CONNECTING MARKETS IN NUMBERS
Knowledge, experience, entertainment – these are the three pillars of CONNECTING MARKETS and the key to its overwhelming success in the year of PROBAT’s 150th anniversary in 2018. Back then, the symposium turned into THE networking event for the international coffee community. But let the numbers speak for themselves:
SESSIONS
SPEAKERS
We are taking the spirit from 2018 with us, whereas CONNECTING MARKETS 2022 will have its very own character, addressing the current market drivers sustainability and digitalization. Prominent personalities and influencers of the global coffee community form the core of the first-class lineup with broad experience in these fields. All sessions are fast-paced and always informative. CONNECTING MARKETS 2022 is your place to learn about today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.
Carl Cervone
Enveritas


Carl Cervone
COO
Enveritas
Carl Cervone is the co-founder and COO of Enveritas. He oversees product development, data analysis, and global operations for Enveritas. Prior to Enveritas, Carl worked at TechnoServe helping coffee farmers in Africa and Latin America improve quality and adopt sustainable farming practices. He has a BA in environmental science from Wesleyan University and an MBA from Columbia University.
Anne Cooper
Equilibrium Master Roasters


Anne Cooper
Coffee Roasting Consultant
Equilibrium Master Roasters
With over 27 years working in the coffee industry, Anne is an Australian coffee professional who, at both a national & international level, has gained extensive experience in many areas of the coffee industry as barista, café owner/manager, barista trainer & assessor, head roaster/production manager, roasting trainer & consultant & certified Q Grader. Anne regularly attends, teaches/instructs, volunteers, competes in & judges regional, national & international coffee events in Australia, USA & Brazil.
Now with her consulting company, Equilibrium Master Roasters, Anne continues to develop her extensive roasting skills & knowledge by working with a wide range of roasting companies & roasting machines.
Christian von Craushaar
Fabscale


Christian von Craushaar
CEO
Fabscale
Since 2019 Christian von Craushaar has been serving as CEO of Fabscale GmbH, a joint venture of PROBAT and software solutions provider Cropster. Before joining Fabscale, he spent more than ten years covering various managing roles with different software companies and counseling high-tech start-ups. Most recently, he co-founded an e-commerce platform.
Christian holds an MBA degree in International Management, and an MSc degree in International Relations, Finance, and Development.
Darrin Daniel
Alliance for Coffee Excellence


Darrin Daniel
Executive Director
Alliance for Coffee Excellence
Darrin Daniel began his career in specialty coffee in the ’80s working as a barista and later as a roaster’s assistant for the Eugene, Oregon roaster/retailer Coffee Corner, Ltd. His early work with illycaffè began his interest and growth into coffee education and training. Darrin has covered positions of Head Green Coffee Buyer for Stumptown Coffee Roasters and Director of Sourcing for Allegro Coffee/Whole Foods Market. He has traveled to over 34 countries sourcing green coffee and tea.
Darrin has served on the Sustainability Council for the SCA and the Executive Council for the Roasters Guild of America. Currently, he holds a seat on the advisory board for Roast Magazine.
Bay Delgersaikhan
Root of Coffea


Bay Delgersaikhan
Founder
Root of Coffea
Bay runs a coffee company called 'Root of Coffea' in the landlocked country of Mongolia. While living in Sydney, Australia, he first became infatuated with coffee. So much that despite his day-to-day job in the mining industry, he started his own roasting business in 2015 with the purchase of his first PROBAT roasting machines. Starting his roasting venture with just five employees, he has managed to turn it into a successful business with a staff of over 60 people since then.
Sebastian Fichthorn
PROBAT


Sebastian Fichthorn
EVP ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
PROBAT
Industrial electrician training with subsequent electrical engineering studies, specializing in automation technology. Initially working as a development engineer in sensor technology. In 2012 Sebastian started his career at PROBAT, where he first supervised the technical clarification of internal and external software projects. Serving as Head of Software Engineering & IT for the past nine years, he moved on to the role of EVP Electrical engineering in 2022, and as such drives forward the further development of PROBAT's pioneering digital solutions. Sebastian is also a member of the operational advisory board of Fabscale GmbH.
Anders Fredriksson
Löfbergs


Anders Fredriksson
Group CEO
Löfbergs
Anders Fredriksson is Group CEO at Löfbergs, a Swedish-based coffee roaster active on ten core markets in Europe. The company was founded in 1906 by Anders Löfberg, and is still family-owned, now in the third and fourth generation.
Anders Fredriksson has held various management positions over the last 20 years. He has sound experience in the food industry and international business, as well as a clear style of leadership with a focus on building strong teams, which has contributed to his success in carrying out processes of change and profitable businesses.
Anders Fredriksson holds a Master´s Degree from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Engineering Physics in Stockholm, as well as an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.
James Hoffmann
Square Mile Coffee Roasters


