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SUMMARY:1st BSF Coffee Symposium
LOCATION:Lipomo (CO) Italy
DESCRIPTION:<p></p><!-- Noscript content for added SEO --><noscript><a href="https://ww
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 NUE</h3><p><a href="https://www.caffemilani.it/en/">https://www.caffemilani
 .it/en/</a></p><p><span>Via Provinciale, 811 – 22030 Lipomo (CO)<br /><br /
 ></span></p><h3>THE AGENDA</h3><p><span><em>Thursday 19th</em> </span></p><
 p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>7pm Social Dinner, <a href="https://www
 .crottodelsergente.it/en/homepage-en/">crottodelsergente – Crotto del Serge
 nte restaurant</a></span></p><p><em>Friday 20th</em></p><p style="padding-l
 eft: 30px;"><span>8.30-8.45 Welcoming </span><span><br /></span></p><p styl
 e="padding-left: 30px;"><span>8.45-9.00 BSF and Caffe Milani Introduction<b
 r /></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>9.00-9.45 Imre Blank: F
 rom Analytics to Formulation: Case Study Coffee <em>REMOT</em>E</span></p><
 p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>9.45-10.15 Flavourtech: Speciality Inst
 ant Coffee with Roast &amp; Ground Aromas - Improvements in Coffee Extracti
 on</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span></span><span>10.15-11.00 
 Carlo Bicchi: Coffee aroma: complementarity of sensory and chemical analysi
 s in the definition of sensory notes.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30p
 x;"><span>11.00-11.30 Coffee break and networking<br /></span></p><p style=
 "padding-left: 30px;"><span>11.30-12.15 Luciano Navarini: Coffee aroma: the
  charm of complexity<br /></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>1
 2.15-1.00 Manuela Violoni: The smell of coffee, an authenticity challenge<b
 r /></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>1.00-2.00 Lunch<br /></
 span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span></span><span>2.00-3.30 The Bi
 g Sensory Game of Coffee and Museum tour. 2 groups<br /></span></p><p style
 ="padding-left: 30px;"><span>3.30-3.50 Clay Gordon: Communicating the Flavo
 urs of Chocolate and Coffee - teaser <em>REMOTE</em></span></p><p style="pa
 dding-left: 30px;"><span>3.50-4.00 Closing<br /><br /></span></p><h3>THE SP
 EAKERS</h3><p><img src="images/bsf/images/2023/Imre_Blank.jpg" alt="" width
 ="91" height="117" style="float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><em>I
 mre Blank, Chief Scientific Officer in China for the Zhejiang Yiming Food c
 ompany</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Imre Blank studied Food Chem
 istry in Germany and holds a PhD in Flavour Chemistry from the TU Munich. H
 e worked for Nestlé Research from 1991 to 2018 as Department Head of Scienc
 e &amp; Technology in Switzerland, UK, and Germany. He led the Nestlé R&amp
 ;D Networks and was nominated first Nestlé Fellow - Food Chemistry and Flav
 ors in 2015.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Since 2019 he works part-ti
 me as Chief Scientific Officer in China for the Zhejiang Yiming Food compan
 y and is also consulting food and flavor companies. Since 2010 he is lectur
 ing Food Technology at the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and Che
 mistry of Food Processes at the École Polytechnique Fédéral Lausanne, Switz
 erland.</p><p><span><img src="images/bsf/images/2023/Carlo_Bicchi.jpg" alt=
 "" width="93" height="104" style="float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;"
  /><br /><em>Carlo Bicchi, Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the 
 Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Turin</em></span></p><p style="text-al
 ign: justify;"><span>Carlo Bicchi has been Full Professor of Pharmaceutical
  Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of University of Torino since 1990. In 
 the same University, he was Director of the Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecno
 logia del Farmaco from 1992 to 1998 and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy fro
 m 2001 to 2007. His main field of research is development of analytical tec
 hnologies for biologically active secondary metabolites in vegetable matric
 es (essential oils, terpenoids, phenolic compounds and alkaloids) and aroma
  profiling and fingerprinting of important industrial food crops (coffee, t
 ea, cocoa and hazelnuts). </span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>
 His main topics include Sample preparation; Gas chromatography (GC, GC-MS, 
 Fast-GC, Multidimensional GC), Enantioselective GC, High pressure liquid ch
