The Italian Trade Agency (ITA), Italy’s government agency for trade and promotion, returns for the seond time to Maker Faire Bay Area as a Goldsmith Sponsor, extending its support of Italy's rapidly maturing Maker Movement.

ITA will be showcasing its ‘Makers Italia’ project at Maker Faire Bay Area with its “Italian Makers Pavilion.” As a natural progression of Italy's long history of arts, crafts, and embedded industrial systems of industry clusters, Italy has a strong Maker scene now developing within the country. With the ITA mandate to provide an accessible platform for people to experience firsthand the invention, creativity, and resourcefulness of the Italian Maker Movement, participating in Maker Faire Bay Area 2018 as an integral sponsor continues to be the ideal way for ITA to highlight these makers.