* Con † Stellation I: The Pleiades, the first in an annual series of science fiction conventions in Huntsville, Alabama, USA

Gen Con is now one of North America's largest annual hobby-game gatherings.

One of the largest of these is the annual Dragon * Con in Atlanta, Georgia with an attendance of more than 20, 000 since 2000.

Origins Game Fair is one of North America's most prominent annual gaming conventions, second in size only to Gen Con.

Marrs has been a featured speaker at a number of national conferences including the annual International UFO Congress and the annual Gulf Breeze UFO Conference, but he also speaks at local conferences, such as Conspiracy Con and The Bay Area UFO Expo.

* July: Russian programmer Dmitry Sklyarov is arrested at the annual Def Con hacker convention.

While some had a general release as " Art Ponies ", many are available through special events, such as the annual My Little Pony Collector's Convention and the San Diego Comic Con.

* APE Con or Alternative Press Expo, an annual comics convention

Notable events hosted at the convention center include the annual Comic Con International convention, the Society for Neuroscience and the Biotechnology Industry Organization ( BIO ) International Convention.

San Diego, California's annual Comic Con ( the largest media-oriented convention event in the Western hemisphere ) has also featured related guests, especially from the Doctor Who spin-off series Torchwood, due to that show's current popularity on BBC America.

In 2000, Newsboys headlined the annual, traveling CCM concert, Festival Con Dios, with Audio Adrenaline and The O. C.

On June 20, 2005, Batman was awarded landmark status by the American Coaster Enthusiasts ( ACE ) at their annual convention, Coaster Con XXVIII.

* London Film and Comic Con, annual fan convention in London held since 2004

* Wales Comic Con, annual fan convention in Wrexham held since 2008

Tamiya America also features a world-class racing facility in Aliso Viejo, California which is the site of several world championship events, as well as an annual scale model contest called Tamiya / Con, the last of which was held in 2006.

" I Honestly Hate You " is an 8-page short story originally published in August 1994 in the ( annual ) San Diego Comic Con Comics # 3 ( reprinted in 1998 by Dark Horse Comics in the Dirty Pair: Biohazards trade paperback ).

No Brand Con is an annual three day anime convention held in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.

Inpop Records also managed the annual Festival Con Dios national tour.

The tour was concluded by a performance at one of the world's largest annual entertainment media conventions, Dragon * Con in Atlanta, where the band has performed for the last two years by popular demand.

The Maze of Games is one of America's largest annual puzzlehunts, and is held at the Gen Con and Origins gaming conventions.

The base set of 144 cards was released on August 18, 2005 at the annual Gen Con Indy.

On Friday, 27 March 1987, two days after his 67th birthday, Troughton was a guest at the Magnum Opus Con II science fiction convention in Columbus, Georgia, USA.

* The 2008 short film The Glitch, opening film and best science fiction finalist at Dragon Con Independent Film Festival 2008, deals with the disorientation of late-night TV viewer Harry Owen ( Scott Charles Blamphin ), who experiences ' heavy brain-splitting digital breakdowns.

Thanks to her role on Heroes, she became a regular on the science fiction convention circuit, invited to attend conventions around the world in 2007, including Gen Con, New York Comic Con, and Fan Expo Canada.

Dragon * Con was launched in 1987, as a project of a local science fiction and gaming group, the Dragon Alliance of Gamers and Role-Players ( DAGR ).

As of 2008, Dragon * Con is a 4-day event comprising approximately 3500 hours of panels, seminars, demonstrations, and workshops, with over 30 specialized programming tracks that include writing, alternate history, art, anime, gaming, Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature, comic books, costuming, space science, online media, independent film, podcasting, Asian cinema and culture, robotics, filk, scientific skepticism, Star Trek, Star Wars, Stargate, X-Files, Joss Whedon creations, apocalyptic themes, Anne McCaffrey's Pern, Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time, J. R. R.

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The possible equivalence relations on any set X, when ordered by set inclusion, form a complete lattice, called Con X by convention.

In the 1960s, Gygax created an organization of wargaming clubs and founded the Gen Con gaming convention.

In 1968, Gygax rented Lake Geneva's vine-covered Horticultural Hall for to hold the first Lake Geneva Convention, also known as the Gen Con gaming convention for short.

A three-day all-day MIDI Maze tournament is one popular attraction at Con of the North, a gaming convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota.

In 1992, the Gen Con Game Fair broke all previous attendance records for any U. S. gaming convention with more than 18, 000 people.

In November 1999, Wizards announced that Gen Con would leave Milwaukee after the 2002 convention.

In 1988, Origins and Gen Con joined forces to hold a single convention in Milwaukee.

Christian conceived her own convention, Claudia Con UK, which took place in the United Kingdom on August 13 – 14, 2011.

Many of its original staff came from Anime Con, an anime convention held in San Jose, California in 1991, and later absorbed by the SPJA in 1992.

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Dragon * Con ( also Dragon Con or DragonCon ) is a North America multigenre convention, founded in 1987, which takes place once each year in Atlanta, Georgia.

Within a year, Dragon * Con had been selected to be the host of the 1990 Origins convention, to take place at the Atlanta Hilton.

" A later statement issued by a representative of Gen Con explained that Gen Con had contacted CCF before the convention was held in August, and asked permission to use CCF promotional materials, which they believed CCF declined to provide because of Gen Con's association with the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons ; after that, according to the statement, Gen Con chose to support a different charity in 2008 before becoming clear of the charity's actual position ; at which point it was too late to change.

In the 21st century, the convention has drawn toy and collectibles designers who sell " Comic Con Exclusive " products.