 romatography (HPLC, HPLC-MS), Supercritical fluid extraction and chromatogr
 aphy (SFE and SFC), Chemometric methods, fingerprinting and profiling.</spa
 n></p><p><img src="images/bsf/images/2023/Luciano.jpeg" alt="" width="92" h
 eight="92" style="float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><br /><em>Luc
 iano Navarini, Head of Research &amp; Scientific Coordination at Illy Caffè
 </em></p><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align: just
 ify;">Luciano Navarini is the Head of Research &amp; Scientific Coordinatio
 n at illycaffè S.p.A. a leading Italian coffee roasting company. He graduat
 ed in Chemistry at the University of Trieste (Italy) and he collaborated wi
 th several industrial R&amp;D Depts. (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food s
 ector) and national and international Research institutions.<p>He spent two
  years as an Associate Expert in Chemistry at the International Centre for 
 High Science and Technology of the United Nations Industrial Development Or
 ganization.</p></div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text
 -align: justify;"></div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="t
 ext-align: justify;">He is active in several Research fields including food
  and coffee chemistry, plant secondary metabolites, food foams &amp; emulsi
 ons, food and beverage physicochemical characterization and sensory percept
 ion.</div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align: jus
 tify;"></div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align: 
 justify;">Luciano Navarini is Board member of ASIC (Association for Science
  and Information on Coffee) and ISIC (Institute for Scientific Information 
 on Coffee), former member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the World 
 Coffee Research and Board member of the Mass Spectrometry Division of the I
 talian Chemical Society.</div><p><span></span><img src="images/bsf/images/2
 023/MV2.png" alt="" width="105" height="78" style="float: right; padding: 1
 rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><br /><em>Manuela Violoni, member of the Board of the I
 nternational Institute of Coffee Tasters</em></p><p style="text-align: just
 ify;"><span>Manuela Violoni<b> </b>is a member of the Board of the Internat
 ional Institute of Coffee Tasters. For 20 years she has trained and led int
 ernational panels for Good Senses and CSA Italian Tasters, and she teaches 
 Sensory Analysis at Food Identity Master by Cattolica University. Her handb
 ooks and articles are about sensory science applied to excellence products 
 and their packaging, to shopping and consumption environments, to emotional
  communication, services and TV shows.</span></p><p><img src="images/bsf/im
 ages/panamaHatSelfieNEO960x960.jpg" alt="" width="105" height="105" style="
 float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><br /><em>Clay Gordon, TheChoco
 lateLife – Independent Journalist, Consultant, Motivational</em></p><div da
 ta-canvas-width="601.9199999999998" style="text-align: justify;">Clay Gordo
 n earned a BFA in Photography from Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. A
 fter graduation, he embarked on a tech career that spanned computer graphic
 s, interactive multimedia, high definition video, Internet application deve
 lopment, and information technology. Clay became interested in chocolate in
  1994 after discovering single-origin chocolate bars made by the Bonnat fam
 ily. This inspired him to begin a seven-year quest to become the world’s fi
 rst professional chocolate critic, a journey that included selling high-end
  European chocolate brands to chefs at some of the most respected restauran
 ts, hotels, and cultural venues in NYC.</div><div data-canvas-width="545.43
 99999999998" style="text-align: justify;"></div><div data-canvas-width="181
 .08800000000002" style="text-align: justify;">Following the publication of 
 Discover Chocolate in 2007, Clay founded the independent online community T
 heChocolateLife.com in early 2008. Over the ensuing fourteen years, registe
 red membership in TheChocolateLife has grown to span more than 160 countrie
 s on every continent except Antarctica.<br /><br /></div><h3>THE FEES</h3><
 p><span>150 pounds (175 euros) for non BSF members</span></p><p><span>100 p
 ounds (115 euros) for BSF members and students </span></p><p><span>The spot
  is reserved once the 50 pounds deposit has been paid on Eventbrite and we 
 kindly ask you to pay the balance before the event (we will share the detai
 ls separately). The dinner is not included and has a cost of 40 pounds (45 
