WWI Westside Annual Membership Meeting

9:00-12:00

This year we will again have a fantastic lineup of speakers and are excited to have them join us to educate, update, and inform you on various topics of importance to the Washington Wine Industry. These topics include:

Keynote speakers from WA wine industry leaders in our State Senate and House providing first-hand updates on the 2019 session and how we can work together to better the industry in 2020

Washington Wine Institute’s Executive Director providing a 2018-2019 overview of your Association’s past year’s successes, changes, opportunities, and a hot-off-the-presses review of how WWI is evolving to increase value for our members based on our recent Association Strategic Planning Process

A Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board update including recent rule-making work on custom crush, alternating proprietorships, bulk wine storage and transfer, quality assurance/educational tasting of wine in the tasting room, and more…

Legal and IT professionals explaining the background of recent federal and state ADA noncompliance lawsuits against wineries’ websites and providing guidance and resources on how WWI members can minimize the chances of being sued in the future

A programmatic update from the company founder of Givily, Amy Kauffman, covering our newest membership benefit program helping wineries track, organize, and market their charitable giving

An update on the Washington State Wine Commission’s world-class efforts to lead in the fields of Viticulture and Enology research

And More…!

As we finalize the agenda we will be announcing more details from each of our speakers for the 2019 Annual Membership Meetings!