World of Coffee San Diego opening

All photos by Daily Coffee News / Howard Bryman.

San Diego offered a sunny, surfy, baseball-packed backdrop last weekend as thousands of coffee professionals from around the world descended on the Specialty Coffee Association’s World of Coffee trade show.

Running April 10-12, the event saw the crowning of a new World Latte Art Champion, Bala of Taiwan. There were also numerous Coffee Design Awards winners and Best New Product Awards winners, including People’s Choice winner the Satellite Coffee Guard by Thailand-based Squeaky.

World of Coffee San Diego awards

While our heads are still spinning from the shiny new products, blinged-out booths, compelling seminars, brilliant cuppings, parties, meetings and conversations galore, we’ll be filling these digital pages with much more coverage from the event in the days to come. (Read all of DCN’s WOC San Diego coverage.)

For now, here is a smattering of photos from the show floor:

World of Coffee San Diego Convention Center 1

World of Coffee San Diego Roaster Village

World of Coffee San Diego art

World of Coffee San Diego trade show

World of Coffee San Diego SCA

World of Coffee San Diego latte art

World of Coffee San Diego brewer

World of Coffee San Diego desgn awards

World of Coffee San Diego Acaia

World of Coffee San Diego Green Coffee Connect

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