Barley Improvement Conference 2024

The 2024 Barley Improvement Conference will be held January 10-11, 2024 at the Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside hotel. This biennial conference brings together the best in barley research with the malting, brewing, and distilling industries. The program supports a robust forum for conversation and collaboration. 

Registration is now closed. Please contact Ashley if you have any questions regarding registration. 

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The program features research presentations and moderated panels. Programming begins at 1 pm PT Wednesday, January 10th and runs through Thursday, January 11th, concluding with a dinner and keynote address. The keynote speaker is Dr. Pat Hayes-Oregon State University: "Living the Life of Barley"

Hotel information
Host hotel and room block at the Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside - booking link - group code WSV.
Room block is closed - please contact hotel directly!

Sponsorship
All levels of sponsorship welcome - Sponsorship Opportunities

Thank you to our BIC24 conference sponsors:

• Allagash Brewing Company
  
• Beer to Bags
• Boortmalt
• Boston Beer Company
• Brown-Forman
• Great Western Malt
• Idaho Barley Commission
• International Barley Hub
• Malteurop
• Molson Coors
• Montana Grain Growers Association
• Montana Wheat and Barley Committee
• National Barley Growers Association
• New Belgium Brewing
• North Dakota Barley Council
• Washington Grain Commission
  

Theme
The theme for the 2024 event: Building Better Barley for a Resilient Future, is bolstered by recent work of AMBA's newly formed Sustainability Task Force and the new Resiliency Initiative of the National Barley Improvement Committee. These two efforts recognize the benefits of barley, but also acknowledges the continual improvements that need to be made in varietal development and management so that a high quality, domestic supply of malting barley can be sustained.