Silicon Valley Comic Con is an annual comic book, popular arts, and technology multi-genre convention, to be held in the San Francisco Bay Area, based in the region's largest city, San Jose.
The convention was conceived by Apple Computer co-founder Steve Wozniak. The inaugural event was held March 18-20, 2016 at San Jose's McEnery Convention Center.
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History
Silicon Valley Comic Con was first announced 17 April 2015 through an online video featuring Steve Wozniak and Stan Lee. The aim was to bring together popular culture touchstones such as comics, movies, genre TV and technology together in one convention. The plan is to feature celebrities, movies, television, video games, comic books, along with other popular cultural arts.
Silicon Valley Comic Con will be the San Francisco Bay Area's first large multi-genre convention since the departure of WonderCon after that convention's 2011 show. Since WonderCon's departure the largest convention left in the Bay Area had been Big Wow! Comicfest, which is being added to Silicon Valley Comic Con's schedule.
On December 4, 2015, Steve Wozniak announced that a sister-event to Silicon Valley Comic Con, called Tokyo Comic Con, will be held in Tokyo on December 3-4, 2016.
On July 13, 2016 the second annual event was confirmed to be occurring April 21-23, 2017 at the San Jose Convention Center as well as expanding into several additional venues nearby.
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Features and events
The convention aims to include both popular culture and technology in what Wozniak hopes will be a uniquely Silicon Valley flavor. In that spirit the convention will have typical comic convention staples such as an "artists alley", but will also have an "app alley" featuring new and emerging technology items. Several movie and television studios will be represented at the inaugural event including Warner Bros. Pictures, Lionsgate and AMC. Additionally several technology focused guests will be involved as well including astrophysicists and technologists.
Locations and dates
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References
External links
- Official website
- Founder's Website
- Convention's Official Facebook Page
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