Workshop Description: This workshop will provide an in-depth look at coffee buying for specialty coffee roasters. It will cover specialty coffee supply from seed to cup. It will demystify the coffee 'c' market, which is the benchmark coffee price for arabica that underpins over 96% of coffee imported into North America. Finally, the workshop will answer all questions about contracts and logistics jargon that frequently comes up when buying green coffee. The material is advanced/intermediate, but all are welcome and all will learn!
Date: Sunday, April 27, 2025
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Room Number: 372AB
Category: Green Coffee
Price: $252
Booking: To book your place in this Workshop, head to the Specialty Coffee Expo Registration Portal and add a session to your order. Already registered? Simply enter your email address and badge code to access your booking and add other paid events to your badge.
Instructors
Katherine Nolte Ferguson (she/her)
Managing Director & Head of Specialty, Sustainable Harvest
Kat Nolte Ferguson is the managing director of sustainable harvest and head of specialty trading for Sucafina North America. She has worked in the coffee industry since 2000. After completing her degree in accounting and music performance, she lived in rural Africa and worked in microfinance. She entered the green side of coffee trading as the financial controller for a specialty importer in 2011. She worked for Twin Trading developing East African coffee supply chains, helping cooperatives gain sustainable certifications and access international markets. She is a Q-grader and served as chair for the SCA Sustainability Council. Her passion is cultivating greater sustainability in the coffee industry. At Sucafina Specialty, she continues to invest success of farmers, roasters and the coffee industry as a whole. Today, she lives in Seattle with her husband, two young daughters and very big dog.
Ilya Byzov (he/him)
Head of Research
lya Byzov is the Head of Research and Quantitative trading at Sucafina, a multinational coffee trader with operations in 17 coffee producing countries, 15 destination sales offices, and 2 manufacturing facilities. Ilya’s work centers around understanding global production, consumption, and price of green coffee. Over the last 13 years in the coffee industry, Ilya has worked to understand and explain the underlying dynamics of coffee futures prices as well as developing strategies for optimizing costs across the supply chain/. Ilya will help explain the factor that led us to all-time record prices and suggest ideas of how to navigate this turbulent market environment.