About ConventionGrid
A trade show reference that is checked against the organizer's own site, and that tells you when a show has been renamed, moved, or quietly stopped happening.
Looking up when a trade show happens should take ten seconds. In practice it often doesn't. The show was renamed two years ago and the old name still ranks. The listing you found was copied from a listing that was copied from a press release. The dates belong to last year's event. Somebody's aggregator is confidently showing a show that was cancelled in 2023.
ConventionGrid exists because that is a solvable problem, and solving it is mostly just unglamorous checking. We publish dates, venues, and organizers for 1,293 show series across 265 cities and 30 countries — and we say where each date came from and when we last looked.
How a date gets published
Every date on this site is checked against the organizer's own website — not against another directory, and not against a press release. If the organizer hasn't announced next year's dates yet, we say that instead of estimating. 1,056 of our 1,060 upcoming events carry the date they were last verified, shown on the event page itself so you can judge how fresh the answer is.
When an organizer's site and a third-party listing disagree, the organizer wins. When the organizer's site is ambiguous, we say it's ambiguous. We would rather tell you we don't know than give you a confident wrong answer, because a wrong date costs you a flight.
We track the shows that change
Shows disappear from the calendar for four different reasons — a new name, a new city, a merger, or the end of the road — and search results almost never tell you which. That ambiguity is where most bad trade show information comes from, so we track it explicitly in our renamed, moved and discontinued shows tracker: renames matched to the show's next verified dates, plus documented moves, mergers, pauses and endings, each one backed by the organizer's own statement on the page we link.
If you search an old show name and land here, you should find out what it's called now — not a page pretending the 2019 event is still upcoming.
What we don't publish
We don't publish ticket prices or booth rates. Those change constantly, vary by tier and deadline, and are the single easiest thing on a listing to get wrong in a way that costs a reader real money. Pricing lives on the organizer's site, and we link to it.
We also don't publish attendance or exhibitor figures unless the organizer states them themselves on a page we've actually read. Inflated attendance numbers circulate freely in this industry; we would rather show nothing than launder someone's marketing claim into a fact.
Tell us when we're wrong
We will be, somewhere. Every show page on this site has a correction link that goes straight to our editors — a wrong date, a moved venue, a show that shouldn't be listed at all. There's no account to create and nothing to sign up for. Corrections are the most useful mail we get, and they're read by a person.
You can also reach us directly at [email protected] or through the contact form.
Who we are
ConventionGrid is an independent trade show reference published from Vancouver, Washington. It is not owned by, affiliated with, or endorsed by any of the event organizers listed on the site, and a show's presence here doesn't imply any relationship with its organizer.
ConventionGrid
6400 NE Hwy 99 Ste G #1008
Vancouver, WA 98665
[email protected]
For event organizers
If you run a show and something here is wrong — or your show isn't listed at all — the organizers page is the fastest route to getting it fixed.