Choose Your Track
Conference Warm Up Quiz
FEB 2nd, 4 PM
Conference Warm Up with QUIZ THIS
Opening Session
DAY 1: WED AM
Opening Remarks
Jalapeno Employee Engagement Workshop – Part 1
Keynote – Brewing Up Real Change
Break: 10:30 – 10:45
Jalapeno Employee Engagement Workshop – Part 2
Lunch: 11:45 – 12:45
Brewing Industry and Advocacy Update
Break: 1:45 – 2:00
Marketing + Sales
DAY 1: WED PM
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Crafting Success in Tourism: Opportunities from Destination BC
Join Destination BC to learn about opportunities to promote to the travel segment and tap into resources and tools that can help grow your beer tourism business. ...
Break: 2:45 – 3:00
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Reputation Management in the Time of COVID and Beyond
The BC Ale Trail's PR Partner Beattie Tartan will share some insider PR tips on how to effectively tell your business's story and discuss reputation management in the time of COVID. ...
Break: 3:45 – 4:00
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Marketing + Sales – Coming Soon!
Seminar details coming soon! ...
Break: 4:45 – 5:00
Opening Keynote
DAY 2: THUR AM
Keynote – The Path Forward for the Hospitality Industry after COVID-19
Break: 9:45 – 10:00
Finance
DAY 2: THUR AM
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Business Resiliency – Short and Long Term
Strategies for managing the risks your beverage business is exposed to in order to survive the short-term and plan for the longer term. ...
Break: 10:45 – 11:00
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Surviving an Audit / LDB Audits
Explore LDB compliance audits and excise audits. Discuss the current regulatory environment for Breweries. Identify top risk factors for audit selection that every Brewery needs to understand. Learn more about important record-keeping requirements for Breweries and more! ...
Break: 11:45 – 12:00
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BDC and RBC Commercial Financial Services
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Break: 12:45 – 1:00
Lunch: 1:00 – 2:00
Brewing - Organized in partnership with the Master Brewers Association of the Americas
DAY 2: THUR PM
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CIP Process Considerations to Eliminate Flavour Carry-Over
Denis will discuss the science of carry-over, best practices for CIP, and a novel 3-step cold CIP program for BBT’s and packaging equipment. ...
Break: 2:45 – 3:00
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Hop Trends: Insights into Australia Flavour Hops
An in-depth discussion of HPA’s history, farming operations, hop breeding program, newest proprietary variety Eclipse® as well as the key classes of hop compounds that create their uniquely Australian fruit-forward flavours and aromas in beer. ...
Break: 3:45 – 4:00
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The Power of the Can (Decoration)
Join Evan for a discussion on can decoration options, from labelling brite cans in house to pre-labelled or sleeved cans to pre-printed cans. Relative costs, quantities, capabilities and logistics. ...
Break: 4:45 – 5:00
Opening Keynote
DAY 3: FRI AM
Keynote – Ministry of Tourism Update
Break: 9:45 – 10:00
Brewing: Organized in partnership with the Master Brewers Association of the Americas
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Building a Sensory Program from the Ground Up
In this presentation, rapid Sensory QC methods will be presented to highlight how the brewing industry can successfully circumvent these common challenges and build a sustainable Sensory program. ...
Break: 10:45 – 11:00
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Know Barley to Enjoy Beer: The Opportunity!
Consumers’ connection with barley and with malt has deteriorated dramatically over recent decades. We should love and proselytize every aspect of the greater good that is Beer. ...
Break: 11:45 – 12:00
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Membrane Filtration: De-alc Beer Production for Breweries
This seminar will cover the principals of Membrane filtration and how it is applicable for use in breweries for removing alcohol from beer. ...
Break: 12:45 – 1:00
Lunch: 1:00 – 2:00
Operations
DAY 3: FRI PM
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Traceability and Labelling Requirements under the Safe Food for Canadians Regulations
The Canadian beer standard of identity and associated labelling requirements. ...
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Get your head into the cloud… Finding efficiencies and dollars using cloud-based software
Adam Crandall is going to walk through many different cloud-based software offerings that can help with all of this and save you and your team hundreds of hours a year and thousands in labour costs. ...