GeekGirlCon Basics
Every year at our annual convention, GeekGirlCon sets up an inclusive environment at the heart of downtown Seattle. Together, we celebrate and honor the legacies of under-represented groups in science, technology, comics, arts, literature, game play, and game design.
COVID-19 Policy – 2025 Update
After careful consideration, we’ve updated our health and safety protocols for GeekGirlCon ’25. While masks will no longer be required, we strongly encourage all attendees 5 and over to wear masks covering nose and mouth inside the conference center. We will once again be providing masks at the event.
This decision wasn’t made lightly – our community’s wellbeing remains our highest priority. We trust our attendees to make informed choices and support those who choose to mask. Together, we can create a safe and inclusive environment where everyone feels comfortable.
Our full COVID-19 policy is here. Please don’t hesitate to reach out to communityprotection@geekgirlcon.com if you have any questions or concerns!
Hours
Saturday, November 8, 2025: 9:00am – 8:00pm
Sunday, November 9, 2025: 9:00am – 6:00pm
Vendor Floor Hours: 10:00am – 6:00pm Saturday and Sunday
Friday Registration: 4:00pm – 7:00 pm
Location
GeekGirlCon takes place at Arch at 800 Pike at Seattle Conference Center (formerly Washington State Convention Center), located at 8th and Pike in downtown Seattle, WA.
Accessibility
We want to make sure that GeekGirlCon is a great experience filled with excitement, education, and fun for all. We strive to create an event that works for every attendee—we think inclusively about the range of our attendees needs, employ the best practices to continually review our spaces, improve as we are able, and learn from our mistakes.
All public areas, lobbies, exhibit halls, and meeting rooms within the SCC are ADA accessible. You can read more about the features and resources that will be available over the weekend—it’s extremely important to us that GeekGirlCon is a safe and comfortable environment for everyone!
Panels and Workshops
Each year our programming content is a mix of community-organized submissions and staff-curated content, including content featuring industry guests. Look for panels on a variety of topics, as well as workshops to get hands-on.

Panel from GeekGirlCon ’17: I Am Also a We – A Sense8 Panel. Photo by Sayed Alamy.
Vendors
Who doesn’t love a little bit of shopping? We definitely do, and we’re beyond for you to see all of the goodies that our vendors will be bringing to this year’s convention.
Every vendor at GeekGirlCon is hand-selected—from artists to artisans, shop a variety of hand-crafted wares and the like. From t-shirts and fashionable accessories, to art prints and stickers, there’s bound to be a little something for every geek.

Cosplayer in the Vendor hall. [GeekGirlCon ’16 – photo by Danny Ngan.]
Gaming
Calling all rogues, bards, warlocks—prepare your favorite dice and pack your controllers, the gaming floor at GeekGirlCon is expanding and bigger than ever before! This year, we’ll be hosting two rooms filled to the brim with your favorite games. To optimize your gaming experience, we’ll have one room dedicated to tabletop and one specifically for video games.
Each year, our gaming team works hard to bring you the joy and discovery of storytelling, role-playing, worldbuilding, strategizing, and exploration.

GeekGirlCon 2015 gaming floor. Photo by Danny Ngan.
Meetups
Connect with your fellow geeks and bond over your favorite franchises—we’ll be hosting a variety of meetups for every fan throughout the weekend.
This year we’ll also be introducing the Meetup Café, a fun hangout where you can find more tables to chat, a selfie station, and grab a snack!
DIY Science Zone
Visit the DIY Science Zone, where our highly-trained team of scientists and science educators will guide you through a selection of fun experiments and answer all your questions about their scientific specialty. Thanks to all our DIY Science Zone donors that make doing experiments at GeekGirlCon possible! Consider supporting all of the hands-on science we have planned..

A look at the DIY Science Zone from GeekGirlCon 2015. Photo by Danny Ngan.
Cosplay
GeekGirlCon is the place to shine in your geek finest.
Enter our Cosplay Contest here, or our Kids’ Cosplay Celebration here

A GeekGirlCon attendee in cosplay at GeekGirlCon 2014.
Photobooth
Commemorate the festivities and snap your selfie at our photobooth.

A photobooth picture from GeekGirlCon 2014. Photo by Joshua Weiner