James Hoffmann
Co-Founder
Square Mile Coffee Roasters
James Hoffmann has worked in coffee since 2003, was the 2007 World Barista Champion and is the co-founder of Square Mile Coffee Roasters. James wrote The World Atlas of Coffee, published in 2014, and is a consultant and advisor to a number of companies inside and outside of the coffee industry. James also runs the largest YouTube channel dedicated to coffee.
Andreas Idl
Cropster


Andreas Idl
CEO
Cropster
Andreas Idl, a socially minded entrepreneur, is the co-founder and CEO of Cropster GmbH. As a software developer with a degree in Information Systems he has focussed on using his technological experience in socially positive ways. This focus led him to Cali, Colombia and the Research Center CIAT. His work there focussed on helping small farmers in developing countries through research and development projects, specifically in coffee. As the project came to an end in 2007, Cropster was created to continue this work. It is now the specialty coffee industry's #1 software platform.
Sebastian Kersten
PROBAT


Sebastian Kersten
Head of Sales IT & Automation
PROBAT
Sebastian joined PROBAT in 2006 after completing his extra-occupational business informatics studies and IT training at Deutsche Telekom AG. Initially, he served as an IT system administrator at the roasting machine manufacturer. After intermediate work in product management and marketing, he now holds the position of Head of Sales IT & Automation.
Andy Kleitsch
Atomo


Andy Kleitsch
CEO & Co-founder
Atomo
Andy’s journey with Atomo Coffee began with the desire to make a positive impact on the world. Coffee is his daily ritual, but the negative environmental impacts of the industry were not lost on him. He co-founded Atomo Coffee in 2019, with the idea of making a product that looks, feels, tastes, and smells like coffee with a significantly smaller carbon footprint. Three years later, Atomo Coffee has two canned cold brews that produce 93% fewer carbon emissions than conventional cold brew coffee.
A PNW native, Andy Kleitsch was born and raised in Seattle, WA completing a bachelor’s degree in Advertising and Marketing from Emerson College.
David Klingen
Northern Wonder


David Klingen
CEO
Northern Wonder
Energized by his vision of a healthier planet, David spends his days reshaping our food industry’s unsustainable processes. After a career as sustainability professional in food retail (Ahold, Jumbo, Marqt) and the worldwide success of his clarified butter brand Ghee-Easy, he now pours his energy into revolutionizing the perfect cup of coffee: making coffee from non-tropical ingredients. Enjoy your daily brew without the bitter aftertaste of deforestation. Northern Wonder’s Coffee Free Coffee tastes like coffee; contains caffeine like coffee, and you can brew it like you’re used to.
THOMAS KOZIOROWSKI
PROBAT


THOMAS KOZIOROWSKI
CTO
PROBAT
Thomas Koziorowski holds the role of CTO at PROBAT. After completing his engineering studies at the University/Gesamthochschule Duisburg, he started his career at Siemens AG. He then held the position of design manager at Maschinenfabrik Ferd. Gothot GmbH, before eventually joining PROBAT. After various positions within the group of companies, he became divisional head of product technology and R&D.
Thomas and his team develop innovative solutions for the coffee processing industry in various technology fields. Current focal points are optimal process design, digitalization, and sustainability. He supports research and education by giving lectures at universities and colleges and heads research cooperations with universities and institutes worldwide. Thomas is a member of several boards and association committees.
Stephen Leighton
Drop Coffee and 3FE coffee


Stephen Leighton
Green Buyer
Drop Coffee and 3FE coffee
Stephen Leighton after over 20 years in the coffee industry is a partner in both Drop Coffee in Sweden and 3FE coffee in Ireland and is a coffee roaster and green bean buyer. With a big interest in relationships with coffee producers and sustainable ways of buying coffee not only now but for the future, much of his work has been getting to know the people at source. This has culminated in a lot of travel to producing countries and learning from hundreds of years of coffee knowledge.
Stephen lives in Sweden with his partner in life and Drop Coffee, Joanna Alm also a coffee roaster and Green Bean Buyer.
Jennifer “Vern” Long
World Coffee Research


