EventSeminar/Conference

World Coffee Leaders Forum(WCLF)

World Coffee Leaders Forum is the world’s first global coffee conference to be officially supported by the International Coffee Organization (ICO.) The annual four-day event focuses on the most crucial topics in the global coffee industry of the year and opens next to Seoul International Cafe Show, the largest coffee exhibition in Asia with 20-years of expertise and history. Over the past ten years, World Coffee Leaders Forum has been analyzing the global and regional coffee markets and evaluating the changing trends, growth and changes. Every year, World Coffee Leaders Forum has been striving for the sustainable future of world coffee community and establishing new directions for future of the coffee market through discussing the most relevant issues and solutions coffee communities around the world need. In 2022, World Coffee Leaders Forum explores relationships of Coffee, Human, Space, Planet and New World in the global coffee industry, presents future industry directions and visions, and explores new paradigms to provide solutions to meet changes and trends in the global coffee industry.

World Coffee Leaders Forum 2022

  • - Title : The 11th World Coffee Leaders Forum 2022 (WCLF 2022)
  • - Period : Nov. 23(Wed) ~ 26(Sat), 2022
  • - Venue : Coex, Seoul, Korea
  • - Programs : Global Session, Professional Session, Origin Adventure Session, SCA Program, ESTA Educational Program, Champion Session
  • - Concurrent Event : The 21st Seoul Int’l Café Show, The 7th Seoul Coffee Festival
  • - Theme(2022) : Coffee&Relationships

Program Schedule

Time Nov.23(Wed) Nov.24(Thu) Nov.25(Fri) Nov.26(Sat)
Nov.23(Wed)~Nov.26(Sat)

Registration

10:00   Nov.24(Thu) 10:00~11:00

Global Session

Nov.24(Thu) 10:00~11:00

Professional Session

Nov.25(Fri) 10:00~11:00

Professional Session

Nov.25(Fri) 10:00~11:00

Origin Adventure Session

Nov.25(Fri) 10:00~11:00

SCA Program

Nov.26(Sat) 10:00~11:00

Professional Session

Nov.26(Sat) 10:00~11:00

Origin Adventure Session

Nov.26(Sat) 10:00~11:00

SCA Program

11:00
12:00 Nov.23(Wed)~Nov.26(Sat)

Lunch

13:00 Nov.23(Wed) 13:00~17:00

Professional Session

Nov.23(Wed) 13:00~17:00

IWCA Seminar

Nov.24(Thu) 13:00~17:00

Global Session

Nov.24(Thu) 13:00~17:00

Professional Session

Nov.25(Fri) 13:00~17:00

Professional Session

Nov.25(Fri) 13:00~17:00

Origin Adventure Session

Nov.25(Fri) 13:00~17:00

SCA Program

Nov.26(Sat) 13:00~17:00

ESTA Program

Nov.26(Sat) 13:00~17:00

Origin Adventure Session

Nov.26(Sat) 13:00~17:00

SCA Program

14:00
15:00
16:00
17:00

* It may be subject to change.



2021 Speaker

  • Bartosz Ciepaj

  • Matt Swenson

  • Ralf Rueller

  • Yannis Apostolopoulos

  • 강용해

  • 김동완

  • 김민수

  • 문헌관

  • 박상화

  • 박성운

  • 방정호

  • 송길영

  • 송호석

  • 안중혁

  • 유승권

  • 이영민

  • 이정민

  • 임보은

  • 정지윤

  • 정진재

  • 조용민

  • 차기동

  • 황지영

2020 Speaker

  • Dr.SamoSmrke

  • Fabiana Carvalho

  • Jean-Xavier Guinard

  • Jose Sette

  • Mario Fernandez

  • Nancy Cordoba

  • Norbert Wilson

  • Sara Marquart

  • William Ristenpart

  • Yannis Apostolopoulos

  • Dongwan Kim

  • Byeonggi Kim

  • Jeongho Kim

  • Sanghwa Park

  • Seunggyu Park

  • Hyeongyeong Bang

  • Boyeong Shin

  • Taeun Yu

  • Rim Lee

  • Yunyeong Lee

  • Changho Lee

  • Jina Jang

  • Yongmin Cho

  • Yudong Cho

  • Junhui Cho

  • Yeongmin Ju

  • Yeongho Jin

  • Sunghee Tark

2019 Speaker

  • Jose Sette

  • Peter Giuliano

  • Kim Elena Lonescu

  • Isabel van Bemmelen

  • Michael Sheridan

  • Will Frith

  • Jen Apodaca

  • Peter Kettler

  • Rodrigo Jimenes Briceno

  • Maria Auxitiadora Alpizar

  • Leonel Seo

2018 Speaker

  • Kellem Agnew Emanuele

  • Michelle Johnson

  • Colleen Anunu

  • Greg Meenahan

  • Katie Carguilo

  • Cynthia Chang Ludviksen

  • Nicholas Cho

  • Su-hwi Chae

  • Hun-sop Kim

  • Paul Um

  • Jun-bae Bang

  • Ki-hoon Kim

  • Kyu-wan choi

  • Ki-hong Jun

  • Jong-yeop Lee

  • Jun-Myung Lee

  • Ki-yong Yoo

  • Myeong-seok Yang

  • Jose Francisco Pereira

  • Jun-su Han

  • Se-hyun Lee

  • Sung-joo Hyun

  • Hoon Song

  • Jin-ho Yang

  • Jae-wook Do

  • Sung-young Kwack

  • Dong-wan Jeff Kim

2017 Speaker

  • Sarah Allen

  • Bryan Meehan

  • Michael Phillips

  • Mark Michaelson

  • Daehoon Kim

  • Maxwell Colonna-Dashwood

  • Lucy Fu

  • A. Syafrudin

  • Shinji Sekine

  • Min HLaing

  • Robert De Santos Francisco

  • Meechai Amornpathanakul

2016 Speaker

  • Timothy Schilling

  • Mery Santos

  • Emma Sage

  • Christopher Hendon

  • Hyun Yong Jung

  • Yannis Apostolopoulos

  • Nicholas Cho

  • Mike Yung

  • Berg Wu

  • Sasa Sestic

  • Hidenori Izaki

  • Tim Sturk

2015 Speaker

  • George Howell

  • Brett Smith

  • Abdullah Bagersh

  • Jason Wang

  • Joseph Brodsky

  • Ellie Hudson

  • Michael Phillips

  • Trish Rothgeb

  • Sasa Sestic

  • Caleb Cha

2014 Speaker

  • Andrea Illy

  • Ric Rhinehart

  • Matt Lounsbury

  • Robério Oliveira Silca

  • Mark Pendergrast

  • Rick Peyser

  • Myungkyu Ahn

  • Pil Hoon Seu

  • Mi-Ran Oh

  • Katsuhiko Hasegawa

  • Sunalini Menon

  • Xu Lu

  • Ja Sang Shin

  • Dato Seri Chia Kwang Chye

  • Stefanos Donatiotis

  • Susie Spindler

  • Sherri Johns

  • Hidenori Izaki