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Coffee Connect Expo
Espresso extraction in extreme macro, coffee meeting cup
Cairo, Egypt

WHERECOFFEECONNECTS

Culture, technology, competition and business on one floor. If you drink coffee, this is for you. If you work in coffee, this is where your market is standing.

Date
25 SEP – 26 SEP 2026
Venue
VENUE TBA
Location
CAIRO, EGYPT
Tickets
FREE ENTRY — ONLINE REGISTRATION OPEN
01Positioning

Two audiences.
One floor.

Most coffee events pick a side: trade or public, specialty or commercial. Coffee Connect puts them in the same room on purpose — that friction is where business happens.
For coffee lovers

Taste what you have only read about

  • Cup coffees from roasters you cannot buy on a supermarket shelf.
  • Watch competition rounds close enough to hear the timer.
  • See how the machine behind your morning cup actually works.
For the industry

Meet buyers with their hands on the machine

  • Café owners, operators, roasters, buyers and distributors in one venue.
  • Launch equipment in front of the people who will run it daily.
  • Sell into a market that is expanding, not saturated.
02The floor

What is on the floor

Distinct zones, one continuous route. You move from raw green coffee to the machine that serves it, without leaving the hall.
  • 01Equipment · TBC

    MACHINES

    Espresso machines, brewing systems, grinders and the engineering behind them.

  • 02Origin & Craft · TBC

    ROASTERS

    Specialty roasters, green coffee, roasting technology and tasting.

  • 03Performance · TBC

    COMPETITION ARENA

    Barista and coffee competition, judged in front of an audience.

  • 04Experiment · TBC

    BREW LAB

    Demonstrations, workshops and coffee made in ways you haven't tried.

  • 05Ideas · TBC

    TALKS

    Conversations on coffee, cafés, technology and the business of both.

  • 06Discovery · TBC

    MARKET

    Coffee, accessories and products to taste, compare and take home.

  • 07Trade · TBC

    B2B

    Operators, buyers, distributors and manufacturers, meeting properly.

03Technology

Coffee is an
engineering problem

Espresso machines, grinders, roasters and café technology treated like the precision hardware they are. Specifications, not lifestyle shots.
  • Espresso machine shot like an engineered product, low key lighting
    Espresso engineering
    • Pressure profiling
    • Thermal stability
  • Macro detail of precision-machined grinder burrs
    Grinding & particle control
    • Burr geometry
    • Alignment
  • Industrial coffee roaster mid-cycle
    Roasting & production
    • Profile control
    • Scale-up
Barista competing under stage lighting, hands on the group head
04Competition

Sport, not showcase

Timers, scoresheets, judges, standings. Competitors get treated like athletes and the crowd gets to watch a result happen in real time.
Format
Multi-discipline
Status
Announced soon
05People

Coffee moves through people

Baristas, roasters, judges, operators and the crowd that shows up for them. The programme is built around conversations that only happen in person.
Crowd moving through an industrial exhibition hallA coffee being handed from one person to another
06Questions

Straight answers

Free entry, 25–26 September 2026, Cairo. Venue confirmed shortly — everything we do know is here.
  • Coffee Connect is an event where coffee culture, technology, competition and business share one floor. Machines, roasters, baristas, operators and coffee drinkers in the same environment.

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Entry costs nothing — registration is online only. Register once and your pass, venue details and programme updates come straight to you.

Dates
25 SEP – 26 SEP 2026
Venue
VENUE TBA
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