BCB EDUCATION

Once again this year, Angus Winchester – BCB Director of Education – takes the lead in curating and assembling the rich education programme at Bar Convent Berlin 2022. But for the first time ever he is joined by two industry experts – Damien Guichard and Eleni Nikoloulia – to make the programme even more versatile and multifaceted.

Meet the BCB Education Board!

Angus has spent nearly 35 years in the hospitality and drinks industries with a self-proclaimed mission to learn as much as he can about ‚drinks, drinkers and those that serve them‘. In that time he has made drinks, run bars, trained bartenders and coached managers, won awards for his brand ambassadorship, his public speaking and his mentoring. He is currently the Director of Drinks & People at the Wild west Group in the UK.

Damien has been in Berlin for 10 years where he discovered his passion for bartending and the bartending community. In the recent years he has been the BA for BCB where he plays a pivotal role between the show and the bartending community. He currently manages Wax On Bar in Berlin, Neukölln as remaining an actor of the bar scene is important to him. He considers education and the passing of knowledge as the most important aspect of our bar industry because of the lack of formal and structured education.

Eleni studied political science before moving to work in lifestyle and travel magazines in her home country, Greece. From here, she developed a great passion for the bar sector with a dream to further promote new ideas, responsibility and inclusivity within the bar industry. She is a partner at Difford’s Guide Greece & Cyprus, an Academy Chair for the World’s 50 Best Bars, the cofounder of non-profit civil partnership Metron Ariston: Making Responsibility a Trend; and co-organiser of Athens Rum and Whisky Festival; Athens Cocktail Week; Cyprus Cocktail Festival; and of Aegean Cocktails and Spirits, a project that promotes Greek spirits through various activations, and projects.