The FSB Forum Italy exhibition is the third organized in the exhibition area of Bergamo, dedicated to sports facilities, recreation areas, and public spaces. The new exhibition is dedicated to the sports facilities, recreation areas, and public spaces sector, emerging from the experience gained in Germany by FSB, the fair that has been 'unifying international expertise in the sector and bringing together professionals and institutions from many countries' for over fifty years, as Gerald Böse, CEO of Koelnmesse, recalled at the inauguration of the exhibition in Bergamo, which will host over 160 companies from 17 countries for two days, with a format that includes both the exhibition period in its traditional sense and workshops and seminars focused on sports facility design, urban planning, and landscape architecture, offering updates and comparisons for professionals, administrations, and enterprises, carried out in collaboration with Move City Sport, Topscape Paysage, Seimedia, and Ais (Sports Facilities Association). Our group organizes approximately 80 exhibition events annually, both in Cologne and in all major international markets, including Italy, bringing the local market formats or sectors closest to the country's economy to each country, as Thomas Rosolia, CEO of Koelnmesse Italia, confirmed, highlighting particularly the joint venture with Fiere di Parma, established in 2016, which organizes events such as Cibus Tec and Labotec, and the recent partnership for the international development of Tuttofood, effectively creating a strategic synergy with Anuga, one of the largest food expos in the world.

Even Bergamo is becoming increasingly central in Koelnmesse's Italian strategy, where the group has registered significant growth (+75.3% in 2025) above the overall average (+24.5%). 'We started in 2023 with the International Hardware Fair Italy, dedicated to tools, which alternates with the historic Colonia exhibition - explains Rosolia -. In 2024, we also launched Interzum Italy, an event dedicated to components and technologies for mobile and interior design, always in alternation with Colonia. Now we launch this new rendezvous, which we believe very much, because in Italy there is no exhibition dedicated to sports facilities, despite the fact that 80% of the structures are obsolete and despite the growing interest from public administrations to invest in recreational and public spaces areas.'