page_title: Moscone Center
section_title: Events
hierarchical_section_title: Moscone Center / Events
caption_attribution_description: Moscone Center WWDC 2011
context_page_description: The George R. Moscone Convention Center, popularly known as the Moscone Center, is the largest convention and exhibition complex in San Francisco, California. The complex consists of three main halls spread out across three blocks and 87 acres in the South of Market neighborhood. The convention center originally opened in 1981. It is named after San Francisco former mayor George Moscone, who was assassinated in November 1978.
context_section_description: Moscone Center hosts many large events each year. During the 2016–17 season, Moscone Center hosted 74 events with a total attendance of 1,021,031.
  Moscone Center hosts a number of annual professional gatherings, including:
  American Bar Association annual meeting
  Dreamforce (since 2005)
  Game Developers Conference (2005, since 2007)
  Oracle OpenWorld (since 1997)
  Pacific Coast Builders Conference
  RSA Conference (2001, 2003–2005, since 2007)
  SEMICON West (since 1992)
  Winter Fancy Food Show
  In addition, Moscone Center hosts public gated events such as the SF Auto Show and the Fancy Foods Show.
  Moscone Center formerly hosted the following annual events:
  American Geophysical Union fall meeting (until 2016)
  Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (2003–2016)
  Google I/O (2008–2015)
  JavaOne (1997–2009, 2017)
  Macworld/iWorld (1985–2014)
  Microsoft Build (2013–2016)
  VMworld (2007, 2009, 2010, 2012–2015, 2019)
  West Coast Computer Faire (1984–1991)
  WonderCon (2003–2011)
  Other notable events at the convention center have included:
  1984 Democratic National Convention, at which the Democratic Party nominated Walter Mondale for President of the United States and Geraldine Ferraro for Vice President, marking the first time a woman had been nominated by a major party for either office
  1987 National Sports Collectors Convention
  1992 and 1996 Microsoft Professional Developers Conference
  1993 World Science Fiction Convention
  2000 President Bill Clinton spoke in the Esplanade Ballroom and recorded a weekly radio address in the Green Room
  2009 OpenSource World
  2015 TwitchCon
  2015 PlayStation Experience
  2015 Capcom Cup
  2016 NFL Experience
  2016 North American International Auto Show
  2017 GMSA Mobile World Congress Americas
caption: Moscone West during the 2011 Apple Worldwide Developers Conference
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