Click here to download a pdf of the NW Cider Symposium 2020 Program
Plan to be in Tacoma all day on March 10, 2020. We recommend coming on March 9 for the Founder's Dinner and staying in our room block at Hotel Murano.
March 9, 2020
3:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Industry Tasting for Buyers & Media (by invitation only)
6:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Founders Dinner
March 10, 2020
8:00 AM
Registration Check-in Open
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Opening Session including NWCA Member Meeting
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Visit the Trade Show
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Lunch
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM
Breakout Sessions on Growing, Executive, Marketing, & Making
- Cider Orchard Management & Growing for Polyphenols -- 315
- Building & Sustaining a Culture of Accountability - A Craft Brew Alliance Case Study -- 316
- To Distribute or Not to Distrubute? -- Ballroom C
- Benefits of Aging Cider: Plastic, stainless, wood and time -- Ballroom D
2:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Break, Visit the Trade Show
2:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Breakout Sessions on Growing, Executive, Marketing, & Making
- Orchard Design and Strategy -- 315
- Making Money - What Does a Financially Sound Business Look Like? -- 316
- Cultivating the Cider Experience -- Ballroom C
- Final Packaging for Stability -- Ballroom D
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Break, Visit the Trade Show
4:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Breakout Sessions on Growing, Executive, Marketing, & Making
- Economics: Growing, Sourcing and Selling Apples for Cider -- 315
- Inventory Management -- 316
- Social Media Strategy -- Ballroom C
- Managing Fermentation: How to Make it Smell Good -- Ballroom D
5:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Cider Share and Networking in the Trade Show
Breakout Sessions
During the Symposium you'll have 3 opportunities to attend an educational breakout session. There are four tracks to choose from: Executive, Making, Growing, and Marketing. Attend all the sessions in one track or attend any session that interests you.
For the full program, download the pdf: NW Cider Symposium 2020 Program
Building & Sustaining a Culture of Accountability – A Craft Brew Alliance Case Study
1:00 - 2:00 pm Meeting Room 316
- Meliessa Ogrodowski Craft Brew Alliance
Personal accountability – an essential yet often overlooked element of employee engagement and productivity. This session will examine how Craft Brew Alliance (CBA) approached culture change using Reality-Based principles and strategies. Learn the unconventional concepts on which CBA’s culture is based and what they’ve learned about the keys to long-term change.
Making Money: What Does a Financially Sound Business Look Like?
2:30 - 3:30 pm Meeting Room 316
- Jeff Clark Live Oak Bank, Craft Beverage Group
- Eric Jorgensen Finnriver Farm & Cidery
We’ll be charting a pathway towards answering this question from the perspective of a small business as well as for potential investors. We’ll share our own ideas, layout a list of key questions a business should ask of itself, and answer questions.
Inventory Management
4:00 - 5:00 pm Meeting Room 316
- Harvinder Johal Scenic Road Cider Co.
- Eric Jorgensen Finnriver Farm & Cidery