International Cargo Bike Festival 2025 Pivots To Professionals As It Returns To Utrecht

Utrecht, the Netherlands [13^th-14^th October] – The International Cargo Bike Festival (ICBF) returns for the second year in a row to the world-renowned cycling city of Utrecht. New this year is a focus on professional visitors; ICBF 2025 will treat the cargo bike industry’s top innovators, experts, and enthusiasts with a packed programme of speakers, panels, pitches, product launches and film screenings.

Visitors can also take advantage of top-notch networking with a uniquely international (for the cargo bike industry) group of participants, while the Conversation Starter platform will allow attendees to matchmake and set up meetings in advance of the event. Visitor entrance is free of charge; a deliberate move by the organisers to keep the ICBF as accessible as possible.

The ICBF’s proven formula of cargo bike expo with adjacent test-track will once again return, at the same venue as in 2024: Jaarbeurs. This set up will give visitors the chance to explore the most cutting-edge innovations in the cargo bike industry and immediately try them out the test track. Exhibitors include the leading cargo bike, trailer and tech manufacturers that ICBF visitors have come to expect (names like Fulpra, NÜWIEL, CIXI and Cargo Cycling), alongside a fresh crop of exciting startups from countries as far-flung as South Africa, Sweden, Hungary and South Korea, to name a few. The ICBF’s independently-published Carrier magazine, featuring the human stories of cargo bikers from across the globe, will also be on sale at the show.

Alongside the expo, a stellar lineup of influential speakers will be gracing the ICBF stage. On Monday 13^th October, Meredith Glaser, Professor of Cycling at Ghent University and CEO of the Urban Cycling Institute, will give the opening keynote of the Dutch Mobility Summit, which this year is being hosted by the ICBF. Glaser will be followed by speakers on diverse topics related to utility cycling – including Pim de Weerd of chip manufacturer ASML – all moderated by President of the European Cyclists’ Federation Henk Swarttouw. The day’s programme concludes with a film screening; the Dutch premiere of “Finding Nessie”, followed by a Q&A session with cargo bike adventurers Katrien De Smet & Manu Cattrysse.

On Tuesday 14^th October, the programme focuses back in on the cargo bike. The morning programme will cover cycle logistics with speakers from Belgium, Mali and Germany, chaired by Chris Bruntlett of the Dutch Cycling Embassy. Changemaker Arieke van Liere will then preside over the afternoon session with speakers from Nigeria, the Netherlands and South Africa tackling subjects such as regulation and community empowerment. All sessions will be filmed by Broadcast Bike, a cargo bike-mounted broadcast studio and uploaded to the ICBF YouTube channel.

Jos Sluijsmans, Director of the International Cargo Bike Festival on what will make the 2025 edition so special:

Tom Parr, Co-organiser of the International Cargo Bike Festival, on the event’s pivot to professional participants:

Founded in 2012, the International Cargo Bike Festival (ICBF) is the original event dedicated to promoting the cargo bike as a powerful tool for sustainable urban transport. It brings together manufacturers, experts, and advocates from across the world to celebrate and drive forward the cargo bike movement. The ultimate goal? To realise the gigantic potential of the cargo bike, with all of the global positive impacts on the environment, cities, health and societal benefits that entails.

https://cargobikefestival.com/

The ICBF takes place in 2025 as part of Dutch Cycling Week – an Utrecht-based umbrella organisation under which several cycling events, including Dutch Mobility Summit, Wielergala and Kampeer & Caravan Jaarbeurs all fall.

https://www.dutchcyclingweek.nl/

ICBF 2025: Details

Dates:                       Monday 13^th and Tuesday 14^th October 2025

Opening times:         10:00 ­– 17:00

Venue:                      Jaarbeurs, Utrecht

Address:                   Beatrixgebouw, Jaarbeursplein 6, 3521 AL Utrecht, The Netherlands

Find it on:                  Google Maps / Apple Maps / OpenStreetMap.

Tickets:                      Free, registration required.

For more details on the visiting information, tickets, exhibitors and programme, visit:https://cargobikefestival.com/your-visit/https://cargobikefestival.com/exhibitors/https://cargobikefestival.com/programme/

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Press Contacts

English:

Tom ParrI CBF Co-organiser – Comms, Editorial and Digital [email protected]+31 (0)621 380 228

Dutch:Jos Sluijsmans ICBF Director

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