The craft beer community thrives on passion and collaboration, yet many breweries lack the resources to address workplace harassment effectively. This interactive series, hosted by WeVow with support from industry partners, brings together legal experts and seasoned leaders to provide practical tools you can use immediately.

Join us to:

• Learn from specialists who understand the unique culture of craft breweries
• Move beyond theory with actionable strategies for building safer, compliant workplaces
• Connect with peers to share successes and challenges, strengthening industry-wide support
• Reduce legal and financial risk through clear policies and proactive leadership

Core topics include:

• Building a Foundation of Trust: Creating and communicating harassment policies employees believe in.
• Leadership in Action: Empowering managers and owners as advocates for a safe workplace.
• Policy to Practice: Navigating compliance, documentation, and fair investigations.
• Fostering an Inclusive Culture: Integrating respect and empowerment into hiring, training, and operations.

The panelists for this conversation are both senior executives from HR technology companies with strong backgrounds in creating safe workplaces:

• Opal Wagnac, Strategic Advisor, Human Capital Management
• Bill Blake, Co-owner of Rising Storm Brewing Co in Rochester, NY
• Scott Fletcher, President of WeVow

Let's move forward together: https://wevow.com

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Most brewery leaders step into leadership because they’re good at what they do. They care. They work hard. And they want the people around them to succeed. But at some point, that’s not enough. Passion doesn’t automatically translate to progress, and well-meaning effort doesn’t always grow a healthy team.

This session offers a practical look at what it means to lead people on purpose. We’ll explore a proven framework for developing your team members on purpose - including the necessary steps and stages, as well as what kind of support they need from you at each step.

It’s not about adding more to your plate. It’s about getting clearer on what leadership actually requires if your goal is to build people, not just fill roles. If you’ve ever felt stuck between being the go-to person and wanting others to step up, this session will give you language, clarity, and a way forward.

Chris Ediger is the founder of Craft Leadership, where he works with breweries to strengthen the people side of the business. Craft works alongside owners, managers, GMs, and shift leads to help them lead with more clarity, coach with more purpose, and build teams that actually work. The approach comes from years spent inside breweries of all shapes and sizes - on the floor with production crews, behind the bar with taproom staff, and in the room with leadership teams making hard calls. With simple tools and honest conversation, Craft helps leaders handle the everyday tension of running a brewery: managing people, keeping standards high, and still walking out the door with something left to give.

Learn more about the Craft Leader Certification: https://craftleadership.co/certification

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Listen to this presentation to learn more about technologies breweries are implementing to cut costs, increase efficiencies and cut waste.

It also covers a bit on what to look for when planning an improvement projects, what a basic business case looks like and some "pro tips" for how to run these projects (without revealing too much: start small, and build on proven success).

Sharing from years of experience in the industry, and also a process consultant - Magnus covers areas such as business systems, production optimization technologies, energy management, sustainability initiatives and waste reduction.

Magnus Valmot is the CEO of PLAATO Technoloigies. He is an engineer, has a leadership background from the Norwegian armed forces and has worked for more than a decade to build technology solutions for more efficient operations.

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