Press Dates

CMS Berlin 2025

If you are a media representative, blogger or influencer, please email us which press events you would like to attend: Mail to cms-presse@messe-berlin.de. Prior online accreditation is required for your participation.

23 September 2025

CMS Welcome Evening and presentation of the CMS Purus Innovation Award (PIA)
17:30 - approx. 21:00
Admission from 5 p.m.

Welcome Mario Tobias, CEO, Messe Berlin GmbH

Panel discussion

Thomas Dietrich, Chairman of the Federal Guild Association of the Building Cleaning Trade (BIV)

Frank Ulbricht, Chairman of the Cleaning Systems Association of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA)

Markus Häfner, Chairman of the Industrial Association for Hygiene and Surface Protection for Industrial and Institutional Applications (IHO)

Presentation of the ‘CMS Purus Innovation Award 2025’

Location: Marshall Haus on the exhibition grounds

23–25 September 2025

CMS Innovation Tours to the PIA Finalists

11:00 a.m.–12:30 p.m. & 2:00–3:30 p.m. each day

24 September 2025

Mobility Cleaning Circle (MCC)

10:30 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.

Welcome & networking with business lunch

Location: Marshall Haus cinema

From 12:30 p.m. Guided tour of selected exhibitors with live demonstrations of products and cleaning processes, e.g. participants will see how graffiti is removed.

Location: Start Marshall Haus cinema

Graffiti removal on all four days of the trade fair between Halls 1.2 and 3.2

26 September 2025

On Friday, CMS Berlin will focus on hygiene in hotels, hospitals and care facilities. The theme days in Hall 6.2b bring together practitioners and decision-makers from housekeeping, nursing and clinics.

Focus day: Hospital cleaning and care

10:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Hospital Cleaning Circle

Participation by invitation only. More information at Hospital Cleaning Circle.

1:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Cooperation with service providers in hospital cleaning

Location: Practice Forum Hall 6.2b

1:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. Bits, Bots & Myths – between science fiction and DIN 13063

Location: Practice Forum Hall 6.2b

26 September 2025

Housekeeping Focus Day

10:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. Welcome & Housekeeping Get-together at Networking Breakfast

Location: CMS Practice Forum Hall 6.2b

10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. Current hygiene trends in the hotel industry – a critical look at robotics, followed by a panel discussion Innovation meets responsibility: housekeeping and domestic services in transition

Location: CMS Practice Forum Hall 6.2b

11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. SapoCycle: Hotel soap recycling for a good cause

Location: CMS Practice Forum Hall 6.2b

From 12:00 p.m. Housekeeping tour. Registration at Housekeeping

Start: CMS Practice Forum / Hall 6.2b

1:00 – 3:00 p.m. General meeting of the Berufsverband Hauswirtschaft e.V. (Professional Association for Home Economics)

Participation by invitation only

Location: Marshall House

More information about the programme at Housekeeping