Coffee Latam Day 1
Brazil as the world's largest producer facing the pressures of global warming. Consumption trends, export opportunities, and the strategic positioning of the national coffee industry.
Strategic vision
Climate
Export
Composting, cover crops, reduction of chemical inputs, and carbon sequestration. Producers from Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and Bahia share real results from agroecological transitions.
Regenerative
Carbon
Producers
Real cases of satellite imagery use, predictive production models, IoT for precision irrigation, and blockchain traceability in cooperatives from Cerrado Mineiro and South Minas.
Technology
AI
IoT
Quick roundtable with producers, buyers, and NGOs debating viable sustainable business models. Cost-benefit data of Rainforest, UTZ, and organic certifications.
Sustainability
Profitability
Tasting of six national origins with a sommelier. An environment to connect producers, buyers, and startups.
Hands-on workshop mapping risks and opportunities in the Brazilian production chain. Tools for climate risk management, sustainable contracts, and access to premium international markets.
Value chain
Risk management
Premium
Researchers from Embrapa, EPAMIG, and universities discuss how coffee regions are shifting, new heat-tolerant varieties, water management, and adaptation strategies for 2030–2050.
Climate
Embrapa
Research
Guided sensory evaluation with Q-Graders. Participants score 10 coffees from different origins. Real-time results — the producer with the highest score receives special recognition.
Cupping
Origins
Q-Graders
The sensory identity of Brazilian coffee
Specialty
Processing
Biodynamic
Innovation in post-harvest processing with market results.
Specialty
Processing
Biodynamic