Speakers
Owner, Camellia Sinensis
British tea taster Kevin Gascoyne has been buying tea in Asia since 1989. He started his career as a tea writer for publications in the U.K., the U.S.A. and Japan. Over the years his passion for the black teas of India has spread to the plantations of many other countries. In Canada...
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Co-Founder, T By Daniel
Daniel Lewis is the funky, bow-tie wearing, retail magician and co-founder of T By Daniel. Since launching his business in 2011, Daniel has been awarded with several business excellence awards, received grants, and was selected as a Canadian Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship...
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President, Escuela Mexicana De Te
Tea Sommelier Certified, Tea Designed and Expert in Tea Protocol and Ceremony. She is Founding Partner of the Corporativo Tian Te de México, S.A. de C.V.She was born on May 8, she lived in Cuernavaca, and when she finished high school she lived in France for a year.She graduated...
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CEO, Escuela Mexicana de Te / Tian Te
Bachelor’s Degree in law by Universidad La SalleTea Sommelier, Tea Designer and Expert in Tea CeremoniesTAC TEA SOMMELIER ™ / ℠ CERTIFICATION PROGRAM, by the Tea and Herbal Association of Canada.Professional stages with teachers and tea experts in Taiwan and Sri LankaAdvisor...
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Associate Professor, Taste Science
Virginia is a physician, scientist, and award-winning educator, with a life-long fascination with the science behind our sensory perceptions. Through her research and teaching as faculty member in the Division of Nutritional Sciences at Cornell University (one of the world’s premier...
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President, Tea and Herb Association of Canada
Shabnam Weber has spent the last eighteen years in the tea business as an entrepreneur. As owner of a specialty tea company, a tea school and a Director on the Board of the Tea and Herbal Association of Canada, she has a unique perspective on multiple angles of the tea business. She...
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