AkaiCon 2022 Post-Con Survey

Applications for AkaiCon 2022 Dealer Room are being managed in a different manner than normal. As most of our Artists and Vendors decided to roll-over their booth fees from our 2020/2021 cancellation, we are not publicly opening our application. Our Dealer Room is currently full. We are reconnecting with our Dealers who rolled their tables over. If we have any cancellations/availability, we will be utilizing our waitlist. 

Please contact us with any questions or to be added to the waitlist at akaiconvending@gmail.com.

Thank you!

Hello AkaiCon Family,
 
It is with a heavy heart that we are once again required to write this remarkably similar post as last year.
 
We have decided it is still in the best interest of our community to postpone AkaiCon’s event to 2022.
 
We have secured our 2022 dates with the Wilson County Expo Center (now re-named the Farm Bureau Expo Center). AkaiCon will take place July 22-24, 2022.
 
Our hope was that the world would be safer by our event in 2021. With safety as our top concern as well as logistical problems we have faced, we did not feel we could offer the best convention experience we wanted to offer this year. We do not want to let our con family down and because of these reasons, we have decided to postpone.
 
We wholeheartedly hoped this year would bring safe encounters and be ready to host large events in person by the date of AkaiCon. Alas, the world is just not there yet.
 
The vaccines rolling out have been encouraging, but by the date of our event, most will still not have had a chance to receive it. The comfort and safety of our community is the utmost priority, and even though we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, the journey is not yet over.
 
If you purchased an AkaiCon ticket for 2020 or 2021, you do not have to do anything to roll-over your ticket to 2022.
 
We are requesting ticket holder’s roll-over their tickets to 2022, but in the case that a refund is required please email akaiconrefund@gmail.com to request a refund. We will not be accepting any refunds after July 1st, 2021.
 
Thank you once again for your patience and understanding.
AkaiCon

As AkaiCon has always striven to keep the safety and wellbeing of the staff, volunteers, vendors, and attendees as our number-one priority, we have an important announcement to make.

We will be cancelling AkaiCon 2020 and focusing on making 2021 even better!

Our dates for 2021 are July 30th – August 1st at the Wilson County Expo Center in Lebanon, TN

We cannot in good conscience subject anyone to a group gathering that could potentially cause others to get sick. We cannot in good conscience ask attendees, staff, and volunteers to stay in hotel rooms together and gather at events in close contact.

We have always valued each member of AkaiCon as an important asset to the strength of this convention, and NO ONE is expendable. We need each one of you safe, strong, and well to make sure AkaiCon 2021 is a success.

If you have already purchased a ticket to AkaiCon 2020, and you want to attend in 2021, all you need to do is keep your email confirmation and show it at the door in 2021. There are no actions you need to take to roll your ticket over to 2021. Please keep in mind our prices will not change from the current tier system.

If you will be needing a refund, we are handling these on a case-by-case basis. If you do request a refund, please email our refund department at akaiconrefund@gmail.com and we will process your refund as soon as possible. All refund requests must be submitted by July 1st, 2020.

For those who applied for panels for AkaiCon 2020, we will keep your submissions on hand for 2021 and will open the form back up in a few months. We will keep you posted!

All previously announced guests will be coming to AkaiCon 2021 and we will be announcing more guests soon!

For any contest winners who received a free badge to AkaiCon 2020, your badge will roll over to 2021.

Please refer to our website akaicon.com and our social media pages for announcements and for more information about AkaiCon 2021.

We want you to know that we care deeply about each of you and your safety. We ask you to stay safe during these times and we hope to see you all in 2021. We look forward to having a fun and safe convention July 30th-August 1st, 2021.

Cody J Bottoms – Co-Chair AkaiCon and owner of Do the Thing LLC

Dee Powers – Co Chair AkaiCon

Devin Adkins – President AkaiCon

July 14 - 16, 2023

Farm Bureau Expo Center

Wilson Co., TN

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