Over the last few months I have been assisting in organizing a seminar to take place here in San Diego titled Owning and Operating an Urban Winery or Brewery. My supervising attorney at Higgs, Fletcher, and Mack LLP is the Program Chair, and I have been working aggressively with him to put together an incredible lineup of speakers from the alcohol beverage industry. Attorneys from some of the most successful alcohol beverage firms in the nation, as well as representatives from the Wine Institute, California Alcohol Beverage Control, and Constellation Wines U.S. will be speaking. In addition, the CEO’s/Presidents from Crushpad, Ballast Point, and Karl Strauss will also be speaking. The seminar will be beneficial to anyone involved in or interested in owning a brewery or winery. Attorneys who attend will also get CLE credit.
The seminar is set to take place November 10th, 2010 at the Doubetree Hotel in San Diego’s downtown Gaslamp District. The link above is to a PDF of the seminar brochure, and here is the link to The Seminar Group website for the event.
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I am contacting you because I am interested in sharing a technology solution with you and your seminar attendees which is designed to automate wine law and enable global wine distrubtion.
The “Wine Wizard” is based upon a rich knowledge base of wine statues, regulations, policies, case law, etc. upon which a user friendly Q&A environment is built.
The “Wine Wizard” will easily connect to existing winery purchase order processes capturing information and generating an efficient, and legally compliant approach for global wine distribution.
I thought your exciting seminar might be just the forum to share this powerful solution and gain valuable feedback.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your reply
Deborah Stockdale
stockdale.d@gmail.com
I am going to link to this on my blog; I think it would be of great interest to many wine lovers!
If I were not so far away, and if my journal comment was not due so close to that date, I would definitely consider attending. (Maybe next year?)