SCAE – Join the Coffee Fiesta

MILAN – The prestigious venue of Hilton Hotel Antwerp will host from May 18th through May 20th the SCAE Coffee Fiesta, a celebration of quality coffee featuring competitions, workshops, educational seminars and tabletop displays (a new type of event, smaller and more intimate, but still just as exciting and informative).
There is something for everyone:
– World Championship finals;
– Skill-Building Workshops;
– Top Quality Presentations;
– The SCAE Awards for Excellence;
– The Results of the New Web-Based Competition for Coffee Photography;
– Internal SCAE members meetings;
– Tabletop Exhibition; and
– Social events, which provide great networking opportunities in an informal setting.

World Championships These competitions go from strength to strength, testing the national champions who have battled it out at home before progressing to this – the world stage. The competition among the participants is always going to be fierce; these are, after all, the best in the world, fighting it out for those three separate prestigious World Champion crowns:
– the World Cup Tasters Championship;
– the World Latte-Art Championship; and
– the World Coffee-in-Good-Spirits Championship

Skill-building workshops There will be two different workshop tracks:
– FILTER BREWING AND CUP TASTING TRACK and
– ESPRESSO AND BARISTA TRACK
Both tracks follow and incorporate elements of our successful educational programme, giving participants the opportunity to obtain a qualification under either the SCAE Gold Cup Programme or the Barista Certification programme. However, all the workshops offered during the event will concentrate on helping all those involved in the industry increase their knowledge and skills—and there is no need to take the examinations if you do not want to! Participants will have the opportunity to meet and learn from the world’s leading coffee experts.

Presentations Since there is only a limited amount of time available for presentations, organisers have decided to focus on two specific subjects which will be of interest to everyone in the Speciality Coffee industry. The first, by well known and prominent analysts, will concentrate on the Outlook for Speciality Coffee Prices over the next five years; while the second will be on that all-important topic “What you need to know about Traceability”.