BibeCoffee Returns to the World Barista Championship in Panama
From 22–25 October 2026, the World Barista Championship (WBC) will bring together more than 50 national champions in Panama City, as part of World of Coffee Panama.
Following its landmark introduction of live extraction data at the 2025 World Barista Championship in Milan, BibeCoffee returns to the championship as WBC 2026 Silver Sponsor | Barista Monitoring Solution.
Once again, BibeCoffee will bring a live data layer to the competition experience, making key extraction parameters visible as the world’s best baristas perform on stage.
The technology behind BibeCoffeeWBC return
At the 2026 World Barista Championship, BibeCoffee’s telemetry ecosystem will support the competition by:
- Capturing live brewing data from the competition espresso machines
- Visualising key extraction parameters during the championship
- Transforming event data into meaningful insights for the World Coffee Championships, competitors and the wider coffee community
Building on the experience introduced in Milan, BibeCoffee will once again help make the technical detail behind every espresso more accessible — from brew time and flow rate to water volume and extraction performance.
“Data has always been part of coffee, but it has not always been visible. At the World Barista Championship, it gives us a clearer view of the precision behind every performance. We are proud to return in Panama and continue creating a platform where baristas and the coffee community can learn from every extraction.” Vasilis Apostolopoulos, CEO & Co-Founder
A connected competition experience
Throughout the championship, BibeCoffee’s Barista Monitoring Solution will connect data from the competition machines to a live visual experience on stage and across the livestream. The result is a deeper view of the details that are often invisible during espresso preparation. Rather than reducing a performance to numbers, live data adds valuable context around the technique, consistency and precision behind each shot.
For baristas, it creates a new layer of performance insight. For the audience, it offers a closer connection to the craft taking place on stage. And for the wider coffee community, it opens a shared conversation around the data behind exceptional coffee.
From the world stage to everyday coffee operations
BibeCoffee role at the World Barista Championship reflects the same mission behind its everyday work with coffee businesses around the world: turning professional coffee equipment into connected sources of insight.
With more than 25,000 connected coffee machines worldwide and integrations across more than 60 machine manufacturers, BibeCoffee helps coffee shops, chains, roasters and manufacturers improve quality consistency, gain operational visibility and make better decisions through real-time data.
On the WBC stage, this technology helps make the world’s best performances more visible. Across everyday coffee operations, it helps businesses protect the quality of every cup.
This October, the story continues in Panama — one shot, one performance and one insight at a time.
About BibeCoffee
BibeCoffee is a coffee technology company providing IoT-powered telemetry solutions for professional coffee machines. Its connected ecosystem turns real-time machine and brewing data into actionable insight, helping coffee businesses safeguard quality, improve efficiency and manage their coffee assets at scale.