Knebel and the Starhead Federation, both from Star Citizen's German community, are bringing back the Industry & Trade Expo for 2956. It runs Saturday 15 August, starting at 13:00 UTC, on Knebel's Twitch channel.
The theme is the unglamorous half of the 'verse: the ships that actually move goods, ore and fuel around. Expect guided tours of those hulls plus interactive games during the stream. You can either watch along or take part — CIG's newsletter frames it as open to both.
Worth knowing: this is a community-run event, not an in-game CIG event, so there is no official in-fiction reward attached to it. If the expo puts you in a hauling mood afterwards, our trade route calculator and commodity database run on live UEX Corp pricing, and the star map lists which stations actually have a cargo terminal.
Summarized in our own words from Cloud Imperium Games' weekly newsletter of 14 August 2026.