SCA Green Coffee Summit - Aug 25/26, 2021 (online, free)

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Info to date and to RSVP: https://green.sca.coffee/live-event It's free, and it appears that you don't have to be an SCA member to RSVP.(I'm not.)

Much of the content is, as one would expect, aimed at industy - and probably only of passing interest to home-barista's or home roasters.

I have seen one talk description that would interest me, as I seem to always prefer the same coffee just washed over novel processes :

Finding your way around in the Processing Revolution | Mario Fernández

In recent decades, specialty coffee has experienced a revolution in postharvest processing. The speed of new method development is increasing as the success of honey and natural processes has spurred innovations like extended fermentation periods and carbonic maceration. This revolution brings opportunities for technological progress in processing and for leading processors to add value to their coffee, but it comes with a cost.

(Here's an hour talk that he did on "The Role of Microbes in Coffee Flavour" back in 2018: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGE48zSpyLI )