Beam 2026 Annual Conference

Pecha Kucha III (Room Cats Den)

This session will cover the following talks:

-Ben Levin: Driving Craft Distilling Excellence with Innovations in Flow

-Luis Nunes: Enhancing Warehouse Operations with Orientation and Movement-Aware Barrel Tags

-Jason Lawrence: Sensory Cyborg: Blending Man and Machine

-Kevin Kawa: Yeast as the Architect: Building bourbon's flavor before the barrel.

-Alex Moriarty: The use of AB Biotek’s Distinction range for producing Tequila targeting specific flavors.

-Shaun Hughes: Sample Preparations and Mechanical Techniques for the Flavor Maturation of New Make Whiskey (s) and for the Flavor Balancing of Out-Of-Spec Finished Whiskey(s)

-Jonathan Grandy: Improving sensory–chemical assignments in GC–O workflows

-Kelly Stone: Interpretable AI for Distilling Analytics: Faster Processing, Decision-Ready Insights