December 6-8, 2026 • Los Angeles, CA
Discover what's emerging before it's everywhere.
BevNET Live brings promising beverage brands together with the people searching for what’s next, creating direct access to products, founders, and emerging opportunities across the industry.
30 years of industry relationships
Three days of brand access that would take months to replicate.
BevNET has spent 30 years building relationships across the beverage business. BevNET Live brings that network together in person, giving you direct access to founders, products, and conversations that are difficult to replicate through outreach alone.
Taste the product, meet the founder, and ask the questions that matter while the opportunity is in front of you. Across 1:1 meetings, sessions, sampling, and the Official Party, discovery happens throughout all three days.
Taste it first. That's the point.
Sampling
Sourcing decisions start with the product. Tasting fridges are stocked throughout the event, giving you the chance to sample brands across every major category at your own pace.
Day 1 closes with the Official Party, where product discovery continues alongside the founders and teams behind the brands. Taste what’s new, ask questions, and hear the story behind the product in real time.
New Beverage Showdown
A real-time read on where the market is heading.
The New Beverage Showdown is one of the most efficient sourcing tools at BevNET Live. Emerging brands pitch live to an expert panel of buyers, investors, and brand executives, with real-time feedback on positioning, retail readiness, and market viability.
This is your chance to see what’s coming next and connect with the founders driving industry change.
Past Competitors Include:
Dedicated time with brands you want to know
1:1 Meetings
1:1 meetings are pre-scheduled, structured conversations with brand founders attending BevNET Live.
As a host, you review requests and approve the brands most relevant to your categories, goals, and upcoming needs. Arrive with focused conversations already on your calendar and dedicated time to ask exactly what you need to know.
Brands & buyers who’ve shared the BevNET live experience
Know what’s moving before the market fully catches up
Sessions and speakers
BevNET Live stage sessions deliver category intelligence on where demand is shifting, what’s gaining velocity, what’s working at retail, and which brands are built to scale.
Hear directly from the founders, operators, investors, and executives shaping what’s trending and what could hit the shelf next.
Discover brands across every major category
Who You'll Meet
BevNET Live brings together brands across the beverage spectrum, from functional beverages and energy to ready-to-drink, better-for-you, emerging alcohol, and more. Meet founders actively pursuing retail placement, distribution, and the partnerships that can move their businesses forward.
Explore across categories, compare opportunities, and build a stronger pipeline of brands to watch.
BevNET Live NYC drew more than 700 attendees.
LA brings a different mix of founders, products, and industry leaders from across the West Coast and beyond, creating another set of brands and opportunities to discover.
What Past Attendees Say
We met the Whole Foods buyer before we had any chain success. That led to getting into Whole Foods stores across California and, ultimately, expanding our footprint and SKUs.
I think that format is an amazing way for new brands like ours to be introduced to the decision makers of the industry... We’re in big places like CVS, Gelson's, and Sprouts because of the New Beverage Showdown.
Three Days · The Right Brands
Find what could be next for your shelves, portfolio, or network.
Three days at BevNET Live bring you closer to emerging products, founders, and opportunities before they become obvious to the broader market.
