Trade Day is a program for educators, professors, librarians, health professionals, developmental therapists, and retailers. It is designed to provide hands-on training, share research, B2B and network opportunities, and participate in professional development opportunities through a day of seminars, demonstrations, and events.
Trade Day is split between several focuses, retailers, educators and librarians, and health professionals. The retailer focus is on business, marketing, and building community. The educators and librarian focus is on how to gamify your classroom/library, gaming strategies in curriculum, and building community. Health professionals, on how games can be used as therapeutic tools.
Anyone with a Trade Day badge can attend all events regardless of the focus; something can always be gleaned from a different perspective. The Trade Day program is open to adults 18 and older.
Trade Day is hosted on the Wednesday prior to Gen Con Indy, held in Indianapolis, IN.
The Trade Day Events webpage is dedicated to all things happening at Trade Day 2025, including the events list, key events, and the Trade Day Marketplace. Currently this page recaps Trade Day 2024, it will updated this later this year with new information for 2025.
Trade Day will be hosted on Wednesday, July 30, 2025.
Trade Day Badge Registration
Trade Day is open to professors, educators, student teachers, librarians, health professionals, developmental therapists, and hobby retailers only.
Trade Day Badge Registration opens in February 2025.
Trade Day Badge Price for 2025: TBA
Trade Day badge registration includes:
A Trade Day application is part of the Trade Day badge purchase process. You will be asked several quick questions specific to your designation which are needed when vetting for acceptance into the program.
Educators & Librarians
Trade Day offers certificates of attendance to use towards CEUs/LEUs. This is due to the different requirements within districts and associations. Information on how to request your certificate will be onsite at Trade Day.
For all information related to hosting events for Gen Con's Trade Day program, go to our Trade Day Host webpage. There is no cost to you for hosting an event for Trade Day and/or Gen Con Indy.
Event Submission opens in January 2025.
The Marketplace brings B2B opportunities to the Trade Day experience with offerings from some new and favorite game publishers, manufacturers, and distributors with products that work in classrooms, libraries, therapeutic sessions, and retail stores.
Trade Day Marketplace is only accessible to attendees with a current Trade Day badge.
Interested in Exhibiting at the Marketplace?
If you are a game publisher, manufacturer, and/or distributor and interested in learning more about the Trade Day Marketplace, check out our webpage for more information.
Trade Day offers a range of sponsorship opportunities to promote your company to a targeted audience of retailers, educators, health professionals and librarians. You don’t need to be a Gen Con Indy exhibitor or have purchased other marketing to take advantage of these offerings. Bundle both Trade Day and Gen Con Indy sponsorships to create unique marketing opportunities designed especially for you and your company.
Trade Day sponsorships for 2025 are available. For more information and/or questions about these and other sponsorship opportunities, please contact Megan Culver.
To stay up-to-date with all things Trade Day related with our exclusive Trade Day email newsletter!
For all things happenings at Gen Con, sign up for our Gen Con Indy email newsletter too.
More information can be found here using the yellow help bubble at the bottom of each of our website pages. Or email us at [email protected].
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