 euros). The deadline is October 1st and we reserve to cancel the event if w
 e do not reach the minimum number of attendees, refunding the deposit.<br /
 ><br /></span></p><h3>HOW TO REACH COMO</h3><p><strong><span>From Milano Ma
 lpensa Airport:</span></strong></p><p><span>Taxi: 40-50 min</span></p><p><s
 pan></span><span>Train: Milano Malpensa - Como <a href="https://www.trenita
 lia.com/en.html">EN - Trenitalia</a></span></p><p><strong><span>From Bergam
 o Airport:</span></strong></p><p><span>The best option from Bergamo airport
  is to take a Bus at the airport to Milano Centrale (main station in Milano
 ), you can buy tickets here <a href="https://www.terravision.eu/">Airport T
 ransfers: no booking fee, book now | Terravision</a> and then take the trai
 n to Como S.Giovanni <a href="https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html">EN - Tren
 italia</a> (every 30 mins)<br /><br /></span></p><h3>ACCOMODATION<br /><spa
 n></span></h3><p><span></span><span><a href="https://www.hotelmetropolesuis
 se.com/en/">Home - Hotel Metropole Suisse</a></span></p><p><span><a href="h
 ttps://www.dbhlakecomo.it/en/home/">Lake Como Duomo Boutique Hotel | DBH, D
 esign Hotel in Como. (dbhlakecomo.it)</a></span></p><p><span><a href="https
 ://www.palacehotel.it/">Palace Hotel</a></span></p><p><span><a href="https:
 //www.hotelbarchetta.it/">Hotel Barchetta</a></span></p><p><span> </span></
 p><p><span>Caffé Milani (Via Provinciale per Lecco, 811-22030 Lipomo) can b
 e reached by Taxi (</span><span>10-15 min) or by bus </span><span>(10-15 mi
 n <a href="https://www.asfautolinee.it/en">ASF Autolinee</a>)</span></p><ul
 ><li><span>from Como Stazione ASF Autolinee take the C40 and stop to </span
 ><span><strong>Lipomo - Bivio Paese - Rondò</strong></span></li><li><span>F
 rom Cavour Square take the C43 and stop to </span><span><strong>Lipomo - Bi
 vio Paese - Rondò</strong></span></li></ul><p><span></span></p><p><span></s
 pan>For any questions, please contact <em><joomla-hidden-mail  is-link="1" 
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 NUE</h3><p><a href="https://www.caffemilani.it/en/">https://www.caffemilani
 .it/en/</a></p><p><span>Via Provinciale, 811 – 22030 Lipomo (CO)<br /><br /
 ></span></p><h3>THE AGENDA</h3><p><span><em>Thursday 19th</em> </span></p><
 p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>7pm Social Dinner, <a href="https://www
 .crottodelsergente.it/en/homepage-en/">crottodelsergente – Crotto del Serge
 nte restaurant</a></span></p><p><em>Friday 20th</em></p><p style="padding-l
 eft: 30px;"><span>8.30-8.45 Welcoming </span><span><br /></span></p><p styl
 e="padding-left: 30px;"><span>8.45-9.00 BSF and Caffe Milani Introduction<b
 r /></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>9.00-9.45 Imre Blank: F
 rom Analytics to Formulation: Case Study Coffee <em>REMOT</em>E</span></p><
 p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>9.45-10.15 Flavourtech: Speciality Inst
 ant Coffee with Roast &amp; Ground Aromas - Improvements in Coffee Extracti
 on</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span></span><span>10.15-11.00 
 Carlo Bicchi: Coffee aroma: complementarity of sensory and chemical analysi
 s in the definition of sensory notes.</span></p><p style="padding-left: 30p
 x;"><span>11.00-11.30 Coffee break and networking<br /></span></p><p style=
 "padding-left: 30px;"><span>11.30-12.15 Luciano Navarini: Coffee aroma: the
  charm of complexity<br /></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>1
 2.15-1.00 Manuela Violoni: The smell of coffee, an authenticity challenge<b
 r /></span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span>1.00-2.00 Lunch<br /></
 span></p><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><span></span><span>2.00-3.30 The Bi
 g Sensory Game of Coffee and Museum tour. 2 groups<br /></span></p><p style
 ="padding-left: 30px;"><span>3.30-3.50 Clay Gordon: Communicating the Flavo
 urs of Chocolate and Coffee - teaser <em>REMOTE</em></span></p><p style="pa
 dding-left: 30px;"><span>3.50-4.00 Closing<br /><br /></span></p><h3>THE SP
 EAKERS</h3><p><img src="https://www.bsf.org.uk/images/bsf/images/2023/Imre_
 Blank.jpg" alt="" width="91" height="117" style="float: right; padding: 1re
 m 0 1rem 1rem;" /><em>Imre Blank, Chief Scientific Officer in China for the
  Zhejiang Yiming Food company</em></p><p style="text-align: justify;">Imre 
 Blank studied Food Chemistry in Germany and holds a PhD in Flavour Chemistr
 y from the TU Munich. He worked for Nestlé Research from 1991 to 2018 as De
 partment Head of Science &amp; Technology in Switzerland, UK, and Germany. 
