Gen Con Event Catalog
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So You Want to Build a Circulating Board Game Collection TRD26ND309211GM: Matthew ScrivnerWednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
What information do you need to pitch a circulating board game collection to your library? What comes after the yes? Cataloger Matthew Scrivner explores the answers to these questions and more.
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The Running of Intro and Advanced TTRPG Courses at the Collegiate Level: A Retrospective TRD26ND310119Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Experience the history of 3 years of TTRPG courses at IUI Luddy MAS. We examine the strategies that have and have not worked in the classroom and explore student feedback and their own game creations.
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by CyberRollWednesday 1:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
An interactive cybersecurity tabletop game experience. The audience will learn cybersecurity in a fun and engaging way. This training method can be used in classrooms and boardrooms.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
The designers of the library instruction game, Search&Destroy return to share the exciting growth of their project: making library instruction fun for students and easier for librarians.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
How a game of Werewolf Legacy used in a classroom allowed students to see government and civic responsibility in play. Let's play some werewolf and let's discuss how it was used and integrated.
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GM: Blake TaylorWednesday 1:00 PM 2h Free Teen (13+) BGM - Board Game
Join us for ongoing missions in the skies over France in WWI in the only game played at every Gen Con. We love new players!
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Numbers matter - the longest standing seminar from Witten Financial. We talk you through the basics of financial statements to help you manage your business.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Hear from GAMA Staff as they share how to get involved with GAMA: The Tabletop Game Association, the benefits of membership and how the world's largest tabletop trade association can support you.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Discussing the basic strategies involved for setting up the store layout and stocking shelves. Helping customers have a fun shopping experience and create a positive environment.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
This panel looks at IP concerns specific to retail that people might not consider and might not be covered in other programs.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Join expert retailers as they share best practices for stores, challenges & trends in 2026 and have an open Q&A. If you are a new retailer, looking to open a store soon, come attend the roundtable.
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Wednesday 1:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) WKS - Workshop
This workshop will get your rules draft started, explain the common layout and expected verbiage of rulebooks, and work with you to help refine those tricky written explanations for your awesome game.
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Using case studies and practical examples, we'll share how to facilitate inclusive online spaces for players that can't easily access traditional in-person gaming.
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Game Play for All: practical strategies to make tabletop and game-based activities accessible, including game selection, material adaptations, and room design for diverse player needs.
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GM: Jordan OrwigWednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Thinking about hosting a live play event at your library? Find out how to bring the enjoyment of TTRPGs to some of the best audience members out there - your patrons!
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Basic logical processes, and higher level reasoning, are integral to board games. Come play Shipwreck Arcana and discuss how it and other games could be used in the classroom.
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Looking for ways to help kids improve their literacy skills? Reading Dragons and Friends is a fun, free way to motivate kids to build positive reading habits. Created for Librarians and Educators.
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by Goblin MktWednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Immersive role playing games and murder mysteries are hot right now! Build community in your store or library by hosting immersive events.
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by VFI AsiaWednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
101 for shipping and fulfilment into Asia, open Q&A with attendee
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Turn your lesson plans into playable learning games — no coding experience needed! Join a game designer and a professor for a hands-on workshop using AI. Leave with a real game your students can play.
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
In this panel we will discuss ways to use games from a therapeutic standpoint to help kids and teens with depression and anxiety. Hear from therapist and life skills specialist.
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Wednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Our sales are up, so how come we can't pay the bills?!? Our experienced team will demystify the topic of cash flow planning to help you manage your business more effectively!
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GM: Chris AllisonWednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Merchant Guild is a data-first, global support company for the Tabletop & TCG Industry. With a presence across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our global insights will help retailers grow!
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GM: Matt HendersonWednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
An event aimed mostly at retailers and event GMs which will look in some depth at our new releases including our Book of Battle Mats range and our card sets of RPG accessories.
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GM: Jeff RiegleWednesday 2:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
These are more advanced financial topics, for those with more financial savvy. Come pick the brain and get some financial education!
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Cosplaying…for science! How to design outreach scientific activities using cosplay and roleplay. TRD26ND303874Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
How can people connect their interests in pop culture with science? We create events to do just that! We share how to produce and evaluate these events.
