Gen Con is the largest and most prominent gaming convention in North America. (As an indication of its size, consider that Gen Con 2002 brought in about 26,000 attendees; the only other gaming conventions that come close are E3 and Origins.) The name of the convention is derived from "Geneva Convention", as the first Gen Con was held at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Gen Con is now held in two US locations, Gen Con Indy, in Indianapolis, Indiana and Gen Con SoCal in Anaheim, California.
Gen Con was purchased from Hasbro by Peter D. Adkison, the founder of Wizards of the Coast, in May 2002. After two unsuccesful years of running Gen Con Europe in the UK, Peter D. Adkison decided to scale back and focus his efforts on the US shows. In 2004 licenses were issued to groups who would go about creating the franchises Gen Con Barcelona and Gen Con UK.
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