Jennifer “Vern” Long
CEO
World Coffee Research
Vern Long is the CEO of World Coffee Research, a global, collaborative agricultural R&D organization for coffee. A plant breeder by training, Vern brings 25 years of experience in international agricultural research with a focus on smallholders and deep expertise in genetic resources policy. Prior to joining WCR, Long served as the director of the Office of Agricultural Research and Policy at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Vern has served on various multi-donor working groups, including as Chair of the Agricultural Research Working Group of the Global Donor Platform on Rural Development based in Bonn, Germany.
Vern received her PhD in plant genetics from Cornell University.
Marko Luther
Artisan


Marko Luther
Initiator Norm Roast Project
Artisan
Marko Luther is well known in the roasting community for his work on the open-source roasting software Artisan and the artisan.plus inventory service. In 2013 he developed the popular Tonino roast color meter and in 2020 he designed the portable Colino grading sieves. In 2021 he initiated the NORM ROAST project to develop an open standard for determining the levels of pollutants, CO2 emissions, and energy consumption of roasting machines. Luther is the author of seven granted patents and more than 70 scientific articles. He received a Ph.D. in computer science from Ulm University in Germany in 2003.
Cristina Madriñán
Buencafé


Cristina Madriñán
General Director
Buencafé
With a degree in Industrial Engineer, an MBA, and studies in Sustainability from MIT, Cristina has developed her career in Buencafé Liofilizado de Colombia across the last 25 years.
As General Director of Buencafé, she leads the corporate, competitive and sustainable strategies to project the organization internationally and to leave a positive mark on the world in accordance with the company purpose: To live with optimism as a transformative force to create sustainable value in the world of coffee
Anders Nordquist
Arvid Nordquist


Anders Nordquist
Managing Director
Arvid Nordquist
Anders started his career in the purchasing department for green coffee at Arvid Nordquist in 1986. In 1995 he took over the position of Managing Director. Today, the family business, which was founded by his grandfather in 1884, has offices in Finland, Denmark, Norway and Sweden.
Coffee production is one of the Nordic producer’s main business areas, with Arvid Nordquist Coffee – the company’s own coffee brand – accounting for a quarter of the market volume in Sweden. Other fields of operations are the distribution of well-known international food, wine and non-food products.
Anders holds a Bachelor of Law from Stockholm University.
Dr. Heiko Rischer
VTT


Dr. Heiko Rischer
Head of Plant Biotechnology
VTT
Dr. rer. nat. Heiko Rischer is Research Team Leader of Plant Biotechnology at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. where he is heading innovative applied research covering chemicals, health, cosmetics, and food among other areas. At the University of Helsinki, he is appointed Adjunct Professor in Pharmaceutical Biology. He is a Biologist with PhD in natural product chemistry building on more than 25 years of experience in plant cell and tissue culture techniques, analytics of secondary metabolites and the biotechnological production of phytopharmaceuticals and plant-derived compounds.
WILLIAM RISTENPART
UC Davis Coffee Center


WILLIAM RISTENPART
FOUNDING DIRECTOR
UC Davis Coffee Center
William Ristenpart is a Professor of Chemical Engineering at the University of California Davis and the founding director of the UC Davis Coffee Center. He received his PhD from Princeton University and did his postdoctoral work at Harvard University before joining the faculty at UC Davis in 2008. A member of the UC Davis Food Science Graduate Group, Prof. Ristenpart's area of research expertise is in complex transport phenomena, as exemplified by the mass transfer that occurs during coffee brewing. "The Design of Coffee: An Introduction to Chemical Engineering," is now the most popular elective course at UC Davis, taught to almost 2,000 students per year.
Dr. Raphael Studer
Algrano


Dr. Raphael Studer
CEO
Algrano
Raphael Studer, a Swiss economist and entrepreneur, reimagines coffee trading as the CEO of Algrano AG. He holds a PhD in economics and at first pursued a career in research, before leaving academia to join an energy company as a pricing and hedging specialist for commodity trading.
With two fellow entrepreneurs, Raphael co-founded Algrano. He moved to Brazil to learn on the ground about the ongoing structural change in coffee trading. A few months later the online platform Algrano.com was launched and awarded by the Specialty Coffee Association as the best Product and IT innovation in the industry. 6 years later, several hundred coffee roasters manage their sourcing and contract execution online and trade directly with hundreds of growers from 20 countries.
Dr. Anna Ziefuß
University of Duisburg-Essen


Dr. Anna Ziefuß
Head of Group Surface Chemistry and Laser Processing
University of Duisburg-Essen
Dr. Anna Rosa Ziefuß studied chemistry at the University of Duisburg-Essen (UDE) and received her Ph.D. with honors in 2022. Since 2021, she leads a research group in technical chemistry at UDE, focusing on surface chemistry and laser processing, mainly dealing with the laser-based synthesis of inorganic nanoparticles. Just recently, she expanded her field of research to the processing of organic materials and presented a novel ps-pulsed laser-induced cold extraction process that can be used to produce highly aromatic beverages and extract. With this process, she was able to accelerate the brewing time of a traditional cold-brew coffee by two orders of magnitude.
Hosts
Daniela Nowitzki
PROBAT


