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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:
Chef Gilles is an internationally acclaimed pastry chef, educator, and competition judge whose career spans over four decades. Born in France, he earned the prestigious Brevet de Maîtrise in pastry and confectionery before bringing his talents to the United States. Renusson overcame early academic struggles to become a master in the art of pastry, renowned for his intricate chocolate and sugar showpieces. As a professor at Grand Rapids Community College’s Secchia Institute for Culinary Education since 1994, he has mentored generations of pastry chefs, many of whom have gone on to global success.
Chef Gilles played a leading role in the prestigious Coupe du Monde de la Pâtisserie, serving as team captain and later President and Chairman of Club Coupe du Monde Team USA for nearly 30 years. Under his leadership, the team achieved international recognition. In 2019, he was awarded the Chevalier du Mérite Agricole by the French government, honoring his significant contributions to culinary arts and education.
