Registration Now Open for 2023 Specialty Coffee Expo & Re:co Symposium!
Registration is now open for both 2023 Specialty Coffee Expo and Re:co Symposium, taking place in Portland, Oregon, USA this April. Expo is North America’s largest gather of specialty coffee professionals and is taking place at the Oregon Convention Center from April 21-23, 2023. Re:co Symposium precedes Expo, running April 19-20. Re:co addresses the pressing topics facing our industry today, with expert speakers, sensory experiences, live discussion, networking, and engagement opportunities.
Specialty Coffee Expo
Specialty Coffee Expo is the largest specialty coffee event in North America, featuring the latest industry products, exciting industry trends, and provides exclusive access to the newest products and companies in coffee. Specialty Coffee Expo 2023 is proudly supported Diamond Sponsor, Sanremo Coffee Machines.
Over 450 exhibitors showcase their most innovative products and services at Expo with many competing for Best New Product and Coffee Design Awards. On the Expo show floor, visitors can network with professionals from across the industry, including roasters, retailers, producers, importers, and baristas. The Green Coffee Buyers and Sellers Program returns for its second year, facilitating business relationships for the purchase and sale of green coffee. The Cupping Exchange will provide the opportunity to sample coffees from a variety of regions, while the Roaster Village is a bustling meeting point on the show floor to talk to small roasters and boutique green coffee importers. Those seeking education experiences will find dozens of lectures by industry experts as well as workshops covering a wide array of topics of interest to coffee professionals, and the latest coffee research highlighted during the Coffee Science Foundation Scientific Poster Session. Cheer on competitors in the Competitions Hall competing in six U.S. Coffee Championships hosted at Specialty Coffee Expo, organized by the staff and volunteers of the SCA U.S. Chapter. Coffee professionals from across the United States will compete in Portland in the U.S. Barista, U.S. Brewers Cup, U.S. Coffee in Good Spirits, U.S. Latte Art, U.S. Cup Tasters and U.S. Roaster Championships.
Registration is now open at coffeeexpo.org, with several discount levels available—including an early bird discount until March 10, 2023. Visitors may take advantage of special hotel rates by booking their rooms through the Expo reservations webpage.
Re:co Symposium
Re:co is a unique, experiential gathering of the specialty coffee industry designed to explore the emerging future so that we may effectively–and collectively–respond to its opportunities. Taking place prior to the Specialty Coffee Expo, April 19-20, at the Oregon Convention Center, Re:co is an immersive in-person experience featuring plenary talks, seminars, sensory experiences, and networking opportunities, that will spark intellectual & personal connections to help you respond to specialty coffee’s emerging future.
Re:co 2022 offered a glimpse of the many possibilities that exist if we let go of a singular narrative of “coffee’s next wave.” This year, we explore what it means to progress within this new paradigm: How does a market deliver diverse experiences to a community that has diverse tastes? Reflective of Re:co’s diverse participants, this year’s programming continues with serial plenary sessions as well as simultaneous seminar sessions in order to allow participants to curate an experience that is most relevant to them.
Day one of Re:co 2023 will feature plenary talks: short, polished presentations that explore the current landscape, before adjusting to sense what the future might hold. From how the next generation(s) might engage with coffee to how we might crack open the important question of a green coffee identity standard, we’ll explore the substantial change facing the industry. The second day of the event will be focused around the seminar program, offering a chance for longer, intimate, and interactive sessions. Offered across four simultaneous rooms, this year’s seminars are designed to help participants engage with the existential questions facing coffee’s future, highlight case studies and modes of thinking valuable to coffee businesses, and proffer updates on the latest coffee research.
Plenary speakers and seminar presenters include Cheryl Hung (Vice President, Insights – Dig Insights), Dr. Fabiana Carvalho (University of Campinas), Ian Williams (Owner + Founder – Deadstock Coffee), Miranda Caldwell (Founder – The Coffee MBA), Ted Fischer (Professor – Vanderbilt University), and Vaughn Tan (Assistant Professor of Strategy – University College London School of Management).
Across both days, the signature Re:co sensory experiences will give attendees the opportunity to taste things directly connected to the plenary and seminar sessions, with opportunities for attendees to connect across coffee breaks and mealtimes. Intentional connections built between the program’s plenary, seminar, and sensory sessions make this year’s event best experienced over the full two days.
Registration is now open at recosymposium.org, with several discount levels available—including an early bird discount until March 10. A two-day badge offers the full, immersive Re:co experience (base price: US$1425); with a one-day badge giving access to the Re:co seminars & sensory experiences on April 20 (base price: US$750). Both ticket options include complimentary access to the Specialty Coffee Expo, including access to the Exhibit Hall, Competitions Hall, show features, SCA Lectures series, and public cuppings in the Cupping Exchange.
