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How to Compete Competition Seminar: What You Should Know
Competition is an essential aspect of personal and professional growth and development in the culinary industry. Along with keeping up with culinary trends, competitions promote creativity, enhance cooking skills, and foster and instill confidence and self-discipline. They motivate and inspire individuals to push their limits, strive for excellence, and realize their full potential.
With our How to Compete Competition Seminar, you’ll learn to perform in a healthy competitive environment that constructively emphasizes achieving personal objectives and goals as well as your Culinary Team’s objectives and goals.
This seminar is an accessible way to reach ambitious and eager culinarians and prepare the next generation of competitors across the globe with tools for success.
Who should join?
This objective of the How to Compete Seminar is to assist individual chefs or groups of chefs who:
- Want to participate in a culinary competition, or have never competed and are uncertain of how to start
- May have had mixed results in past competitions and want to learn how to stand out and improve
What you’ll learn:
Participants will learn three key aspects of culinary competitions: how to prepare for success, master team dynamics and strategy, and compete with confidence and composure.
- Discover best practices in the competition kitchen to help your team reach the highest place at the podium.
- Improve your scores by learning where to maximize points and how to avoid losses from common mistakes.
- Network with top chefs and receive a Worldchefs digital badge and certificate to show your commitment to training.
Important Information:
- Date: 2PM-5PM CET, 16th-17th June 2025
- Location: ZOOM
- Webinar Fee: €90
- Certification: A Worldchefs digital badge and certificate will be issued to participants who attend all 2 webinars.
- Rerun: The webinar series will NOT be recorded or shared with any participant.
Register using the form below. For more information, contact Ajla Dunga at ajla@worldchefs.org
Meet Your Seminar Instructor:
This seminar is taught by: Simon Smotkowicz C.C.C.
Simon immigrated to Canada in 1975 lending his talents to the Edmonton Plaza (Westin), the Four Seasons Edmonton as well as Delta Hotels in Edmonton, Winnipeg, and Montreal. In 1988 he returned Edmonton as the Executive Chef at the Shaw Conference Centre until his retirement in 2017. Holding to his philosophy that “eating is a discovery” to be explored through creative experimentation with textures and flavours, Simon has established a professional reputation of excellence for both his culinary and leadership skills.
International competition has been a long-standing interest and commitment for Simon, both with Culinary Team Alberta and Culinary Team Canada. His first competition was in 1983, and since then his artistry, dedication and teamwork have contributed significantly to the successes achieved by our nation’s culinary teams. Combined with his tenacity, drive and uncompromising pursuit of excellence, Simon continues to foster growth and development of Canada and Alberta’s culinary expertise by upholding a leadership and performance standard that distinguishes these teams as the world’s best.
