Who we are

The International Cargo Bike Festival is the original – and most international – cargo bike event

With humble beginnings in 2012, the International Cargo Bike Festival (ICBF) has grown into the place where the cargo bike world comes together.

The ICBF also engages with and attracts campaigners and professionals from government, the voluntary sector, logistics and a wide range of other sectors. Not to mention people interested in personal mobility and in changing their cities and the environment for the better.

Jos Sluijsmans

Initiator and Director of the International Cargo Bike Festival

Since 2004, Jos Sluijsmans has dedicated his professional life to the promotion of the cargo bike, cycling, and cycle logistics as the most healthy, sustainable, inclusive and efficient mode of transport.

Prior to his involvement in cycling policy and advocacy, Jos worked for ten years as a lawyer and legal adviser and ten years as interpreter and translator.

Tom Parr

Co-organiser of the International Cargo Bike Festival

Tom has worked in the cycling industry for over a decade, in London, Sydney and Amsterdam – where he now lives. Tom engages with people all over the world, and in the process has built up the ICBF’s significant social media presence.

He also writes regularly about all aspects of the cargo bike industry and is Editor of the ICBF-published Carrier Magazine.

Lindsay Broadwell

International Cargo Bike Festival Research Associate

Lindsay Broadwell is a research fellow and external PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam’s Urban Cycling Institute. Lindsay’s role at the ICBF is to seek out and apply for opportunities to research cargo bikes, to carry out that research and to communicate findings to both academic and lay audiences.