Daniela Nowitzki
Head Trainer Shop Roaster
PROBAT
In the early 2000s, Daniela Nowitzki started her career at PROBAT, where she holds the position of Head Trainer at the PROBAT shop roaster training center in Emmerich. She looks back on almost two decades of experience in organizing and conducting internal and external coffee training courses. In her time as a trainer, she has gained comprehensive knowledge in the fields of green coffee, quality control, cup tasting, sensory, and – of course – roasting, as well as optimizing roasting machines and profiles. Counting among the main cast of the PROBAT POP UP Series, Daniela regularly shares her extensive know-how with coffee enthusiasts from all over the world.
In the year 2013 Daniela won the ‘SCAE Award for Excellence – Passionate Educator’.
Tobias Lohmüller
HAMBURG DRESDNER MASCHINENFABRIKEN


Tobias Lohmüller
DIRECTOR R&D AND DESIGN
HAMBURG DRESDNER MASCHINENFABRIKEN
Dr. rer. nat. Tobias Lohmüller is Director R&D and Design at Hamburg Dresdner Maschinenfabriken GmbH, where he spearheads the strategic portfolio management while being responsible for the implementation and execution of research activities within the company. With previous positions as Innovation Fermentation Manager at Barry Callebaut and Head of R&D and Design at Bühler Barth, the graduated biotechnologist has extensive know-how in linking different existing technology to create innovation. Tobias is a Business Developer with strong abilities and experience in strategic product development and multiple successful product launches within the past 10 years.
Michal Molcan
Standart Magazine


Michal Molcan
Founder
Standart Magazine
Michal Molcan is the founder and editor-in-chief of Standart, an independent print magazine about speciality coffee. With a readership in 83 countries, his publication was Climate Neutral certified and awarded 2021 Best Coffee Magazine. Michal loves Mexican food, meeting new people over a cup of coffee—or classic cocktails.


TRAVEL
LOCATION SYMPOSIUM
PROBAT HEADQUARTERS
Conference Center
Reeser Str. 94
46446 Emmerich am Rhein
GermanyVISA
Please ensure that you have a Schengen visa or that your country of residence belongs to the Schengen area.
ARRIVAL / DEPARTURE
The PROBAT premises and the hotels are easily accessible by car via the motorway A3, by plane to Düsseldorf Airport (DUS) or Amsterdam “Schiphol” Airport (AMS) or by train to Emmerich train station.
SHUTTLE
A shuttle service from the hotels to PROBAT in the morning and back in the evening will be arranged automatically when ordering a hotel room.
Transfer
There will be a direct shuttle bus service from all recommended hotels to the PROBAT event location. The service will be offered from the following hotels in the morning (1st and 2nd symposium day) and back in the evening (1st and 2nd day): Rilano Hotel (Kleve), Augenblick Skylounge (Kleve), Hotel am Pan (Emmerich), Hotel Wanders (Emmerich), Hotel Residenz (Bocholt).
On the last day of the event, there will also be an airport shuttle service in the afternoon to Amsterdam (AMS) and Düsseldorf (DUS).
FAQ
LANGUAGE
All speeches and panels will be in English. There will be no interpreter service.
EVENT APP
Our CONNECTING MARKETS 2022 event app contains all relevant details on the symposium and the supporting program. It will be available for download in all app stores from early September 2022.
TIMETABLE
A detailed timetable will be provided on the website and in the event app before the event begins. The check-in counter will open at 9 am on September 21. The symposium starts at 9.30 am The 2-day-event ends on September 22, approx. at 4 pm.
Program items are subject to change.
COVID-19
Given the prevailing Corona pandemic: Please check corresponding regulations for your residence country and Germany before traveling to Emmerich.
Please note: On the PROBAT premises, the “2-G plus” rules (short for German “geimpft, genesen – vaccinated, recovered”) apply. This means that we can only receive attendees, who are vaccinated or recovered and who additionally present a currently valid negative test result. Alternatively, a PCR test, which is max. 48 hours old, is sufficient as proof.
As protecting the health and wellbeing of all our participants and other guests is paramount for PROBAT, we kindly ask you to also observe the following hygiene measures during your stay:
- Upon entering any building, please use the available hand disinfection racks.
- Handshaking must be avoided.
- The safety distance of at least 1.5 metres must be kept at all times.
- If you are feeling sick, please stay at home!