Your Convention Guide
- Hundreds of conventions listed
- Exclusive reviews, pictures, news, and more
- Attendee and roommate searching
- Convention management tools
- Convention organizing guidance
Advertising
Advertise your convention, your company, or your services and attract even more fans.
Advertise your convention, your company, or your services and attract even more fans.
Features
Find potential convention roommates, share your pictures, make new friends, find cons, and more.
Find potential convention roommates, share your pictures, make new friends, find cons, and more.
Meet Our Staff
UpcomingCons.com is administered by some great, friendly convention-loving people from many genres.
UpcomingCons.com is administered by some great, friendly convention-loving people from many genres.
Advertising With UpcomingCons.com
Banner Advertising
Advertising next to convention listings across genres offers a cost-effective way to reach an audience of convention attendees.
Advertising next to convention listings across genres offers a cost-effective way to reach an audience of convention attendees.
Program Book Ad-Swaps
We offer complimentary advertising to conventions who contact us to put an UpcomingCons.com banner ad in their program book.
We offer complimentary advertising to conventions who contact us to put an UpcomingCons.com banner ad in their program book.
Specialized Convention Coverage
For regional conventions, we can assist you with specialized coverage including reviews, pictures, interviews, and more.
For regional conventions, we can assist you with specialized coverage including reviews, pictures, interviews, and more.
Extensive Features
Friend & Roommate Search
Matched up with the power of MaiOtaku.com's userbase, we help you find other people attending the same conventions.
Matched up with the power of MaiOtaku.com's userbase, we help you find other people attending the same conventions.
Convention Tracking
Keep your very own log of conventions, recording your attendance type (press, artist, guest) and beyond.
Keep your very own log of conventions, recording your attendance type (press, artist, guest) and beyond.
Convention Discussion
Talk about conventions in the UpcomingCons.com forums and make even more convention friends.
Talk about conventions in the UpcomingCons.com forums and make even more convention friends.
Meet Our Staff
Senior Administrator
Ryan has been involved with conventions for several years. He founded UpcomingCons in June 2009, after first becoming involved in conventions with the Mindbridge Foundation. Ryan has written reviews of over a dozen conventions.
Convention Editor
Mary Anastasia, as regular convention artist alley participant and hat seller, is something of a mad hatter. She helps keep convention listings as current as possible and assists with news stories.
Convention Correspondent
Co-founder and creative director of GirlsOfTheCon.com, a website dedicated to convention girls and bringing the creativity and Inspirational fashion and design of the sci fi, fantasy, gothic, steampunk, horror, and alternative cultures and genres to the eyes of the often over critical mainstream. Contact Jason at GirlsOfTheCon.com.
Convention Correspondent
Co-founder of GirlsOfTheCon.com, a website dedicated to convention girls and bringing the creativity and Inspirational fashion and design of the sci fi, fantasy, gothic, steampunk, horror, and alternative cultures and genres to the eyes of the often over critical mainstream. Contact Traci at GirlsOfTheCon.com.
Convention Correspondent
Eddie has been documenting conventions and cosplay culture since 2005. Through a photojournalistic approach, he has been working to draw interest to this unique genre and to help promote smaller conventions and the cosplayers that attend, both good and bad, to larger audiences.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is your purpose?
We want to be the most complete fan resource for conventions, hosting pictures, convention listings, and a diverse user community.What makes you different?
We have the technology to be the most up-to-date and complete fan resource so far created. All our data is unique and updated by hand, and we are updating it regularly. Other websites might have a nice design, or might have been around forever, we have the advantage in technology. We are using the latest technology to have more features, more up-to-date listings, and a bigger community than anyone.Who's running the place?
Ryan Kopf (at ryankopf.com). He started UpcomingCons.com because he loves making websites, and he loves conventions. Why not mix the two?Anyone else there?
We have a small staff, but we're always open to more writers, photographers, and editors to make us even better.How current are the listings?
Unlike other places, ours are getting more and more up to date. We just developed some more technology that will keep us in contact with event organizers and help regularly keep events updated. All listings are reviewed by our staff before being posted or updated.How does the convention tracking work?
When you create an account you will see "Not Attending" in the convention listings. Click that to get options, such as attendee type (attendee, staff, etc) and whether or not you're looking for a roomshare or rideshare.Advertising Information
About Us
UpcomingCons.com was founded in 2009 to provide the most comprehensive resource for conventions and attendees. We review nearly a dozen conventions every year, trying to bring the best reporting and the best video coverage available on the net. We provide cosplay picture hosting for all the conventions we can, and are working on providing the most interactive convention experience possible.
Convention Reviews
We hope to review over a dozen conventions every year, in depth and as fully featured as possible. We bring video, news reports, and we are working towards live video coverage.Press Coverage
UpcomingCons.com Announces Free Badge Contest and 2010 Scheduleanimenewsnetwork.com - January 10, 2010
An Interview with Ryan Kopf of MaiOtaku and UpcomingCons
fantopro.com - December 03, 2009
New Convention Site Launched
scifipulse.net - July 08, 2009
New Convention Website Connects Fans With Conventions and Roommates
conventionfans.today.com - July 06, 2009
FAQs
What is your purpose?
We want to be the most complete fan resource for conventions, hosting pictures, convention listings, and a diverse user community.What makes you different?
We have the technology to be the most up-to-date and complete fan resource so far created. All our data is unique and updated by hand, and we are updating it regularly. Other websites might have a nice design, or might have been around forever, we have the advantage in technology. We are using the latest technology to have more features, more up-to-date listings, and a bigger community than anyone.Who's running the place?
Ryan Kopf (at ryankopf.com). He started UpcomingCons.com because he loves making websites, and he loves conventions. Why not mix the two?Anyone else there?
We have a small staff, but we're always open to more writers, photographers, and editors to make us even better.How current are the listings?
Unlike other places, ours are getting more and more up to date. We just developed some more technology that will keep us in contact with event organizers and help regularly keep events updated. All listings are reviewed by our staff before being posted or updated.How does the convention tracking work?
When you create an account you will see "Not Attending" in the convention listings. Click that to get options, such as attendee type (attendee, staff, etc) and whether or not you're looking for a roomshare or rideshare.Advertising
We offer advertising to help us keep up with server costs and the cost of covering conventions. Conventions can advertise for more registrations, game companies can promote their games, and beyond. See MoreFeatures
UpcomingCons.com is the most feature-rich convention website, unlike anything you have ever seen before. Not only do we make it easy to find conventions, we make it easy to find fellow attendees, view convention photos, keep tabs on your favorite events, and more.- Roommates - Choose conventions you are attending and get connected with hotel roommates to save money.
- Pictures - We let users upload their convention pictures in a central place.
- Profiles - Users can create their own profiles and connect with other fans and convention attendees.
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