Gelato Festival World Masters, the most important international competition for single gelato makers makes a stop at Sigep 2024 with the Europe Challenge. On January 21, 2024 in the Gelato Lab space (Hall A7) as many as 16 gelato makers will compete for the 3 places available for the European Finals scheduled for 2025.  

During the competition day, the 16 contestants will prepare a recipe live and, at the end of the afternoon, will submit their gelato flavor to the evaluation of a jury composed of industry professionals. The award ceremony will be held at 5 p.m. 

Partners of the initiative: Sigep - Italian Exhibition Group and Carpigiani.  

With the 2022-25 edition Gelato Festival World Masters reaches its fourteenth year, having debuted in Florence in 2010 inspired by the conception of the first gelato recipe at the hands of the multifaceted architect Bernardo Buontalenti in 1559. Since then, the event has grown exponentially by expanding first to the rest of Italy, then to Europe and - since 2017 - to the United States as well, before embracing the entire planet with the Gelato Festival World Masters world championship, which involved more than 3,500 gelato makers with the 2017-2021 edition, which was won by Adam Fazekas from Budapest.