Today, the Specialty Coffee Association has announced that the 2022 World Barista Championship and World Brewers Cup will be hosted at the Melbourne International Coffee Expo, from September 27-30, 2022. We have also announced that the 2022 World Latte Art Championship, World Coffee in Good Spirits Championship (WCIGS), World Cup Tasters Championship, and World Coffee Roasting Championship will be held in conjunction with the SCA’s World Of Coffee trade show, in Warsaw, Poland, from June 16-18, 2022. The World Coffee Roasting

Today, the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) has announced the 2021 Milan World Coffee Championships, featuring the World Barista Championship, World Brewers Cup, and World Cup Tasters Championship, will take place at HostMilano, Italy, from October 22-26.

Join the first-ever cross-guild workshop: a hands-on, collaborative team exercise that will challenge you to develop the skills you need to build a coffee business from the ground up.

Registration is open for a free webinar on the current state of coffee fermentation science, hosted in partnership with The Fermentation Association, on Wednesday, August 11.

The highly anticipated Scientific Poster Session is back!

Now available in the Coffee Retail Summit resource library: nine videos from June’s summit offered in the CEST timezone.

If you are an SCA member based in Canada, cast your vote for the new National Coordinator for the SCA Canada Chapter now.

The Barista Guild is pleased to invite you to a four-part webinar series taking place this July on the topic of Livelihoods in Coffee.

The Specialty Coffee Association is now accepting nominations for the 2022-2023 SCA Board of Directors. Nominations close on Friday, July 9, and interviews with the Nominating Committee will take place between July and August. The SCA will announce the slate of candidates selected through the interview process by Tuesday, August 31.

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced Green Coffee Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event and resource library dedicated to the buying and selling of green coffee, launching August 25-26, 2021.

Ask The Pros, formerly Ask An Expert, is back on screens with live episodes streaming June through August 2021.

Testing for qualified equipment for use in the World Coffee Championships (WCC) has commenced, as part of the SCA Certified Commercial Equipment Program. Equipment submitted to the program will undergo performance testing using a set of standards and evaluation developed by industry experts. This program is the prerequisite to qualified category sponsorships for the World Coffee Championships.

Registration is now open for the 2021 Specialty Coffee Expo taking place September 30 - October 3, 2021 at the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA.

The Specialty Coffee Association has announced a secondCoffee Retail Summit, a free-to-attend virtual event for coffee retail businesses.

In April we announced our exciting collaboration with the National Coffee Association (NCA) to support the NCA’s biannual National Coffee Data Trends (NCDT) report and publish a special report on data relating to specialty coffee. We’re pleased to announce that the report, Specialty Coffee Consumers & Trends, is now available for coffee professionals and businesses to read at no cost.

Updated Rules & Regulations have been announced for the 2021 World Latte Art, World Coffee in Good Spirits, and World Coffee Roasting Championships, scheduled to take place at the Taipei International Coffee Show in November. You can find the rules and scoresheets for each of the competitions linked below, with changes broadly focused on COVID-19 related precautions and updates that were introduced for the other 2021 World Coffee Championships.

The USA Chapter of the Specialty Coffee Association (SCA USA Chapter) completed its inaugural lottery election process to elect incoming members of the Chapter Committee.

Watch Yannis Apostolopoulos, CEO of the Specialty Coffee Association, welcome Coffee Retail Summit’s attendees to a program focused on three main topics: Navigating COVID-19, Business of Coffee, and Building Your Brand.

The Specialty Coffee Association is pleased to announce that the Specialty Coffee Expo will return September 30 to October 3, 2021 in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. Many of the popular Expo features will return with new COVID-19 safety measures in place led by a designated COVID-19 Safety Officer.