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Some 1,500 individual investors were packed into the seats of a Houston convention hall, snapping pictures and fiddling with their neon-green name tags.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 10, 2026

Back in 1986, in Washington DC, protesting teachers lined the streets outside a convention centre.

From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2026

Alongside Dave Jones they organised their first Beatles convention, which evolved into the annual Mathew Street Music Festival.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026

At PokémonXP, the first official Pokémon fan convention held last month at San Francisco’s Moscone Center, Funko ran a Pop!

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 26, 2026

Less than two weeks after the gathering—on August 2, 1848—a second women’s rights convention, organized by Amy Post, a prominent Quaker abolitionist, took place at the Unitarian church in Rochester, New York.

From "Votes for Women!" by Winifred Conkling

His Red Special presidential campaign train in 1908 and his Socialist Party conventions were riots of red flags, pennants and bunting.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026

“We go to conventions and we meet families where grandparents and parents and kids and grandkids are all watching our shows together.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2026

He continued to appear at film conventions and published his memoir, Vagabond, last year in which he opened up about the medical incident and his prolonged recovery.

From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026

And in the modern technological era, artificial-intelligence models add a new wrinkle to corporate conventions.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 1, 2026

See, I’ve been to plenty of prepper conventions.

From "Dry" by Neal Shusterman and Jarrod Shusterman