Stefania Marcuz – Italy

Food & Beverage expert, taster and consultant, member of the International Academy of Sensory Analysis, Stefania Marcuz is a professional honey taster enrolled in the Italian National Register of Professional Honey Experts and Tasters, as well as Panel Leader of the “Belluno Province and Dolomites Honey Awards”, member of the jury of the BiolMiel and other main honey competitions.

Moreover, she is a quality control manager and marketing consultant for several agrifood companies as well as a taster of several other products and member of the jury of the most important national and international competitions and guides of the sector.

DIMITRIOS SKOUROGIANNIS

Multidisciplinary design – Experience enhancement – Learning “journeys”

Dimitris is a multidisciplinary design consultant currently based in London. Among many activities and on a lifelong effort to better illustrate the perspectives of design, he has been publisher of the award-winning magazine “Multidisciplinary NTIZAIN”, founder and for 22 years Head of the Product Design school in ΑΚΤΟ Art & Design College, where he introduced for the first time in Greece the education of Packaging Design. He has founded the first Greek Innovation Lab related to design and has been Director for the Retail Network of the Benaki Museum and also for the MENTIS Center for the preservation of traditional textile techniques. He has curated for a number of years, the young designers’ presence and design research workshops at the TEDx Academy. On September 2015 he was a TEDx Academy speaker on Design Thinking.

Paula Carnell – United Kingdom

As an International ‘Bee Speaker’, Paula has established a reputation as an advocate of protecting and preserving bees through education on the connection of bees and plants. Honey is the embodiment of that connection and a reflection of the quality of the plants they feed on and the care they receive from their keepers. Studying Honey Sensory Evaluation in Bologna under the leading experts of the Italian Register of Sensory Analysis of Honey, Paula developed a passion for identifying the sources of honeys from both her native UK but also around the globe on her honey quests in Oman, Africa and Bhutan.

Laïla Khachane – United Kingdom

Sensory panel leader within an American food company in UK. Works with an expert panel to understand sensory characteristics of food products to guide new product development. Responsible of day to day training for performance improvement. Graduate from Institut Superieur International du Parfum, de la Cosmetique et de l’Aromatique Alimentaire (ISIPCA) in Versailles, Ile-de-France and has a Masters Degree Specialised in Natural Raw Materials. Her higher education included a 1 year Apprenticeship with a flavours/fragrances supplier. Worked on emotions provided by flavours – Establishment of a new experimental protocol measuring flavours emotional effect.

Dr. Mojca Korošec – Slovenia

Mojca Korošec is assistant professor in Nutrition at Department of Food Science and Technology, Biotechnical faculty, University of Ljubljana. She obtained the PhD degree in 2012, with dissertation entitled Determination of physical and chemical parameters for verifying the honey authenticity. Her research interests are physico-chemical and sensory analyses for characterization and quality assessment of the food, with special focus on honey bee products. She is a member of the International Honey Commission’s working group for Sensory assessment, and a member of the national and international panels for sensory assessment of honeys.

Dr. Slađan Rašić – Serbia

Assistant professor on Faculty of Ecological Agriculture, University EDUCONS, Sremska Kamenica, Serbia. President of Serbian Honey Tasting Society. Organizer and participant of several schools for testing and evaluating honey . Organizer of many exhibitions of honey in Serbia. A member of the Honey Evaluation Commission at many beekeeping events in the country and abroad.

Raffaele Dall’Olio – Italy

As an internationally sought out speaker including Apimondia and the European Conference of Apidology, Raffaele has more than 10 years experience as a teacher and professional honey taster and panel leader for the Italian National Register of Professional Honey Taster and member of official Panel Test at CRA-API lab since 2005 and in several Honey Contests. In 2015, he found “AsSenso”, sensory analyses as an R&D tool for businesses. Raffaele also has written for national beekeeping magazines in Italy such as L’apicoltore italiano, Lapis and APOidea.

Nicolas Kontolemos – Greece

I am an Agricultural Specialist in Beekeeping, studied in Italy. I have been head of beekeeping at the beekeeping department of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food. I have a diploma in honey tasting from the Italian Beekeepers Institute in Bologna, and I am member of Registry of Italian Honey Tasters. I have been a member of international jury for many years in international competitions of organic honey. I also hold a diploma in artificial insemination of queen bees. For many years I have been holding a six hundred-hive beekeeping unit to produce honey, pollen, royal jelly, etc.