The Bakery & Pastry Hub

We will analyze the new role of the artisan baker in communicating with an audience saturated with artificial content. Authenticity is the best tool.

A four-handed performance by these great professionals, who will give a demonstration of the recipes from Antonio Bachour's new book.

Four-handed presentation

An in-depth analysis of emerging ingredients, process and technique optimisation, and cutting-edge machinery that will shape the sector over the next decade. Tasting activity led by the Baking School of Barcelona Sabadell.

Analysis of the most emblematic creations developed by the Spanish National Bakery Team, addressing the technical and creative criteria that have defined its evolution and competitive identity.

In the face of the recent production crisis, cocoa prices have skyrocketed. Although the crisis seems to have been overcome for the moment, it continues to reveal the uncertainties facing producing countries and chocolate processing industries: land constraints, disease and climate change, and the need for alternative crops and manufacturing methods. Will good chocolate once again become a luxury product?

The processing of cocoa at source—harvesting, fermentation, drying, selection, and traceability—has gone from being an industry standard to becoming a language in its own right, capable of expressing territory, culture, and vision. At the same time, it analyses how, in contemporary workshops, ingredients are no longer incorporated for decoration or flavouring, but to build narrative, balance, coherence, and transmission with the original cocoa.

Overview of the evolution of baking in Brazil and other countries around the world. The evolution of new flavours with the return of bread.

Transforming traditional local pastries into an iconic Taiwanese product, where we seek to turn it into a luxury product that adapts to the present and the future.

Round table discussion on the vision of the members of the UIBC select club for the future of bakeries.

Medal award ceremony of the Union of Bakers and Confectioners of the UIBC.