Dear delegates,

CONFERENCE UPDATE

We are pleased to announce the new dates of the CAA International Cocoa Conference, 1 – 2 September 2022, in Singapore.

The biennial international conference brings more than 400 global participants together and has established itself as an important industry forum offering senior business leaders, key stakeholders, decision makers, including the most influential people in Cocoa & Chocolate supply chain a platform to discuss strategic topics of common interests.

There will be ample network opportunities as we recognise this is especially important after more than 2 years of travel restrictions, the conference will end on a high note with a spectacular dinner event.

Join us and participate as renowned experts, present and debate in a series of interactive panel discussions on the key topics that will underpin growth for the future:

• Macroeconomic Outlook for Asia
• Latest supply & demand outlooks
• Marketing, and innovation Trends
• Sustainability

Attendees include:

• Government agencies
• Chocolate manufacturers
• Cocoa processors
• Trading organizations
• Financial institutions
• Insurance providers
• Equipment and processing providers
• Agricultural stakeholders
• AI and technology providers

Since the 2017 Conference theme “Making Asian Cocoa Great Again,” you may have noticed that Asian has grown in affluence…. changing lifestyles, and boosted consumption of cocoa products, raising demand year on year. Asia’s cocoa processors are now heading for their busiest year on record.

In contrast to this boom in demand), the production of Asian cocoa has dwindled further – giving the outlook for the fundamental supply a particularly high importance, however this year we’ve seen the grind performance setting a new record for Q2 grind in Asia Pacific and is the 3rd highest number in CAA history.  This reflects a positive recovery from a Covid-pressured 2020 and puts the cocoa & chocolate industry back on an encouraging growth path that it was on prior to Covid.

Registrations will re-open in the 1st quarter of 2022, kindly register your interest with us, we’ll let you know once ticketing starts here.

If you have any questions or concerns, please get in touch:  [email protected] /  [email protected]

Looking forward to meeting you soon!

CAA Organizing Committee