Check out the great topics and speakers you will enjoy at Sintercafé 34th edition.
Wednesday November 9th
Thursday November 10th
Friday November 11th
Wednesday November 9th
DRESS CODE: Business casual
| 8:00-17:00 | Field Day: A look into specialty coffee |
| Visit to Volcán Azul & Coopevictoria R.L. | |
| 10:00 – 19:00 | Registration Opens |
| Stand set up | |
| 19:00 – 22:00 | Inauguration of Stand area |
| Opening Cocktail | |
| Sponsored by GRAINPRO |
Thursday November 10th
DRESS CODE: Business casual
| 8:00 – 16:00 | Registration & stands open | |
| Coffee service | ||
| 8:00-9:00 | Conference INAUGURATION | |
| Pucci & Mr. Arturo Condo, EARTH Univesity | CUPPING ROOM | |
| 9:00-9:30 | What is the transformational purpose of Café de Costa Rica? | 9:00-10:00 |
| Mrs. Xinia Chaves, ICAFE | Rainforest Alliance | |
| 9:30-10:00 | Consumers, Coffee and Change: The Evolving US Market | Room: Hermosa A |
| Mr. William Murray, NCA | ||
| 10:00-10:30 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:30-11:00 | Fulcrum´s story: what makes them different and a look into the future. | CUPPING ROOM |
| Mr. Blas Alfaro, Fulcrum Coffee | 10:30-11:30 | |
| 11:00-11:30 | Overview of the Coffee Landscape in Central America | Café de Costa Rica, Programa de Mejoramiento Genético |
| Mr. René Leó, PROMECAFE | Room: Hermosa A | |
| 11:30-12:15 | Regenerative Agriculture: Healthy Soil, Healthy Coffee, BiomeMakers & Disagro | |
| Mr. Alberto Acedo and Adrián Ferrero, Biome Makers | ||
| Mr. Juan José Chavez, Disagro | CUPPING ROOM | |
| 12:15-12:30 | Award Ceremony: Early Harvest Competition Sponsored by YARA | 12:00-13:00 |
| 12:30-13:30 | LUNCH | Centroamérica Robustas |
| 13:30-14:00 | Dessert and coffee pairing: For all those sweet tooth people, look for your dessert at the different brew bars and enjoy it with the perfect coffee! | Room: Hermosa A |
| 14:00-14:30 | Big Bear meets Big Bull: why coffee will stay highly volatile well into 2023 | |
| Mr. Carlos Mera, RABOBANK | ||
| 14:30 – 15:00 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| WORKSHOPS / TALLERES | CUPPING ROOM | |
| 15:00-15:30 | We talk about sustainability, but what are we really doing? | 14:00-15:00 |
| Mrs. Vanessa Rojas, ICAFE | ||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Initiative for coffee&climate – How to make coffee farming climate resilient | Early Harvest Competition |
| Mr. Stefan Ruge, HRNS | Room: Hermosa A | |
| 15:00-16:00 | “What every coffee professional needs to know about cold brew” TODDY | |
| Mrs. Julia Leach, TODDY | ||
| World Coffee Research launches Innovea Global Coffee Breeding Network – Carara Room | ||
| 16:00 -19:00 | Happy Hour | |
| Sponsored by PANAMERICAN COFFEE |
Friday November 11th
DRESS CODE: Business casual
| 8:00 – 16:00 | Registration & stands open | |
| Coffee service | ||
| 8:30-9:00 | Logistics a four letter word | |
| Mr. Mike Nugent, MJ Nugent & Company | ||
| 9:00-9:45 | PANEL: Making sense around carbon emissions in coffee | |
| Mr. Diego Robelo, Aquiares Estate | CUPPING ROOM | |
| Mrs. Ana María Zapata, Stone X | 9:00-10:00 | |
| Mrs. Natalia Arce, Pur Project | Café de Costa Rica, Programa de Mejoramiento Genético | |
| 9:45 -10:15 | COFFEE BREAK | |
| 10:15-11:45 | The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly – A U.S. Economic Update | |
| Mr. Fernando Soto, BBH | CUPPING ROOM | |
| 11:45-12:15 | Current situation of the fertilizers market: Challenges and opportunities in the Coffee Industry, YARA | 10:30-11:30 |
| Mr. Marconi Alvarez & Mr. Anthony Rivera, YARA | Robustas | |
| 12:15-13:00 | PANEL: Coffee on a mission towards gender equity: what is needed and what we are doing | Room: Hermosa A |
| Mrs. Kelly Amoroso, Allegro Coffee Company | ||
| Mrs. Fernanda Carrillo, Bean Voyage | ||
| Ms. Natali Venegas, Café de Costa Rica | ||
| 13:00 -14:00 | LUNCH | CUPPING ROOM |
| 14:00-14:30 | Dessert and coffee pairing: For all those sweet tooth people, look for your dessert at the different brew bars and enjoy it with the perfect coffee! | 12:00-13:00 |
| 14:30-15:00 | Panel: How consuming country legislation impacts coffee producers? What are the associations doing? | Early Harvest Competition |
| Mr. Michael von Luehrte, SCTA | Room: Hermosa A | |
| Mr. Bill Murray, NCA | ||
| Mr. Marcos Matos, CECAFE | ||
| 15:00-15:30 | World Coffee Producers Forum | CUPPING ROOM |
| Mr. Juan Esteban Orduz, Colombian Coffee Federation | 14:00-15:00 | |
