Portfolio Group in Siófok is already considered one of the largest and most prestigious events among domestic agricultural events. The two-day event aims to provide the best possible overview with a uniquely extensive and comprehensive range of agrarian economics topics, helping the sector players access high-quality information on issues directly affecting their farming. The conference aims to provide participants with the most up-to-date information possible, as well as longer-term forecasts to help companies plan and make the business decisions that will most affect their businesses. The event will explore the programme’s themes through professional presentations and roundtable discussions with the most competent representatives and decision-makers from public administration, banking, business and professional interest groups. The conference can be a valuable source of information for the whole food economy – agricultural producers, food economy companies, companies providing services to farmers, and firms engaged in trade – and offers an opportunity for professional networking and business negotiations. After the first day’s professional programme, entertaining and relaxing evening programmes will follow.

The Portfolio Group’s Agrarium 2023 conference is one of the most important events of the beginning of the year in the domestic agricultural economy. The conference aims to present the most significant changes in subsidies, legislation, funding, market, innovation and mechanisation that could shape the way businesses in the sector operate in 2023. The conference aims to provide tangible and practical information and explanations to help the players of the sector make effective and profitable management decisions in a difficult economic and market environment. The event can give useful insights for farmers of all sizes in the agricultural economy – primary producers, family farmers, sole proprietors and partnerships – and will also cover in detail issues affecting the food industry, trade, input markets and agricultural mechanisation. The conference will bring together key decision-makers from government, corporate and business, banking and professional and stakeholder groups to provide first-hand and relevant information to the audience.