December 6-8, 2026 • Los Angeles, CA
Where brands build traction.
Find the investors, buyers, and operators who can move your business forward.
30 years of industry relationships
The right network changes how fast you can move.
Buyer meetings can take months to secure, investor conversations often depend on who you know, and important decisions are harder without experienced perspective.
BevNET Live brings buyers, investors, operators, and founders together in person. Over three days, you can build relationships, ask direct questions, and learn from people who have already worked through the challenges ahead.
Brands & buyers who’ve shared the BevNET Live experience
Built for where you are and where you hope to be
Beverage School
Beverage School is a dedicated education track focused on the mechanics that matter: retailer conversations, distributor agreements, gross margins, and the decisions that can shape a growing beverage business.
You'll hear from seasoned operators, investors, and sales leaders who work with growing brands every day. They know the challenges. They'll tell you what works and what doesn’t.
Structure a retailer conversation
Walk in knowing what to ask for and how to ask for it.
Read a distributor agreement
Understand the terms before you sign them.
Build healthy gross margins
Think it through before you scale yourself into a loss.
Sales, finance, and marketing fundamentals
Learn the groundwork for building a stronger business.
Learn from those who’ve built before you
Sessions and Speakers
Founders, operators, buyers, and investors speak candidly about what it takes to build and grow a beverage brand, from securing a first distribution relationship to finding the right investors.
Hear directly from people across the industry about what buyers and investors look for in brands preparing to grow.
Pitch directly to the decision-makers
New Beverage Showdown
The New Beverage Showdown gives emerging brands the chance to pitch live to buyers, investors, distributors, founders, and press while receiving feedback from an expert panel in real time. Whether you're on stage or in the seats, watching the judges react gives you a framework you can apply to your own brand immediately.
The prize is a $10,000 BevNET advertising package. But ask past competitors. They'll tell you the conversations after you walk off stage are worth more.
Liquid Death competed before it was a festival mainstay. Poppi competed when it was still Mother Beverage. You could be next.
$10,000 advertising package with BevNET
A Few Past Participants
Sampling
There’s no better first impression than the product itself.
Brands of all sizes sample their products throughout the event. BevNET Live offers multiple ways to place your product directly in the hands of buyers, investors, and industry peers.
Contact us to learn more about sampling opportunities.
Focused time with the people you came to meet
1:1 Meetings
Pre-scheduled, structured conversations with retail buyers evaluating new brands and investors exploring emerging companies.
Request meetings based on your category, goals, and priorities. When there’s a match, you’ll have dedicated time to discuss your product, retail strategy, fundraising plans, and what could move the business forward.
Meetings aren’t guaranteed, and calendars fill quickly. Register early to be considered sooner.
Who You'll Meet
The people are the whole point.
Meet buyers, investors, founders, distributors, suppliers, and operators from across the beverage business. The value is not only who you meet, but how one conversation can lead to the next.
Retail Buyers
from regional and national chains evaluating what belongs on shelf next
Investors
from angel investors to established CPG-focused funds exploring their next opportunity
Founders
from newly launched to scaling, including brands you’ll recognize from the shelf
Distributors
regional and national teams evaluating which brands fit their portfolios
Suppliers & Co-Manufacturers
partners supporting formulation, production, packaging, and scale
Service Partners
brokers, agencies, advisors, and operators supporting growing brands
BevNET Live NYC drew more than 700 attendees.
Los Angeles brings another mix of founders and industry leaders from across the West Coast and beyond, creating new relationships and opportunities across the beverage business.
What Founders Say
BevNET Live gave us the chance to meet and build relationships with brands and industry people from across the country; competing and winning early on gave us an invaluable level of confidence.
Founders talk candidly about what worked and what didn't, and the audience is knowledgeable enough to push past the polished version. Having operators, investors, and retailers all in the same room is rare in this industry, and it's a big part of why the event matters. Being on stage there was a genuine pleasure.
Three Days · The Right People
Build the relationships your business needs next.
If you're building a beverage brand and serious about retail, capital, and stronger industry relationships, BevNET Live brings those conversations closer.