| WORKSHOPS / | Rainforest Alliance | |
| 15:00 – 16:00 | Rain Forest Alliance y Agricultura Regenerativa 2022 | Room: Hermosa A |
| Mrs. Juliana Jaramillo & Mr. Miguel Gamboa, Rainforest Alliance | ||
| 15:30-16:00 | Initiative of BIOCENFT-CATIE | |
| 16:00 -17:30 | Sports / HAPPY HOUR | |
| Paddle Boarding / Volleyball | ||
| 19:00 – 23:00 | Farewell Party “Dicos 80´s” | |
| Dress code: ALL WHITE |
Consumers, Coffee and Change: The Evolving US Market
Mr. Bill Murray
President & CEO, National Coffee Association, U.S.A.
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Shifting consumer values, inflation, and the pandemic are changing how U.S. Coffee Drinkers relate to their favorite beverage. Hear from the head of the National Coffee Association, USA, about the forces changing the world’s largest market for coffee.
Big Bear meets Big Bull: why coffee will stay highly volatile well into 2023
Mr. Carlos Mera
Head of Agri Commodities Market Research
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Fulcrum´s story: what makes them different and a look into the future.
Mr. Blas Alfaro
Partner and Senior Vicepresident at Fulcrum
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Current situation of the fertilizers market: Challenges and opportunities in the Coffee Industry
Anthony Rivera (Commercial Manager for Yara Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Panama) y Marconi Alvarez (Manager of Solutions for Producers in Yara Central America)
Yara
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This Conference will cover an overview of the behavior and trends of fertilizers in recent times and expectations for the coming months, as well as the keys to achieve timely management of resources that help minimize the impact on productivity and cup quality.
Overview of the Coffee Landscape in Central America
René León
Executive Secretary of the Regional Cooperative Program for the Technological Development and Modernization of Coffee Growing (PROMECAFE)
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The initiative for Coffee & Climate. How to make coffee farming climate resilient.
Stefan Ruge
Program Manager Climate at HRNS
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With over two billion cups of coffee consumed around the world every day, it’s easy to forget what is behind every cup: A coffee farming family battling longer droughts, heavier rains, lower yields – battling the effects of climate change. The initiative for coffee&climate (c&c) addresses these effects by developing climate-smart tools and knowledge and making them accessible to smallholder coffee farming families around the world. c&c unites farmer organizations, coffee companies, and non-governmental organizations to make coffee farming climate resilient and create a lasting change.
More info: www.coffeeandclimate.org
Mr. Michael von Luehrte (SCTA), Mr. Bill Murray (NCA) and Mr. Marcos Matos (CECAFE)
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How consuming country legislation impacts coffee producers? What are the associations doing?
Diego Robelo (GM at Aquiares Estate), Ana Ma Zapata (Senior Consultant of Climate Change at Stone X Financial Inc.), Natalia Arce (Pur Projet) and Edmundo Castro (EARTH)
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Making sense around carbon emissions
Julia Leach, Toddy, LLC
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Cold Brew Workshop, by TODDY
Alberto Acedo, Adrián Ferrero and Juan José Chavez, DISAGRO & Biome Makers
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Regenerative Agriculture
Michael Nugent, Senior Member of the ICE/NYBOT Coffee Committee
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Logistics a four letter word
Xinia Chaves Quirós, Executive Director of the Costa Rican Coffee Institute and President of the Executive Council of Fonascafe
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Juan Esteban Orduz, President Colombian Coffee Federation, Inc.
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World Coffee Producers Forum Update
Fernando Soto – Senior Vice President, Private Banking
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Kelly Amoroso, Fernanda Carrillo and Natali Venegas
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Coffee on a mission towards gender equity: what is needed and what we are doing
Juliana Jaramillo & Mr. Miguel Gamboa (Rainforest Alliance)
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