By Hanna Neuschwander Collaboration, Cowboys, and Breaking Bread The morning began by picking up a thread from last year’s Symposium: Pathological collaboration. Shauna Alexander Mohr introduced the fledgling Coffeelands Food Security Coaltion (CFSC), a collaborative effort of major specialty coffee companies inlcuding Starbucks, Green Mountain, CBI, and Sustainable Harvest, as well as NGOs such as
By Hanna Neuschwander In its fifth year, Symposium began with a quick exegesis on the meaning of the word “symposium”: From the Greek, sym = together, pos = drink, ium = setting, or, as director Peter Giuliano put it, “It’s about sitting around drinking together.” Indeed. A short introductory lesson from Giuliano suggested caffeine—as a
About the Tasting Experience With Symposium’s close look at coffee genetics this year, we felt it would be a unique opportunity for us to also create a sensory experience for attendees. This is being provided as part of Symposium in the Sensory Experience Room, translating the program into an engaging, interactive activity. The coffees selected for
Over the past five years, a new world has emerged for specialty coffee. Global climate change has altered coffee agriculture and trade, we’ve been confronted with new realities about our supply chain and how it works, and the business of great coffee has flourished, twisted, and turned in unanticipated ways. Through it all, SCAA’s Symposium
For our 5th annual Symposium, we put our focus on what is possible: What can be done to solve the unique challenges we’ve been presented with? What are the possibilities in using science, collaboration, and entrepreneurship as tools? And, most of all, what is happening out there that is actually working? This year, we’ll bring
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