 He led the Nestlé R&amp;D Networks and was nominated first Nestlé Fellow - 
 Food Chemistry and Flavors in 2015.</p><p style="text-align: justify;">Sinc
 e 2019 he works part-time as Chief Scientific Officer in China for the Zhej
 iang Yiming Food company and is also consulting food and flavor companies. 
 Since 2010 he is lecturing Food Technology at the Technical University of M
 unich, Germany, and Chemistry of Food Processes at the École Polytechnique 
 Fédéral Lausanne, Switzerland.</p><p><span><img src="https://www.bsf.org.uk
 /images/bsf/images/2023/Carlo_Bicchi.jpg" alt="" width="93" height="104" st
 yle="float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><br /><em>Carlo Bicchi, Fu
 ll Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Faculty of Pharmacy of Univer
 sity of Turin</em></span></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>Carlo Bi
 cchi has been Full Professor of Pharmaceutical Biology at the Faculty of Ph
 armacy of University of Torino since 1990. In the same University, he was D
 irector of the Dipartimento di Scienza e Tecnologia del Farmaco from 1992 t
 o 1998 and Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy from 2001 to 2007. His main fiel
 d of research is development of analytical technologies for biologically ac
 tive secondary metabolites in vegetable matrices (essential oils, terpenoid
 s, phenolic compounds and alkaloids) and aroma profiling and fingerprinting
  of important industrial food crops (coffee, tea, cocoa and hazelnuts). </s
 pan></p><p style="text-align: justify;"><span>His main topics include Sampl
 e preparation; Gas chromatography (GC, GC-MS, Fast-GC, Multidimensional GC)
 , Enantioselective GC, High pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC, HPLC-MS),
  Supercritical fluid extraction and chromatography (SFE and SFC), Chemometr
 ic methods, fingerprinting and profiling.</span></p><p><img src="https://ww
 w.bsf.org.uk/images/bsf/images/2023/Luciano.jpeg" alt="" width="92" height=
 "92" style="float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><br /><em>Luciano N
 avarini, Head of Research &amp; Scientific Coordination at Illy Caffè</em><
 /p><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align: justify;">
 Luciano Navarini is the Head of Research &amp; Scientific Coordination at i
 llycaffè S.p.A. a leading Italian coffee roasting company. He graduated in 
 Chemistry at the University of Trieste (Italy) and he collaborated with sev
 eral industrial R&amp;D Depts. (pharmaceuticals, cosmetics and food sector)
  and national and international Research institutions.<p>He spent two years
  as an Associate Expert in Chemistry at the International Centre for High S
 cience and Technology of the United Nations Industrial Development Organiza
 tion.</p></div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align
 : justify;"></div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-al
 ign: justify;">He is active in several Research fields including food and c
 offee chemistry, plant secondary metabolites, food foams &amp; emulsions, f
 ood and beverage physicochemical characterization and sensory perception.</
 div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align: justify;"
 ></div><div data-canvas-width="485.9279999999997" style="text-align: justif
 y;">Luciano Navarini is Board member of ASIC (Association for Science and I
 nformation on Coffee) and ISIC (Institute for Scientific Information on Cof
 fee), former member of the Technical Advisory Committee of the World Coffee
  Research and Board member of the Mass Spectrometry Division of the Italian
  Chemical Society.</div><p><span></span><img src="https://www.bsf.org.uk/im
 ages/bsf/images/2023/MV2.png" alt="" width="105" height="78" style="float: 
 right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 1rem;" /><br /><em>Manuela Violoni, member of t
 he Board of the International Institute of Coffee Tasters</em></p><p style=
 "text-align: justify;"><span>Manuela Violoni<b> </b>is a member of the Boar
 d of the International Institute of Coffee Tasters. For 20 years she has tr
 ained and led international panels for Good Senses and CSA Italian Tasters,
