PROGRAMME PARTNERS

PARK STREET

Park Street is a technology-enabled services company that helps emerging and established alcoholic beverage suppliers and brand owners cost-effectively and securely scale and manage their businesses. Areas of expertise include importing and distribution, regulatory compliance, freight and logistics, order fulfilment, accounting, information and data management, and more. The company is trusted by thousands of brands from new-to-market entrepreneurs to well established multi-brand global suppliers. Headquartered in Miami, Florida, Park Street has over 400 team members supporting operations across the United States and around the world.

WSET

WSET is the world’s leading provider of wine, spirits and sake qualifications. We‘ve been supporting the hospitality sector for over 50 years by providing inspiring training that boosts product knowledge, develops service and tasting skills and builds confidence. We offer four progressive levels of qualification, from beginner to expert, through an extensive network of local course providers in over 70 countries worldwide. WSET qualifications are recognised as the international standard in wine, spirits and sake knowledge. To learn more about how our qualifications can enhance your career, and to find a course provider in your area, visit wsetglobal.com

DEUTSCHE BARKEEPER UNION E.V. (DBU)

The German Barkeeper Union e.V., founded in 1909, is a professional association for all people who have a passion for bar culture. The focus of our work is on knowledge transfer, training and lobbying. Our goal is to bring together as many people as possible from our industry, to make our voice heard and to influence society’s perception in a positive way. For more information please visit our page: www. dbuev.de Our members have the opportunity to constantly work on their personal portfolio thanks to a large Germany-wide network and are given the opportunity to access an immense range of experience, knowledge and development thanks to the organisational structure. Networking combined with a variety of workshops is the focus of BCB 2022, where DBU will be present with its own presence. We look forward to the exchange and certainly also to the one or the other reunion.

RUBEN NEIDECK

By shaping the now famous Velvet in Berlin as headbartender from its opening, Ruben Neideck has set a new standard for what it means to truly work seasonally in drink making. The bar is renowned for its weekly changing cocktail menu, driven by locally foraged and farmed ingredients from the area around Berlin. Over his more than 5 year stint there, Ruben has shaped the inner bar infrastructure & rythm required to accomplish the weekly drink change and has come to be regarded as one of the leading experts on foraging and processing of seasonal plants into drink form in Germany. At BCB, Ruben will share what he has learnt from working closely with urban gardeners at the Urban Gardening Area in hall 18.