The Complete Blender Conference Archive

EVERY
BCON.
ONE PLACE.

Field guides for every Blender Conference — talk summaries, speaker profiles, tools discussed, YouTube links, and context. For hobbyists, freelancers, and studio professionals.

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⚡ UPCOMING
BCON North America 2026 Upcoming
Austin, Texas · April 13–14, 2026
The return of North American BCON — organized by CG Cookie and Autotroph. Two days of talks, workshops, and community. Recordings will be posted to CG Cookie YouTube after the event.
Austin, TX April 13–14, 2026 bconna.org
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Blender Conference 2026 Upcoming
Amsterdam · September 23–25, 2026
The flagship annual Blender Conference returns to Felix Meritis in Amsterdam. Tickets and call for presentations TBA.
Felix Meritis, Amsterdam Sept 23–25, 2026
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Blender Conference 2025
Amsterdam, Netherlands · September 17–19, 2025
The most documented BCON yet. 80 talks covering Geometry Nodes, the new animation system (Baklava), Rig Nodes, Compositing 5.0, Blue Prince, the film "Flow", Sonic the Hedgehog 3 VFX, Framestore, Volkswagen, DOGWALK and much more.
80 talks 3 days 4 parallel tracks Full talk guide
25
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80 videos
BCON LA 2024
Hollywood, Los Angeles · April 19–20, 2024
The first-ever official Blender Conference in the United States. Organized by CG Cookie and Autotroph. Features Ian Hubert, Colin Levy, Jules Urbach, and a packed schedule of US-based artists and studios.
~35 talks 2 days Hollywood, CA Full schedule
LA
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Blender Conference 2024
Amsterdam, Netherlands · October 23–25, 2024
Theme: "Making Blender." Features the début of Project Gold's oil painting system, major updates to Cycles denoising, gizmo-based Geometry Nodes tools, UI improvement proposals from Blender Guru, and the new Extensions platform.
~60 talks 3 days 5 parallel tracks
24
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Blender Conference 2023
Amsterdam, Netherlands · October 26–28, 2023
Celebrated 21 years of open-source Blender. Key topics: Simulation Zones in Geometry Nodes, Grease Pencil evolution, Flamenco render farm, glTF ecosystem, USD pipeline integration, and a first look at what would become Blender 4.x.
~60 talks 3 days 5 tracks
23
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Blender Conference 2022
Amsterdam, Netherlands · October 27–29, 2022
BCON's triumphant return after two pandemic years (2020 & 2021 were cancelled). The largest BCON ever at the time, with 700+ attendees and 94 recorded presentations. Marked Blender's emergence as a serious industry tool.
94 talks 3 days 5 tracks Post-pandemic return
22
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BCON 2020 & 2021
Cancelled — COVID-19 pandemic
Both editions were cancelled due to the global pandemic. The Blender community held online events and developer streams in their place. BCON returned in October 2022.
ℹ️ ABOUT THIS ARCHIVE
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What this is
Curated field guides for every Blender Conference. Each page summarizes talks, links to YouTube recordings, and provides context — so you know what to watch and why before you press play.
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Open on GitHub
This site is hosted on GitHub Pages. It's open-source, static HTML with no tracking. You can fork it, contribute, or self-host. See the README for details.
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All talks are free
Every talk from every BCON is freely available on the official Blender YouTube channel (or CG Cookie for BCON LA). All links in these guides go directly to the source.
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Who it's for
Built for the full spectrum: hobbyist discovering Blender, freelancer evaluating tools, studio professional benchmarking pipelines. Talks are tagged and described for all levels.