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At top: The Café Show in Seoul, South Korea, is one of the biggest, best-aended, and most progressive coffee
conferences and expos in the world, aracting more than 125,000 international aendees to its four days of
programming. Below: Now in its third year, the World Coffee Leaders Forum has quickly become one of the
preeminent forums for coffee-industry leaders, aracting top speakers and addressing up-to-the-minute trends
and topics most relevant to the global coffee professionals who aend. One of this year's most interesting
discussions was called "Shis in the Coffee Industry and Countermeasures," and included—pictured from
le—Annemarie Tiemes of the Specialty Coffee Association of Europe; Ric Rhinehart of the Specialty Coffee
Association of America; Ma Lounsbury of Stumptown Coffee; Mark Pendergrast, author of Uncommon Grounds;
and Rick Peyser, formerly with Keurig Green Mountain.