As an internationally award-winning and highly educated bartender, Alex Black, has recently taken the Canadian cocktail world by storm with his most recent projects Laowai and Bagheera in Vancouver's historic Chinatown neighbourhood. A long-time advocate within hospitality's movement towards better mental health programming and education, Alex has served time on a multitude of industry-specific non-profit and charitable organizations surrounding health, well-being, education, and community sustainability. With a background in distillation and a formally trained WSET spirits educator with 20+ years of bartending experience, he aims to help empower the next generation of industry professionals as best he can so they are better equipped and empowered to take the hospitality community to greater heights moving forward.