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GM: Joshua TauberWednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Do you invite everyone to join in open play or, without realizing it, are there people you are excluding? Learn about implicit bias, how it affects what you do, and simple ways to foster inclusivity.
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GM: Garret SchneiderWednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Design classroom-ready games on a budget, align them to standards, and get unit plans for student game design—plus a free Drive folder with all materials.
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GM: Ali AnsariWednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Join in creating and experiencing different methods of game based learning! Participants will not only participate but will get examples of game based learning modules used in STEM undergrad courses.
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
The secret to a thriving gaming community isn’t more game nights. Discover what kinds of events can build broader and more durable communities, and take home ideas you can apply right away.
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GM: Bryan GillespieWednesday 3:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
We will discuss sustaining a gaming group, and working with the community to support its growth. It will look at different options of RPG, board games, and integrating art into the group.
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Roll for Communication: Using ttrpgs and aac to Build Inclusive Spaces for Diverse Communicators TRD26ND315971Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Level up inclusion with ttrpgs and aac. This session shares practical strategies for supporting autistic students and diverse communicators through collaborative play.
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
In this panel we will discuss how ADHD and self esteem can be worked on through games in a therapeutic standpoint with therapist and life skills specialist.
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by Gen Con LLCWednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) SEM - Seminar
New to Gen Con? Have questions? The first time can be overwhelming. This session provides tips, tricks, and highlights of events to experience each day of the convention. Each day, a different focus.
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GM: Dustin JolivetteWednesday 3:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Want to build up a community based around gaming (specifically table top)? This workshop will review how to approach this goal for retailers, educators, and librarians.
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GM: Blake TaylorWednesday 3:00 PM 2h Free Teen (13+) BGM - Board Game
Join us for ongoing missions in the skies over France in WWI in the only game played at every Gen Con. We love new players!
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GM: Joseph MaciscoWednesday 3:00 PM 2h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Back for another year, this updated combo seminar-workshop introduces key design features of serious games and then guides audience members through the design process with a custom scenario.
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Making money but struggle with keeping cash in your pocket? Come let Aaron Witten, CFP, CKA,CRC, AIF demystify the world of taxation to help you keep more of your money!
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Rotate through stations to learn games that creatively demonstrate the different ways we communicate and more importantly, the MANY ways we can be misunderstood.
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
We've developed the CARE Framework and turned it into a game to help guide when and if to use AI and other technologies for users of tech & for educators. Join us in playing this game & give feedback!
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Come listen to retail events and organized play experts as they share how they’ve built their game nights and organized play systems.
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Wednesday 3:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
Equity aside, designing for accessibility can add 40 million US adults to your market. Through exercises, examples and game testing, learn practical Universal Design techniques for your next project.
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GM: Tim BryantWednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Students in my humanities course learned ancient and modern games, played them in class, and made their own games. Attendees are invited to express their cultures of play in this interactive session.
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GM: Jonathan TruittWednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
We will be playing Making History and discussing its use as a classroom tool. The game itself is: "A game of truth, perspective, and the stories we choose to believe."
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Wednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Enter the adventurous world of experiential learning and design thinking through play-based activities, and discover educator tools you can add to your inventory.
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Wednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
How can educators bridge the game table and the classroom? Join a panel of designers and educators in discussion on the trials and triumphs of gaming as education.
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by T2D2 ToysWednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
You want your students to make games for a project. Where do you get started? We'll walk through materials, resources, instructions, and what to (and NOT to) do to set your students up for success.
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Wednesday 4:00 PM 1h Free Mature (18+) SEM - Seminar
Elizabeth Hargrave interviews publishers about how to make the best possible impression in the pitching and negotiation process, and build lasting relationships along the way.
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by MavensWednesday 5:00 PM 3h Free Everyone (6+) ZED - Isle of Misfit Events
Welcome to the 21st annual meet and greet for gamers.
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GM: Rebecca MorganWednesday 5:00 PM 1.5h Free Everyone (6+) TRD - Trade Day Events
Selling at cons or online? Learn payroll, sales tax, and nexus basics plus how to find state rules and avoid costly compliance mistakes.