The SCA Educator Summit logo.
The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is reprising its Educator Summit program for 2024, offering five full-day conferences geared towards coffee educators in cities across the globe.
The first two of the five conferences will be in the United States, including an Oct. 1 summit at the Lavazza Training Center in Philadelphia and an Oct. 12 summit at the Katz Coffee headquarters in Houston.
Three additional summits will take place in South Korea, Thailand and Taiwan in December. The group held the inaugural summits last year in South Korea and Italy.
The SCA, which is the world’s largest coffee trade organization, has not yet opened registration for the U.S. events, nor has it announced costs to participate. In an announcement yesterday, the group said there will be early-bird discounts and combination discounts once sales launch.
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The Educators Summit ties into the industry group’s two largest sources of revenue, in-person events and education programming.
“Educators are a vitally important part of the specialty coffee community imparting knowledge across the entire coffee value chain,” the SCA said yesterday. “If you are a coffee educator or aspiring to be one, you will not want to miss this opportunity to learn and connect.”
The SCA identified key focus areas for the 2024 series, including enhancing coffee education overall, improving teaching techniques and understanding the group’s new coffee value assessment (CVA). Specific education sessions at the U.S. event will include:
- Making Water Chemistry Accessible
- Introducing Affective Assessments to Learners
- Teaching an Accurate History of Coffee
- Getting in Harmony with Your Visual Aids
- Designing Informal Assessments
- Coffee and Networking
Registration information will be announced here.
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