Conference programme 2022

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Tuesday 15th November


11.00 a.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Official Opening of the 29th SIMEI
Technology Innovation Award "Lucio Mastroberardino" SIMEI 2022 
 Ceremony


11.00 a.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Conference by Valoritalia

Wine’s future is sustainable. Market trends between consumer choices and company strategy


1.30 p.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Enoplastic - Business presentation

Presentation of the new group, led by Enoplastic, as undisputed leader in the closure solutions

1.30 p.m. - Conference Room hall 3
DiSAA - Department of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences – Università di Milano
Sustainability in viticulture in the light of climate change

3.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 2
The Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWR)
Which are the technologies now, or in the future, which will be vital in making wine truly sustainable?


3.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Craft Distilling Italy
The craft spirit revolution from America to Italy

3.00 p.m. - Hall 2 A29/B30
Oleoteca by Olio Officina
Talks on sustainability

3.30 p.m. - Unione Italiana Vini hall 1 S09
Café on sustainable

Biodiversity: from emergency to resource
Guest: Gianfranco Caoduro, Honorary President of the World Biodiversity Association onlus (WBA)
Talk with guest: Giulio Somma and Valentina Ellero



Wednesday 16th November


10.30 a.m. - Conference Room hall 2
I.G.A. Beer Challenge 2022 - 2nd edition, Award Ceremony
- When Beer meets the grape...-

11.00 a.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Unione Italiana Vini
Wine and amphora: clay is back

11.30 a.m. - Hall 2 A29/B30
Oleoteca by Olio Officina
Talks on sustainability

12.00 a.m. - Unione Italiana Vini hall 1 S09
Café on sustainability

Interviews on architecture: sustainable wineries according to Olivier Chadebost
Guest: Olivier Chadebost, architect, engineer and designer
Talk with guest: Giulio Somma 

1.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Sacmi - Business presentation
From Sacmi “one-stop-shopping” approach to BIB technologies 

1.30 p.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Round table by Millevigne
From waste to resource: experiences and reflections on the circular economy

2.30 p.m. Conference Room hall 2
Assobibe, Assobirra, Mineracqua, Unione Italiana Vini
Energy indipendence in liquid food: utopia or reality? Energy indipendence plans and experiences in the sector and in Italian companies

3.00 p.m. Conference Room hall 3
The Sustainable Wine Roundtable (SWR)
What will be the true benefits of the Global Reference Standard on sustainable wine?


3.00 p.m. - Hall 2 A29/B30
Oleoteca by Olio Officina
Talks on sustainability

3.30 p.m. - Unione Italiana Vini hall 1 S09
Café on sustainable
A humanistic approach to sustainability: promoting villages, landscapes and territories
Guest: Antonio Capaldo, President of Feudi San Gregorio
Talk with guest: Giulio Somma



Thursday 17th November

10.00 a.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Ma-Silva - Business presentation
Natural cork stoppers: a new strategy for obtaining a neutral sensory matrix

10.00 a.m. -  Unione Italiana Vini hall 1 S09
Le Donne del Vino
Wine's future is now

10.30 a.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Assoenologi
Innovating the prevention of light-struck taste in white and rosé wines

11.00 a.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Unione Italiana Vini
National standard of sustainability in wine: the first steps

11.30 a.m. - Hall 2 A29/B30
Oleoteca by Olio Officina
Talks on sustainability

12.00 a.m. - Unione Italiana Vini hall 1 S09
Café on sustainability

Architecture and engineering: synergies at the service of beauty and functionality
Guest: Vittorio Moretti, President Holding Terra Moretti
Talk with guest: Giulio Somma

1.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Conference by ARGEA 

1.30 p.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Foss - Business presentation

3.00 p.m. Conference Room hall 2
Associazione Nazionale Le Donne del Vino
2nd Forum of Donne del Vino around the world
Women, wine, future

3.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Unione Italiana Vini
Modern production and consumer horizons - between NoLo wines and new trends

3.00 p.m. - Hall 2 A29/B30
Oleoteca by Olio Officina
Talks on sustainability

3.30 p.m. - Unione Italiana Vini hall 1 S09
Café on sustainable
Let's put the Earth back at the centre: how a #green wine is born in the vineyard
Guests: Alberto Grasso and Fabio Sozzani, Casa di E. Mirafiore & Fontanafredda
Talk with guests: Valentina Ellero and Giulio Somma



Friday 18th November

9.30 a.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Fondazione Edmund Mach
Building a cooperative network for climate change in the Italian wine sector

10.30 a.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Unionbirrai and Unione Italiana Vini
Craft beer, an evolving sector and the need for modern legislation

11.30 a.m. - Hall 2 A29/B30
Oleoteca by Olio Officina
Talks on sustainability

12.00 a.m. - Unione Italiana Vini space hall 1 S093
Café on sustainability

Tenuta Ammiraglia: a winery "open" to new horizons
Guest: Nathalie Grenon, Owner of Sartogo Architetti Associati and designer of Tenuta Ammiraglia - Frescobaldi
Talk with guest: Giulio Somma

1.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Foss - Business presentation

2.00 p.m. - Conference Room hall 3
Conference by Vinidea
Promoting viticulture innovation: Enoforum, WicabyEpawi, Seedspro2wine 

2.30 p.m. - Conference Room hall 2
Birra Nostra Magazine
How to communicate beer today. The case history of Birra Nostra Magazine