  and she teaches Sensory Analysis at Food Identity Master by Cattolica Univ
 ersity. Her handbooks and articles are about sensory science applied to exc
 ellence products and their packaging, to shopping and consumption environme
 nts, to emotional communication, services and TV shows.</span></p><p><img s
 rc="https://www.bsf.org.uk/images/bsf/images/panamaHatSelfieNEO960x960.jpg"
  alt="" width="105" height="105" style="float: right; padding: 1rem 0 1rem 
 1rem;" /><br /><em>Clay Gordon, TheChocolateLife – Independent Journalist, 
 Consultant, Motivational</em></p><div data-canvas-width="601.9199999999998"
  style="text-align: justify;">Clay Gordon earned a BFA in Photography from 
 Rhode Island School of Design in 1983. After graduation, he embarked on a t
 ech career that spanned computer graphics, interactive multimedia, high def
 inition video, Internet application development, and information technology
 . Clay became interested in chocolate in 1994 after discovering single-orig
 in chocolate bars made by the Bonnat family. This inspired him to begin a s
 even-year quest to become the world’s first professional chocolate critic, 
 a journey that included selling high-end European chocolate brands to chefs
  at some of the most respected restaurants, hotels, and cultural venues in 
 NYC.</div><div data-canvas-width="545.4399999999998" style="text-align: jus
 tify;"></div><div data-canvas-width="181.08800000000002" style="text-align:
  justify;">Following the publication of Discover Chocolate in 2007, Clay fo
 unded the independent online community TheChocolateLife.com in early 2008. 
 Over the ensuing fourteen years, registered membership in TheChocolateLife 
 has grown to span more than 160 countries on every continent except Antarct
 ica.<br /><br /></div><h3>THE FEES</h3><p><span>150 pounds (175 euros) for 
 non BSF members</span></p><p><span>100 pounds (115 euros) for BSF members a
 nd students </span></p><p><span>The spot is reserved once the 50 pounds dep
 osit has been paid on Eventbrite and we kindly ask you to pay the balance b
 efore the event (we will share the details separately). The dinner is not i
 ncluded and has a cost of 40 pounds (45 euros). The deadline is October 1st
  and we reserve to cancel the event if we do not reach the minimum number o
 f attendees, refunding the deposit.<br /><br /></span></p><h3>HOW TO REACH 
 COMO</h3><p><strong><span>From Milano Malpensa Airport:</span></strong></p>
 <p><span>Taxi: 40-50 min</span></p><p><span></span><span>Train: Milano Malp
 ensa - Como <a href="https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html">EN - Trenitalia</a
 ></span></p><p><strong><span>From Bergamo Airport:</span></strong></p><p><s
 pan>The best option from Bergamo airport is to take a Bus at the airport to
  Milano Centrale (main station in Milano), you can buy tickets here <a href
 ="https://www.terravision.eu/">Airport Transfers: no booking fee, book now 
 | Terravision</a> and then take the train to Como S.Giovanni <a href="https
 ://www.trenitalia.com/en.html">EN - Trenitalia</a> (every 30 mins)<br /><br
  /></span></p><h3>ACCOMODATION<br /><span></span></h3><p><span></span><span
 ><a href="https://www.hotelmetropolesuisse.com/en/">Home - Hotel Metropole 
 Suisse</a></span></p><p><span><a href="https://www.dbhlakecomo.it/en/home/"
 >Lake Como Duomo Boutique Hotel | DBH, Design Hotel in Como. (dbhlakecomo.i
 t)</a></span></p><p><span><a href="https://www.palacehotel.it/">Palace Hote
 l</a></span></p><p><span><a href="https://www.hotelbarchetta.it/">Hotel Bar
 chetta</a></span></p><p><span> </span></p><p><span>Caffé Milani (Via Provin
 ciale per Lecco, 811-22030 Lipomo) can be reached by Taxi (</span><span>10-
 15 min) or by bus </span><span>(10-15 min <a href="https://www.asfautolinee
 .it/en">ASF Autolinee</a>)</span></p><ul><li><span>from Como Stazione ASF A
 utolinee take the C40 and stop to </span><span><strong>Lipomo - Bivio Paese
  - Rondò</strong></span></li><li><span>From Cavour Square take the C43 and 
 stop to </span><span><strong>Lipomo - Bivio Paese - Rondò</strong></span></
 li></ul><p><span></span></p><p><span></span>For any questions, please conta
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