Created in collaboration with La Marzocco and Traveler’s Coffee, this unique stage that will host two contests: the Moscow round of WBC and Russian Coffee Cup.

In this interactive zone company representatives will demonstrate alternative ways of coffee brewing inviting the guests to taste and compare different kinds of coffee. The presentations will be delivered not only by renowned Russian specialists, but also by representatives of famous international brands.

Stage offering courses hosted by a qualified SCAE authorized coach, head of green coffee quality for Mare Terra and Q Araica Grader Timur Dudkin: Barista Skills (Foundation and Intermediate) and Sensory Skills (Foundation and Intermediate).

Here experts will elaborate on every step of «from bean to cup» process. The floor will be given not only to Russian coffee connoisseurs, but also to the world’s top professionals, who will share the most revealing and most interesting insights on the long way of coffee bean

The best limited coffee grades from all over the world will be brought together at one place for the first time in history of the Russian specialty coffee industry. The farmers and retailers of coffee beans will have a chance to elaborate on the features of the regions where their beans are grown and unique flavor characteristics of their product. In addition, the visitors will be offered to taste the perfect coffee made of the micro-lot beans. Meanwhile, for café runners and roasters, Micro-lot Exchange offers a great opportunity to meet coffee plantation owners and their official representatives and also to purchase the best micro-lots of the world for a reasonable price. This will allow them to enrich the assortment with exclusive offers, found nowhere else in the world.