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Asia International Coffee Conference
Asia International Coffee Conference
The Reverie Saigon Hotel, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Conference Dates: December 2-3, 2025
Event Dinner: December 1, 2025

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Key Sessions
Cầm Thị Mòn
How to Build Effective Coffee Co-operatives
Ara-Tay Cooperative
Justin Metcalf
ASEAN Coffee Appreciation Protocol (ACAP)
ASEAN Coffee Institute
Thiet Nguyen
Cultivating Sustainable Change: Financial Innovation for Vietnamese Smallholders
Rainforest Alliance
Pacita Juan
Spotlight on Philippines
Philippine Coffee Board
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Main Conference Day 2

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09:00 - 09:30
Welcome Coffee
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09:30 - 09:45
Chair’s Opening Remarks
09:45 - 10:15
ASEAN Coffee Appreciation Protocol (ACAP)
  • The vision and development of ACAP and its significance for ASEAN’s coffee identity.
  • A deep dive into select modules—such as Brewing or Skills Appreciation—for practical relevance.
  • How ACAP strengthens market access, quality assurance, and consumer engagement across Southeast Asia.
  • Justin Metcalf - Director and Chief Education Officer, ASEAN Coffee Institute
10:15 - 10:45
Spotlight on Philippines
  • Rare Varietal Diversity: Insights into the Philippines as one of the few countries globally producing all four commercially viable coffee varieties (Arabica, Robusta, Excelsa, and Liberica/Barako)
  • Strategic understanding of the Philippines' position as the world's fourth-largest coffee importer.
  • Understanding the rapidly evolving Filipino coffee culture and consumption patterns.
  • Pacita Juan - Chairperson, Philippine Coffee Board
10:45 - 11:15
From Bean to Business: Asian Coffee Production and Cross-Border Partnerships
  • Demand and production in Asia
  • The growing soluble coffee opportunity in Asia
  • Discuss long-term trends in domestic markets in Indonesia, Vietnam, China
  • How Singapore serves as a neutral platform for joint ventures between Chinese and Southeast Asian coffee stakeholders
11:15 - 11:30
Questions
11:30 - 12:00
Networking Break
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12:00 - 12:30
Africa’s Coffee Sector: Opportunities and Sustainability
  • Best practices in sustainable coffee production in Africa.
  • Exploring the pillars for success in Africa: agroforestry, water conservation, organic farming, climate-resilient varieties, and fair-trade practices.
  • Analysing Africa’s greatest strengths and challenges.
12:30 - 13:00
LATAM in Focus
  • Best practices from LATAM coffee producing regions.
  • How can Brazil drive change in coffee production globally?
  • Which lessons can we learn from Colombia?
  • Sustainability, traceability and regenerative agricultural practices.
13:00 - 13:30
The International Stage
  • Methodologies revolutionizing coffee evaluation processes
  • A reflection on the expected impacts of new frameworks spanning technical cultivation, descriptive assessment, roasting quality, brewing execution, consumer perception and professional skills.
13:30 - 13:45
Questions
13:45 - 15:00
Lunch & Networking Break
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15:00 - 15:30
How to Build Effective Coffee Co-operatives
  • Ensuring ethnic minority women can participate equally in the coffee value chain.
  • Addressing labor division challenges by collaborating with ethnic minority communities such as Vietnam's women's
  • union network.
  • The challenge of changing traditional cultivation methods.
  • Creating supportive environments for women to generate income and improve their decision-making power.
  • Cầm Thị Mòn - Director, Ara-Tay Cooperative
  • Hiếu Lê Xuân - Climate Resilience and Humanitarian Program Manager, CARE Vietnam
15:30 - 16:15
Cultivating Sustainable Change: Financial Innovation for Vietnamese Smallholders
  • Best Practices in PPP: Collaborative models for supporting smallholder farmers in climate change resilience.
  • A case study on early-stage pilot projects by Rainforest Alliance and Rabobank; offering promising frameworks for smallholders like collaborative lending models with financial incentives to drive sustainable practices.
  • The crucial role of corporations in promoting sustainable and social benefits.
  • Scaling up PPI (Public-Private Initiatives) from district to provincial level: focusing on policy development, traceability systems, and trust-building
  • Thiet Nguyen - Vietnam Country Director, Rainforest Alliance
  • Phuc To - Research Fellow & Managing Director, The Australian National University & Forest Trends Association
16:15 - 16:30
Questions
16:30 - 16:35
Chair’s Closing Remarks
16:35 - 16:40
End of Conference
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