We’re only 30 days away from BevNET Live Summer ’13, which takes place on June 4-5 in New York City at the Metropolitan Pavilion. Space is filling up fast, and if you haven’t already, NOW is the time to register. With hundreds of attendees — including beverage companies, investors, distributors, retailers and suppliers — already signed up for the event, BevNET Live is certain to sell out.

The upcoming Manhattan edition of BevNET Live will feature a special edition of Beverage School, BevNET’s introduction to the beverage business. The program, which is free and open to qualified BevNET Live registrants, will be held on Mon., June 3, the day before the opening of BevNET Live, which takes place on June 4 and 5. The limited-seating session will be available — at no cost — exclusively to attendees of BevNET Live who are new (or relatively new) to the beverage industry.

It’s with HPP’s evolving role in mind that BevNET is pleased to announce that HPP consultant Joyce Longfield, the CEO of JL Nutrition and Food Regulatory Consulting, will be speaking at BevNET Live in June. At a time when flavor, ingredient, package and function technology are helping to significantly alter the brandscape of the beverage industry, BevNET Live will offer an unprecedented, unvarnished look at one its most eye-catching change agents.

There are only a handful of spots left for New Beverage Showdown 5, the fifth edition of BevNET’s premiere beverage brand competition, which takes place as part of the BevNET Live two-day business conference. If you’re thinking about applying to take part in the Showdown, don’t delay. Apply TODAY.

BevNET Live will offer an exploration of the river of innovation that has flowed from AriZona Beverages for the past 25 years when company co-founder Don Vultaggio takes the stage for a rare live interview on Tuesday, June 4.

We’ve extended early registration pricing for BevNET Live Summer ’13 until Monday, April 22, giving you just a little more time to take advantage of a significant discount from the full price of the event, which takes place on June 4 & 5 in New York, NY. Don’t delay — register now and save.

Mary Ellen Adcock, the vice president of natural foods for Kroger, will be speaking on the topic of building beverage brands in Kroger stores during the BevNET Live program in New York. Her talk will offer an unmatched opportunity to hear how beverage entrepreneurs can access the reach and volume offered by Kroger, the largest grocery store operator in the U.S., while still maintaining scalable, measured growth objectives.

With an abundance of niche and mainstream beverages competing for share in today’s dynamic drinks market, not to mention a crowded foodservice and grocery retail world, having a good understanding of how trends influence consumer needs and wants is invaluable. But trend information comes from so many directions. So how can you determine which trends to follow and which to leave behind? And how do you translate today’s hot trend into something useful?

BevNET Live’s popular “Sampling Bar” will return to the conference this summer. The free promotional opportunity allows you to have samples of your product in an unmanned area that is designed to showcase new, innovative, or successful beverage brands.If you are attending BevNET Live Summer ’13 and would like to sample your finished product, please view the link below for more info and to sign up.

BevNET is pleased to announce that two of the co-founders of investment fund Alliance Consumer Growth (ACG), Josh Goldin and Trevor Nelson, will be speaking as featured investors during BevNET Live, to be held June 4 and 5 at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Manhattan.