ICON is the name of at least five science fiction conventions. In order of seniority, these are:
- ICON (Iowa science fiction convention) is held in the Cedar Rapids/Iowa City area since 1975, usually in late October or early November, under the auspices of the Mindbridge Foundation, a not-for-profit foundation which also sponsors the Gamicon and AnimeIowa conventions.
- I-CON is held in Stony Brook, New York, every spring, on the campus of the State University of New York at Stony Brook since 1981. I-CON (with a hyphen) is short for Island Convention – a reference to its location on Long Island.
- ICON festival is the main Israeli annual science fiction, fantasy and role-playing convention (now officially a festival) – standing for Israeli Convention. It's been held annually during the Sukkot holiday in Tel Aviv since 1996.
- Icon was the name of the 2005 National Science Fiction Convention in New Zealand.
- iCON is an annual science fiction, fantasy and role-playing convention in Turkey, İstanbul held by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club of İstanbul University .
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