In no particular order, check out the top speakers and influencers included in the IWINETC Conference Talk Programme (Available 1 January 2025). Conference themes for 2025 are Research & Insight, Innovation, Experience Design, Sustainability, Grape Escape Destinations and Branding & Marketing.
Speakers IWINETC – Czechia 2025
Judith Lewis
Keynote Speaker
Judith will be delivering two talks within the IWINETC Conference Talk Programme as follows:
Digital Marketing for Success: How to Win in an Ever-Changing Digital Landscape
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Is AI Right for my Tourism Company or Winery? How do I use it?
Judith is a renowned and in demand international MC, fractional CMO, keynote speaker, writer, trainer, blogger and digital media consultant. She specialises in applying strategic understanding of digital technologies to help businesses innovate and optimise their effectiveness within the new, networked communications environment. She has a specialised honours degree in psychology, a background in programming and law, and has over a quarter of a century of experience in digital marketing. She is a regular speaker and trainer around the world on AI, a field she (more…)
Klára Kollárová
Industry expert
Klara will be leading the session:
Wines of Czechia Grand Tasting
Klara’s wine career began by chance while studying cultural anthropology at Charles University in Prague in 2002. Working in a wine bar quickly turned from a way to pay the bills into a lifestyle. She continued to study wines and published several articles in Czech wine magazines (Vino Revue, Vinařský obzor and Wine & Degustation). She also graduated as a professional wine taster and took on many wine challenges. But her real sommelier and wine career began in 2006, when the now Michelin-starred restaurant La Degustation Boheme Bourgeois opened. After 6 years (more…)
María Adela Pereira Alvarez
Industry expert
Adela will be delivering the following talk within the IWINETC Conference Talk Programme:
Wine Tourism Acceleration: Maximizing Revenue for Wineries & Destinations
Adela leads a team dedicated to optimizing wine tourism profitability for wineries and destinations through an innovative acceleration model. By leveraging advanced digital tools, her approach attracts visitors and maximizes their purchases both onsite and online, driving increased profitability and fostering long-term customer loyalty. She also hosts a podcast for industry professionals, now in its fifth season, featuring insightful conversations with leading experts in the field. Adela brings extensive experience as an educator in the field of wine tourism, teaching (more…)
Paul Wagner
Keynote Speaker
Paul will be delivering two talks within the IWINETC Conference Talk Programme as follows:
Wine Tourism to Build a Regional Brand
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What We Get Wrong About Wine Tourism
Paul Wagner studied sociology and education at U. C. Santa Cruz and classical guitar with Dona America Martinez of the Royal Conservatory of Music in Seville, Spain. He has been an instructor for Napa Valley College's Viticulture and Enology department for more than twenty-eight years, is a guest lecturer at many universities around the world, and has spoken at more than eighty conferences. His first book, co-authored with Liz Thach and Janeen Olsen, Wine Marketing & Sales, Strategies for a Saturated Market by The Wine Appreciation Guild, won the Gourmand (more…)
Robin Shaw
Keynote Speaker
Robin will be delivering a talk within the IWINETC Conference Talk Programme as follows:
The Wine Tourism Transformation: From Tasting Rooms to Tourism Destinations for Profit and Pleasure
Robin will also be leading and moderating a panel discussion as follows:
How to Create Immersive & Memorable Wine Tourism Experiences
Robin is the founder of Wine Tourism Australia and Vintuition. She works with small and medium-sized wineries to help winery owners and regions develop their visitor experiences while her Vintuition programs focus on innovative sales training for cellar door teams. Robin has over 30 years of experience in the wine industry across a wide range of roles, including GM of the Australian Wine Club, inaugural manager of Jacob’s Creek Visitor Centre, and management roles with the South Australian Tourism Commission, Winemakers’ Federation of Australia and (more…)