Testing - Barley Improvement Conference 2024

The American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) is excited to announce the return of the Barley Improvement Conference (BIC) to be held at the Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside hotel on January 10-11, 2024. This biennial conference, last held in 2019, has long brought together the best in barley research with the malting, brewing, and distilling industries - hosting a forum for conversation and collaboration. 

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. 

A full program and registration will be released soon, but be sure to save the dates on your calendar! 

Sponsorship Opportunities - all levels of sponsorship welcome by October 1st! 

Conference dinner held the evening of January 11th featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Pat Hayes, barley breeder from Oregon State University: "Living the Life of Barley"

Host hotel and room block:

• Holiday Inn San Diego Bayside

• Booking Link - group code WSV

• Reserve rooms at a rate of $169.00/night by December 8, 2023

Tentative program:

• January 10th - technical sessions starting mid-day, followed by a pre-dinner social

• January 11th - technical sessions in the morning, facilitated research-industry discussion in the afternoon, followed by a dinner with guest speaker