PAWCon 2026 is scheduled for Nov 6-8, 2026 in San Jose, United States. The announced theme is Experiments Gone Fuzzy. The charity partner is WRAP (Westie Rescue and Placement of NorCal).
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PAWCon 2025 drew 1,700 attendees to San Jose. The convention raised $8,233 for the Milo Foundation during its high-seas adventure.
PAWCon 2024 welcomed 1,578 attendees to San Jose and raised $8,400 for Jelly's Place, continuing the event's steady post-pandemic growth.
Historical data and growth track record
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| Year | Dates | Theme | Attendance | Charity Raised | Guest(s) of Honor |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2027 | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA | None Announced |
2026 | Nov 6-8 | Experiments Gone Fuzzy | TBA | (WRAP (Westie Rescue and Placement of NorCal)) | None Announced |
2025 | Nov 7-9 | Pirates of the PAWcific | 1,700 | $8,233.40(Milo Foundation) | Rod O'Reily |
2024 | Nov 8-10 | TBA | 1,578 | $8,400(Jelly's Place) | Corkie |
2023 | Nov 3-5 | TBA | 1,455 | TBA | None Announced |
2022 | Nov 4-6 | Pawston Paradise | 926 | $5,000(Milo Foundation) | None Announced |
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Party Floor extended to Sunday night for 2026
PAWCon's Party Floor is a 247-entry shared-balcony layout: guests enter through room 247, then rotate room-to-room along an open shared balcony where 21+ themed parties run in parallel. Historically the floor ran Friday and Saturday nights only, but for 2026 the convention extended the Party Floor to Sunday night, announced on Bluesky on 19 February 2026 alongside reg opening.
Theme-rotated tier names: Lab Rat, Test Subject, Lab Assistant, Mad Scientist
PAWCon renames every registration tier each year to match the theme. 2026's "Experiments Gone Fuzzy" runs Lab Rat / Test Subject / Lab Assistant / Mad Scientist instead of the fandom-standard Attending / Sponsor / Super Sponsor / Patron. 2025's "Pirates of the PAWcific" used a Pirate ladder (Crew / Captain / etc.), and the names rotate every year with the theme.
UnderPAW: a Saturday-night 21+ adult-vendor window inside the Shopping District
The Shopping District is otherwise SFW and runs daytime hours (Friday noon-7 PM, Saturday 10 AM-6 PM, Sunday 10 AM-4 PM). But on Saturday night only, the same hall converts into UnderPAW, a 21+ adult-vendor market running 10 PM to 2 AM, with setup starting at 8 PM. Vendors openly display adult art, toys, and kink wares during the window; merchants apply separately via `[email protected]`.
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