The MBAA Malting and Brewing Course students prepare for their team assignments.

“Explore the Past to Discover Our Future” is the theme for the 35th Convention of the IBD Asia Pacific section which will take place in the “coolest little capital in the world”, Wellington, New Zealand, on 19th to 23rd March 2018.

For the 5th time the Thailand Beer Industry Guild (TBIG) and VLB Berlin are jointly organising the Brewing Conference Bangkok.

Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB) and DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) are coming together to establish a new conference devoted to sharing brewing knowledge, strengthening relationships and discussing best practices for the brewing and malting industry in Africa. The inaugural event will take place from 21-23 May 2019 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

This summer, from July 9 to 11 2019, food & drink technology Africa (fdt Africa) takes place – for the first time in co-location with IFAT Africa, the leading platform for environmental technologies in sub-Saharan Africa and with analytica Lab Africa, the only analytics and laboratory trade fair in South Africa.

The 37th congress of the European Brewery Convention will take place in Antwerp, Belgium, from 2 to 6 June 2019.

Promoting exchange | With the upcoming EBC Congress the European Brewery Convention will again provide a platform for brewers and technologists to present and discuss their latest findings. Having been to Belgium twice before, this year’s congress will return there and take place at the Flanders Meeting & Convention Center Antwerp (FMCCA) in downtown Antwerp from June 2 - 6 2019. BRAUWELT International spoke with Tiago Brandão, EBC President, and John Brauer, EBC Executive Officer, about the event and the changes to the programme reflecting new developments in the world of brewing.

After a successful event in Mechelen last year, the eighth edition of the world-renowned Brussels Beer Challenge will be held in the city of Mons from 1 November to 3 November 2019.

The next meeting of the Scientific-Technical Commission of the International Hop Growers’ Convention, I.H.G.C. will be held from 7-11 July 2019 in the Conference Center ‘Le Bischenberg’ in Bischoffsheim, Alsace, France.

Messe München with its subsidiary Messe München do Brasil won the bidding for a new trade fair for the food-, beverage-and packaging-industries: INTECHTRA will be held for the first time from September 29 till October 2, 2020.