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Over 20,000 participants across more than 100 countries and over 120 speakers since 2024. Sessions in Spanish and English.

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22 OCT - 5:30pm ET, 90min

  • Una exploración del cacao como patrimonio biocultural, donde la ciencia, la cosmovisión andino-amazónica y la preparación tradicional se unen para comprender la planta y la transformación humana.

  • An exploration of cacao as biocultural heritage, where science, Andean-Amazonian worldviews, and traditional preparation come together to understand the plant and human transformation. description

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WOMEN OF CACAO

2026 SPEAKERS

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Zoi Papalexandratou

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Liora Omer

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Andal Balu (Cocoa Town)

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Ayissi Nyemba

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Cui Lan Zhang

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Chloé Doutre-Roussel

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Naailah Ali

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Silvina Pastorutti

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Fiorella Richter

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Birgitte Rasine

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Diana Marcano

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Dominique Zuniga

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Geneviève & Bhavani

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Mayari Castellanos

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Maura Sacach

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Sonia Lua

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CHACOLAKO

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Kalena Trow

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Kristy Leissle

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SALLY HUAPAYA

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SHIRLEY LUM

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India Mayorga

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Equal Exchange

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ROMI BURKS

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Kalena Trow

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Olivia Wu

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Rosário Cunha

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PAULA NAVARETTE

Woman harvesting a ripe cacao pod from a cacao tree in a tropical plantation

JHOANNA (ALISOS)

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Kayla Locascio

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Woman holding a large ripe cacao pod beneath a leafy cacao tree.

Zulay Poggy

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Lauren Adler

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KELLY (ALISOS)

Emily Stone

FLOR (ALISOS)

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Ava J Holmes

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Leslie (IX)

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Jaqueline Ávila & Renato Gordillo

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Diana Carolina Huamán Hinostroza

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Laura Bechard

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Mariana Bandera

Alicia Florentín

Idwe & Wabaksekwe

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Chiara Misci

Woman harvesting a ripe cacao pod in a lush cocoa plantation

Raisa Torres

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Lilian Nonzala

Julia Butac

Pamela Esquivel

Sanna Forslund

Gabriella Szabo

Marita Luger

Kristy Leissle

Silvana Gutierrez Castelli

Jenny Checo

Maricel Precilla

Lorain Antaneda

Wendy Arenas

Wilma Ku

Diana Godoy

Lou Anne Peroux

WOMEN OF CACAO
2024-2025

SOPHIA REA

LILLA TOTH

FLORENCIA FRIDMAN

PAULA NAVARRETE

IXQUIK LOPEZ ZAVALA

ROSARIO BRANDÃO

SANNA FORSLUND

SARAH BHARATH

MARCY NORTON

FIORELLA RICHTER

ANDREA CAMACHO

IX (LESLIE)

AVA J HOLMES

ROSAURA LAURA

LYNETTE ATKISSON

ESTELLE TRACY

MACKENZIE RIVERS

MINDY YANG

ERIN ANDREWS

LAURA VERGARA

KATHRYN SAMPECK

DANIELA MIRANDA

FARHANA SU

CARLA MARTIN

LORENA VARGAS

MARIANA BANDERA

INDIA MAYORGA

AMMA CACAO

MARIA GABRIELA FIGUEROA

CACAO SOURCE PROCESSING TEAM

CAROLINA WARD

RAVEN HANNA

GENEVIEVE LAZAR

MARICEL PRECILLA

LAURENCE TREMBLAY

VANADIS PHUMPIU

ALEJANDRA NARANJO

CAROLINE LUBBERS

LUCIANA MONTEIRO

LORENA GALASSO

DIA AMOR CACAO

SONIA LUA

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