About World Coffee Forum
World Coffee Forum 2026
World Coffee Forum is Asia’s leading coffee knowledge and insight platform, where coffee professionals, brands, creators and everyone who loves coffee come together to learn, share inspiration and discover new perspectives.
In 2026, the World Coffee Leaders Forum takes a new step forward as the World Coffee Forum. Setting aside the weight of “Leaders”, it grows beyond a forum for industry leaders into a more open stage where perspectives from many fields connected to coffee meet.
Since 2012, the World Coffee Forum has asked the most important questions facing coffee each year. As a global coffee knowledge-sharing platform responding to the changes of a new era, it now prepares its fifteenth edition.
Event Overview
- Event
- The 15th World Coffee Forum
World Coffee Forum 2026 (WCF 2026) - Dates
- Nov. 11 (Wed) – 14 (Sat), 2026
- Venue
- Conference Rooms 3F & 4F, Coex, Seoul
- Theme
- Why We Drink Coffee?
- Participants
- 4,538 from 77 countries (expected)
- Languages
- English, Korean
English–Korean simultaneous interpretation - Programs
- The Stage, Origin Discovery, Champion Live, The Sessions, SCA Education, Coffee Futures Challenge, Pairing Table
- Held with
- Cafe Show, Seoul Coffee Festival
Organizing Committee
- Host
- World Coffee Forum Organizing Committee
- Organizer
- Exporum Co., Ltd.
- Address
- 4F, 5 Baekjegobun-ro 9-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul
- Website
- wclforum.org ↗