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WITS 2008 Announcement

Industry Leaders, Technology Experts to Gather at Fourth Annual
Wine Industry Technology Symposium on July 14-15, 2008
April 15, 2008, Napa, CA  – Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS)®, the premier event showcasing strategic use of information technology and services for the wine industry, will hold its fourth annual conference July 14-15, 2008 at the Marriot Napa Valley. [...]

Press coverage of WITS 2007

there have been some terrific stories written in the press re the Wine Industry Technology Sympoisum 2007…. here are a few so far….

Wines & Vines – User-Friendly Tech Symposium
A new approach and a number of dynamic speakers seemed to breathe new vitality into the Wine Industry Technology Symposium. The new approach depended largely on emphasizing [...]

2007 Event a big success!

Over 300 people attended this years WITS event this week.  It was deemed by most a huge success. 

2007 Event – pictures

here are a few shots from the event…

May 4 WITS update – panels announced

WINE INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM
ANNOUNCES PANELS FOR JULY 17 CONFERENCE
Schedule and Registration Now Online
 

NAPA, Calif., May 4, 2007 – Panel topics are set for the third annual Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS), the industry’s premier forum addressing information technology challenges, solutions and trends. WITS will be held July 17, 2007 at the Meritage Resort, Napa, from [...]

WITS 2007 – Event in Planning Stages

We have confirmed with the Meritage Hotel in Napa the WITS 2007 Dates will be July 16-17.  Agenda is being worked on.  Please submitt any ideas to Smoke, Leseley or Kathy or any of the WITS Advisory Board.  We look forward to an even bigger and successful event in 2007….

More on WITS from Avenue Wine Blog

Check out Avenue Wine Blog….

http://www.avenuevine.com/movabletype/archives/001585.html

WITS 2006 – Wine Business Monthly

Here is a link to the WBM online coverage of WITS….

http://www.winebusiness.com/news/DailyNewsArticle.cfm?dataid=43812

WITS 2006 004

 

WITS 2006 004Originally uploaded by drinkman240.

WITS 2006 was a huge success! Here is Lesley and John. More photos on Flickr

Smoke

Andy Frost arrives from New Zealand

Andy Frost arrives from New Zealand to join the WITS Harvest Management forum on July 18. He joins Vineyard Management expert Davie Pina, Dr. Jeff Dlott of SureHarvest and Randy Meyer, Senior Winemaker of Korbel Champagne Cellars.   

Andy Frost, Winemaking Research and Technical Services Manager at Montana Wines
As the senior winemaker focused on research and the [...]

Complying with the FDA Bio-Terrorism Act & SarbOx

In the past year, we have seen the FDA enter the wine industry for the first time.  All the large wineries had to be compliant in December of 2005, the medium sized wineries in June of 2006 and the smaller ones by December of this year.  For those public companies already complying with SarbOx, this [...]

1-800 FLOWERS.COM CIO ADDED AS KEYNOTE FOR WINE INDUSTRY TECHNOLOGY SYMPOSIUM™ (WITS™) TO BE HELD IN NAPA, CA JULY 18, 2006

I thought I’d post the announcement regarding WITS… as an update, we have more than 200 executives registered to attend as of July 4.  Last year about 50 registered in the final week.  It is going to be an action packed day.  I hope to see you there….

 

Smoke 

 

Napa, California, June 13, 2006 – Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS)™ [www.wineindustrytechnologysymposium.com] announced today [...]

North Bay Business Journal – Story on WITS

Hi all, I just saw the great story in the NBBJ on this year’s WITS event.  Nice work Loralee!  Check it out at http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/BUSINESSJOURNAL/60623036&SearchID=73250160564111

 Smoke

The 2006 Wine Industry Technology Symposium

It’s here! The site for the 2006 Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS) is now up and running. Take a look at http://www.wineindustrytechnologysymposium.com/.

WITS will be held July 18, 2006 at the The Meritage Hotel, 875 Bordeaux Way in Napa, California.

Registration will be open soon.

The 2006 Wine Industry Technology Symposium

It’s here! The site for the 2006 Wine Industry Technology Symposium (WITS) is now up and running. Take a look at http://www.wineindustrytechnologysymposium.com/.

WITS will be held July 18, 2006 at the The Meritage Hotel, 875 Bordeaux Way in Napa, California.

Registration will be open soon.

Tracking Technologies – Here Now and More to Come

Wine Business Monthly has an article that gives a good overview of using bar tags for tracking. Imagine taking the features discussed in this article – barrel location, alcohol levels, tasting scores, purchase date and wine status – and add in tracking the state of the wine (tempurature etc) and that is [...]