Lecture Description
In an era where online learning is increasingly prevalent, knowledge is rapidly evolving and the coffee community is highly international, the ZHAW Coffee Excellence Center (CEC) education team along with educational partners presents an interactive session aimed at addressing the challenges and opportunities for distance learning coffee education.
This session invites participants to join a discussion on innovative approaches to online coffee education, facilitated by experts from the CEC and other renowned coffee educators. Through interactive workshops and discussions, attendees will explore topics such as conveying sensory aspects online, the intricacies of online coffee education, identifying useful tools for virtual teaching, and envisioning the future of online coffee education.
Date: Friday, June 28, 2024
Time: 14:15 - 15:15
Location: Lecture Room 2
This lecture is free to attend with a World of Coffee entry badge. Register to attend World of Coffee Copenhagen here.
Lecturers / Presenters
Sabine de Castelberg (she/her)
Head of Continuing Education, ZHAW Coffee Excellence Center
Sabine joined the ZHAW Coffee Excellence Center as a research associate in 2017 where she is responsible for the continuing education in coffee. There, she drives forward various online continuing education programs in coffee, emphasizing innovation and digitalization. During her research at the university, she focused particularly on socio-economic issues and the challenges faced by smallholder farming families. Her interest lies in coffee sustainability, exploring topics like smallholder farming systems, farmer family livelihoods, and knowledge transfer. Notably, she contributed to a project improving smallholder coffee farming in India and engaged in an international project in Colombia and Bolivia, analyzing coffee value chains and specialty coffee markets through participatory research. With a BSc in Business Administration and Marketing and an MSc in Environment and Natural Resources, her expertise spans interdisciplinary fields.
Sierra (Wen Xin) Yeo (she/her)
Program Coordinator, ZHAW Coffee Excellence Center
Sierra is a Research Assistant and Program Coordinator at the Zurich University of Applied Sciences Coffee Excellence Center, and the U.K. Brewers Cup Champion 2022. She has a decade’s worth of experience as a coffee professional, from barista skills to store management, and prior to her current employment was the Coffee Specialist for Alpro U.K., the largest plant-based retailer in Europe under Danone. She is a licensed Q-Arabica Grader, coffee writer and public speaker.
Gloria Pedroza Labin (she/her)
Head of Quality, NKG Quality Service / Neumann Kaffee Gruppe
Gloria Pedroza Labin is Head of NKG Quality Service at Neumann Kaffee Gruppe. Gloria is originally from Guatemala where she started her coffee career at NKG’ coffee export company back in 1998. She's now based in Zug, Switzerland and manages NKG’s quality lab, offering consultancy services related to green coffee quality and sensory analysis to NKG’s companies and customers worldwide. She's an AST for SCA Sensory Skills and Green coffee as well as Q-Grader Instructor for Arabica and Robusta. Gloria also serves the coffee community in her roles as WCE representative and judge and as Board member of SCA Switzerland and CQI.
Katrin Föhse (she/her)
Global Coffee Expertise Training & Community Manager, Nestlé Nespresso S.A.
Katrin Föhse is responsible for the Coffee Expertise department at Nestlé Nespresso S.A..
She has been collaborating with the Zurich University of Applied Sciences since 2017 and runs the Nespresso internal education program "Certificate of Advanced Studies in Coffee Expertise" together with them.
Katrin has a great passion for coffee as well as people development and is a huge lover of African coffees.
Before joining Nespresso in 2011, she worked as a Coffee Ambassador for Starbucks Germany and then as Global Training Manager at Apple Retail.
Martina Vaculikova (she/her)
Program Coordinator, ZHAW Coffee Excellence Center
Martina is the Research Assistant and Program Coordinator at ZHAW since 2020. Before joining the university, she was involved in training of professionals and adult education in a corporate field where she has entered the world of e-learning creation and online education while working as a curriculum developer. Gained experience and insight helped her in developing and improving the CAS in Coffee Excellence at ZHAW. She keeps searching for educational topics to explore, and ways how improve herself and the educational programs at CEC in the sphere of adult and online education.