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Kojicon 2025: Tradition Meets Transformation - Speaker Intake Form

Kojicon returns for its 5th year with Kojicon 2025: Tradition Meets Transformation, bringing together the rich legacy of mold based fermentation with the innovative transformations shaping its future. Fermentation itself is a bridge between the past and the present, preserving techniques passed down through generations while inviting new interpretations. From cherished recipes handed down by grandparents to the transformative alchemy of grains into soy sauce, Makgeolli, and nutrient-rich, umami-packed foods, fermentation embodies both continuity and change.

This year, we’ll explore where these age-old traditions intersect with modern creativity, highlighting how today’s fermenters are reimagining familiar flavors and crafting bold, unfamiliar ones. Join us from February 17th to March 2nd for two weeks of enlightening and inspiring virtual presentations celebrating both the roots and the future of fermentation.

Please fill out this form if you would like to nominate yourself or someone you know to be a presenter.

Thank you for helping to build the fermentation community. For more information, please visit Kojicon.org!

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Please describe what koji or mold-based fermentation expertise your nominee might present about, and how their presentation is tied to this year's theme. *

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Thank you for indicating your interest in presenting at Kojicon 2025!

Our team will get back to you shortly.

In the meantime, please follow our instagram at @koji.con or visit our website for more information and updates! Tickets will go on sale early in the new year.