Serving as an excellent opportunity to learn and share, the annual FIS Leaders’ Seminar for the FIS developing ski nations will be held during the 50^th FIS Congress week in Cancun (MEX).

In less than two weeks, the extended FIS family will travel to Mexico for the 50^th International Ski Congress from 5^th-11^th June 2016.

Local Organisers of the Snowboard World Cup season's first big air event have announced that the competition staged in the SparkassenPark Moenchengladbach will be extended to a double World Cup event also hosting a big air contest for the Freestyle Skiing World Cup tour.

An international Anti-Corruption Summit attended by 40 nations which gathered 11 world leaders was organised by British Prime Minister David Cameron on 12^th May 2016 in London (GBR).

Every two years the FIS SnowKidz Award is a focal point of the Bring Children to the Snow campaign. The Award aims to recognise and promote the best examples of the programme.

From 9^th-11^th May 2016, FIS Freestyle Skiing and Snowboard staff, representatives from FIS Marketing AG and Infront Sports & Media conducted their third Coordination Group meeting for the 2017 FIS Freestyle Ski & Snowboard World Championships in Sierra Nevada (SPA) which will be held from 6^th-19^th March 2017.

The 50^th International Ski Congress in Cancun (MEX) will elect the sixteen members of the FIS Council for the next two-year period from 2016-2018. The member National Ski Associations have proposed the following candidates by the deadline of 6^th May 2016:

At the invitation of FIS, TV producers representing the main broadcasters along with the European Broadcasting Union and Infront Sports & Media as well as FIS timing and data partner, Swiss Timing, gathered in Zurich (SUI) for the FIS World Cup Broadcaster Meeting on 2^nd May 2016.