2025 Floor Talks
21 - 23 July, 2025 | Adelaide Convention Centre
MONDAY 21 JULY
10.30am
Kevin Joyce
CropBioLife – Stand 406
CropBioLife & the Role of Flavonoids in Grape
Flavonoids play many crucial roles in grapevines. These include protection against UV, pests, pathogens, and oxidative stress. They also boost pollinator attraction, fruit quality, flavour, and mouthfeel. In this talk you will learn how simple applications of CropBioLife can bring all this and more to your vineyard.
11.30am
Dr. Darren Oemcke & Dimitrios Apostolou
Hydra Consulting – Stand 1011
WineSage: Unleash Your Wine’s Market Potential with AI as Your Co-Pilot
An intelligent marketing platform designed specifically for the wine industry, WineSage is your expert co-pilot—guiding you with strategic insights, tailored tools, and automated execution to drive sales and elevate your brand.
WineSage doesn’t just give you data. It helps you act on it. Here’s how:
- Tell Stories That Sell: Move beyond generic tasting notes. WineSage helps you shape narratives that connect emotionally and cut through the noise.
- Sharpen Your Value Proposition: Understand how your wines are perceived—and how to position them with clarity and consistency.
- Expand Confidently: Whether you’re chasing export markets or new domestic segments, we deliver tailored research, entry strategies, and even launch plans.
- Nail Pricing & Distribution: Make informed decisions with pricing intelligence, curated distributor suggestions, and AI-drafted outreach emails.
- Create Moments That Matter: Spark engagement with creative activation strategies that leave lasting impressions.
- Optimise with Ease: From technical sheets to SEO-ready web copy, WineSage gives you the tools to run leaner and smarter.
- Pitch with Precision: Get professionally crafted pitch decks and email templates that open doors and close deals.
Stop guessing. Start growing—with WineSage as your strategic advantage.
Find out more in the Floor Talk
12.30pm
Chris Voskuilen
Mettler Toledo – Stand 1008
Crafting Perfection: Achieving Batch Consistency through Innovative Analytical Solutions
How to refine your product and achieve batch consistency with analytical solutions. The importance of product testing and accuracy in results.
1.30pm
Vitalie Popa
Auric Barrels d.o.o. – Stand 403
Auric Infinity New Technology of Winemaking
Presentation of isobaric fermentation and maturation of the wine in wooden barrel, without using any enological products
2.30pm
Andrew Branson
Solventum – Stand 1644
Filtration and Gas Control
Improve your bottling outcomes with inline automated gas control and greater membrane throughput with LifeAssure BBA (new product).
3.30pm
Rebecca Rodon
Omnia Technologies Group – Stand 1301
Selective Filtration for Product De-Coloration & De-Alcoholisation
Tangential filtration system designed for the application of selective membranes. These particular membranes are suitable for purification, fractioning and concentration of compounds used for wine production and products for food or nutraceutical use.
TUESDAY 22 JULY
10.30am
Pam Newton
R-Biopharm Australia – Stand 703
Alcohol Free Testing & R-Biopharm Wine Ecosystem
Sharing insights on enzymatic alcohol free testing product solutions. Giving a brief Overview on Wine Testing Product Portfolio
11.30am
Tom Hatcher
SWAN Systems – Stand 1343
Agtech Irrigation Methodology Trial
Presentation and description of the McLaren Vale Agtech Irrigation Trial including the discoveries, findings and results.
12.30pm
Nick Sayer
Waterfind – Stand 766
Murray Darling Basin Plan Explained
The Murray Darling Basin plan explained and the effect on irrigators and irrigation communities.
1.30pm
Christophe Loisel
San Miguel Yamamura Australasia Group – Stand 1101
DIAM Collection – The Guardian of Aromas
Wine closures. Wine Corks. Technical
2.30pm
Søren This Heide
Foss Pacific – Stand 1314
More Insights, Less Work and More Time for Winemaking
Wine analysis that ensures an expanding world of insight with less cost and less work, and common trends in winemaking
3.30pm
Lionel Dickens
Flowtherm – Stand 1633
Willmes Wine Pressers
Future in Wine Pressing
WEDNESDAY 23 JULY
10.30am
Alan Theron
Australian Concrete Posts & Mats – Stand 1528
Innovation in Concrete for Lifetime Trellis Posts and Erosion Control Mats for Vineyards
Discover how innovative and durable concrete products are helping the viticulture industry. Australia’s leaders in manufacturers of concrete posts and flexible concrete erosion control mats will present their products and how they used in the rural sector.
- Prestressed Concrete Posts for vineyard trellis and end braces.
- Flexible and Permeable concrete mats for erosion control and slope stabilisation.
- Presented by Alan Theron, Director of Australian Concrete Mats and Posts.
11.30am
Paul Ahn
Flavourtech – Stand 1328
NoLo – The Next Generation in Low Temperature Vacuum Distillation
The Spinning Cone Column (SCC) has been the choice for gentle and efficient removal of alcohol from wine for decades. Flavourtech has now released their next generation dealcoholisation system incorporating upgrades and new technologies to further help winemakers produce the highest quality NoLo wine.
12.30pm
Magdeleine Allaume
Seguin Moreau – Stand 1349
Oak – Relevance and Reverence
Focussed on the use of oak including size, grain and toast with wine makings. Oak is a valuable tool to compensate for vintage, varietal and site characteristics.
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