The World Coffee Championships (WCCs) are supported by the Competitions Strategic Committee (CSC) — a volunteer leadership group with wide-ranging experience of competition and the industry. The CSC meets regularly throughout the year to collaborate on strategic initiatives that foster & support the competition community and keep the competitions moving forward, including updates to competition formats, rules, regulations, judges, sponsorship, marketing & communications. Smaller working groups are formed to support projects related to one activity, and the group also supports arbitration on an ad-hoc basis.

Various community groups have grown and evolved the WCCs since their inception. The current CSC structure was established in 2017, and is a volunteer leadership group focused on aligning a vision and purpose for the WCCs, guided by six strategic objectives. By 2020 many of these changes were already in progress but were put on pause to allow time to assess the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on world and national-level competitions. The CSC resumed meeting in 2022 to reevaluate how the strategic objectives align with the current events landscape.

The CSC was intentionally structured to include perspectives representing Competition Bodies, competitors, judges, producers, and equity, diversity, and inclusion, across a number of geographic regions. With multiple perspectives represented in this group, we acknowledge that there is no right way to make changes. We are committed to having changes rooted in our vision, goals, and community feedback.