Portland, Oregon-based coffee marketing company Sustainable Harvest will bring its flagship annual global event, Let’s Talk About Coffee, back to Copán Ruinas, Honduras, February 20-25.
The invitation-only occasion brings together combined leaders from across the specialty coffee origin chain, fostering non-competitive collaboration to address some of the most demanding situations facing the coffee industry.
For Coffee Talk 2023, Sustainable Harvest partners with Café de Honduras and the Honduran Tourism Institute. The site of the 2023 event, Copán Ruinas, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with Mayan ruins. It is in the center of one of Honduras’ many famous cafes. – Producing regions.
“Honduras is a coffee origin that has grown rapidly in volume and quality over the past five years,” David Griswold, founder and executive director of Sustainable Harvest, told Daily Coffee News. “However, many coffee professionals still want to be informed about exclusive specialty coffees coming out of Honduras, and many have not yet been able to do so. We’ve searched all over Honduras in 2022, looking for the most productive position imaginable to host a global coffee Let’s talk. We want to mix culture and coffee, and Copán Ruinas is the most productive position.
This will be the 19th edition of Let’s Talk Coffee produced by Sustainable Harvest, and the first global event since the COVID-19 pandemic first disrupted overseas.
“Covid has caused us not to be face to face and we have had to postpone the event for the last two years,” Griswold said. “As a result, many events have moved online, and while this brings some benefits and actually saves costs, it can’t reposition conversations and networks that take a stand on the user on an occasion like Let’s Talk Coffee. “
The initial list of speakers for Let’s Talk Coffee 2023 Andrea and Jon Allen of Onyx Coffee Lab, Elizabeth Whitlow, Executive Director of Regenerative Organic Alliance, Rachel Peterson of Hacienda La Esmeralda in Panama, Aida Batlle of El Salvador, Sarah Allen of Barista Magazine, and Cosimo Libardo of Barista Attitude, with more speakers to be announced soon.
Griswold said the occasion is a rare position where “transparent conversations can take place face-to-face with everyone on the chain. “
“We may not be facing simple problems on those days, but together we can deal with more demanding situations than trying to solve them in isolation,” Griswold said. “You never know what idea, resource or opportunity you might have until you expand the circle to more stakeholders that make up your supply chain. “
To be informed more about Let’s Talk about Coffee, the page of the occasion.
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